Manage and share photos on Asus EEE PC with KoffeePhoto
As soon as I had heard about the Asus EEE PC in summer 2007, I said «Hey! I want one of those!». Half a year later, the most inexpensive ultramobile laptop ever is available in Europe… and soon in my hands! The first challenge was to install KoffeePhoto on it. In fact, you could not think of an easier challenge. Read on.
Installing KoffeePhoto on Asus EEE PC is incredibly straightforward: Open www.koffeephoto.com in FireFox, click on «KoffeePhoto free download» button… you’re almost done! FireFox is pre-configured to open the Java Web Start link with the included Java Runtime (Java version 5), just confirm that choice by clicking «OK». Then the Java security dialog pops up telling the software is signed by KoffeeWare… «OK» again and KoffeePhoto starts up. You can log in to your KoffeePhoto account or create one.
KoffeePhoto’s graphical user interface suffers a bit from the limited screen resolution of the Asus EEE PC. Almost every feature in the software will still be useable, but sometimes you will need to go fullscreen (hiding the system task bar) and some dialogs will look a bit broken. The good news is that we are working on it and plan to release an update addressing these issues, for a clean user experience on this low 800×480 resolution.
In the end, KoffeePhoto is still the easiest tool to manage, share and backup your photos from the Asus EEE PC. You can share hundreds of photos in seconds, benefit from seamless automatic synchronization with your other PC’s… and keep all your photos always with you even when no Internet connection is available.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Hi.
Just started using KoffeePhoto, and I really like it. But there are two important things that are missing, that I think shouldn’t be too hard for you to implement, but should be a high priority.
First is video support - I want to store videos taken on my camera alongside the photos. I’d be fine if it just showed the filename, and opened them in an external video player, but having thumbnails as well would be ideal.
Second is cropping - there’s all these photo editing tools built in to KoffeePhoto but one thing that I’d always expect but which isn’t there is a cropping tool. This is very very important in my opinion, and I think you should get one of these in ASAP.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Hi Richard,
thanks for your input. And guess what, both features are on our development roadmap. Unfortunately, too early to announce a date of release.
Carl