Currently in beta, Oosah focuses mainly on storing and sharing images. With an entire terabyte of free storage at your disposal, this is the perfect way to back up those precious digital camera photos. All media can be organized using custom tags and folders. Once uploaded, photos can be shared via email, through a built-in slideshow applet, or on sites like Facebook. There's a direct link to your Facebook photo albums and sharing images is as simple as dragging and dropping a picture onto them. Alternatively, shared images can be linked directly for blogs or people can subscribe to your Oosah RSS feed.


Although Oosah provides a great way to back-up, organize, store and share digital photos, the site ties very loosely with gaming. Oosah has a downloadable application (currently found in a misleading link labeled "Screenshots") that hijacks the Print Screen button and automatically uploads captured screens directly to the site as usable images. This skips the steps of locating the screenshots on the hard drive and uploading them. From there, users can manage and share them or download them back to the computer for other uses. One ingenious feature of the Oosah uploader is autotagging for supported games. Our screenshots from Mass Effect appeared in our account tagged with the appropriate game and ready to go. Unfortunately, the feature only works with supported games and there's currently no way to set the application up to autotag unsupported ones. Additionally, the application uses the computer's built-in screen capture function, not the game's. While some MMO's provide an option to automatically remove the user interface from screenshots, all of it will show up in an Oosah screen capture. Similarly, random on-screen stuff like the Windows task bar, an instant message pop-up, or music player will appear in the capture if you have them up. Lastly, not all games work with the application. For example, we got nothing but black screens when trying to capture from Guild Wars.

While basic organization and sharing tools are present, numerous limitations quickly become apparent. There are no customization tools to rotate or crop images, which is definitely something to keep in mind before backing up digital photos. While it might not seem important to in-game screen captures, we should also point out that there's no way to add captions or talk bubbles to highlight specifics, make them more amusing, or help viewers understand what's going on. Customization tools are said to be on the way, but presently, their absence is sorely felt. Organizing and deleting images can be a little cumbersome, since users can only see a maximum of 100 images at a time. The system always takes the user back to the first page whenever images are moved or deleted, and there's no way to jump directly back to a specific page. There's also no way to list photos according to different criteria, like creation date, to help matters.


For now, the best feature outside of linking to Facebook is the built-in slideshow applet. A slideshow wizard lets you drag and drop images into it, arrange the viewing order, select a custom frame (some being game themed) and set the show to music. Unfortunately, the wizard doesn't allow you to select what portion of music to play. Meaning the song will have to start from the very beginning or users will need to use external tools to cut out the parts they want, which undermines the ease of use Oosah strives for. Furthermore, the site doesn't always let you know when it doesn't support a file type. In one instance, it didn't allow us to upload an unsupported video format at all. In others, uploaded audio and video files inexplicably vanish.

It would be a long stretch to describe Oosah as a critical application. We love the terabyte of free storage, and if you really need to cut down all the steps it takes to get screenshots up onto Facebook or Picasa, this definitely works. Those looking for a free and easy to use slideshow application would also do fine with Oosah. However, people who require more control and customization might be disappointed. There's a great deal of untapped potential, like creating slideshow game walkthroughs, but it seems some ways off. Additionally, upcoming games like Spore and Tomb Raider Underworld will have screenshot sharing tools built-in. If they are successful, other games are likely to include media sharing options too. With this in mind, Oosah really needs to bulk up on its features to keep up. The site is still in beta, so it still has plenty of opportunity to put things in place.