Jalbum Releases 10.3.1

Website: http://jalbum.net/

Jalbum 10.3.1

News and Updates

• Portuguese translation updated.

Bug fixes

• Windows version would hang when dragging and dropping images from the file chooser onto jAlbum. This bug has been around for over a year and is now finally fixed.
• Mac version would fail with "Could not initialize class com.adobe.xmp.impl.XMPMetaParser" error on OS X Lion
• Error reporting for skins that require "compatibility mode" to run wasn't tight

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jAlbum Released Version 9.4

Here is a list of all the new and updated things:

• New extension support. Extend jAlbum's functionality as easily as you install skins by double clicking .jaext files
• Major updates to album engine. Now up to 40% faster page processing and updated API for skin developers
• Config files now centrally located in one config folder
• Logo filter now accepts different transparency levels and rotation angles. New attributes are angle and strengthPercent. See example in our blog!
• Excluded images can now also be used as folder thumbnails
• Windows version now installs on both 32 and 64 bit Windows
• jAlbum now has a better looking Windows 7 task bar icon.
• External tools can now be installed next to installed skins (in a "tools" folder") and thereby survive jAlbum updates
• Splash screen now has a debug feature to trace cause of startup-hangs. Alt-click the splash screen to trigger a full thread dump.
• Updated Plugin API. jAlbum extensions can now install themselves in the Import menu too.
• Missing album project no longer generate error lines to the console window
• Chameleon skin no longer bundled, but can at any time be downloaded here

Bug fixes

• Skin installer sometimes quit before being done installing skins. This could result in all kinds of skin related errors. If you have any issues running a skin, try reinstalling that skin using this update.
• Files couldn't be deleted from within jAlbum if they were located on an Apple AFS volume (Mac only)
• Some ftp servers didn't allow jAlbum to list directory contents

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Jalbum’s iPhone app creates stunning web galleries on the go

Stockholm, July 5th, 2010. Today, photo-sharing service Jalbum.net announces the release of its iPhone app. Adding to Jalbumʼs growing line of photography tools, the new iPhone app enables Jalbum users to browse, share and create stunning web photo albums from anywhere. The app is now available for download in the App store for iPhone.

Prepared for iPhone 4
The new Jalbum App will provide iPhone/iPod touch users with easy, remote access to many of the features and content currently available on www.jalbum.net. The app takes advantage of the iPhone 4 high-resolution screen, displaying photos with 4 times the pixels of previous versions. Features of the app include:

• Create web photo albums straight from your iPhone
• Upload photos to existing photo albums
• View your own albums and spectacular user-submitted photos, conveniently listed in Featured, Popular and Recent albums.
• Easy sharing by e-mail or copying album link to clipboard

“We wanted to combine the flexibility of Jalbums web album presentations and the ease of use of the iPhone. It makes a powerful mix that opens up for a completely new kind of usage of Jalbum”, says lead developer Daniel Plamann Solving the flash portfolio – iPhone viewing dilemma for photographers In a recent article by Scott Kelby (http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2010/archives/9503), he describes that the industry is struggling to find a solution for showcasing flash portfolios on the iPhone or iPad. By using Jalbum albums built in Media RSS files to fetch photos and captions, the Jalbum iPhone app solves this problem. All customized photo albums whether they are flash, HTML or java-script based are equally displayed in a beautiful
viewing experience on the iPhone.

“Our vision is to provide total freedom in where and how photos are presented. Adding the iPhone app is in line with this vision and allows for on-the-go updates to Jalbum albums.”, says Carl Manneh, CEO of Jalbum.
 
About Jalbum
Jalbum has enabled amateur and professional photographers alike to publish more than 30 million photo albums. With Jalbum you easily create your own photo album site, and publish it anywhere. The first version of Jalbum software was released as a hobby project by founder David Ekholm in 2002. The desktop application is now started every 3 seconds globally, displayed on this live map: http://jalbum.net/maps/downloads

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Jalbum New Version 8.8

This release has a number of minor improvements targeted to improve usability and simplify for skin developers. The most noticeable change for Windows users is that we're now using Windows standard file chooser for picking images for your album instead of the "XP looking" file chooser provided by Java. For Vista and Windows 7 Jalbum will feel more like a first class citizen on your desktop now.

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News and Updates

• Windows users now get the native Windows file chooser when adding images to Jalbum
• Ability to sign in using either email or username (even for first time sign in)
• More forgiving when reading corrupted images (will load using old API if new API fails)
• Image bounds selector modified so it is more obvious that one can set any image bounds, not just the presets
• New splash screen and sign in window (with the close button to the right this time)
• Updated bundled skins Turtle, Chameleon, Galleria and Simplicity. Thanks all skin developers!
• On Windows, bundled skins are now installed in the same location as installed skins (under AppData\Jalbum\skins)
• New variable "contentPath". contentPath works like imagePath, but links to the content of movie files instead of to an icon
• New variable "mimeType" available. mimeType reads from system/filetypes.xml. (Currently only a few file types have MIME type defined)
• Image specific skin defined variables now have automatic data type mapping too (were previously all considered Strings)

Bug fixes

• Media RSS file wasn't linking properly to movie files

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Jalbum: New Version 8.6

This release includes several enhancements and bug fixes, requested by Jalbum's community. Their non English speaking users will enjoy a translated image editing section. Mac users will notice that Jalbum interacts better with Finder. Skin developers will appreciate that making skins for Jalbum is now easier than ever. A skin can now easily set suitable presets for any settings when you chose a style. They call this feature "style hints" and believe it helps making the experience when selecting different styles even more diverse. There are already a number of great skins that makes use of this feature.

