Tool for reading and writing Exif Information

If you are interested in digital photography, there is a good chance that you will be interested in the Exif information for the photograph. It would be nice to get a tool that allows you the facility of reading, writing and editing meta-information in various files, whether they be image files, audio files or video files.
One tool that can do just that is ExifTool (click to visit site). It has the following features:
ExifTool supports many different types of metadata including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, as well as the maker notes of many digital cameras by Canon, Casio, FujiFilm, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Nikon, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Ricoh, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon and Sony.
It works on both Windows and Mac. Essentially, ExifTool is a Perl library along with a command line application. Other features are:

• Shifts date/time values to fix timestamps in images
• Renames files and organizes in directories (by date or by any other meta information)
• Extracts thumbnail images, preview images, and large JPEG images from RAW files
• Copies meta information between files (even different-format files)
• Deletes meta information individually, in groups, or altogether
• Sets the file modification date from EXIF information
• Processes entire directory trees
• Creates text output file for each image file
• Automatically backs up original image when writing
• Organizes output into groups
• Conditionally processes files based on value of any meta information
• Ability to add user-defined tags
• Recognizes thousands of different tags
• Tested with images from thousands of different camera models
• Advanced verbose and HTML-based hex dump outputs

Getting Internet Explorer functionality in FireFox

Say you are a fan of using Firefox as your browser, and really do not prefer to use Internet Explorer for your browsing purposes. Now you come across a site or a plugin that works only in Internet Explorer. What are your options: You can not go to this site, or you can launch Internet Explorer if the site is important to you.
There is actually another option that is available to you. There is a concept supported in Firefox about launching an Internet Explorer tab within Firefox, so you can actually continue using Firefox, just elect to use the Internet Explorer tab for this purpose.
Not making sense still, well the easier way is to explore for yourself. You can actually install a Firefox add-on that gives you an Internet Explorer tab. Instalt the add-on, restart Firefox and then the right-click options on a URL will have additional options for launching an Internet Explorer tab. The add-on is available here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/