GroupSmarts founder John Fox will be giving a gallery talk at the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley on Sunday October 12, 2008. Joining him will be Francesco Spagnolo, Head of Research at the Magnes. Together, they will discuss the Memory Lab, a permanent exhibition/laboratory for the scanning, annotation and curation of culturally significant personal photographs and documents.

The talk begins at 2PM and is open to the public.

For more information, visit this URL:

http://magnes.org/cal.htm

GroupSmarts, LLC is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MemoryMiner 1.86 for Macintosh. This is a maintenance release which in addition to containing an import bug fix for web export, includes the latest version of the iMedia browser. The iMedia Browser now supports iPhoto Events, and contains numerous speed improvements and bug fixes. Information on the iMedia browser can be found here:

http://www.karelia.com/imedia

Detailed information about MemoryMiner for Macintosh (screen grabs, videos, download and purchase links) can be found at this URL:

http://www.memoryminer.com/mac

This is a free upgrade for all registered users. You can get it just by clicking “Check for Updates” in the MemoryMiner application menu. Alternatively, download the disk image from this URL:

Download MemoryMiner 1.86 for Macintosh

GroupSmarts, LLC is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MemoryMiner 1.1 for Windows. The most visible change is a very sophisticated library exchange mechanism. In the File menu, there are two new menu items, namely Import and Export which, let you import and export selected portions of your library. In both cases, the file format (.mlz) is a single file (which is actually a zip file) containing the database, all the photo files, all the thumbnails, and any attachments. Because it’s a single file, it’s easy to transfer (by attaching to an email message, or using file transfer services such as Pando. This format is of course compatible with the Mac version of MemoryMiner, and so is a great way to share work among family and friends.

When exporting, you can optionally scale the photos, which means the resulting library file can be made much smaller than if you included the full size image. When importing you can intelligently merge the contents of one library with another, with full control of handling duplicate people and places.

You can see how the import/export mechanism works in these two screen movies (Quicktime required):

Mac to Windows Library Exchange

Windows to Mac Library Exchange

This release is a free upgrade for all MemoryMiner Windows users, and is available at these URLs:

Installer for MemoryMiner only
Installer for MemoryMiner which includes .NET 3.0 framework

As always, the best place to learn all about MemoryMiner for Window is here:

http://www.memoryminer.com/windows

GroupSmarts, LLC is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MemoryMiner 1.85 for Macintosh. The key new feature is an innovative “keyword mapping” ability which allows for the automatic association of newly imported photos to MemoryMiner People or Places based on the presence of keywords that are either embedded in the photo itself, or which can be read from the iPhoto library:

http://homepage.mac.com/groupsmarts/.Movies/KeywordMappingDemo-Web.mov

A full list of new features and improvements can be found here:

http://memoryminer.com/SWUpdate/1.85

And as always, the best place to a complete set of information in one place (screen grabs, videos, download and purchase links) can be found here:

http://memoryminer.com/mac

This is a free upgrade for all registered users. You can get it just by clicking “Check for Updates” in the MemoryMiner application menu. Alternatively, download the disk image from here:

Download MemoryMiner 1.85 for Mac

MemoryMiner 1.8 for Mac is now available.

The new version was debuted at Macworld 2008 and was extremely well-received.

New features include:

• Flickr Upload Plugin: Share your best photos, fully annotated (including photo notes) on Flickr with the touch of a button.
• Adobe Lightroom Support: Visually browse the contents of your Lightroom libraries then drag and drop into MemoryMiner for annotation and linking. Supports Camera RAW formats, as well as automatic conversion upon upload to the web or to Flickr.
• Support for GEDCOM files with ANSEL text encoding (now reads GEDCOM files from GENi, the online Genealogical software).
• Numerous bug fixes and other enhancements.

