Duplicate images across your collection are just not cool. Never mind all the extra disk space it uses, more important is the confusion it can cause and time it wastes. For example, someone searches for a photo and finds multiples of the same image. They don't know which to use. They have to take the time to ask someone before deciding on which. This wastes both peoples time. Another example: someone wants up add tags, author or copyright data to images, but end up updating only one or have to bother to updating both. To compound matters, often there's not just a single duplicate.

DBGallery introduces a new Collection Report Card

There are a whole lot of files in your company's media collection and its often useful to know more stats than simply the number of files and folders. DBGallery release 5.8 provides a quick one-pager overviewing its entire collection, in a dashboard-like layout.

Windows 8 looks great. If feels fun and interesting to use. Even then many are likely to shun it at first. But the great new Metro interface, combined with it being easy to get to the old familiar looking Windows interface, means it's likely going to be a winner. The next reason it is likely to succeed: the interface works on desktops, laptops, phones, and tablets (including Microsoft's new Surface tablet, announced the day this blog was written). So it's likely the new Windows 8 interface, called Metro, is going to be around for a while.

To revisit a past experience, whether it be a vacation or business trip, travelling back there by using photos as memory triggers has huge benefit.