[Windows and MAC]: There is one problem with Facebook photo albums, you are not shown any link to download the entire photo album in your computer. To download all the photos of a Facebook photo album, you have to click through each photo, load them in a new browser tab and save the images one by one. This procedure can be quite tiring and time consuming as well.

We have previously covered a Facebook photo download tool , which lets you download entire Facebook albums in your computer. But what about “Tagged photos” in Facebook? What if you want to download all the tagged photos of yours or may be some of your friends?

Enter Photograbber, a simple Facebook photo download tool which lets you download tagged photos of any of your Facebook friends. Once you have downloaded the package, extract and run the utility. This will open a browser window where you have to login to your Facebook account and grant the necessary permissions.

You will then be shown an authentication code, simply copy and paste it in the Photograbber preferences as shown below:

Photograbber will then display all your Facebook friends in a list, you can select yourself or any other friend from the list and then download all the tagged photos of that person in your computer.

The application searches your friends wall posts for images where you have been tagged. One downside is that you are not shown the thumbnails or any preview of the images in the application window. Photograbber goes to work and downloads all the photos at once, you are also not given any option to select the images you want.

I think Photograbber does a nice job, you don’t have to search for all tagged photos of a particular friend and manually download them.

Note: You can download only those photos which have been publicly shared by your friend. The application works if the privacy setting for the particular image is “Everyone” or “Friends” , otherwise not.

A few days ago, Google revamped their image search page by adding some cool features. The new Google image search provides a dense cloud of thumbnails which lets you look at lot of images at once. Just hover over an image and you are shown a greater sized thumbnail including the link to the website containing the image at the bottom.

Another feature worth noting is the automatic page scrolling, you scroll to the bottom of the page and the next search result page is loaded automatically in the same page. This is quite useful when are unable to find the perfect image and want to view more results quickly.

If you ask me, I am not quite comfortable with the newer design of Google Image search. The first annoyance is the automatic thumbnail preview, moving the mouse across the screen results in random thumbnails being shown. This can be a bit distracting, considering the fact that you prefer simpler things. Since I hardly look into deeper search result pages, the automatic page scrolling is again not required.

If you want to revert to the older image search interface of Google Images, you can click the “Switch to basic version” link at the bottom of the page.

However, here is another simple URL hack which will let you use the older Google image search layout. Just add &sout=1 in the search result URL and hit the return key.

That’s it, the older interface of Google Image search is back again.

Thanks to Lifehacker for the tip.

There are many tools that let you resize or watermark your images but very few that let you do both. PicGhost is an online tool that lets you edit images, resize them and add watermark to them in bulk. The images can either be uploaded from your computer or from the web.

Once the images are selected, you can specify a custom width and height or resize them to match the smallest or the largest image. You can also choose from one of the many recommended sizes to quickly resize the images. The option to lock the aspect ratio maintains the proportionality of your images.

The tool also lets you add a text or image watermark to your images. You can either upload the watermark image from your computer, or enter the text to display. Custom selection of font, font size and color let you customize the look of your watermark. You can also choose the alignment of the watermark on your images or have it tiled. Once the images are edited, you can preview them before downloading them as a single zip file.

Techie Buzz Verdict:

PicGhost is a great multi-purpose image editor and resizer that saves a lot of time and effort. The interface is intuitive and the the functionality is simple.

Rating: 4/5

There are photos and then there are videos. However, often what you really need is something in between. FotoBabble is a fun little app that lets you create talking photos. Once you sign up for a free account, just upload any photo from your computer. Then record your voice, enter some tags if you want to and save the photo.

Once you save your photo, you can either share it through email and social networks by using the permanent link or embed it on a website or blog using the provided HTML code. You can also give your photo a title and make it public so others can see it too. It is a great way to send greetings, describe a photo or simple add some acoustics to an otherwise static image. You also have the option to make your talking photo autoplay.

FotoBabble also lets you browse through hundreds of interesting talking photos created by other users. Moreover, you can create talking photos from your iPhone using the FotoBabble iPhone app.

Techie Buzz Verdict:

FotoBabble is a great fun app to create talking photos. The interface is easy to use and the app itself is simple and focused.

Rating: 3/5

If you are looking for an alternative to SnagIt, the popular screen capturing software, JShot is an excellent option. To be honest, it doesn’t have all the features that SnagIt has, but it has plenty of them to make it a worthy alternative that is free. Once installed on your Windows or Linux machine, JShot will stay in your system tray and can be easily launched to capture a region, the desktop area, the active window or the full screen.

Once captured, the image can be saved or edited with the JShot editor. In addition to the basic features of cut, crop, rotate, flip and Merge, JShot editor also lets you add text, shapes, lines and arrows to your image. Alternatively, you can use the pen, rubber or bucket tool to add effects to your image or create and remove anchor shapes. You can also add other filters to your image including blur, sharpen and grayscale. A config wizard also lets you save various settings such as image format and default external editor.

JShot also lets you upload images to online services. Currently, it only seems to be working for ImageShack though. However, it probably has the simplest uploading process of all. Once you click the upload button, JShot would automatically upload the image to ImageShack and copy the direct link to your clip board. No need to register, sign in or even open a browser window.

Download JShot here.

Techie Buzz Verdict:

JShot is one of the best screen capturing utility that is free. It is hard to believe they offer so many features without charging a penny. The interface can be tweaked a little but the usability is fantastic.

