SlideShowPro News

02.22.06  |  Faces of Iraq

The Columbia Spectator, the daily newspaper of Columbia University and Morningside Heights in New York, is using SlideShowPro for Faces of Iraq, a special micro-site documenting the war experiences of Garth Stewart, an Iraq war veteran who lost his leg to a landmine and who currently attends Columbia. Solid combination of original photos and interview audio.

02.20.06  |  SlideShowPro 1.3.0 Released

A quick patch has been released to fix a permalinks related bug that appeared in 1.2.9. This bug would cause SlideShowPro to incorrectly revert back to the first album after an image was loaded in an album linked to with a permalink URL. If you are already using 1.2.9 and aren’t using permalinks, or the setStartAlbum() ActionScript method in your movie, it isn’t necessary to update to this release. But for everyone else you should. Login to the user section to download.

02.15.06  |  Telligent licenses SlideShowPro for Community Server

Software development company Telligent has licensed SlideShowPro for their popular Community Server platform which incorporates forums, email lists, newsgroups, blogs, and now photo galleries powered by SlideShowPro. Community Server is the engine that powers some of the advanced collaborative aspects of such websites as Microsoft’s Xbox forums, ASP.net and blogs.msdn.com. Expect to see SlideShowPro on plenty of Community Server sites soon.

02.14.06  |  SlideShowPro 1.2.9 (Final) Released

No more beta testing — it’s good to go. Version 1.2.9 is now available for download in the user section. New toys to play with include an option to preload all images, or just thumbnail images, into the browser cache (at once) for faster playback, event listeners for preloading, new preloading animations, and other stuff. Check it out.

02.13.06  |  Who’s the birthday boy?

February 14th means something else to most people, but for me it’s also the birthday of SlideShowPro, which was released into the wild one year ago today.

It’s been one hell of a ride these past twelve months. The component is in active use on tens of thousands of web sites, and continues to spread in popularity with each passing month — all of it without a dime of advertising. It’s the users that have helped make SlideShowPro into what it is today, and for that I thank you all.

Here’s to another year!

02.12.06  |  SlideShowPro 1.2.9 Beta 4 Released

The ongoing 1.2.9 beta has hit version 4 with new features. Check out this forum thread post for more information about what’s in this new release.

02.09.06  |  ANTILIMIT

Featuring the imagery of artist Eric Gustafson, ANTILIMIT is an online gallery showcasing a gorgeous collection of photography in SlideShowPro. The navigation is hidden, and in its place a simple collection of custom navigation and a sublime gallery layout. Lots of great content to see.

02.09.06  |  Creative Circus

Creative Circus is using SlideShowPro to showcase their student work in photography, graphic design and advertising (Click “creative” > “student work” > “current”). Large images are loaded as their album thumbnails to give the gallery a very unique look.

02.08.06  |  The beta rolls on

In case you didn’t notice, the 1.2.9 beta I released a little over a week ago has since been updated a couple of times, incorporating new features including additional image alignment options, the preloading of thumbnail images, and bug fixing in regard to the loadAlbum() method. It’s very stable (honestly more so than some builds I’ve released — kick self in head), but I’m labeling it as a beta simply because I don’t want to release 1.2.9 until I’m absolutely sure enough people have tested it.

With the number of users increasing and the complexity of the app deepening every day, I’m deploying a more cautious stance on updates instead of quickly adding features and pushing them out into the final product. That system worked fine for a long time, but it would now be irresponsible of me. So going forward, expect final releases to be released farther apart, but it’ll be worth it.

02.04.06  |  Change It All

Change It All, an activist site inspired by hip-hop artist Goapele, is using SlideShowPro for photos and wallpaper downloads. The photos page of Goapele’s home site is also using SlideShowPro to show press photos, live shots and more.