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Long time ago I developed this tiny script for the IMatch DAM tool mostly as a proof-of-concept more than an tool for active use. Anyway, it occurred to me that it might useful or amusing for some people, or maybe a starting point for more elaborate scripts.

This script takes the name of the currently selected category in IMatch, and launches a web browser to show the Wikipedia search hits for that name. For example, if I select category Palo Alto in the IMatch category panel and run this script, it will launch the browser to show the Wikipedia topic for the city of Palo Alto. Read the rest of this entry »

Most of the time I use my chosen DAM tool to navigate my photo collection. Sometimes, though, I use the plain old Windows Explorer to browse photos in my photo collection, usually indirectly when an application such as Photoshop automatically turns on the thumbnail view in the Open File dialog. That unfortunately causes Windows Explorer to leave a pile of hidden files named Thumbs.db in every folder I visit. I find that annoying enough to write a quick and dirty little IMatch script to seek out and delete those files. Read the rest of this entry »

After I started using WordPress I quickly realized that there is often need to incorporate snippets of text on posts or pages. I could of course just use a link to another page, but for certain things I liked the immediacy of inline inclusion better. I wrote an extremely simple WordPress plug-in that will pull in any page referred to by its ID. Read the rest of this entry »

Occasionally I like to visualize how many photos are assigned to a given set of tags in my photo collection. One common example of this is the Ratings tag which has 5 sub-tags ranging from 1-Bad to 5-Stellar. Another example is the When tag which has sub-tags for each year (and within each year, the months). This simple IMatch script automates the process of visualizing the histogram plot of the number of photos assigned to each sub-tag under a parent tag. Read the rest of this entry »

In the past my photo printing vendor did not print filenames on the backsides of the photos. Back then I had to manually scribble the filename of the photo on the back of the print, in case I ever wanted to find that photo for re-prints. Being the lazy guy I am, I created this script that generated a Word doc I could print on an Avery 8167 sticker sheet, ready to be applied to the backs of the photos. Read the rest of this entry »