sattes-faction (i can’t get no)

… you might think – and I really have a few things in the pipeline, but my two (very) litte kids keep me busy all day long (and night). So it might take some time for the next update. Just wanted to let you know picasaview not dead

I just submitted a fix pushing the release number to 1.1.6. A stupid bug broke some functionality in the backend, I’m really sorry for that. Thanks to all who reported this error.

After a long time here is another update of picasaView. Version 1.1.5 fixes a very annoying bug that results in plugin activation failure on windows machines. Other changes can be found in the history. Thank you all for your feedback, I really appreciate it. I hope I can add more features in the future – if I can find the time If you can find any bugs, feel free to contact me.

Some people suddenly were confronted with the problem that all thumbnails in an album detail view are showing up in original size. First I though Google did change something in their API, but it seems it’s a bug they published with their new API version. See this post:

Thanks for pointing this out. It looks like we pushed a bug, and we’re
working to correct the problem.
I’ll update this thread when the change is live. I’m sorry for the
inconvenience that this is causing.

Thank you,
-Mike

So it seems we have to wait until this bug gets fixed – hopefully soon, I’m sorry for that.

This is a more-or-less minor relese. Besides an Arabic translation it’s now possible to view non-albums, but in this version only when viewing an album directly. It will not work when viewing all albums (not yet). Just use the tag like this (the token is generated by picasaweb, so you have to look there):

[picasaView album='ALBUMNAME' authkey='AUTHTOKEN']

The current Debian Lenny installation comes with a pretty old ImageMagick-package. In my case I need ImageMagick for the IMagick-extension in PHP. As IMagick compiles against the currently installed ImageMagick-version, it’s also necessary to re-install the IMagick-package.

As I had some problems with this, I thought I’d share this information, maybe it’s useful for someone. A big help was this article where I took some commands from.

1. Download, extract and install new ImageMagick-version

I don’t use any more configuration options with ImageMagick, so you might enhance the ./configure statement

wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.6.3-10.tar.gz
tar xvzf ImageMagick-6.6.3-10.tar.gz
cd ImageMagick-6.6.3-10
./configure
make
make install

You can delete the ImageMagick and the extraction dir afterwards.

2. Make the new ImageMagick-installation “known” to the system

Create or edit the file /etc/ld.so.conf and add the following line

include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf

Create or edit the file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc6.confand add the following:

# Added because we built ImageMagick from source
/usr/local/lib

Open bashrc (e.g. nano ~/.bashrc) and add the following:

# Set LD Lib path
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Re-link the libraries:

ldconfig

3. Re-Install IMagick package

At this point, ImageMagic is ready to go, but we need to re-install the IMagick-Package again (so it can compile against the new ImageMagick version):

pecl uninstall imagick
pecl install imagick

Maybe you need to restart Apache then:

apache2ctl restart

If all went well, you can take a look at a phpinfo-page to see if the new ImageMagick-version is ready. It should look like this:

I hope this helps!

It’s just a minor release, fixing a small bug with a template variable, adding some translations (thanks to the guys who contributed) and changing the html into a table less layout.

This release contains only two minor additions. A new placeholder can now be used in the template albumDetails.html to output a simple image counter. And I added a Dutch translation (thanks to Stef Segers).

Today I replaced the discontinued theme “avenue” I used before with “iowa Pro”. It’s a really great theme that’s highly customizable. I only replaced the header image with an self-made one. If you’re interested in this theme you can get it here. Happy New Year by the way

This version is only a minor release. The polish translation has been added (thanks to Micha? Stochli?ski) along with the .po-files for further translations and a documentation bug in the readme.txt has been fixed: when using “instantview” as attribute, a value has to be specified, e.g. “instantview=’yes’”.

This is the last release for this year, so I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!