If you are like us, you share your photos with your friends and your family and they share theirs with you.
And some of these friends may share their photos on Facebook while some others may do so using Flickr or MySapce.
Still others may send you photos as email attachments to your Gmail or Yahoo Mail account.
How to keep track of all these photos? How get photos out of mailboxes? How to copy these photos to your
favorite photo site? How to pass them to other friends or family members? How to make collection of photos from
different photo sites?
We developed Showzey to solve the above problems. With Showzey, you will never miss or lose a memorable photo of your family and friends.
Showzey will also discover photos you maybe forgot about. While you may come across hundreds or even thousands of photographs,
not everyone of them is going to be memorable. But then there are going to be those ones that you would think are memorable,
and, may be sometime in the future, locate and view again. Showzey will help you to find and rember these photos.
A: For many of us, photographs provide a focus of our interaction with our friends. Showzey helps you browse all the photo-related activities of your friends in one place. You can browse all their photographs, tag them, write captions on them and more. And your activities on their photographs will be immediately communicated to them on Facebook. And all their activities will be communicated to you in a newsfeed (in an upcoming feature of Showzey).
A: Showzey can help you by giving you the one place from which you can interact with all your friends and their photographs. Using Showzey, connect to your Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, and Gmail accounts. If you do not have an account on one of these sites, just create a free account and add these friends as friends on the social networking sites. It’s not required that you have your own photographs on any one of these sites. Once you connect to these accounts, Showzey will collect all your photographs and your friends’ photographs, download your photo attachments and photo albums specified in links in the email messages.
A: We respect your privacy and your need to feel secure. When you connect to one of the sites that support password-less authentication and authorization (Yahoo! Flickr and Facebook, for example), you login directly into those sites using your id and password on them. We have no access to your password. When you connect to Gmail which does not currently support passwordless authentication and authorization, (Gmail, for example), we use the id and password you provide to connect to account. We search for photo attachments and links to photo albums in your email and download them. You have the option of asking us to save your id and password in these cases for future use. However, you can choose not to allow us to save your password.
A: When the photographs are email attachments, you have the option of choosing to save your photographs on the Showzey servers. You can also choose to save these photographs on one of your social networking sites. When the photographs are from your social networking sites, some of them we might cache on our server temporarily. If you like, you can save them on your computer or copy them to other sites.
Please be aware of copyright restrictions on the photographs you access using Showzey. They are governed by the source site of the photographs.
A: Yes, Showzey is designed to make it easy to do this. After all, long before photographs got on the Web, when families and friends shared photographs, people could ask for a copy of photographs they see and take it with them and put in their own albums. In Showzey you can do this in several ways. You can save a photo in one of your photosets. Think of photosets as your virtual photo albums. You can save a photo on your own computer. Or you can save a photo in one of your other on-line photo albums on any of the supported photo sharing sites.
A: Yes. You can use the RSS feed feature of Showzey. You will find it in the first pull-down menu near the top of the Showzey window. You can put that RSS feed in your iGoogle or MyYahoo page.
A: Here is video showing how to do it:
Showzey will go trough your Gmail mailbox and transfer all your attached photos to Showzey storage, or directly to your Facebook, Flickr, or Picasa account.
To download all these photos to you computer, just select them and press the download icon (little diskette icon) Showzey will also catalog all photos shared as links to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa and KodakEasyShare albums.
A: Showzey supports only one Gmail account per user at present since this seems to satisfy most of our users. If you would like Showzey to support multiple Gmail accounts per user, please let us know by sending your request to support@showzey.com or vote for feature on our feeback forum.
A: Yes, you can add photographs to your account by mailing them to Showzey at showzey.catalog@gmail.com. However, you must first register the email id you would use to mail photographs. To do this, click on "Register email address" operation in e-mail pull-down menu.
A: Thank you. You can help us in several ways. You can give us specific feedback on the existing features and new features you would like to see. You can report problems you experience. You can invite your friends to join Showzey. You can write about Showzey on your blog. You can tweet about Showzey . You can tell us which other social networking and photo sharing and email services you would like us to support.
A: We currently do not plan to charge for Showzey. Even if we are forced to start charging for some of the services, we intend to offer certain minimum services for free.
A: Showzey supports the following browsers:
• Firefox 3.5
• Safari 4.0
• Chrome 2
• Internet Explorer 7 and 8 with Google Chrome Frame
NOTE: Showzey supports the Internet Explorer (IE) only if you have Chrome Frame Plugin for Internet Explorer.
A: Go to http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/ and install Goolge Chrome Frame.
A: Unfortunately, the Facebook screen that is displayed causes concerns for some users. At Showzey, we have
taken care to limit what content we publish on your Facebook account and when. At present, when you authorize
Showzey and connect with Facebook the first time, we let your friends on Facebook know that you are using
Showzey to view their photographs. We do this in consideration of their own privacy, letting them know their
photographs are visible to you on Showzey. We use only the publicly available mechanisms officially provided
by Facebook to Showzey (and every other application supported by Facebook) to access your information in Facebook.
By default, Showzey publish the following on your wall:
• when you connect to Showzey and catalog photos
• when you mark a photo or a friend as a favorite
• when you add caption on a photo
You can disable that in Facebook Application Settings page:
A: Yes. Click on the profile icon. It is the rightmost icon with your photo in the horizontal row of icons near the top of the Showzey window. The pull-down menu that opens up has the operation “Delete my account.”. You need also revoke showzey privileges in Facebook, Gmail and Yahoo. See more details here.
