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19 Nov 2009

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(1) KidsEatFor – If you eat out with your family often, KidsEatFor is definitely for you. It allows you to locate restaurants where kids get to eat for free. Just type in your address or zipcode (US only) and hit “search”, KidsEatFor will then give you a list of nearby restaurants that offer kids specials. Read more: KidsEatFor -Locate Restaurants Where Kids Eat Free

(2) Meeting Scheduler for Gmail – Innovative Firefox add-on which integrates meeting scheduling within Gmail. The add-on is by ScheduleOnce, a company offering meeting scheduling solutions across various other apps too. Read more: Meeting Scheduler for Gmail (Firefox only)

(3) PhotoTagger – Facebook app by Face.com which helps in proper tagging of your Facebook pictures and lets you organize them in custom albums. It also notifies you by email when a photo with you in it is uploaded across the network, be it tagged or un-tagged. It utilizes its facial recognition technology in identifying your pictures. Read more: PhotoTagger – Very Cool Facial Recognition App for Your Facebook Photos

(4) Norbt – Simple web page with a useful purpose – helping you quickly and easily send encrypted messages online. Read more: Norbt – Easily Send Encrypted Messages

(5) Favicon Tool – Next time you need a favicon for you website or blog, try favicon generator tool from DagonDesign. It lets you upload an image (in JPG, PNG, or GIF format) and turn it into a standard 16×16 favicon icon. The application is free, simple to use and doesn’t require sign up. Read more: Favicon Tool – Turn Image Into Favicon

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Photo Tagger Alerts You When A Picture Of You Appears On Facebook, Tagged Or Not

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11 Nov 2009

Israeli facial recognition tech startup Face.com made quite a splash when it launched Photo Finder, its first Facebook app, back in March. It soon followed suit with a new app called Photo Tagger, a tool that is capable of finding photos of people that were uploaded to Facebook albums even if they remained untagged by users.

The auto-tagging app was only available in private beta so far, but today the company is debuting the public version of Photo Tagger. It’s free of charge, and it’s awesome.

Here’s how it works: after you install the app on Facebook, you can select any public album (either their own or from friends). Photo Tagger then scans the photos, batches subjects into groups using its facial recognition technology and suggests tags for faces it has identified as such. Confirmed tags are then pushed directly onto Facebook, mirroring the social network’s privacy settings, and the result is a custom album made up of tagged photos.

You have to try it out to see how it works for you, but Face.com claims faces can be recognized regardless of facial expressions or the lighting, quality, backgrounds, angle and focus of the pictures.

This turns Photo Tagger into quite an impressive social search engine for faces on Facebook, where millions of images are uploaded to albums every week. It also doubles as a handy notification tool, because it has a system in place dubbed Face Alerts that lets users know when pictures of them appear on Facebook, with or without tags.

Face.com says the private alpha edition of Photo Tagger attracted over 30,000 users and identified 5 million faces on Facebook within three months.

For an alternative, take a look at what Polar Rose is doing.