Minor updates of JPEGCleaner and quickWebAlbum have been released.

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Work has continued on updating MMISoftware programs…

This time it was the turn of JPEGCleaner and quickWebAlbum to be updated.

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Work has continued on updating MMISoftware programs…

This time it was the turn of JPEGCleaner and quickWebAlbum to be updated.

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It has been a busy few days.

JPEGCleaner, quickWebAlbum, websiteCleaner and mailMaker have been updated.

The updates of JPEGCleaner and quickWebAlbum were to correct some ‘blank’ image problems reported by a number of users. The problem was due to slight differences in the meta-data recorded in pictures by different makes of camera, and there was also an issue with certain image resolutions.

mailMaker and websiteCleaner have also been updated. In both cases the update addressed a few minor (rare) bugs

mailMaker (free, fully functional trail version) is a 416 kb download from MMISoftware – download
JPEGCleaner (free, fully functional trail version) is a 256 kb download from MMISoftware – download
quickWebAlbum (free, fully functional trail version) is a 332 kb download from MMISoftware – download
websiteCleaner (free, fully functional trail version) is a 260 kb download from MMISoftware – download

We have received a few (read: two) reports of JPEGCleaner / Web Photos / quickWebAlbum have some problems with images under Mac OS X 10.4.

The problem is that every so often the programs will produce a blank image. At present we are not able to reproduce the problem and even though a number of users have sent pictures that produce these blank images on their machines everything works ok on the machines here…..

If you have encountered the problem please send a copy of the image you used to image_probab@mmisoftware.co.uk. Can you please zip the image before you send it (this is not to make the file smaller (which it won’t) but to prevent loss of any meta-data (which I think may be causing the problem) during mailing).

Finally! One round of updates completed!

At MMISoftware there is a group of programs called the ‘One Trick Ponies‘. These are small (and relatively cheap) programs that do one thing (may be two!) and do it well, However, Tiger (10.4) managed to break some features in all of them!

quickWebAlbum, which is used to quickly creates web albums and slideshows from a folder of jpeg images, and JPEGCleaner, which removes jpeg resources and metadata from jpeg files, both had problems with rotated images due to changes in Tiger (see an earlier post). Both programs now correctly handle jpeg rotation under 10.4 and the image resizing code has been improved to produce better quality images (see an earlier post).

Tunes Menu, which is a menu-based CD search from iTunes, and WebsiteCleaner, which prepares html, jpeg and gif files for use on the web, have also been updated and recompiled for 10.4

All programs are available from MMISoftware in the ‘One trick pony‘ section. The program are shareware, except for Tunes Menu which is freeware, and are free upgrades for registered owners.

Download Tunes Menu : quickWebAlbum : JPEGCleaner : WebsiteCleaner

Well, the blog is looking and feeling a little neglected of late. Several reasons for this but the main one is I have been very busy on a number of projects.

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JPEGCleaner, quickWebAlbum, and WebSiteCleaner updated

JPEGCleaner, quickWebAlbum, and WebSiteCleaner have been updated.

The updates are fairly minor and generally just includes the addition of a version checking system.

All programs are available from MMISoftware.

Downloads: JPEGCleaner, quickWebAlbum, and WebSiteCleaner.

JPEGCleaner, quickWebAlbum and WebsiteCleaner updates released

JPEGCleaner, quickWebAlbum and WebsiteCleaner have been updated to use the new esellerate sales engine (this means the programs can now be purchased using JCB cards).

All the programs are available for download from the ‘One Trick Ponies‘ page at MMISoftware or from these download links – download JPEGCleaner, download quickWebAlbum and download WebsiteCleaner.

Major update of quickWebAlbum to version 1.5

quickWebAlbum has undergone a major update to bring it to version 1.5.

quickWebAlbum creates photograph albums from a folder of JPEG files. Two types of album can be created, one that provides a page of thumbnail images linked to large versions of the pictures, the second type of album automatically changes images to produce a ‘slideshow’.

The major change is the addition of an ‘Advanced Settings’ option for the ‘standard’ album. The advanced settings allows the user to: add a title the album window; add a tilte to the main (front) page of the ‘non-automatic’ album; add introductory text to the main (front) album page (‘non-automatic’ albums only); include the file name on with the pictures on the front page and/or on the album pages (‘non-automatic’ albums only); and add a copyright notice (with additional text) and a ‘time-stamp’ of creation to the main (front) and album pages (‘non-automatic’ albums only).

In addition, the update includes improvements in the format and quality of the HTML output, a minor improvement in a ‘JPEG size issue’ and improvements in memory handling.

quickWebAlbum is available from MMISoftware in the ‘One trick pony‘ section. The program is shareware and registration is $10 (this is a free upgrade for previous owners of quickWebAlbum). The program is a 260 kb download from http://www.mmisoftware.co.uk/pages/otp/downloads/quickwebalbum.dmg.sit