Duplicate Annihilator is a shareware

Shareware

The term shareware is a proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience. Shareware is often offered as a download from an Internet website or as a compact disc included with a...

 iPhoto

IPhoto

iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications...

 duplicate detection application

Application software

Application software, also known as an application or an "app", is computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks. Examples include enterprise software, accounting software, office suites, graphics software and media players. Many application programs deal principally with...

 for Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

, developed by Brattoo Propaganda Software

Brattoo Propaganda Software

Brattoo Propaganda Software is an Swedish software company that specializes in shareware applications for Mac OS X.Their flagship program is Duplicate Annihilator, a duplicate image detector/remover that integrates with iPhoto by Apple Inc..-Software:...

. Duplicate Annihilator is also available in a version for Aperture 3 by Apple Inc..

Concept

Duplicate Annihilator is used to compare images and locate duplicates in iPhoto

IPhoto

iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications...

. Duplicate Annihilator differs from many of it competitors since it also updates the iPhoto

IPhoto

iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications...

 library data base instead of removing only the found duplicates from the file system. iPhoto

IPhoto

iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications...

 stores its data, meta data and images in both a Finder package and an SQL

SQL

SQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems ....

 data base and it is very important that they are updated simultaneously to avoid defective iPhoto

IPhoto

iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications...

 libraries and even data loss. Duplicate Annihilator handles this and integrates with iPhoto

IPhoto

iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications...

to make sure that this is done the "iPhoto way".

Duplicate Annihilator has been proven to be a solid and reliable software.

External links

• Brattoo Propaganda Software - Duplicate Annihilator