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> FotoArchive for Archaeologists/Historians/ArtHistorians
>
> [This is not a promo. It’s news on freeware software
> made by a scholar of the humanities for the benefit of
> the world community of archaeologists, historians, and
> historians of art who use digital images in teaching and
> research.]
>
> In 1996 I began collecting digital images to be used in
> a web page for my survey of western civilization course.
> The collection was stored on a zip drive but I noticed
> that every time I saved images on the zip, my image
> viewer used more and more space of my hard disk drive to
> store thumbnails of my images. My frustration with image
> viewers increased when I found out that I could not use
> notes for my images although in one of the viewers I
> used I could create sticky-type notes, which covered
> part of the image though. Still another problem was that
> I could not view on the screen two different collections
> at the same time.
>
> As I was fully acquainted with DOS programming, I began
> exploring object-oriented WINDOWS programming and in
> late 1998 I produced the first PC version of FotoArchive
> software, now in version 2.4. You can use FotoArchive to
> catalog your digital images by dividing them into albums
> and storing them ideally on a CD-RW, CD-ROM or Zip/Super
> disk. Although you may view your images in a thumbnail
> form, no thumbnails are saved and no hard disk is used.
> You can view your images one by one as a whole or in
> parts with the use of scrollbars, if they exceed the
> size of a 800x600 screen resolution. You may drag and
> drop the images directly from FotoArchive to Word or any
> other OLE2 computer program. You may view as many albums
> as your computer memory permits at the same time side by
> side and transfer images from one to another. You can
> write three different sets of notes for each one of the
> images, i.e. Category, Title, Notes, without affecting
> the image itself, and view them side by side with the
> images. You can print any image, a selection or all of
> them along with the notes. You can search, manipulate,
> and feed to image editors your images in a number of
> ways. You will find all capabilities described on the on
> line help or the manual. I now use FotoArchive a lot to
> catalog pictures I take with my digital camera and I
> store on CD-RW disks.
>
> FotoArchive can run under Windows95/98/200/NT4.0 and
> above even on 486PCs with 8MB of memory although ideally
> you will use a Pentium based PC with 32MB. FotoArchive
> will use only 2.5MB of hard disk and can be installed
> and uninstalled easily on any laptop and desktop PC.
>
> The experts at the Tucows-Office site rated FotoArchive
> as excellent software (5/5 cows). FotoArchive is
> available for downloading at:
> 1. The Tucows-Office sites
>         e.g.
>       USA URL
> http://brightnet.office.tucows.com/preview/61672.html
>         Europe URL
> http://otenet.office.tucows.com/preview/61672.html
>
> 2. FotoArchive home page (Version 2.4.7 with on line
> help & separate printable manual)
>
> http://users.hol.gr/~dilos/anistor/software/soft.htm
>
> FotoArchive is FREEWARE, made, maintained, and
> distributed by a scholar to other scholars or
> non-commercial users.
>
> I would appreciate it if you sent me your questions,
> comments, and suggestion on the program.
>
> D. I. Loizos
> History Professor


geoff carver
http://home.t-online.de/home/gcarver/
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