An RSS feed with more details is available here:

http://www.memoryminer.com/SWUpdate/MemoryMiner-AppCast.rss

As always, a great way to learn about MemoryMiner is our landing page, found here:

http://www.memoryminer.com/mmlanding

The much anticipated MemoryMiner for Windows product has now been released. Complete information is available at this URL:

http://www.memoryminer.com/windows

The complete press release is available here:

Full Press Release on PR Web

7 June, 2007

GroupSmarts, LLC is pleased to announce the release of MemoryMiner 1.5, a major new upgrade to the award winning Digital Storytelling appliction. Version 1.52 is a maintennce release which fixes a problem with importing from iPhoto libraries whose files are stored outside the iPhoto library, adds a new “Contiental” Portuguese locazliation, and fixes some grammatical/spelling errors in some of the localizations.

The release is free of charge to registered users, and is available using the usual “Check for Updates” mechanism in the application itself, or as a disk image at this URL;

http://www.memoryminer.com/downloads

This release is free of charge for all registered users.

23 April, 2007

GroupSmarts, LLC is pleased to announce the release of MemoryMiner 1.5, a major new upgrade to the award winning Digital Storytelling appliction. Version 1.5 represents a signifigant overhaul to the User Interface that has been a long time in the works.

The release is free of charge to registered users, and is available for download at the usual URL;

http://www.memoryminer.com/downloads

This release is free of charge for all registered users.

San Francisco, CA 10th November, 2006: MemoryMiner 1.2, a free upgrade to the award winning application was released today. Version 1.2 sports a number of new features, useful enhancements, and bug fixes.

Some of the new features include:

* Google Maps Integration: Google Maps has been integrated into the Places editor, complete with zoomable satellite imagery. It is now possible to manually adjust a location’s latitude and longitude by moving a marker. This is particularly useful for places “in nature” (e.g. Yosemite Park) where a lookup by address wouldn’t really work. This also helps in cases where a lookup by address is not quite accurate. Note that you can pan the map by dragging, and zoom using the scroll wheel on your mouse (if you have one) or by using the zoom slider.

* New MemoryMiner Story Viewer (AKA XML/Web Export) is now based on HTML/Javascript/CSS. Significant improvements have been made to the story viewer. The selection markers on a photo are only visible when the mouse is over the picture then disappear when the mouse is moved. The markers on the map view are filtered based on the person that is selected. Clicking on a photo underneath the map view will zoom the map to the place for that photo. The slideshow has been improved with a nice fade transition between slides, while the photo’s title and caption are displayed over the bottom of the slide. Perhaps most importantly, the look and feel of the web viewer can be modified by adjusting the stylesheets and/or the HTML

* New Spanish Localization MemoryMiner has now been localized into Spanish (joining the Chinese, Danish, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Portuguese localizations).

The upgrade is free of charge to all registered users, and availalble for $45 for new users.

A video gallery with screen movies demonstrating MemoryMiner can be found here:

MemoryMiner Video Gallery

A complete list of new features and other changes in version 1.2 can be found at this URL (RSS feed with attached screen grabs):

MemoryMiner 1.2 update feed

San Francisco, CA 14th July, 2006: MemoryMiner 1.1, a major upgrade was released today. Version 1.1 adds a series of major new features that make this award-winning application easier to use, more powerful and able to automatically publish stunning digital stories to the web.

Some of the new features include:

* MediaBrowser: Visiually browse the contents of your iPhoto library, Photos/Movies Fodlers, iTunes/Garage Band then drag and drop files into MemoryMiner

* Library Documents: MemoryMiner libraries can now be saved as self-contained “documents” (i.e. all photos, media attachments, etc. are copied within the library file wrapper). This makes sharing MemoryMiner libraries between differnt computers a breeze.

* Auto Publish to Web: Export stories from a MemoryMiner library automatically to the web server of your choice via .Mac or FTP transfer.

* New Flash viewer: The latest Flash viewer (created automatically when you publish to web) features a zoomable satellite map view, viewing of attachments, and an improved slide show view

The upgrade is free of charge to all registered users, and availalble for $45 for new users.

A new video gallery with screen movies demonstrating MemoryMiner can be found here:

MemoryMiner Video Gallery

A complete list of features new in version 1.1 can be found at this URL (RSS feed with attached screen grabs):

MemoryMiner 1.1 update feed