Application: My Photo Index Photo Organizer
Category: Graphics & Pictures
Description: My Photo Index is a free open source photo organizer. It focuses on image tagging and cataloging and offers a clear & simple user friendly interface. My Photo Index handles major file types as well as Avi clips and can read and convert RAW image formats, My Photo Index can help you hide private images from prying eyes, and let you easily share your images with family and friends
License: GPL/LGPL
Language: English /Hebrew/ Lithuanian
My Photo Index Portable Version 1.24.3552 [ 2006K Download / 4MB Installed]
Release Notes for version 1.24.3552:
Bug Fixes:
* Fix stack overflow caused when loading RAW files with no embedded thumbnails.
* Fix long exif software name stopping import.
* Windows 7 tag tree endless flickering Fixed.
* Fixed faulty plug-ins corrupting the settings file.
* Fixed Encrypted images throwing too many exceptions.
* Fixed duplicated file extension patterns causing import to stop.
* Fixed Selected images not cleared when changing photo indexes.
* Fixed size overflows in binary cache.
* Fixed Binary cache re-index issues
New Features:
* Proxy configuration.
* tif & tiff file extension support.
* Save last import location in file import Wizard.
* Enable cancel/stop button in file import wizard.
* Preloading of large images.
* Windows vista & Windows 7 better installer support.
* Remember last import path.
* Recently used index files are shown in a list.
* Display the index path in the title.
* Right click move to folder implemented.
* New Web interface for network viewing implemented (available through tools->Plug-ins menu):
o UPnP port forwarding support.
o Windows Firewall port opening support.
o Password protection.
o Watch the new Web interface in action!!!
* Magnifier plug-in improvements - sync with mouse clicks.
* Sticky images selection mode.(in edit menu)
* Manual image versioning.
* Manual break image versioning .
* Sorting by file name.
* Select and assign multiple tags, with multiple select Tag tree.
* Increased cache size to support up to 1,000,000 images.
* Better Cache multitasking support.
* Menu to change display of date/file name on thumbnails.(click on date)
* Support portableapps.com
* Lithuanian language translation by Guoda Rugevičiūtė
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That might be just what I need to catalog the billions of folders backed up onto various flash drives and external hard drives my dad bought. Looks promising :D.
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It needs dot net to run.
.Net is installed on most machines these days and in the no so far future on all of them.
the application requires .NET 2.0 and not 3/3.5
Not quite. Many computers do not have .net installed. (See http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/dotnet_portable_apps/ for a better explanation).
Use the search box! Please!
I have 6 computers and only one of them has dot net 1.1 and that is because it is a tablet notebook.
In my humble non-authoritative opinion, hostility towards .NET applications is a little uncalled for. There are some conditions they will not work under, this is true, but the same goes for Java apps, apps which require admin rights, and apps which are not open source or free.
While it may not make an official app, this app could be helpful. I for one use portable applications at home because I'm a reformat nut, and I keep .NET installed. I have a couple programs that need it.
Moving on.
The only problem I have with photo tagging is the enormity of the job. Most photo tagging software I've seen is only aimed at beginning photographers. What if you have thousands of images? Well, you're in a different situation. You start somewhere -- usually at the beginning or the end -- and you throw some tags on your pictures. Then, at some point, something happens. You tag a picture with a new tag, and then it dawns on you that other pictures could have used that tag. And there are a few other hiccups that occur, but that's the only one I can think of.
I would like to give this app a try. In case the link gets removed, I've saved it, and I'll look into this later, at home. I have used a couple of other image managers/taggers and have not been impressed, so I look forward to testing this. (I can't even see the site, it's blocked at work, but I will take a look from home.)
I see you say "support PortableApps.com". Does that mean it's in the .paf.exe and is truly portable (leaves no personal information behind, and confines its configuration to the Data folder)?
Thanks
Yes I've got a request from a couple of users to create a portable version of the application(in the past I had a U3 version which I've stopped maintaining)
So in this version I've added a Portable version which keeps everything on the local drive(hopefully :))
The version is available on codeplex as full open source with a signed portableApps.com installer.
The PortableApps.com Format is definitely the way to go nowadays. U3 used to be the thing, but I understand it had problems (?), and you had to buy a special drive to use it. SanDisk, I think (?), and they tend to be slow drives anyway. With PAF, it can be used on any media with the right filesystem - the more technical members can explain it better. But it includes all flash drives and computer hard drives. And it's open, so anybody can play, but enough marketing.
Since some of these guys really hate .NET (and I don't know why - it's not like Linux/WINE compatibility should be such a high goal), would it be possible to port to something more portable, or would that be a ton of work? Not that I mind personally, but the others, different story.
Just to clarify AsafY, you do understand that this app will not be able to made official? I mean not to discourage you as PA is always looking for more developers however I feel it should be pointed out. Despite the debate in numerous threads the current policy is against .NET. If your looking for an alternative why not try developing PAF Live installers for Picasa or XnView. There are numerous other free and/or open soruce alternative as well. My personal preference is for Picasa.
