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The primary objective of ALBUM is to organize personal notes. Notes are composed of various kind of DATA that are based by remarks or comments, and notes, in general, can be accompanied by a picture or other type of DATA as, for example, multimedia object. To assembly together those DATA in a more completly form, ALBUM define the REFERENCE, to group multiple note in a more generic single information.

If photography or multimedia is your hobby or one of your interests, this site is for you!

Organize your precious pictures, any registrated OLE file extension, notes and reference in an ALBUM stored in a CD-ROM or DVD.

The resulting database is something like an ALBUM where to collect your precious pictures, family movies, or any other kind of file.

With ALBUM you can search within notes or grouping them, and, it is very small can be copied on CD-ROM or DVD.

The technology I used to build ALBUM is Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard, Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Jet - OLE DB - ADO.NET for the database, and Microsoft GDI+ for pictures.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET support THREADS, so there is a THREAD per picture to display a page...very fast!

Microsoft GDI+ have very powerful features such as high quality interpolation, very useful when you resize small/big pictures, you have as a result a picture without blocky edges (see "Screenshots" section for an example).

Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Jet - OLE DB - ADO.NET are used to collect all the informations about the ALBUM in one small file, the ALBUM database, you can copy it on the CD or DVD.

ALBUM record only file names, notes and reference, all the rest is kept in a DATA directory within the album directory, or, it is possible to insert the file picture into the database file, in this case the performance are similar.

The database can be protected by a password and a picture can be imported and exported into or out the database.

Many other fetures are implemented in the application, see the "Features" section for more details.

One of the useful features is the bookmark and the bookmark type.

Pictures can be bookmarked by a standard or customized bookmark type.

Standard bookmarks type are colored ("Black", "Red", "Green", "Blue", "Indigo", "Yellow", "Ochre", "Magenta", "Amaranth", "Cyan", "Fuchsia", "Violet", "Brown", "Gray", "Orange", "Pink", "Turquoise", "Lilac", "Lime", "Tan", "Purple", "Amethyst") and cannot be changed.

Customized bookmarks type is White and the name can be specified by a 255 byte characters string.

The commercial version of ALBUM for Microsoft Windows XP is available, see contact and download sections for details.

See the "Screenshots" section.



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