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Two photo tools that caught my eye this week

By Brian Boero | April 17th, 2009 | Filed in: Technology

If you don’t subscribe to MakeUseOf, you should. It’s a treasure trove of neat applications. Some of the things they surface are of marginal utility to just about anyone, but a couple things they wrote about this week are relevant to online real estate:

Closr.it

This free app enables you to display large, zoom-able images on your website. They can also be viewed in full-screen mode. The real estate cases here are obvious. I’d love to zoom in and out of one photo of a back yard than click through several shots.

MyLiveGallery

This is a free gallery/slideshow app that’s super simple, what is what I like. There are tools with more sizzle, but this is great for quickly arranging a group of photos (perhaps of a home). I also found it to be more user-friendly than Flickr, which, for all it’s greatness, still has serious usability problems.

And sorry about the bad pun ;-)



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4 Responses to “Two photo tools that caught my eye this week”

  1. Karen Goodman says:
    April 19, 2009 at 2:55 pm

    Thanks for pointing out these two sites. I just tried them both.

    Closr.it – Really like this idea, but they need to add/fix a few things to make it functional for me. The title doesn’t allow any punctuation, so my title ended up “Wilson/’s Home”. Tags wouldn’t allow punctuation, so I had to put in St. Louis as “St Louis”. It won’t allow quotes so instead of a tag that specifies my city, I have St and Louis…which totally mean nothing separately. Plus, there is no way to search the database, so you can only see your own widgets. With no search box even there, I can only assume that searching the widgets is going to be added later, otherwise tags would be a waste of time.

    The big thing that I want to see them change is I would like to be able to have multiple photos in the same widget. A zoomable slideshow would be great, and I would DEFINITELY use it for my real estate listings.

    MyLiveGallery – Didn’t like this one as much. It would only let you upload low resolution pictures, so I would have had to resize my photos before adding them. The slideshow is too plain for me. Photobucket.com has a very good slideshow feature that is easy to use, allows you to add captions and embed it on other sites. I’ve got a home slideshow in my site’s sidebar at: http://www.archcityhomes.com/blog.

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  2. Avoiding Overpriced Rental Rates Made Easy | Arch City Homes says:
    April 21, 2009 at 3:49 am

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  3. Daniele Galiffa says:
    April 21, 2009 at 7:25 am

    Thanks for talking about ClosR.it, we do really appreciate your suggestions and feedbacks.

    As you probably know, ClosR.it is in public beta (so some small BUGs still occurs) and we are really happy to get suggestions like yours.

    @Karen we would like to listen to your specific needs and evaluate your ideas to become features. So feel free to contact us.

    Thanks once more,

    d.

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  4. Daniele Galiffa says:
    December 14, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    Thanks for talking about ClosR.it, we do really appreciate your suggestions and feedbacks.

    As you probably know, ClosR.it is in public beta (so some small BUGs still occurs) and we are really happy to get suggestions like yours.

    @Karen we would like to listen to your specific needs and evaluate your ideas to become features. So feel free to contact us.

    Thanks once more,

    d.

    Reply

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