Facebook is a Worldwide Social Networking Leader. It
has multiple built-in capabilities for convenient communication and virtual sharing
of your life events. In this post, we would like to present several software
utilities to help with one of the tasks associated with Facebook, and particularly
downloading images and complete albums from the friend’s profiles. All the
reviewed utilities are free for use.
FotoBounce
FotoBounce offers one of the most convenient and
comprehensive ways to download pictures from Facebook and manage them easily on
your computer. FotoBounce is offered both for Windows or Mac platform. It works
locally from your computer and provides simple way of downloading pictures.
Fotobounce utilizes advanced face detection and
recognition technology to automatically detect faces when photos are found or
imported. As faces are detected by Fotobounce and tagged by the user, this
“trains” Fotobounce to learn who people are and helps automate the tagging
process. The process is similar to the Picasa Web Album as to this feature.
While this post focuses on photos downloading, you
can enjoy other features of FotoBounce like uploading photos to Facebook
gallery and Flickr. Photos are uploaded directly from Fotobounce – with tags
and descriptions intact. There’s no need to spend additional time painstakingly
re-tagging photos and no browser-based transfers or third-party software is
required.
Fotobounce Viewer is a separate product that runs on
Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. The Viewer makes it easy to browse
photos and share them on the go from any platform and practically any mobile
device. A version will be available soon for the iPhone (iPad and iPod)
and the BlackBerry Playbook. For devices not supported by the Fotobounce
Viewer, users can use Fotobounce Mobile.
Photos or albums can be sent to Twitter from
Fotobounce. Fotobounce is the only solution in the industry that allows an
entire album to be attached to a single tweet.
Website: http://fotobounce.com/
Direct Download Page: http://fotobounce.com/download/
Bloom
Bloom is another multi platform desktop app that let
you upload your photos and videos easily and efficiently to Facebook, and, what
is important for the matter of this post, download albums and view your
friends' photos.
Main features include
ability to download albums or individual pictures from Facebook
Website and Downloading Page: http://antaki.ca/bloom/
PhotoGrabber
PhotoGrabber
is very simple desktop application which allows you to download Facebook Photo
albums to your computer with no technical knowledge. It is available for
Windows and Mac platforms.
Website:
http://code.google.com/p/photograbber/
Direct
Download Page: http://code.google.com/p/photograbber/downloads/list
Pick
& Zip
Pick&Zip
is not a software utility, but totally free online tool allowing you to
download photos from Facebook in a single ZIP or PDF file. In this case, you do
not have to download any software on your computer to use this web application.
To
start using this service, you just have to log in with Facebook credentials.
Pick& Zip allows you to download your own pics for backup purposes, tagged
photos of you (even if they were not uploaded by you), and also, the albums of
your friends. When you login with your Facebook login credentials, you can see
all your friends on the left side as a list. When you click on any of your
friend’s name, all the albums of that person are listed. You can download a
particular photo or the entire album.
Website:
http://www.picknzip.com/