Photopal

Pho­topal is a fan­tas­tic little system for organ­is­ing your photo albums on the web. It requires little in the way of con­fig­u­ra­tion, and making an album is as simple as drop­ping files into a direc­tory, then writ­ing out a list of descriptions.

Only I couldn’t get it work­ing. I sent a quick email to Noel Jack­son, the man behind Pho­topal, asking for help. He replied straight away with sug­ges­tions, and an offer of fur­ther help if needed. It’s up and run­ning now, albeit slowly, which is down to an as yet uniden­ti­fied prob­lem with the s from my little keyring camera rather than Noel’s system.

Sim­i­larly, I was play­ing with DropIT the other day, a free app for upload­ing your IP address to the web, and had a couple of queries for its devel­oper Philip Zvar. Again, he was back in touch within the hour.

So many thanks to Noel and Philip, for show­ing that the best thing about free soft­ware isn’t nec­es­sar­ily the price.

Posted at 6pm on 08/05/03 by Jack Mottram to the photographs category.
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