Comments on: Ginipic: Enhanced Image Search for Your Desktop

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:24:07 +0000

The first thing it does upon starting is resize and push all the other open windows.

That sounds like the sidebar mode to me that is more focused on being used alongside another app. You should be able to go to the normal mode that behaves like typical applications. You can also see this in their screencast.

By: MrKewlOhio

MrKewlOhio — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:18:49 +0000

I have not tried CoolIris yet but will plan on it. As for GiniPic, I do not know what FredThompson and Idodialog were doing but GiniPic loaded and worked perfectly for me. No problems with any search, any re-sizing, any saving/moving……nothing. I use FireFox and IE7. I really do love it. As for the “family safe” part, I found all levels of content across the whole image arena in very very quick time. For me, this rates a good 4 1/2 stars out of five. Now if it would only make coffee…..

By: Idodialog

Idodialog — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:06:37 +0000

Regrettably while cooliris works (bugginess aside) Ginipic mostly doesn’t. I’ll make a prediction – this ain’t going nowhere man! To search an image on my own machine it took me 10mins to find the setting! (OK so I’m dumb, but I’m far more tech/computer minded than about 90% of the pop). Then it actually didn’t find half of what I know is there. As for searching the dreaded internets it was a disaster and refused to find that which Google alone could find. It appeared to be so family safe that much of the time I seemed to get family, school and business photos of people and nothing else. It was slowish and rather clunky and the bandwidth it was pulling was a bit scary.
No.

By: FredThompson

FredThompson — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:31:05 +0000

Cooliris was mentioned. I stopped using it because their shell integration screws up a lot. It can prevent IE7 from opening and the uninstaller doesn’t remove everything. The Firefox extension is a little better behaved. ginipic looked like a great alternative until I tried it. The first thing it does upon starting is resize and push all the other open windows. Their feedback is not an actual forum, it’s an awkward flash-based voting booth. ginipics promises an enhanced user experience but demands it’s own way. Wrongo. The computer doesn’t belong to ginipic, it belongs to the person. Uninstalled with a vengeance.

By: Omar Upegui

Omar Upegui — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:52:55 +0000

Sounds interesting, but usually I research for text rather than images. Google provides pretty relevent images for my minimal needs.

This software seems to be a good solution for somebody who deals heavily with images. Not my case.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:53:22 +0000

I love Cooliris for browsing random images, it’s beautiful, but it’s just not usable. When I need pictures for my blog, it takes me forever to download them from Cooliris and see if they fit me, and with Ginipic I just choose the size and drag & drop them to my Live Writer (I think you can drag them to pretty much everything).

By: BorgataHotels

BorgataHotels — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:38:06 +0000

thanks Mark for the recommendation!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:12:11 +0000

I tried Ginipic out because I simply love the Cooliris firefox extension and I thought Ginipic might provide the same funtionality, but outside of a web browser.

If you like Ginipic, you will be astounded with the Cooliris extension for Firefox. Also, Cooliris works with video sites too, not just image site.

I hope someone finds this useful.