Guido Vollbeding who makes JPEGCrop mentioned - very politely - that people could easily mistake our programs. I thought that I was very clever to name my program JPEGCrops in order to say that it was about cropping multiple images, but I do think he has a valid point. A new name for JPEGCrops would probably be a good idea.
I asked for suggestions a while back and I got a lot more replies than expected. So many in fact, that I had trouble deciding. I think it took me a year or so. The new name will be RoboCrop and it will be a complete rewrite of JPEGCrops. It will take a while and I won't make any major changes to JPEGCrops in the meantime. Serious bugs will be fixed though.
I'll leave the suggestions and the comments below. I appreciate the many suggestions. Thanks.
Other ideas:
- TAFKAJ
The Application Formerly Known As JPEGCrops. Yes, rather silly and nobody can remember such a name.
- TokeCrop
No, I'm not the one being cropped. And I don't really see why my name should be part of the program name.
- Print Prepare
Sounds a bit like a boy scouts motto. Besides, it's too general.
- Cropomatic
Too obvious?
- Cropodile (by Frag, a guy from Poland)
Fun, fun, but doesn't sound that well in danish. And since I'm a dane that pretty much rules it out.
- RoboCrop (also by Frag)
Great stuff. I like it a lot. It's fun and it's very descriptive. Unless someone comes up with something even better, I think I'll go with this one.
Update: Matthew Day kindly informed me that the company eHelp uses the prefix Robo for a lot of their programs. I wrote the company and asked how they felt about me using the name RoboCrop. They (quickly) answered me and stated that they felt that they could decide whether or not I could use the name and that they wouldn't allow it. Oh well, it's a shame. I think I'll go trademark the prefix t or something like that...
Update II: ehelp seems to have been acquired by Macromedia, which has in turn been acquired by Adobe. I have searched the net and found that there's a lot of other programs out there, that starts with "Robo", so I've change my mind and I will go for RoboCrop.
- DigiCrop (by bjbjack)
A fine name, but it is taken already.
A bunch of ideas from Marek Tomczyk:
- TokoCrop (you don't want your name to be used as
a program name, but maybe a disguised reference would do?)
- MassCropTurner
- PorcCrop (read the first 4 letters of the word backwards. You could also design a nice logo for the first part ;-)
- BIO-Crop (Beautiful Image Organizer)
- Cropifier (from croping and beautifying pictures (contrast, etc.))
- Cropshaper
- Cropadopter (from crop and adapt) (BTW. I'm of Polish origin as well, like the other guy that suggester RoboCrop. In Polish 'Kropa' is
pronounced like 'Cropa' in English and means a 'big dot'. Very fitting
for anything that has pixels).
- CropShifter
- Vercropper (OK, this is something for the German public (I live in Germany))
- Smoerecrop (sorry, but Smoerebroed is the only Danish word I know and a reference to Danmark might be a good idea)
- Croparka (again my Polish origin: a mixture of English 'to crop' and
'Koparka' which is the Polish word for dredger)
- Cropidarium (I don't know Latin, but whis one sounds like a Latin word. We definitely should use more words from Latin in the computer business ;-)
- Cropimonter
- NoLoCrop (Not Lossy Cropper)
- Cropeador (Spanish users probably would like it)
- Cropissimo (some Italian flavor on the way...)
- AdjaCrop (adjust and crop)
- Cropiamo (wasn't "Ti amo" something like 'I love you' in Italian. Here it would sound like 'I love to crop')
And some from Chris from Germany:
- trimpics
- autofit
- trim(r)obot
- trim'n'fit
- cropmachine
- crobotic(s)
From Matthew Day:
- Cropulator
- Picture Scissors
- Crop Shop
Owen Tanner:
Jörg:
Søren Jørvang:
Sue Surdam
Lee Haas
- MultiCrop
- QuickCrop
- ClipCrop
- Cropmatic
- Cropomatic
- Cropamatic
- FastCrop
- Cropfast
Bernd Schandl
- LosslessCrop
- LoCrop
- LLCrop
- Lcrop
User
- TimeSaving Cropper
- MultiCrop
Lucjan
- CropoManiac
- CropManiac
- VirtualCrop
wouter
Peter Petersen
- JPEGsizer
- JPEG-MATCH
- JPEGPROportion
- JPEGslicer
- JPEG-to-shape
- JPEGshape-up
- JPEG-in-shape
- JPEGshape-it
- JPEGsqueezer
- JPEGskweezr
- JPEGsquasher
- JPEGskwashr
- JPEGskwashr
- Picsquasher
- Picsqueezer
- JPEGminimyzer
- PICshape-it-up
- shaPICup
Jose Silvera
- TotalCrop
- TotalResize 'n' Print
- CropEsk
- Esk Resize 'n' Print
- Esk New Size
- PhotoResize
- PhotoSizer or PhotoSize
- PreImage (Prepare Image)
- PhotoIcer
- PrimeCutter
- Crop & Print
- UniCrop (Universal Crop)
- MaxCrop
- CorpCrop
- Mr. Cropper
