# Contact

JAlbum is written by David Ekholm, Datadosen
If you like the program or have some suggestions, please let me know. Response from users is what drives me to continue. Use the forum to get help and help others!
You can also reach me by mail or phone (although email is preferred):
Phone: +46 8 580 15668. Mobile: +46 70 486 77 38

Those of you who wants to know more about my background and why I made JAlbum, and made it free can read Mike Evron's interview with me (March 11, 2005).

# Credits

- To Incors for providing beautifully designed icons and for the Alloy look and feel.
- To Macrovision for allowing me to use their superb InstallAnywhere installer for free. JAlbum wouldn't have reached its wide audience without an intuitive installer.
- To Mark Fyvie for making the excellent ExhibitPlus skin for JAlbum, for supporting it and for providing web and mail services for jalbum.net
- To Armond Avanes for making the excellent BluPlusPlus skin and for supporting it.
- To many other skin developers and continous forum supporters
- To Pat Niemeyer for providing expression evaluation with his wonderful BeanShell
- To Drew Noakes for providing the EXIF extraction code
- To Mikael Östergren for providing the lovely icon for this program, making good looking skins and help on web design
- To Magnus Östergren for making the cute frog mascot.
- To Anders Rönnqvist for making the front page image
- To JCraft for providing the JSch component needed for sftp.
- To Joost den Boer for providing sftp support for JAlbum
- To Enterprise Distributed Technologies for their superior edtFTPj FTP component
- To Eric Albert for making BrowserLauncher
- To Marco Schmidt (marcoschmidt@users.sourceforge.net) for providing code for extracting image sizes
- To Sun Microsystems for making Java, the write once run anywhere dream come true

# Future plans

- Allow files and folders to be dragged from outside JAlbum to the Edit tab in order to build virtual albums
- Better support for editing image metadata (IPTC etc)
- An even simpler, more Explorer-like user interface
- Make use of multiple processors when generating albums
- Improved image printing integration
- Produce flat albums out of image hierarchies
- More flexible file naming for generated files
- A simple wizard-type interface for album generation as an alternative to the currently pretty advanced user interface

# Legal

JAlbum is Freeware, enjoy! It may not be sold for profit but a distributor has the right to charge for the cost of physical media. The usual disclaimers apply. It means that the author is not responsible for any damages caused by direct or indirect use of this program. Magazines are encouraged to distribute JAlbum. I only want to be informed of such. Also, if you review JAlbum somewhere, please drop me a note so I'm up to date with the buzz that this program creates. Camera makers and similar interrested in bundling JAlbum with their products, please contact me.

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