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I'd rather write code than documentation so here are some basic pointers...you will have to figure the rest out for yourself (lucky its easy to use!)

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What is the Microsoft .NET Framework?

Usage Tips

iTag has some features that can be a little hidden.
Here are some of the interesting ones that you may have missed:

  • Right click the tag lists to copy/paste tags from the clipboard
  • Middle mouse click-and-hold an image to get a fullscreen view of that photo
  • When geotagging from Google Earth, don't save a placemark to a file - just copy it to the clipboard. iTag will recognise the clipboard contents.
  • Quickly see which images don't have descriptions by setting the Thumbnail size to 'none'

Searching

Before you can perform a search, you need to build an index.
This scans all of your photos for metadata and saves it into a small database to make the searches super fast.
Build the index by clicking Options and then the Search tab. Pick the folder that contains all of your photos and then click Build Index

It will take a few minutes for the index to build, but you need only perform this once. As you edit your photos, the index will be automatically updated when the photos are saved.
(Note that your metadata is still always saved to the IPTC headers of the photo file - so your metadata remains portable)
You are now ready to search.
Simply type your search terms into the textbox and click Search. Alternatively, click a word in the Tag Cloud.

  • You can enter multiple search terms - say red car to find all photos that have both of those words associated with them.
  • If you aren't sure how you spelled a certain term when you tagged a photo, you can search for say car automobile ford rv 4wd and uncheck the "Require all terms to match" checkbox under Advanced.
  • Under Advanced, you can constrain your search to a specific folder or date range (so it is a good idea to keep the clock in your camera set to the correct time).
  • Use * (asterisk) as a wildcard in your searches. Searching for cat* will match photos containing the words cat, cats or cathedral.
  • Use " (double quotes) to only return images where the words all appear together - eg: "red cat" will find a photo with The red cat had a strange hue but will not return a photo with The red car purred like a cat in the description.
  • Use - (minus sign) to exclude photos with the term. Searching for car -red will find a photos with cars as long as they aren't red!
  • Use rating: to find images you have given a rating to. Searching for car rating:4,5 will find any car photos with a rating of 4 or 5.
  • Use limit: to override the default maximum of 50 images returned. Searching for car limit:100 will the best 100 matches of photos with the term car
  • Use location: and radius: to find geocoded photos. Try a search for location:1 Macquarie St, Sydney radius:100

Note: Non English translations have their own translated search operators. Move the mouse over the search box for a hint as to the correct operator and number separator.


The tag cloud only contains words from photos tag field, however search operates over the title, description and tag fields of your photos.

Flickr

Flickr will automatically import all data entered with iTag when you upload photos.
If you use the official Flickr Uploadr, don't use the resize option otherwise the tag data won't be uploaded.

What is the Microsoft .NET Framework?

Some people are hesitant to install the .NET Framework - most probably because at its launch Microsoft rather stupidly associated .NET with Microsoft Passport - of which people were quite rightly sceptical.

The .NET Framework however is simply a set of libraries that make it a lot easier for software developers like myself to build applications.
Similar to Java, .NET provides bigger 'building blocks' to build an application so a developer doesn't have to get bogged down performing nitty gritty little tasks.

It is such a well designed development platform that there is a large project called Mono that is trying to bring the benefits of the .NET Framework to Linux.
Now if the open source guys want the .NET Framework available on Linux - surely it can't be that bad can it? :)

There have been several versions of the .NET Framework, with each successive version providing new features for the developer to use.
Version 3.0 of the Framework is installed into Windows Vista right out of the box, while Windows XP users can get it for free via Windows Update.

Still not convinced?
Try reading what the Wikipedia says about .NET or watch a Chris Pirillo YouTube video describing .NET
Here is a slightly more technical description of the .NET Framework.