If you're into photography, both iPhoto and the new Aperture 3 from Apple are simply beautiful products to use. Aperture 3 has been out for about 2 days as I type and there's certainly a few performance issues that Apple needs to fix and fix quickly.

As an amateur photography who loves taking snaps all over the place, one of today's interesting additions is to also include GPS location information in the photograph's 'hidden' file information. Both iPhoto, Aperture, Google Earth, Flickr, locr, Picasa Web Album and lots of other photo storage applications and websites have the ability to pinpoint your global photo information.

If you holiday at different locations, being able to collate all photos taken in the same place is really quite handy. Or even seeing one of your photos and asking yourself 'Now where was that taken?'. The vast majority of cameras these days have no ability for GPS location recording, especially Point and Shot cameras which is where my affordability currently is. My Panasonic DMC-FS7 is a nice little camera that's been to a few countries :)

So my equations was: something low price range, which records GPS info, suitable for any camera and was Mac friendly. After some Google'ing I came up with the PhotoTrackr Mini DPL900 from Gisteq for a nice price of $USD69.00

The unit was shipped and in my hot little hand in about a week so the service was marvellous. It's about 2 inches long and is USB based. Both for recharging the Li-ion battery as well as transferring track and waypoint information which is used for matching GPS location to your photos. Small and easy to use is certainly a key aspect for me.

The way it all works is quite simple. When you take a photo with your camera, each photo has the time and date embedded within each photo's internal file data. When you use a GPS logging device such as the PhotoTrackr, the GPS logger records GPS location information AND time and date. Notice the commonality? Time and Date.

With the accompanying software, the GPS location is matched against photographs with common time and date stamps and the GPS location is merged into the photo data. Job done and the photo is GPS stamped.

• Synchronise your camera time using PhotoTrackr software.
• Take PhotoTrackr with you when you shoot photos.
• Transfer GPS data and photos into your Mac/PC.
• PhotoTrackr program will geotag your photos automatically.

It's a great and easy way to further catalogue your ongoing pictures in more interesting ways.