JAlbum

As some of you may know, I've got a pretty good collection of the Vogart Vintage Embroidery Transfers. I've also been collecting images of the envelopes, in hopes of getting together a resource showing all the available patterns, that people can use as a reference.

Part of the issue has been how to display these images and the need to use a system that allows me to add missing ones with as little work as possible. I've now found the solution. It's called JAlbum. This allows me to drag and drop images, then pick from a large range of templates for web galleries and then upload to my webserver. It also has a feature for quick updating when you add new images. It's very easy to use, exactly what I wanted, has a great, helpful userbase and it's free!!

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Zotero

Just got an email about a new Firefox extension - http://www.zotero.org/

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use research tool that helps you gather and organize resources (whether bibliography or the full text of articles), and then lets you to annotate, organize, and share the results of your research. It includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote)—the ability to store full reference information in author, title, and publication fields and to export that as formatted references—and the best parts of modern software such as del.icio.us or iTunes, like the ability to sort, tag, and search in advanced ways. Using its unique ability to sense when you are viewing a book, article, or other resource on the web, Zotero will—on many major research sites—find and automatically save the full reference information for you in the correct fields.

I've only just downloaded it, so I can't give a review, but it looks interesting. I like the look of it, but data is stored on specific machines. I would find this more useful if the data was stored on the web, where I could access it from any location.

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