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Face Recognition in Facebook Coming Up

Facebook is introducing, just for a few users, a new and outstanding feature: Face recognition. In the process of uploading photos, Facebook will automatically recognize the faces on each photo and you can start tagging from there.

This new feature appears right after Facebook acquired Divyshot, and the main idea (at least for now) is reducing the amount of clicking users have to execute whenever they are uploading pictures. But wait, if you don’t see this option available in your account, don’t worry; Facebook is kind of beta-testing this feature in 1% of the entire Facebook population.

The face recognition does simplify the uploading process, but it does not automatically tags any of the photos. That automation sounds like the next step, though.

Download Pictures from Facebook with Pick&Zip

Pick&Zip is another great and free web app to apply on your Facebook profile. Within just a few clicks you can automatically download pictures from Facebook’s profiles.

The usability is quite simple and the look-n-feel of this web app is very similar than the one we see when we are uploading pictures in Facebook. How to use Pick&Zip:

1. Access the Pick&Zip site
2. Login to the application using your Facebook account
3. Browse your friend’s photos or your own.
4. Select the pictures you wish to download.
5. Click on “Review & Download” to get the pictures in PDF or a ZIP file.

The image quality is the same one that is shown on Facebook albums.

A great option in this web app is the possibility to select “Find my Pictures”, and retrieves all the images that you were tagged.