News and Updates

* Skins may now have style specific hints too. By putting style hints files in the styles folder of a skin, these hints are applied when loading a skin or picking a style. A style specific hint has the format style name.jap, for example Black.jap. The format for style specific hints is the same as for skin hints
* You can now apply the ordering of the current folder to all subfolders in one go. (See Tools->External tools)
* The image tools (a k a image filters) have now been translated to Dutch, Finnish, German, Korean, Portugues, Slovak and Swedish. Thank you dear skin translators!
* Thumbnails can now have a higher JPEG compression quality than slides. Good for thumbnails with embedded frames that might need that extra quality to avoid visible JPEG artifacts.
* When saving album projects. Jalbum can now make backups of the previous album project
* Bundled skin "Galleria" updated to make use of new skin developer features (style specific hints and StateMonitor class)
* On Mac: Deleted files now moved to the recycle bin if you're running on the latest Java update (Perform a check for updates under the Apple menu)
* On Mac: When performing "Show in file system" and when packing skins, the target object is selected in Finder. This requires you to run the latest Java update (Perform a check for updates under the Apple menu)
* When updating skins, skin installer now moves the previous skin version to the recycle bin. (On Mac, this requires an updated Java)
* Skins may now omit the "slide.htt" file. This disables the "Make slides" checkbox. No need to create dummy slide.htt files or add slides=false hints anymore
* Installer for Windows (AdvancedInstaller) updated from v7.3.1 to v7.5

Bug fixes

* Skin loading rewritten. These weird race conditions and scripting errors when loading skins repeatedly should now be gone
* Fix for spinning spinners in Jalbum's info window if user hasn't added any accounts
* Jalbum would fail on startup if it didn't find the last used Look and Feel
* Calling ui2Engine from a skin would clear the username for temporarily signed in users
* Jalbum would fail connecting to accounts lacking a password. Connecting without a stored password triggers an interactive password dialog, but the entered password was ignored

More info at http://jalbum.net

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Tutorial - Jalbum - Short Overview

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A free program called Jalbum. It's a great way to look at your photos in a very nice way

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Software: Jalbum 8.3 “Turbo” loaded with improvements

This release looks pretty much the same on the outside, but don't let the surface fool you. Jalbum 8.3 is packed with improvements under the hood. For instance, twice the speed on smooth image scaling, and a significantly faster and tighter album publishing. They have also made it easier to import settings from previous album projects so you can make a new album with the same settings as another album in a snap. Jalbum 8.3 can now print your images to your own printer. It also has a new “Instant preview” function that lets you generate a rough preview of your album using the selected skin and style settings in a split second! Play with it by browsing through skins and styles, then press F3! Download Jalbum here.

Jalbum 8.3.1 TURBO

• Faster image scaling
• Turbo uploading of photo albums
• Instant preview

News and updates

• Updated several languages. Thank you dear translators!
• Jalbum now informs users of expired Jalbum accounts when publishing
• Skin developers can now add their own 35 mm focal length multipliers for new cameras (see Cameras class)

Bug fixes

• Publishing albums and deleting empty folders on Jalbum accounts could result in a "No such file" error with Jalbum versions older than 8.2
• Mac version was missing media rss template file
• The bundled cameras.properties file wasn't the most recent one

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Jalbum connects to the blogosphere

Stockholm, May 19th, 2009 - Jalbum, the popular photo sharing service and personal web album creator software connects to the bloggers around the world by introducing a brand new tool called Jalbum Blog badge. Any blogger can now conveniently display their photo album news in the sidebar of their blog. The blog badge is automatically updated and shared when an album is published with Jalbum. Photo albums can be published anywhere, to a free Jalbum account or the bloggers own site.

“We have received a lot of questions from our users on how to share albums in blogs. We are very excited to be able to provide a powerful tool for bloggers to integrate personalised photo albums with their blogs. Jalbums flexible photo albums are a great fit with the bloggers desire for self-expression. The Blog badge will connect Jalbum to a huge creative audience, people we are eager to meet”, says Carl Manneh, CEO of Jalbum.

The Jalbum Blog Badge was launched as Beta in March 2009. Since then, thousands of bloggers have already added the Blog badge to their sites. The blogs are distributed all over the world: from Andrea, a casual blogger in Brazil (andreabrava.blogspot.com), and Jon Perkins running a Karp fishing camp in France (lescroix.blogspot.com) to a real estate blog in Dallas
(dallasurbanblog.blogspot.com). More examples here: http://jalbum.net/blog/entry/blog-badge-in-action/.

