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JPEG Saver 4.1
It has taken me a while longer than I had hoped, and it's not the same as I had expected, but JPEG Saver 4.1 is finally here. The most noticable change will be the "File" menu - you can now save and load different config files. People have been asking me for this for years, so I'm happy to have got around to it.
The next change, which is more significant but less obvious, is that this version is the first to use an SQLite database to store the lists of images and folders. This replaces the cache file and the memory- based image list that older versions used. It will allow me to add some more interesting features in the future, but for now it has made it easy for me to add three new change modes, Shuffled/Sequential, Shuffled/Shuffled and Chronological.
The final big change is that this version supports Unicode throughout. This means that anyone not using the Latin alphabet should be able to use JPEG Saver much more easily, assuming they can understand all the options on the dialog. The config file is now stored as UTF-8 to make this work while still being backwards compatible.
Fun with a motion sensor
A couple of days ago I was doing my regular poke around the technical fringes of the web and found out that FireFox now supports triggering events from the accelerometer built into laptops. I had to try it out, and the result is a version of TagCanvas that will rotate in response to tilting the computer.
It's not actually any use, but you can play with it on the new accelerometer page.
JPEG Saver 4.0.1 and 3.6.2
These are very small updates to the latest JPEG Saver versions - the PNG library is updated and there's a new option for people who don't mind editing the config file, "exclude", which prevents folders from being included in the recursive folder scan. You can get them from the downloads page.
Work continues on JPEG Saver 4.1, which will hopefully bring some new and interesting stuff. I don't want to say what in case I change my mind.
TagCanvas 1.4
Another small update to TagCanvas, this time to improve compatibility with other scripts by making the tags use any event handlers that the links have. I've also added a minSpeed option so that you can keep the tags in motion when the mouse is not inside the canvas.
As usual, the updated stand alone and jQuery versions are available from the TagCanvas page.
TagCanvas 1.3
This new version of TagCanvas doesn't look much different on the outside, but internally I've made quite a few changes to support the use of ExplorerCanvas. If you have never heard of ExplorerCanvas (like I had until a short time ago) this is a Javascript file which translates canvas code to VML understood by Internet Explorer.
TagCanvas 1.3 also supports the use of image links, though annoyingly it doesn't work in IE, even with ExplorerCanvas. For full details and downloads, visit the TagCanvas page.
Edit: if anyone's wondering why I haven't updated the version on the jQuery plugins site, this forum post might explain it a bit.