Media web cataloging application
Web based photo album, family movies and personal music collection cataloging with no need for file uploads,
it's all on the hard drive so why upload?
The catalog is designed to easily browse through hundreds of media files per folder stored on the local hard drive.
- Automatically reads the hard disk for files and presents them in a tree view with the folder structure as on the disk.
- Different picture load sizes so depending on the speed of your Internet you may see pictures better or download faster.
- Zoom in/ zoom out, the picture is king not the catalog itself.
- Slide show on the same screen with the size of the image you selected
- Conveninet side navigation pane with thumbnails for quick access which may be hidden for even better image view
- Switch to a full screeen mode and see the picture as big as it makes sense to be, or as big as you like for that matter
- Displays JPEG metadata (EXIF and other). Example metadata are photo camera type, the date the image was originaly taken, whether the flash fired or not etc.
Even better you may set some of this metadata like image description, artist etc. and write it into the image itself so you may later use it within other applications like Photoshop or Picasa or whatever. - You may build custom albums on the fly using a powerful query mechanism based on boolean logic and regular expressions
- You may protect selected media files with different levels of passwords that are easily mantained using a file system renaming convention
- Currently there are four types of catalogs that can be created and have the same navigational system:
- pictures, video files, music files catalog
- virtual albums, based on queries against a catalog like the one above
- general file system browser
- a music collection browser and player
- a blogging system
- Unlike many system that use a relational database to store pictures and data about them usually, this one uses the file system to store the pictures (DA!), as well as metadata. The file system is an extremely flexible system in the sense that almost any user already knows how to work with it, and where Tools like "windows explorer" are usualy better and more usable for managing hierarchical collections of data then database tools which many time do not even exist, at least not for the usual user. All the application does is give actions in windows explorer meta-meaning: copy/move (upload), move/copy/rename (restructure, tag files with data to be searched), rename (password protect), etc.