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.
Increased image processing speed
May 19th, 2009Twitter, Facebook, FTP and Flickr support
May 13th, 2009
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.
Get Satisfaction
April 26th, 2009
Although there are many systems setup throughout the DPG software to identify errors, nothing beats human testing. For example, over the last few days there were intermittent problems with the main image processing server that weren’t being caught by the built-in error reporting. The issue was trivial to fix, but it wasn’t identified until I was alerted by email. As such issues affect all users it would be very helpful if they could be shared.
With that in mind, it’s time to move from pure email support to something that everyone can get involved in. To start with we’re going to be trying out Get Satisfaction, using http://getsatisfaction.com/digitalphotogallery you will be able to request new features, share your problems and discuss all aspects of Digital Photo Gallery with fellow users. I’m looking forward to your input.
Geotagging
April 22nd, 2009
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.
Cooliris support
April 9th, 2009
Cooliris support for websites is back. Click here to watch a movie.
Pixlr integration
April 2nd, 2009
You can now edit your images inside the browser, straight from the DPG admin interface.
Making use of both the Pixlr and DPG APIs the process is as simple as click, edit and save.
Click here to watch a movie of DPG/Pixlr integration in action.
Login URLs now permanent
March 5th, 2009
After a lot of hard work things are finally settling in to place. The production servers are up and running and things are entering the final stages of development!
All of the URLs you use to access resources are now becoming permanent, including the address of this blog. If you were subscribed to the previous DPG blog please switch across as the old address will be phased out in the coming weeks.
In terms of image admin there are now two addresses you can choose from:
http://admin.digitalphotogallery.com/ – The stable release branch
http://admin.beta.digitalphotogallery.com/ – The test release branch
Most of the time you will be safest to use the stable address, but from time to time you may be asked to try new features using the test branch.