I have 2 young kids, so it’s a given we take a lot of pictures in my house. Unfortunately i spend most of my weekdays at work away from them, but i’m thankful that my wife keeps me up to speed, emailing me pics here & there throughout the day.

I use gmail (you don’t? i’m sorry). And i bounce between Safari & Chrome for exploring the web. Every time i get an email from home with pic(s) of the kiddies in it, here’s what i have to do….

I click ‘View’ (or ‘View All’ for multiple photos), and watch as my browser opens a new tab with the photos in it.

Sideways.

So annoying. So what i generally do is drag the photo to my desktop, doubleclick it there, and check it out - in it’s correct position - in Preview (my default on OSX). Like i said, totally annoying for simply trying to view a pic of my 2 year old wearing mommy's sunglasses. And my desktop is constantly cluttered with these pics.

I’m not positive here, but this may just be related to sending pics with the iPhone (iPhone 4 in this case). I don’t seem to notice this happening when i get photos from other means. I also notice when i upload iPhone photos to a site - such as this Wordpress site - the same is true, they are sideways. :-/

Anyhow, i wrote a little Chrome extension that will rotate the photo(s) so you don’t have do what i do (well, used to do). My desktop thanks me.