photo gallery

mojoPortal 2.3.1.9 has been released. A number of image related features went into this new release. Some of the new features found in mojoPortal 2.3.1.9 include:

• Easy content animation/slide shows - You can enable it in the settings of an Html Content instance and it will create a slide show based on the content using cool transitions that you can also configure in the settings. The animation uses the jQuery Cycle Plugin. It can rotate images paragraphs or any html content.
• Integrated Image Cropping
• Bulk Image Upload in the Image Gallery - Bulk upload was added to the Folder Gallery in the last release and now the same feature has been added to the the Image Gallery.
• Integrated Twitter Widgets
• New Configuration file for TinyMCE - More control over which plugins and toolbar items are displayed is provided via an xml config file.

Additional details and more information on the features included in mojoPortal 2.3.1.9 can be found on the official announcement at mojoPortal.com.

Now that Gallery 3.0 is in the beta phase of its software development, I feel it's safe to talk about the new features users can expect out of this open source web-based photo album organizer. Now I realize that Gallery is not a full content management system, but I also know there are plenty of people out there that think they need a CMS when perhaps what they really need is something a little simpler. For those that want to build a site to display and share their photography I recommend a look at Menalto's Gallery.

The philosophy behind Gallery 3 development is to make the web application easy and fun to customize with a big focus on usability. The developers have made every effort to make it much easier for the casual developer to hack on the product and do some really cool things with the software. The emphasis is on making simple, frequent tasks quick and easy.

New features and enhancements in Gallery 3 include:

• Support for upgrading to further releases
• Full HTTPS support
• Use the EXIF caption (information provided by your digital camera) as the photo description

The developers of Gallery, an online photo-album organizer, have officially announced the start of Gallery 3.  I have to say they have a very aggressive release date for the release of version 3.0.

Those of you that have been paying attention know that something is going on! At the Gallery Sprint a few weeks ago, we made a lot of decisions and got the ball rolling on a complete rewrite which we've decided to call Gallery 3. Development of new features on Gallery 2 has been frozen, Gallery 1 is now a completely separate project "Jallery", and the Gallery team is now busy at work on Gallery 3. It's definitely not ready to run on your website yet but we've set the ambitious goal of having a 3.0 release by February 1, 2009 and are on track to meet that goal.

Feature requirements for Gallery 3.0 can be found on the Gallery wiki page.

Gallery 2.3, an open source "photo album organizer", has been released. Lot of new features in this version of the Gallery 2.x branch.  Some of the new features and enchancements include:

• Slideshow module now uses PicLens to provide a rich, full screen slideshow.
• Comment module now offers spam moderation and Akismet support.
• New email notification module allowing users to configure events they wish to get notified for.
• Support for SQLite 3.x as a database backend.
• New SnapGalaxy module for prints from snapgalaxy.com.
• New Jpegtran module to support rotation and cropping of jpeg images.
• New database backup features.
• Themes can now override module template files.
• Performance and stability improvements.
• User interface improvements.
• Security improvements resulting from internal and external audits.