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Adobe Releases Lightroom beta for Windows

Yesterday at Photoshop World in Singapore, Adobe announced that the Windows beta version of Lightroom(TM) had just been posted on the Adobe Labs website. At the conference, Ton Frederiks (Senior Application Engineer Adobe Systems Benelux, Holland) spent about one hour showcasing Lightroom. It is clear that Lightroom is aimed at heading off Apple’s Aperture; already [...]

New Gallery based on ’singapore’ Open Source Software

Wordpress is fantastic software for blogging. However, it has few features for integrating photos or galleries. A photo blogger is left with a number of sub-optimum choices such as pasting in photos, linking to an external gallery, or integrating a gallery manually or via a Wordpress plugin.
The last two choices require maintaining separate galleries [...]

New PBase Stats

OK, OK! So PBase announced them on June 8th. I wanted to use them for a while before posting my opinion. You might remember from my previous post concerning PBase that most Java scripts were disabled in early May for yet ‘unstated’ security reasons. The big uproar from users was due mostly to the [...]

PBase Gallery - Via Crucis

In Asia, you can still find extreme religious festivals either forgotten or banned in other parts of the world. Local photographer and good friend, Stuart Clyne, recently traveled to San Pedro Cutud (San Fernando), Philippines to shoot the annual Good Friday re-enactment of Christ’s final hours. The Lenten ritual drew a large crowd this [...]

Is PBase the best photo-sharing site?

PBase is one of few photo-sharing sites that survived the dotcom bubble. Started in August of 1999, it has grown to be one of the largest photo-sharing sites on the web. The PBase business model is built around subscribers not advertising. So you don’t get bothered by flashing banners or barking dogs. Photo-sharing sites [...]