Rating: 4/5

Most of the screen capturing tools that are feature-rich, cost an arm and a leg. There are of course a lot of free tools, but they are not nearly as good as the paid ones. One of the exceptions is ScreenPresso, a desktop based free screen capture utility that lets you capture, retain and edit screenshots with ease.

Once installed, you can just used the PrntScrn key on your laptop to initiate a screen capture. Drag to focus on the area you want to capture and ScreenPresso will display your captured image along with previous screenshots you have taken. You can then save it to your hard drive, share it on Twitter, drag it to an email client to email it or drag it to a windows folder to save it there.

If you desire to edit the image, you can do so with the built-in editor or any other image editing software installed on your machine. The editor allows you to resize the image, add shapes and text, crop the image or add borders and effects to your image. The editor also has a built-in zooming utility allowing you to do some really detailed editing. The software has almost all the basic features that a premium utility like SnagIt offers, except the hefty price.

Techie-Buzz Verdict:

When it comes to free utilities to capture screen shots, ScreenPresso is probably one of the most feature-rich and intuitive ones.

Rating: 4/5 (Excellent)

[Via MyDigitalLife]

Adding images in email messages can be a bit tiring. You have to either upload the image as an attachment or use a Gmail labs feature to add images in the email message body.

Same goes with blogging editors meant for WordPress and Blogger. You have to either use a blogging client like Windows live writer, or use the in built uploader. The first option may not be suitable when you are using other computers to write your blog post. The later option can be time consuming when you have plenty of images to consider. In the worst case, the browser freezes in the middle and you have to start the process all over again.

To solve this, use PicturePaste – a simple desktop app to add images in your emails and blog posts. Following are the steps involved to use this tool:

1. Drag and drop an image which you wish to attach in an email message or a blog post into the PicturePaste program.

2. Convert the image to a suitable format using the built in conversion options. (JPG or PNG)

3. When the image is ready, drop it in the email compose window and it’s done.

Similarly, you can attach images into other web based editors such as Google Docs, WordPress and email programs – Gmail, Yahoo and Windows live Hotmail. All the images are uploaded to Amazon S3 and there is nothing to register or configure. Great find – LifeRocks.

Techie Buzz Verdict

Picture Paste is fast, easy to use and does what it says. However it’s not completely free and the trial version allows you to upload only 50 images. I would love to see integration of a short URL feature so that we can quickly share the image on microblogging sites.

Techie Buzz rating: 4/5 (Excellent).

Spell with Flickr is a web service which enables you to type in any text you wish to and then, matches each letter of that phrase/word with letter pictures right from Flickr.

The letters that appear here are retrieved from images posted on the One Letter Flickr group. If you don’t like any of the images that appear, then you can just click on each individual image to change it. You can also try reloading the page to get a new graphic set of letters

Spell with flickr also provides with HTML code that you can copy and paste to any web page or blog.

This service can come handy to quickly make a heading for a web page and try alternate texts to suit your needs. It’s a nice little tool to play around with. Check out spell with flickr.

This service is free for use and does not require any registration for use.

Converticon is a web based app created by Punk Labs, which helps you convert an image file (png/jpeg/jpg/gif) to an icon file (.ico) . You can use this icon file as a folder (or drive) image or as your website favicon.

1. Go to Converticon homepage and press the Get Startedbutton. You will be prompted to select an image. Locate it on your hard drive and then open it.

2. The selected image will be shown in the resulting page. Press “Export” button.

3. Now you will be redirected to the Export Options page. You can select the size of the resulting icon file here. Try to select the size depending on your need i.e., if you are trying to create a favicon for your blog or website go for the sizes 24X24, 32X32 or 16X16 and if you are trying to create an icon for your drive try a bigger size say 256X256 or 128X128. After you are finished selecting the size of the icon file, press the “Save As” button and select a place on your hard disk where you want to save the file.

Now you can use the saved file for the purpose you created it. I’ve created one for a folder on the desktop. Check out how it looks.

Techie-Buzz Verdict

Icon files are often used on the Windows platform. Play with this online tool to customize the icons of your Windows drives and folders. If you are a web-master and have been longing for a customized favicon for your website, this is the tool for you. There are some minor errors in this app. It won’t display any confirmation after the .ico file is saved, instead it will take you back to step 2 (described above) . It also lets you select multiple sizes for the resulting icon file in the Export Options page, but only generates a file of a single selection (selected randomly). If the flaws (mentioned before) can be ignored, this tool is really handy in creating   icon files.

Techie-Buzz Rating: 3.5/5 (Average)

The title of the post may sound unreal to you but there is a fun little tool that actually lets you do that. The tool is called Cartoon Photo and lets you insert a number of emotions into a picture.

Simply upload a photo from your computer or enter a URL to upload one from the web (The maximum image size is 12 MB). Then choose the emotion you want to insert including smile, wink, sad, troll, squint eyed, flirt and oops.

For example we took this simple picture and played around with the tool:

We tried to make it smile:

and then we tried to make it frown:

and then squint eyed:

You can also select the strength of an emotion to decide how much the photo should smile or frown. There is also an option to insert an animated smile into the photo. You can specify the animation speed and the picture size while setting the animation.

Once done, you can simply save your resulting image on your computer, save it online with a free Pho.to account or share it with your friends. Cartoon Photo is a part of broader range of fun apps offered at Pho.to including photo editing, photo enhancement, creating avatars and photo presentation widget.