Download jAlbum 9.5

Version 9.5 of jAlbum has been released. This program makes it easy to generate and edit professional looking HTML photo albums. In a clean interface, photos can be easily edited, the order can be changed and the appearance of the web page can be determined. If everything is to your liking, the result can be placed on a web page via the built-in ftp client. Because the software is developed in Java, jAlbum is available for a wide range of operating systems. The Windows download is bundled with version 1.6.0_25 of the Java runtime this time, because the latest version has a bug that makes the download a lot bigger. The changelog of this release shows the following changes and improvements:

News and Updates

• Avoids copying files already copied from camera memory cards by storing a small database on each card. (Behavior can be controlled under jAlbum Preferences)
• jAlbum is now better at accepting files dropped from iPhoto and Photoshop Elements (got worse since v9). Such images can now be either copied or linked to jAlbum
• jAlbum now detects camera memory cards inserted into the computer (Bundled CameraImporter extension).
• Asks 1:st time users if they already have a jAlbum account when uploading
• Clicking the account status bar in the lower right now takes you to your profile page signed in

Bug fixes

• Windows version now bundled with Java 1.6.0_25 as a bug introduced in 1.6.0_26 (the current release) has broken the “Add photos” button. Those who wish can download jAlbum without embedded Java here.
• Files containing illegal web characters could accidentally be moved or deleted by jAlbum (since 9.3)
• jAlbum failed to start on other systems than Windows, Mac and Linux (since 9.4)
• Renaming a file extension between upper and lower case didn’t work
• The “Convert upper case to lower case” tool didn’t work
• Creating project names or renaming projects to invalid names now properly errors
• Removed debug prints