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GAPS is an image sorting and viewing application written to deal with
enormous folders full of images. It can easily handle hundreds of thousands of
images per folder and continue to operate quickly and stably.
GAPS' DuperFinder feature can scan all of your image folders for duplicates, shows you thumbnails of the dupes as confirmation, and easily removes the extra copies to save disk space.
With GAPS' image sorting features, you use your keyboard to quickly sort images from an "Incoming" folder into multiple folders of your choosing. You can
GAPS' DuperFinder feature can scan all of your image folders for duplicates, shows you thumbnails of the dupes as confirmation, and easily removes the extra copies to save disk space.
With GAPS' image sorting features, you use your keyboard to quickly sort images from an "Incoming" folder into multiple folders of your choosing. You can
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Version 0.80.3547: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Downloads:4,621 |
| Version Downloads:1,272 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Author Tools |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:05 Apr 2008 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $20.00 |
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GAPS is an image sorting and viewing application written to deal with
enormous folders full of images. It can easily handle hundreds of thousands of
images per folder and continue to operate quickly and stably.
GAPS' DuperFinder feature can scan all of your image folders for duplicates, shows you thumbnails of the dupes as confirmation, and easily removes the extra copies to save disk space.
With GAPS' image sorting features, you use your keyboard to quickly sort images from an "Incoming" folder into multiple folders of your choosing. You can sort images one at a time or in batches by using your mouse to select multiple images (shift-click). As you sort each image, the file is moved and the next image in your incoming folder is displayed automatically. If you make a mistake, GAPS' Undo feature allows you to go back and change your mind about deleting or categorizing an image.
GAPS works best when you use the keys on the numeric keypad to sort, but you can assign any and all keys on your keyboard to perform any sorting action you like.
When you don't feel like sorting images, GAPS' slide show (including full screen) displays all the images in your collection either randomly or in order.
GAPS' DuperFinder feature can scan all of your image folders for duplicates, shows you thumbnails of the dupes as confirmation, and easily removes the extra copies to save disk space.
With GAPS' image sorting features, you use your keyboard to quickly sort images from an "Incoming" folder into multiple folders of your choosing. You can sort images one at a time or in batches by using your mouse to select multiple images (shift-click). As you sort each image, the file is moved and the next image in your incoming folder is displayed automatically. If you make a mistake, GAPS' Undo feature allows you to go back and change your mind about deleting or categorizing an image.
GAPS works best when you use the keys on the numeric keypad to sort, but you can assign any and all keys on your keyboard to perform any sorting action you like.
When you don't feel like sorting images, GAPS' slide show (including full screen) displays all the images in your collection either randomly or in order.
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smpdigital reviewed on 04 Jun 2006
As far as the interface goes, yes it's cluttered, and there's no help for it whatsoever to even try to explain the way things work (I'm working on the help). Once you get used to it though, I think it's rather useable. GAPS stuffs a lot of functionality into few pixels. It's designed to use as much of its screen real estate as possible to show the images being viewed while still giving you some cue what keys you have mapped to what directories.
As for being un-Mac-like, granted the sorting drawer is a bit off, but that's a calculated deviation for the above reasons. If you've looked at DupeFinder or the key mapping setup, yes those could both use some help. There are pending bugs for both of those. There's a reason this isn't 1.0 yet, and there's also a reason there's no shareware nags or timeouts. I'm not the least bit offended if anyone thinks this work-in-progress isn't yet worthy of its $20 price tag. If you find it at all useful, I'll happily take bug reports or suggestions in lieu of payment.
If you do have any specific criticisms of specific parts of GAPS' interface, I'd love to hear them. Either here, via email, or in bugs filed against GAPS' bug tracker. GAPS' dev 'team' might be none other than Yours Truly, but I always try my best to implement any user requests or suggestions. There are a lot of pending bugs related to GAPS' UI that I'm getting to as I have time. GAPS is first and foremost my own image sorter, however, so frequently enough Form loses out to Functionality.
Please consider checking back in a couple of versions to see if GAPS better meets your expectations.
GAPS does support viewing PDF's now.
This comment is not comprehensive but a 'first impression' review, so I'm not going to give any stars and I'm going to be brutally critical. Once I've used this more I'll confirm/retract opinions as needed.
1 The developer's site looks like a dog's dinner and makes for a very poor first impression.
2 The name GAPS is awful, as is the logo. Almost anything else would be better. 'PicSort', 'QuickPic', use your imagination. And what the heck is version 0.50.0.3268??
3 No rotate command! Not having a rotate feature on a photo program is like not having a 'steer' feature on your car.
4 When I use the Finder to do sorting, I just open Image Capture, rotate and dump. GAPS has to have a far broader feature set to be of any use.
5 The gui is quite messy. Needs work.
6 The program is only 'nag-free shareware' because the developer does not value his product enough to give any purchase incentive. GAPS should be freeware until it is ready for primetime. Asking $20 for this is not going to do it.
7 Enough of the negative. It is quite fast, that's an excellent achievement.
While using Finder and/or [image editor of your choice] will give you a LOT more functionality, they don't cut it for my needs at all. If I open most of my image folders in Finder, Finder CRASHES. Not "slows down and takes a while," but "Would you like to report this to Apple" kind of crashes. Finder + [editor] can certainly do more, but it can't open and sort to 20 folders with 100,000+ images EACH.
GAPS' name sprung from an in-joke with a buddy of mine a few years ago. It's the Great American Picture(*cough*) Sorter. Granted, the abbreviated name doesn't tell you much about the product, but with other Mac OS apps like Adium, CyberDuck, or even the illustrious FireFox, descriptive names don't seem to be a big thing. The logo's a play (admittedly poorly executed -- I'm a coder, not a graphics artist) on the London Underground logo ("Mind the GAP"), plus a photographic slide thrown in so it's at least *somewhat* suggestive of what the app does. I'd certainly entertain suggestions for improvements.
I *did* shorten GAPS' version number a bit in this release. Now it's just the "version" (0.60) plus my internal build number. I usually don't increment the version number for beta releases, but the build number is an ever-increasing absolute value. It's the revision number from my Subversion repository, actually.
To address a few of the points from your original post:
1) My website: *shrugs* I kind of like it... I've been meaning to tweak the color scheme a bit though.
3) Rotate command: It's on my todo list. So are brightness adjustments.
5) Messy GUI: Anything in particular? It's meant to be sparse and stay out of the way. Granted, it's got a learning curve. I've got some improvements in the works, especially for the Preferences screen.
6) Shareware: I guess you could call it donation/betaware for the time being. I *may* consider making GAPS real shareware with a reg-code or something when I get to version 1.0. I couldn't sleep at night charging people for the current mess...
Thanks for the input in any case. Good, bad, or otherwise, it's nice to know people are at least trying out my work.
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Anonymous reviewed on 25 Sep 2005
i had high hope that faded when it dfid not see .pdf files, and died with the crashees...
But of course you knew that.
Anonymous reviewed on 24 Sep 2005
Didn't play around with it much so I can't speak to anything more than the speed of it... zoom.