I’ve just released two new features to the website:
Tags – Include photos that have specific ‘tags’
Maximum Age – Limit the age of photos
Tags allow you to create topic specific feeds. For example, create a feed that includes only your pictures of ‘bunnies’. Or, perhaps you have tagged your photos to indicate it if is ‘horizontal’ or ‘vertical’ to match the orientation of your frame. The default is to not limit your feeds to specific tags.
You can also limit the age of the photos included in your feed. For example, if you wanted to only show your most recent photos you could set the maximum age to 90 days. If you do not specify a maximum age the system will default to 5 years. This default age may explain why some folks have empty feeds or are missing their older images.
These new features are available immediately to all registered users.
As always, questions are invited — let me know what you think!
D-link DSM-210Through a bit of reverse-engineering and a bit of luck FrameAlbum now supports many of the original FrameChannel devices. However, the D-Link DSM-210 frame uses a very different protocol and I’ve not yet been able to crack it.
If you, or someone you know, may have some knowledge of how these things ‘talk’ to the old FrameChannel service I am VERY interested in chatting with you. I’m particularly interested in the folks who developed the software that runs on the DSM-210 frame, or, anyone from FrameChannel who may have access to the old protocol specs.
In response to feedback from several FrameAlbum users I’ve added a few interface changes to the website today.
Channels & Frames now have distinct ‘delete’ actions.
You may now ‘cancel’ a channel or frame deletion without hitting your browser’s function.
A few formatting changes to make the site a bit less ugly.
Sample images are no longer grotesquely mangled.
New delete actions
Previously there was a ‘delete’ checkbox on the frame and channel edit pages but it wasn’t very obvious. I’ve added a clickable ‘delete’ action icon on the frame and channel info. pages to save a few clicks and to make things a bit more obvious. I’ve also changed the ‘edit’ action from a text link to an icon .
Minor format changes
The title text is a bit larger, the channel icons should be more consistently sized.
Sample images no longer mangled
I’ve fixed the formatting of the sample images in the channel displays. They will now maintain their original aspect ration and not be forced into a square shape.
These changes are live on the site now. I hope you find them useful.
Viewsonic VFP-838-11So I managed to pick up one of these on eBay for cheap. It supports FrameChannel, Flickr and Picasa so I thought I’d give a go to supporting it on FrameAlbum.
Geek-speak alert!
I will be digging into the technical issues of adding support for this frame to the FrameAlbum service. I’ll be using terms such as ‘DNS server’, ‘XML’, ‘packet capture’ and ‘negatively charged penguin bladders’ so if these are unknown/offensive to you read on at your peril. Continue reading Viewsonic VFP-838-11 support on FrameAlbum→
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