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ASHBURN, VA, USA Â July 11, 2006. Cogitum LC, a provider of software for personalcontent management, has launched the latest version of FotoTagger(http://www.fototag ger.com), a popular tool for image annotation.
FotoTagger 1.7 is a step forward in implementation of a Cogitum initiative onproviding a simple and easy-to-use tool for creating meaningfully annotated pictureswith a new personal or social value. These are family photos and travel pictures,paintings and educational images, children drawings and archaeological photos - anyimages where identifying objects and providing historical, cultural, or economicalbackground can help a user convey more knowledge for memorizing or sharing acrosscommunities.
FotoTagge r 1.7 provides both bloggers and desktop users with more abilities to addsuch new value to images. In addition to the existing image annotation capabilities,with FotoTagger 1.7, users can:
- Create callouts to precisely mark notable details. This new feature is especiallyuseful for those users who have pictures, like group family photos, where an abilityto pinpoint a particular person is crucial.
- Identify boundaries of compound objects. Now users can assign a single annotationto a group of multiple objects that can be helpful, for example, while commentingsights on travel pictures.
- Facilitate understanding of annotations by customizing their font and color. WithFotoTagger 1.7 annotations can be distinctly viewed regardless of specificbackground colors.
Being a desktop application, FotoTagger enables users to tag pictures located on ahard disk without having to upload them to the Web. Then bloggers can publishannotated images to Blogger.com or LiveJournal directly from FotoTagger whiledesktop users are able to enjoy an ability to search across the annotations. Thetool also offers other means for sharing images, such as email and exporting to HTMLfor easy publishing on the Web.
The current personal version of FotoTagger supports what could be called  3Fprinciple F1: Free of charge; F2: Free of ads; F3: Free of spyware and privacyintrusion.
FotoTagger can be downloaded from the official product Websitehttp://www.fototagger. com. This Website also provides various examples of possibleFotoTagger applications, help documentation, and FAQ.
About Cogitum LCCogitum is an innovative software developing company with several award-winningpersonal software tools, including Co-Tracker and Co-Citer that gained totalhundreds of thousands downloads.
More information can be obtained by contacting a company representative at1-703-858-2377 or by Lmalkov@cogitum.com.
Examples of using FotoTagger in family projects and commenting traveling picturescan be found at http://www.fototagger.com/prod ucts/desktop/websites.