PortableApps.com Advocate
My Only intention was to bring added value to potential users,
My Application is mainly aiming towards desktop users(a lot of them are surprisingly semi/professional users).
I've created the PotableApps.com configuration just because my users requested it,
and this seemed like the place to publish it
In Windows Vista and Windows 7 is installed normally .NET. Because probably soon many will place on Windows 7, the problem with portable Apps has taken care.
Roland Brem
Zwickau, Germany
...the problem with portable Apps has taken care.
Errm, you mean to say that the whole .net issue is solved by this?
What about XP and those that choose not to install it (or can't if they want to) those systems do still exist, and will for some time...
“There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!”Richard Feynman
I intend to be on XP till 2014 or my machine breaks or "7" SP2 comes out
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
And for that, I (for one) thank you.
What about Mac users? What about Linux users who choose not to use WINE? PortableApps.com apps are all Windows apps, if you're using Windows legally, you have (or someone else has) paid a lot of money to use the Windows platform. .NET is free. If you're gonna drop a couple hundred bucks on Windows, there's no good reason to limit yourself by not installing .NET. The point remains that not every computer has it, but that doesn't mean .NET applications are terrible. I can't run the PC version of Oblivion on most computers, you need a beast of a machine to run it. Doesn't mean it's bad. It's also not a candidate for a portable app for a whole lot of reasons, but even if it were free and open source, some of those reasons would still stand. Like, it's 6GB, and requires a monster gaming rig to run. Fewer machines can run Oblivion than can run .NET applications. My 2GHz AMD64 3200+ with 2GB of RAM and 256MB GeForce 6600 can't even run it at 640x480. So yeah. You just note that the app needs .NET (or that the game requires a dual-core or quad-core CPU) and let people decide.
Why 2014 exactly?
I intend to be on XP until (1, hopefully) I find a flavor of Linux I really like and suits my needs, or (2, in my dreams) I get a quad-core and enough RAM and a big enough video card to run Windows 7.
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
Well, hopefully by then Microsoft has their stuff together... or I have a new computer.
Even still, with good antivirus and anti-malware protection, an operating system can be used well after it's supported. While there are plenty of reasons not to, if you can't afford a new computer and the alternatives aren't viable, it's not a deal breaker.
While Microsoft will probably not make another version of Windows that doesn't require a monster gaming rig like Vista and Win7 do, that slack just opens a few doors for Linux.
People are really going to need to change their attitudes. Win7 is FAR from what vista was. You can easily run Win7 on half of what you needed for Vista. Most XP computers can run Win7 with a fair level of decency.
My "attitude" is based on experience. Windows 7 firmly deserves its title of Vista II that I've given it. I have a 2GHz AMD Athlon64 3200+, 2GB PC3200 (dual channel), and a 256MB GeForce 6600. This is not good enough to run Windows? I need a dual-core CPU, more RAM, a bigger video card? Why? So it can be transparent? Even with the transparencies, it's bad. It's like I'm sending my mouse and keyboard input to Redmond and I'm watching streaming HD video on a low-end DSL connection. Well, it runs fine for the first hour, and then it lags - badly. XP "just works" on mine and lesser computers.
But again, I like Windows 7, it's very pretty, has a lot going for it, I just resent that my computer isn't up to the task of running it, even with all the graphical enhancements turned off. (This was the RC, build 7700, I believe.) I've already accepted that I can't play games made after 2005 (e.g. Oblivion), but that's what I've got an Xbox 360 for. (It was cheaper than upgrading the PC, and it's thoroughly impressed me compared with the last few generations.)
On the flip side, I think people really need to change their attitude about praising Windows 7 needlessly. It ain't ready for prime time, not for computers at the level of mine anyway. I don't know, maybe Ballmer would send me a free copy of Ultimate if I retracted my statements and went on record saying it was the best thing since Windows 95, but it's just not true. Windows is dying - they couldn't make it stable or secure, so now they're trying to make it pretty, and it's stupid.
They need to make a new OS, call it Windows² or something entirely different, make it completely incompatible with all previous versions, start over from scratch, and make something truly impressive. They can do it, they just don't want to give up their market share and be forced to compete on a level playing field - and against their older products. Gates, Ballmer, and Allen have done some impressive stuff over the years, and Microsoft has done good stuff, but they've become too bloated, victims of their own success, and it's weighing them down.
Windows 7 will quickly go the way of Windows ME and Windows Vista.
I read Gizmokid2005 as addressing "require a monster gaming rig like Vista and Win7 do" not you for saying it, e.g. Hopfully folks will realize ... generically speaking. I don't think he really meant you.
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
...but I have installed Win 7 on Centrino Compaq with 1 GB of Ram and 2 dual core laptops with 4 GB ram and all perform better and boot faster than the XP or Vista they had on before. I am in the process of building a new Media Centre PC just to get away from vista on the old Intel P4 and it will have Win 7 installed also.
It's possible Win 7 may save Microsoft IMHO and put back the advance of LINUX where I would have headed next.