Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Pictures with a coffee scent - Get those pix up on the web, CD or Hard Drive.
I must have lost a few brain cells not to have listed this baby. Easily one of the best offerings for those digital pictures. Free web photo album software. JAlbum (http://jalbum.net), from JAVA + Album (that's where the coffee thing comes from).

From the JAlbum site "This gallery software makes web albums of your digital images. JAlbum aims to be the easiest to use and most powerful tool in this category - and free!
With JAlbum, no extra software is needed to view the albums, -just your web browser. Unlike "server side" album scripts, JAlbum albums can be served from a plain web server without scripting support. You can also share your albums on CD-ROM.
JAlbum runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and others.


With JAlbum you have full control of the look of the generated album, not just color theme and basic layout, still making an album is just a matter of drag and drop + a button click if you prefer to use one of the many existing looks. JAlbum will process your images, make index pages and slide show pages and even upload the final album to the Internet for your friends to see."


JAlbum runs on a multitude of operating systems. This is possible as JAlbum uses a "Java runtime" (also known as "Java VM") to convert its code to the language of each platform. This wonderful ability might however require you to download a "Java runtime" first. If you didn't have JAva runtime you must run out and get it. When this is done, you can enjoy a multitude of advanced Java programs. Remember, no Java is needed to view the albums.
JAlbum needs Sun's Java runtime
(http://www.java.com/en/) to run. Microsofts Java is unfortunately too old. If you haven't previously installed a Java runtime (or don't know), either select the option that includes one (Windows users) or download "Java for the desktop" first. Macintosh users already have a Java runtime installed and can download and run JAlbum right away.

Super easy to configure and even easier to generate the web album. From an album with static pix to one that includes slides. Chose from a list of backgrounds or create your own.

Here is a sample of a created album:
http://www2.jalbum.net/samples/ExhibitPlus/slides/100-0032_IMG.html

An absolute MUST have if you take pictures at all, even if you got similar software with your digital camera. Remember that anyone you send the ablum to can view the photo album created, they only need a browser (MS Internet Explorer, Firefox, Maxthon, Opera, Mozilla etc).

You are sure to enjoy this one.

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