Ant Renamer is a free program that makes easier the renaming of lots of files and folders by using specified settings.

• It supports Unicode names.
• This program can rename large amounts of files and folders in few clicks.
• It only modifies files/folders names.
• Changing extension.
• Replacing character strings by others.
• Inserting a character string.
• Moving characters.
• Deleting several characters.
• Enumeration.
• Name creation with mp3′s Tag (ID v1.1).
• Name creation with file’s last modified date and time.
• Random names creation.
• Case change (uppercase, lowercase, first letter of each word in uppercase, …).
• Take names from a list/file.
• Use of EXIF info.
• Regular expressions.
• Available in 11 languages : English (default), Belarusian, Chinese (simplified & traditional), Czech, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish.

Strengths

• Batch renaming.
• Runs on all current versions of windows.
• Very quick.
• Free.
• A variety of options when renaming files.
• Can include or exclude the extension in operations.

Weaknesses

• Only one level of undo.

Download Ant Renamer via http://www.antp.be

Ant Renamer is copyrighted by Antoine Potten and I make no claim that I have anything to do with it or want any money because of it. I just think it is a great program and you should use it.

GeoSetter is a freeware tool for Windows for showing and changing geo data of image files (e.g. images taken by digital cameras). It is a very powerful and easy to use tool for adding all sorts of metadata to your digital images. It is the next step to the earlier Exifer program, also developed by Friedemann Schmidt.

Features Include:

• Reads and writes the formats JPEG and TIFF as well as camera RAW formats DNG (Adobe), CRW and CR2 (Canon), NEF (Nikon), MRW (Konica Minolta), PEF (Pentax), ORF (Olympus), ARW, SR2, SRF (Sony) and RAF (Fujifilm)
• Uses ExifTool from Phil Harvey for writing data
• Shows existing geo coordinates and tracks on embedded Google Maps map (requires internet connection)
• Setting geo data by using embedded Google Maps map (requires internet connection) or by entering known values for coordinates and altitude directly
• Automatic filling of location IPTC fields and altitude values (requires internet connection)
• Editable IPTC data (IPTC-NAA/XMP)
• Possibility to change taken date of images
• Synchronization with track files (NMEA, GPX, PLT, Sony LOG and others)
• Synchronization with already geo tagged images with buddy images (e.g. between RAW images and their corresponding JPEG images)
• Localizable user interface – English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Czech, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Russian and Norwegian language is available at the moment

I have found GeoSetter to be one of the easiest and most reliable freeware programs out there for this sort of thing. Here is my quick and lazy bulleted review:

Strengths

• Images are easy to navigate.
• Editing geo data is simple and fast using the familiar Google Maps interface.
• Free.
• Still alive and being updated.
• Can add Flickr geo data tags.
• Allows saving of common GeoData locations.

Weaknesses

• Sometimes assigning the map position to an image fails.
• No batch processes for renaming or rotating.
• Saving the edited images is slow.
• Requires internet connection for some features.

Download GeoSetter via http://www.geosetter.de/

GeoSetter is copyrighted by Friedemann Schmidt and I make no claim that I have anything to do with it or want any money because of it. I just think it is a great program and you should use it.

Director, Flash, Photoshop, VR Worx

As part of a college field trip to Poland, we teamed up with the Majdanek Museum in Lublin to create interactive educational pieces concerning the concentration camp.

Working in teams of 3-6, we spent several days photographing, scanning documents, and becoming familiar with the history of the camp.

Upon returning to the States, we had to share both what we learned and the digital files we gathered with class members were not part of the trip.

The group I was part of decided to create a virtual tour of the camp, using Apple’s Quicktime VR technology within a Flash/Director environment. The VR scenes themselves have graphical elements that relate to the larger interface, such as lines connecting typography and a camp map with direction pointer.

Our team was later approached to create a Polish version of the software, but the project eventually fell through.