Sharpcast Photos

June 2, 2006

I signed up for Sharpcast Photos after reading about it on this article at TechCrunch. The Orange mobile photo service that I blogged about a couple of entries ago isn’t working too well, and Orange still haven’t responded to the problem ticket I raised regarding the double-posting of uploaded photos. But, hey, I’m just the customer. What do I care?

As for Sharpcast, only the PC version of the application suite is available at the moment, but a mobile version is promised soon and it’s that which I am particularly interested in.

The desktop application is very cool though -� you drag and drop your pictures from the My Pictures folder on your PC into� the Sharpcast application window and Sharpcast uploads those pictures to the web. Synchronisation happens in the background – including any captions, album title and album cover. You can keep an album private, share� it with everyone, or you can choose to share it with any/all of your other� Sharpcast contacts instead.

Sharpcast are still calling this an alpha version but� I think they’re being a little over-critical. It’s easy to use, it looks nice� and, most important of all, it does what it says its going to do. If the mobile version of this works as well as the desktop version, then Sharpcast are going to have a runaway success on their hands.

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