Mac Apps

New Macography App – FirstPass

On a good day’s shoot it is not uncommon to shoot thousands of frames spanning multiple memory cards. Downloading these cards normally is very cumbersome as each card has to be downloaded one at a time, even if you have multiple card readers. Moreover, it takes considerable time to go through all these images and do a “first pass” edit (rate, delete, view at 100%, etc.). The objective of FirstPass is to speed up these two tasks considerably, and to perform them within the same application. FirstPass achieves this by allowing downloads from multiple sources to multiple destinations, all using a responsive, clean and intuitive interface.

Unique features of FirstPass

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    .    1.The first application on Mac to enable image download from multiple sources to multiple destinations.

    .    2.Works with shared devices to enable download over a network.

    .    3.Provides a fast and clean interface to do a “first pass” editing of images.

    .    4.Frees up the user’s time by handling multiple downloads at the same time without requiring the user to swap the cards in and out of a card reader or starting the download manually for each card.

    .    5.Can be configured to automatically start downloading when a device (or multiple devices) are plugged in.

This app is available for $9.99 and you can download it here

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Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.