The Photos Are Missing

They weren’t kidnapped, I just got fed up with using Gallery to manage my photos, so I ditched it. I’ve found something that looks pretty sweet and should be a nice replacement. Markku is developing a PHP-based application for publishing photos and I like the looks of it. He is either caling it iPAP or SPAM, I’ve seen it called both in different places. Personally I like iPAP better…SPAM is used for too many other bad things, such as that nasty canned “meat” and the flood of messages in my INBOX. Now if only I could get my hands on a test version of his software. :idea:

Look for the photos to be back up and running when I get back from my trip.


Comments

  1. 1. MaThIbUs
    5/23/2004 at 1:31pm

    Quote from markku:

    For now, let’s just refer to it as SPAM, formerly known as iPAP.

    ;)

    SPAM stands for “SPAM: Photo Album Publisher”, in the PHP recursive acronym tradition.

    Oh and here is my SPAM review :)

    I think it’s worth waiting ’til there is a public release.

  2. 2. markku
    5/23/2004 at 2:13pm

    The current version that I (and MaThIbUs, and a few others) use is good enough for public use, especially if you have a bit of background in PHP. Email me so I can send you a copy. :mrgreen:

  3. 3. Nick
    5/25/2004 at 5:18am

    I’ll have plenty of photos to try out with it when I get back from my trip!

  4. 4. Jeremy
    5/27/2004 at 6:13am

    I’m sticking with Gallery until they put their new Gallery version out. Supposed to XHTML and all that jazz. :mrgreen:

  5. 5. Trevor
    5/28/2004 at 9:51am

    have you seen photostack.org? you probably have, but i thought it looks a lot like this… so i thought i’d mention it

  6. 6. Nick
    5/28/2004 at 4:04pm

    That does look very similar. I’ll have to check that out and compare them.

  7. 7. Nick
    5/31/2004 at 7:25pm

    Well, it turns out that both SPAM and PhotoStack are not far along enough in development for what I need. They both produce awesome photo albums, but the problem is that you need to resize your images before uploading them to the server. For instance, when I was using Gallery, I would upload a full size picture from my digital camera, and it would be resized on the fly. The thumbnail and the larger image would be created and the full (1 MB+) photo that I had uploaded would be deleted. Creating these “downsized” images on my own before uploading would be a Royal PITA, especially when I have over 100 photos from Sacramento that I want to upload.

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