David Chartier:
One could say we’ve been busy these last couple of months, but that would only be the half of it. We have two great releases today that are packed with so much stuff, we had to cut down on our What’s New text just to fit it within the App Store requirements.
1Password 4.5 for iOS beings lots of features, including an overhauled — and flattened — UI, AirDrop support, the ability to create multiple vaults and more.
The newest version of my favorite RSS reader is full of goodies.
As I’ve written about before, I store all of my images on Dropbox. As I sync photos to my iOS devices from iTunes, however, I have a bit of a problem: a 42 GB iPod Photo Cache taking up a ton of room on my Dropbox account:
What is in this folder? Here’s what Apple says:
When you use iTunes to sync photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod, iTunes creates a folder called iPod Photo Cache. The iPod Photo Cache stores photos that are optimized for display on your device. The location of this folder depends on the syncing options you select. In iTunes, if you change the selection in the Sync Photos From menu, a new iPod Photo Cache folder will be created (and the previous folder will remain).
Today’s the day for photo management news, I suppose. Loom, the cloud-powered photo storage system has joined Dropbox:
We’ve been working hard to create a photo management solution for people just like us. People who have too many photos in too many places, taking up space, collecting dust on our phones, our computers and our external hard drives. It’s big problem and a common one that many have been grinding hard to solve!
Flickr’s Bernardo Hernandez:
On Flickr, everyone gets 1,000 gigabytes of storage free, enough space for more than 500,000 photos, pretty much all the space you’ll ever need. Our new Auto Sync feature lets you seamlessly upload all your original quality photos from your phone automatically to your account, so that Flickr can be your camera roll in the cloud.
Today we are also introducing a new way to rediscover and explore your images. Even if you have thousands of photos, our intelligent search engine will help you find what you’re looking for fast. Flickr’s understanding of your photo’s date and time (ex: “January 2014”), place (ex: “San Francisco”), and even scenes and objects (ex: “car,” “sunset,” “beach,” “portrait”) helps organize your images so you don’t have to.
Federico Viticci:
Photos+ 1.1 has kept the app’s straightforward approach and visualization of photos, but thanks to Dropbox integration it can now look for photos inside a Dropbox folder. Photos loaded from the Dropbox retain the same options of local photos: you can view metadata, share photos, and open a location panel to see where a photo was taken on a map. Obviously, the app requires a few extra seconds to load a full-resolution photo from Dropbox — thumbnails are loaded at a lower-res to speed up the experience — but everything else works just like the old app.
Over the last several weeks, Shawn, Jeffrey and I have been working on what evolved into an epic 5-part series on backing up your Mac:
There’s no excuse for not backing up your Mac, so if you don’t have a plan in place, or want to brush up on what the best tools on the market are, be sure to flip through these articles.
Viticci has a run-down of the new beta. I’ve kicked ReadKit to the curb already.
As someone who keeps their entire photo library on Dropbox, I’m pretty excited about this app.
If you’re wanting to jump into Evernote, Bradley Chambers just updated his excellent ebook on the program.
Joe Rosensteel, President of JoeSteel Industries:
Your photographs mean the world to you. They mean something less than that to us. Don’t get us wrong, we think they’re OK, but nothing special. We just want to help you store them. We do this with our magical technology: 4EverCloud™.
At The Prompt, we take photo storage very seriously. That is why we have announced this on April 2nd because we’re so, so, so serious about this.
This is the sort of thing that Microsoft needs to do to survive in the post-PC world: good, native apps on multiple platforms, powered by best-in-class cloud services.