August 16. 2003 by Del.

JAlbum - web photo album software: “Free web photo album generator

Have you wished for a tool to help you getting your photos on the web? I did.

Have you found irritating shortcomings in existing gallery software? I have.

Are you simply annoyed by software fees on fairly simple programs? I am.

Wait no more! JAlbum does the tedious work for you - for free.

Drop a folder containing image and movie files onto JAlbum and press ‘Make album’. JAlbum will create thumbnails of your images and display them in html index pages. You can also have JAlbum produce a slide show of your images for easy navigation one at a time. The output may contain scaled-down versions of the original images. Clicking on these images may bring up the original image (for printing etc). JAlbum does not touch or modify your original images in any way. It just adds some files and folders to the image folder you specify during web creation. JAlbum can also create a web of a hierarchy of image folders. JAlbum supports jpeg, gif and png image files and popular movie formats like .avi, .mpg and .wmv”

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Recommended by 8/15/2003 Scout Report:

JAlbum 3.5 [Macintosh and Windows Operating Systems]

http://www.datadosen.se/jalbum/

This latest version of this fine photo album program allows custom image and directory ordering, along with a feature that skips directories that do not contain valid images or media files. As with previous versions, users can modify the appearance of each album through the use of skins, add image filters, and add movie files with relative ease. Additionally, there is quite a bit of support available through the users forum and a FAQ section.

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August 16. 2003 by Del.

This ties in very directly to what I found in early July 2003 relative to a University of Tennessee memo posted online!! Not surprising - interesting to think about going back to very simple ASCII documents, also relates to the clean HTML programs (HTML Tidy?).

New Scientist: “Online document search reveals secrets

WEALTH OF CORPORATE SECRETS ON THE WEB

Many documents posted online may contain sensitive corporate or personal information, according to AT&T researcher Simon Byers, who was able to unearth hidden information from thousands of Microsoft Word documents posted on the Web using an ordinary search engine and a random selection of keywords. Byers targeted Word documents because they’re so common, but he stressed that other document formats, such as Adobe PDF, may contain similar hidden information. After downloading the Word files, Byer used the free software tools “antiword” and “catdoc” to convert them to plain text. Then, using a simple script he wrote, Byers was able to locate text that had been deleted from the original Word files, including people’s names and other personal identifiers, e-mail headers, network paths and text from related documents. “The worst is erased text. This has bitten people surprisingly often,” says Bruce Schneier, a security expert with Counterpane. Microsoft Office UK marketing manager Neil Laver says the company is working on ways to better ensure sensitive information is not inadvertently leaked in files. The next version of Office 2003 will include tools that will allow users to remove personal information from documents as well as new “information rights management” software that will enable an author to determine who can read or forward a document. Meanwhile, Schneier recommends converting documents to plain ASCII before publishing online: “I don’t know of any programs that effectively clean out the extra text.” (New Scientist 15 Aug 2003)

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