When You Need is Privacy

I’ve written about a few software to add tags to your photos taken by the N95’s 5MB camera. What if what you are looking for is to be more private about the photo?

Before going further, just in case you don’t know, there is this binary standard format called EXIF, which is used to embed some information into every photo taken by a digital camera. These information could be, the size of the photo, horizontal resolution, veridical resolution, bit depth, frame count, equipment make, camera model, color representation, lens aperture, flash mode, focal length, F-Number, light source, date picture taken, etc. Now you’ve got the idea.

So you want to make your photo to be anonymous for some reason. This software could help, the Photo Detagger.

With the Photo Detagger on your mobile phone, you can now detag and wipe out all these tags from your photos before sending them out or posting it on the Internet! Previously, the only other way to do this on the phone was to use the phone’s photo editor to alter and re-save the file, reducing the quality of the photo in the process. Photo Detagger removes the tags without damaging the photos and in the process even reduces the size of the JPEG photos by about 3-5 KBytes as well.

The detagged photos will be saved to the “Images” folder of the microSD card with a “-001″ suffix. You can then send out the detagged photos via MMS or upload it as per normal to your preferred photo-sharing websites or blog. Photo Detagger is designed for Nokia phones minimally supporting CLDC 1.0, MIDP 2.0 and JSR 75.

You can download it from here.