iStockphoto announces photo purchase interface program, code-named ‘Dexter’
The mega-discount stock photo giant iStockphoto announced it will soon release a public beta version of a desktop photo-browsing software program it has code-named “Dexter,” which will allow users to browse through iStock’s content, manage their purchase history and will facilitate batch downloads.
The program will also ofter a cover-flow style viewing option and lightbox management. iStockPhoto Executive Vice President Kelly Thompson said the program’s best features could eventually be applied to iStockphoto’s Web site.
Thompson announced “Dexter” through a posting on his company’s forum site while he was at MacWorld:
“We have hundreds of features we want to produce on iStock. The problem is time. If we come up with a new feature today, we probably couldn’t implement it for 7 or 8 months. Such is life with a site as large and complex as iStock.
We especially have a lot of great interface enhancements. We wanted a way to test and implement them quickly without interfering with the main development track. We also had some experience doing rapid app development in Mac OS X and it had many of the features we were looking for.
This is how ‘Dexter’ was born (Dexter was our code-name for the project: a ‘killer new interface’ — don’t laugh, it took many sleepless nights to come up with that ). For the past 3 months, we’ve been developing this stand-alone app that allows customers to rapidly find and download iStock content. Here at Macworld, we were finally ready to show it to the world.”
Click here or on the screen capture below to read the rest of Kelly Thompson’s announcement.
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