While investigating about competing online photo sharing and photo album services to snapmania (our company‘s online photo editing and sharing application), I discovered a nice way to upload pictures on Yahoo Photos. Using Mozilla Firefox, you can install a plug-in which allows you to drag picture files directly from the Finder to the website to add them to your online album. I guess there is a similar plug-in for Internet Explorer on Windows, but I had no PC around for testing this.
But, I don’t think it’s the ultimate web upload mechanism for pictures. I don’t have found the best mechanism yet, so I’ll keep searching 🙂
The Address Book application in Mac OS X Tiger introduced smart address groups. One characteristic of ‘smart groups’ is that you don’t add specific entries but define rules which are applied on all entries to create a group. So how do I know, if the contents of a smart group has changed? The group name is displayed in bold colored letters. When you click on the updated group to see its content, the added entries are also highlighted. Nice! 