To-The-Point Software Releases snapHappy By
Mike Pasini, The Imaging Resource
(Friday, July 5, 2002 - 13:23 EDT)iPhoto gets some competition from this $14 photo browser, editor and manager for OS X.
To-The-Point Software released snapHappy, an OS X photo browser, editor and manager that competes directly with Apple's iPhoto.
A $14 shareware application, snapHappy 1.1 competes by offering users more flexibility than iPhoto.
Highlights:
Work with any folder containing photos (no importing or creating albums needed)
Export pictures in a variety of graphic formats (eg. tiff to jpeg)
Create email messages from within snapHappy then drag scaled pictures directly to the message (saving of scaled pictures is not necessary)
Drag scaled pictures to other applications
Toggle between full screen mode and regular window mode for browsing or slide shows
Options to hide menubar and/or cursor in full screen mode.
Manual (keyboard control) slide show option
Rename pictures individually
Batch rename a folder of pictures
Add/edit finder comments
Search finder comments
Manage photo folders (copy, move, or make aliases between any two folders)
Illustrated user's guide with many helpful tips and notes
The company also listed "some things that snapHappy does better (in our humble opinion at least) than iPhoto":
WYSIWYG scaling of images (resize the browser window)
Faster photo loading (after the initial loading of a folder)
Optional default photo folder (opens automatically when snapHappy is launched)
Open pictures with their creator application
Open pictures with a default graphic editor application
Better slide show options (71 transition effects, set interval, set speed, set background color)
Choose to print picture at their currently scaled size or at their original size
"Auto landscape" printing (pictures that are wider than they are tall are automatically rotated to landscape orientation for printing)
