Gaviri PocketSearch Productivity Tip: Use Gaviri PocketSearch To Find and Manage Pictures On Your Digital Camera

Yes sir, you may install and run Gaviri PocketSearch entirely on your digital camera. How do I do that? If your digital camera is attached to your computer during the installation of Gaviri PocketSearch, you will see the camera listed in the list of devices, leave it checked. Gaviri PocketSearch will be installed on the SD card or CompactFlash card on the camera. If you have already installed Gaviri PocketSearch to the desktop, laptop or network drive, connect the digital camera to the computer via USB or FireWire ports.
start Gaviri PocketSearch and click on File|Install To Other Devices, Gaviri PocketSearch will detect the camera for you, click OK to install. That's it.

Why would I want to install Gaviri PocketSearch on my digital camera? Because Gaviri PocketSearch allows you to easily do many things you couldn't do today. For example, you can easily find any file from your camera by searching because your search engine is right on the camera, not at home. You could quickly rename those thousands of non-descriptive names your camera gives to your files (see Productivity Tip: Rename Many Pictures at Once). You could easily rotate, resize and print your pictures directly from your digital camera. Finally, you can easily integrate the data on your camera to data on your desktop, flash drive, network, etc. The picture below shows Gaviri PocketSearch running off my Sony digital camera.

How do you use Gaviri PocketSearch on a digital camera? Connect it to any computer, Windows will find the new device and give you a list of actions you can take, one of which is "Run Gaviri PocketSearch." Select "Run Gaviri PocketSearch" from the list. If you do not see the list, open the drive letter assigned to the digital camera. You will see a "PocketSearch" folder. Open the folder and click on Gaviri PocketSearch to start the application. Gaviri PocketSearch will start from the digital camera and you will see a list of all your pictures. You may batch rename, resize, move, delete, copy or easily perform many other operations directly and quickly.

Gaviri PocketSearch uses a Sandbox searching technique -- all the searching, copying, moving, happens on each device. Nothing is moved from one device to another or to the PC. Because of Sandbox searching technique you can be assured that you will not leave any trace of your files behind on the PC -- even if the PC is yours.

Unfortunately, not all digital cameras show themselves as USB storage devices. You will not be able to install Gaviri PocketSearch to your digital camera if it does not show up as a USB or FireWire storage device under the operating system you are using.

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