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If you regularly add images to a DPG powered blog, you’re sure to appreciate the improved image posting features. Click on the ‘Insert/edit image’ icon when editing a blog post to access the new options.

With the new export feature you can easily generate PDF contact sheets for printing and client approval. You can also produce text, CSV and MD5 files to cross-reference and verify file uploads.

In preparation for today’s iPad launch I’ve spent some time optimising the DPG admin interface for use on Apple mobile devices.

I’ve added a new feature to make it even easier to access your full resolution image library, no matter where you are.

You can now add custom navigation items that allow you to quickly jump to all of your favourite sections of the DPG admin site. To add a location, click on the star in the top right hand corner of any of the admin pages and to remove, simply click the star again.

A new feature for the website builder is automatic validation of CSS and JavaScript code. Validation is performed every time a file is saved and provides a line number and brief description of any errors to aid with debugging.

A newly added feature is the ability to import images from any standard web page, images can be imported straight into sets and even information such as image titles are retained.

Today I activated the new faster image processing servers, my early tests show that you should see around a 4X speed increase in all image related operations.

Click here for an example of working with a 24.4MP image.

Integration with other web services is a prominent feature of Digital Photo Gallery, editing images with Pixlr has been discussed briefly in a previous post and now the latest stable update has introduced two way syncing support for your Twitter, Facebook, FTP and Flickr accounts. To make use of the new features login to http://admin.digtalphotogallery.com and take a look at the ‘Services’ page. Linking your accounts only takes a few clicks and the import and export of images is equally as straight forward, if you have any questions just ask.

On the subject of services, DPG development will very soon be entering a feature freeze as a build up to the next phase of testing. Before that process begins, I’d really appreciate your feedback on which other web services you’d like to see supported. If you have suggestions you can email them to info@digitalphotogallery.com or ‘Share an idea’ at http://getsatisfaction.com/digitalphotogallery.

Support for geotagging is back in the admin interface. The process is automatic, simply upload your geotagged images, then click the  icon on the image list or review screen options bar to bring up the map view.