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July 02, 2006
Lightroom and Flock
It is nice being mates with someone who knows so much about Macintoshes (as he should, being the editor of MacUser).
Nik stayed over on friday night so we could go to a party (more on that later, with top tips for 19 year olds). He introduced me to two new pieces of software which are seemingly great.
Adobe Labs are working on Lightroom - their professional photo management solution. It's currently at beta 3 for Mac OS X, and you can download it for free from their site. You can read a somewhat wordy independent review here, which also compares Lightroom to Apple's homegrown solution - Aperture.
Adobe Labs - Project: Lightroom
The next application Nik flaunted was Flock - a new OS X only web browser.
This baby's got more functionality than you could ever need - but it's all wrapped up in a very lightweight, easy to use package. It's overflowing with Web2.0 goodness, including built-in zero-configuration tools for managing Flickr, photobucket, blogging, del.ico.us, rss feeds and more. It has a contextual pop-up search helper. It's based on the Mozilla gecko browser engine, and seems to include support for Firefox plugins. The list goes on!
I highly recommend both of these apps! (You will of course need a Mac to run them!)
Edit:Flock is available on Windows, not just for Macs... and Lightroom is coming soon for Windows too!
Posted by scally at July 2, 2006 02:50 PM
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