Once you have seen one photo management application, you've seen them all - until you try MemoryMiner. It offers a genuinely fresh way of exploring, annotating and sharing photos.
Every photo you import can be assigned to a place and every person in a photo can be tagged with their name. By saving names and places, you can browse your photo collection in new ways.
Want to view all pictures containing a particular person? That's easily done. You can also narrow your search to one person in one place.
Assuming you have the time and patience to input all this data, the result is a handy way of capturing a person's life in photos. See how your grandparents grew up, had children of their own, and aged. Watch your own children start as wrinkly babies and grow into moody teenagers. As long as there's a theme connecting the photos, you can view them all together.
Once you've added your own stories and annotations, MemoryMiner can export them as web pages; but only using the single built-in template.
The map integration is less than sparky for UK users (Bath is somewhere north of Leeds, apparently), and the quality is poor. The interface is a little quirky (access to the Media Browser hidden away in a menu, rather than having a toolbar item of its own); and adding data is a slow and painstaking process.
True, you could replicate MemoryMiner's core functionality with, say, iPhoto's keywords, but its presentation is slicker.
The interface is a little quirky and adding data is a slow and painstaking process.Author: Giles Turnbull
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