WordPress and Blogger integration
In addition to a general code to copy-and-paste into blogs, the Blog badge also comes as plug-ins for leading blog services Wordpress and Blogger. The tool is very flexible when it comes to customization of the presentation. Any creative blogger can easily adjust the presentation of the Blog badge in terms of colors, fonts and more, to fit the site it is used on.

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Jalbum Widgets Get the Picture Everywhere

Cutting-edge technology made simple, portable and free

Stockholm, Sweden - December 3rd, 2008 – Jalbum.net, the premier community of photographers and cutting-edge digital presentation tools, today launched Jalbum Widgets and expanded the reach of digital images across the Web. Already the software of elite photographers, Jalbum offers its millions of users a free and simple way to display images on any web site, as well as limitless options for personalizing custom displays. With the release of Jalbum Widgets, anyone with digital images can now incorporate face detection and tagging, build conversations around images, monitor popularity and enable any viewer to spread the word.

“By incorporating the best of modern interactive features into millions of Jalbums, we’ll let the world’s most forward photographers finally challenge the notion that a picture is worth a thousand words,” said Andreas Sjölund, CEO of Jalbum. “We will continue to develop Jalbum to meet the needs of the people who enhance our understanding of the world.”

The Widgets launched today, and incorporated in the free download available at www.jalbum.net, are:

Comments – enabling end users or creators to add context to albums or individual photos. The most demanded feature from existing users, this dialog will enhance the creative process.

Visitor Counts - simple tracking counter to determine the popularity of individual images will eliminate the need for configuring logging tools and let photographers build understanding of their audience’s interests.

About – displays more information about the album and the photographer. It also allows for easy browsing between different albums from that user.

Sharing - allowing Facebook, Myspace, Digg and other social interaction site sharing in a simple and intuitive way.

Face Recognition – award-winning Polar Rose Face Recognition Widget lets users sort, search, and share their albums based on who appear in the photos.

“We are thrilled to partner with Jalbum.net to establish new standards for high- quality sharing of digital photos,” said Nikolaj Nyholm, CEO of Polar Rose. “By incorporating Polar Rose’s unobtrusive face recognition, Jalbum users are given an easy option to see familiar faces in scenes from their world.”

“Our users trust Jalbum to continuously leap-frog static photo sharing tools,” said David Ekholm, Jalbum Founder and CTO. “The widgets we release today are a reflection of the Jalbum community’s desire to challenge the frontiers of digital image display.”

Source: Jalbum.net

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Jalbum appoints Skype co-creator as CEO and closes second round of investment with Nordic Venture Partners

Stockholm, Sweden October 15, 2008: Jalbum, the leading community for personalized photo sharing, announced that its board of directors has named Andreas Sjölund the new Chief Executive Officer of Jalbum and closed a second round of investment with Nordic Venture Partners.

A serial entrepreneur, Sjölund brings with him 12 years of experience in creating and developing consumer Internet companies. Most notably, Andreas was a co-creator and the first product manager of Skype and one of the first employees in KaZaA - two of the world's most notorious and fastest growing Internet ventures to date. Jalbum founder David Ekholm will stay actively involved with the company as CTO and will remain on its board of directors.

"We are very excited to welcome Andreas Sjölund as the new CEO of Jalbum," said Ekholm. "In addition to his stellar track record of entrepreneurial leadership with KaZaA and Skype, Andreas shares our passion for creating the best photo sharing solutions for our growing community."

"I am ecstatic about joining David and the Jalbum team at such a pivotal time in the company's history," Sjölund said. "I've been a regular user of the free Jalbum software for several years, using it to share my personal photo collection online in great looking web albums. The potential for Jalbum to give everyone with a digital camera the power to easily control the presentation of their images and determine where they are hosted is truly disruptive. We've only just begun to scratch the surface of what is possible with this unique distribution model."

Jalbum also announced today the closing of a second round of financing from Nordic Venture Partners, bringing total capital raised to 23 Million SEK (approx $3.2 million).

The round will be used to accelerate product and business development. Per von Zelowitz, Partner of Nordic Venture Partners: "Jalbum is one of the leading global online photo sharing communities. They are the only one with the clear differentiators of freedom of expression, sharing and distribution. We are very pleased with the fantastic growth the company has achieved and are excited to support its continued expansion and substantially strengthened management team. We are confident about the commercial prospects for Jalbum in this large and rapidly growing market."

Source: Jalbum

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Jalbum - Free Web Photo Album

Jalbum is a free album creator software, free hosting and a creative community. Jalbum allows you to create eye-catching photo galleries for the Web. You have a large selection of different skins, and once you have published your albums, Jalbum will put it in your user page on Jalbum.net. Jalbum has a partnership with blurb so that you can bring your creativity off-line too.



Features:

- Freeware – no nags, no ads, no spyware
- If you don’t have your own webpage, then there is free hosting (30 MB)
- large selection of ready mad skins with different styles
- automatically generation of web photo album
- crate your own skins if you have HTML and CSS experience
- optional you can turn on a print ordering function for your visitors

I use Jalbum for my own website with two different galleries:
- http://photo.hlehnerer.com/ (click on Gallery in the menu)
- http://photo.hlehnerer.com/GalleryExtra/Fractals/index.html

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