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A new version of Rhotoalbum, a simple but powerful photo album generator written in Ruby, has been released.

The version 0.8 contains a number of features (well, after two years) like RSS support (try with cooliris), options per album, pagination, cool thumbnail effects for photos and album covers and improved album cover managing.

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Pictures from a late autumn trip to Croatia and Slovenia in November 2009.

Pictures from Rosenburg (Austria), České Budějovice, Český Krumlov a Karlštejn (Czech Republic) in June 2009.

A few pictures from a trip to New Zealand in January 2009.

The South Island

and the North Island

A new version of Rhotoalbum, a simple but powerful photo album generator written in Ruby, has been released.

The version 0.6 contains a lot of new features such as album statistics (number of photos, number of albums), EXIF support (exposure time, focal length, f-number and camera model), automatic album thumbnail creation from the first album photo, relative links and several bug fixes.

If you would like to know more, please, check the Rhotoalbum page.

I selected the best photos from the last trip to China, Tibet, Nepal and India. There are really nice places to visit, esp. Tian’anmen Square in Beijing, Potala in Lhasa, Friendship Hwy from Tibet to Nepal, Kathmandu and last but not least the Taj Mahal in Agra.

Please, see my photoalbum, for the year 2007:
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A new version of Rhotoalbum, a simple but powerful photo album generator written in Ruby, has been released. It is already its third release (0.3) and there are now really nice features as photo descriptions, more styles support with a style switcher or album options.

Thanks to Viktor Zigo (maybe you know his plug-in to Firefox XPather) for the most of the new features.

If you would like to know more, please, check the Rhotoalbum page. You are welcome to see our photo albums: Viktor’s or mine. Surprisingly, they are generated by Rhotoalbum ;)

A web photo album is already a common thing. The majority uses online web albums, where you can upload your photos, e.g. Flickr and Google’s Picasa. Also some social network portals are adding features to share photos between their users.

A much smaller group downloaded and installed a photo album application to their accounts on servers, e.g. Gallery and Coppermine. Usually they require to have a database and have a large possibilities to configure it, install plug-ins, manage photos, etc.

And then there is a special category — photo album generators. They are much simpler, usually do not use any database, but you have to regenerate your albums when you change your photos or you add a new photo.

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It is quite clear that downloading photos from a Canon 300D digital camera is very slow. It contains a USB 1 port — new cameras have a USB 2 or Firewire port or they are connected to a WiFi card.
I tested the speed of the camera (one year ago, but maybe it will be still interesting for somebody) and I compared the results to a USB 2 Hama card reader.
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I prepared a (hopefully) nice xmas present for you :) Photos from Australia.
They are from the first week there — Melbourne, The Great Ocean Road, beautiful Kangaroo Island and Grampians. Enjoy :)
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