Booh 0.8.6 review

Booh is a static Web-Album generator

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 409K Developer: Guillaume Cottenceau

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Booh is a static Web-Album generator. It's a program that takes one or several series of photos and videos, and automatically build static web pages to browse them, creating thumbnails etc. Booh is comparable to bins, for example.

Here are some key features of "Booh":
automatic rotation of portrait images thanks to information put by digital camera in .jpg file
immediate display of images (preloading in browser)
keep position of "next/previous" hyperlinks in browser between images
advanced video support (thumbnailing etc)
clever use of the whole space of a typical browser window (the need to scroll portrait images is stupid)
themability
sub-albums support
remember your preferred size of thumbnails accross sub-albums
multi-processor support
a GUI both easy to use for newbies, and very powerful so that power users can input captions, rotate, reorder and remove images FAST (extensive use of keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures)

What's New in This Release:
This release adds the ability to split thumbnails on several pages, is fully compatible with browsers with no Javascript support, automatically chooses the best images size with the browser window size, doesn't do Javascript key shortcuts when modifiers are pressed (control, alt, shift) which should avoid overriding usual keyboard shortcuts to move back and forth in history, adds gamma correction, hopefully fixes remaining potential aborts due to missing/wrong thread synchronization, and dramatically improves HTML generating speed (a typical regeneration of album goes down from 28.5 secs to 5.0 secs).