Neothoughts

As some of you know, about a year ago I quit my day-job to focus on a software startup that I co-founded with some friends. We’re called Touchpoint Studios.

Our work came to fruition recently as we have just released our first product, Touchpoint Gallery. It’s a desktop application that enables you to collect digital photos from various sources (your hard drive, a camera connected via usb, Flickr, rss, etc.) and showcase them in Templates (which are 2D or 3D environments). You can also use it as your screen saver and to automatically set your desktop wallpaper.

Computers are getting increasingly powerful, but their power is used less and less as more applications are moved into the browser. Applications such as Touchpoint Gallery take advantage of the computer’s resources (such as graphics processing) while also delivering the benefits of the web-based applications.

Now that the initial release is live we plan to produce a lot more Templates and Picture Sources. High on our list of Picture Sources to support is Facebook.

As the sole developer on this project, it has been a wild ride so far. I can honestly say I’ve never been so proud to be associated with a company or a product. There were countless times during development that I found myself distracted by the fun features of the application while I was working on it. And now that it’s out in the wild, it just makes it more exciting.

Be sure to check it out to experience your digital photos in a way you never have before. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Screen shot courtesy Flickr.

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