tagging

NetRocket Catalogues Your Bookmarks And Issues Reminders

5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you find yourself bookmarking things left and right but rarely ever getting back around to looking through your bookmark collection, NetRocket can help you wrangle your bookmark mountain. More »

MP3 Diags Scans And Repairs Your MP3 Collection

3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Window/Linux: Fixing a tag here and there is one thing, but what if your MP3 collection is in need of a deep and serious massaging to get things in order? MP3 Diags lets you dig into the guts of MP3s. More »

BPM Analyzer Calculates The BPM Of Your Music, Adds Tags

7:00AM Adam Pash | Windows/Mac OS X: Free application BPM Analyzer determines the beats per minute (BPM) of any MP3 on your computer, then automatically updates the ID3 tags with the BPM info—perfect for finding workout music to hit the 120-140 BPM sweet spot. More »

Meta-iPod Cleans And Repairs Your iTunes Library

4:30AM Azadeh Ensha | Windows only: The bigger your iTunes library, the more difficult it becomes to locate and fix any problems that arise, whether you’re faced with play counts or ratings gone awry, missing or duplicate tracks, or missing album art. That’s where diagnostic tool meta-iPod comes in handy. More »

MindRaider Organises And Visualises Any Note Style

1:10AM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Mac/Linux: MindRaider wants to be the place you stash all your sudden thoughts, organizational notes, and inter-connected ideas. That’s because it offers links, visualisations, and other tools to help you make sense of it all. More »

TaggedFrog Organises Your System’s Files Web 2.0 Style

9:00PM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: Use the same kind of quick-thinking, fast-organising tags you use to organise your web life with TaggedFrog, a free Windows utility that sorts and finds any file you can throw at it. Windows Vista (and the Windows 7 beta) already have native tagging systems, and OS X has long offered search-able metadata as a simple filing system. Vista’s tagging is limited to certain file types, though, and it’s in need of a central tag station, much like the one TaggedFrog provides. TaggedFrog tags any file you have with any words you want, so you can selectively tag files to separate projects, keep a track of any MP3s with curse words in them, or whatever quick-search needs you have. As you search, a “cloud” view shows the most-accessed, or most-tagged, keywords, and you can narrow your search by file extension for heavily-used tags. There’s a portable, no-install version available at the program page, so even if you only want to try out TaggedFrog for a quick MP3 organisational mission, you’re good to go. TaggedFrog is a free download for Windows systems, requires the .NET 2.0 framework for both the installed and portable versions. TaggedFrog [via FreewareGenius.com] More »

Bulk Edit Tags On Delicious

1:00AM Kevin Purdy | It’s tucked away, but bookmarking site Del.icio.us now offers bulk tag editing (in, of course, beta) for group tagging/un-tagging and sharing/un-sharing. Helpful stuff, especially for pesky tag typos. Thanks Gergo! More »

ALIPR Learns How To Auto-Tag Photos

9:00AM Gina Trapani | New image recognition webapp ALIPR (Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures in Real-Time) is a on a mission to assign relevant tags to digital images based on their content, and wants you to help it learn. While digital image recognition has come a long way in recent years, it’s still got a long way to go, and ALIPR’s got its share of hits and misses. Upload an image to ALIPR or hand it a URL of an image already online, and the engine will suggest tags, and ask you to add to its list. Some of ALIPR’s suggestions are spot-on, but others are way off. You can confirm the hits and suggest other tags to help the engine learn. Check out how ALIPR did with a few images from my Flickr photostream. More »

TagScanner Renames And Tags Your Digital Music

9:00PM Gina Trapani | Windows only: Rename the thousands of MP3 files in your digital music library and add or edit tags, lyrics, and album art in one fell swoop with free utility TagScanner. Not only can TagScanner clean up the artist, album, song title, and track number information for your digital music files, it can rename your songs based on a pattern you define (like %artist% - %title%), it can make music playlists, and search online databases like freedb and Amazon to automatically tag music missing information. It includes a built-in player as well so you can listen to tracks while you edit. We’ve recommended Media Monkey to whip your music’s metadata into shape, but TagScanner looks like a solid alternative. TagScanner is a free download for Windows only. TagScanner [via Download Blog] More »

Turn Gmail into a Tagged Knowledge Base

8:00AM Adam Pash | Blogger and information junkie Steve Rubel details how he uses Gmail as a taggable, searchable knowledge base using previously mentioned tricks and tools like Gmail plus addresses, the Ubiquity Firefox extension, and Gmail Labs Quick Links. It’s a fantastic system, not only because it works perfectly with apps you already live in (namely Gmail), but also because you can save and tag an entire web page in a few keystrokes. Likewise, you can access the information quickly and easily with Gmail’s excellent search. I recently detailed how you can expand your brain with Evernote, a free, cross-platform note-taking application, but if you live and breath Gmail, Rubel’s methods (which improve on similar Gmail solutions we’ve seen before) are worth a try. Make Magic with Metadata in Gmail [Micro Persuasion] More »