jUploadr 1.0
It’s official, jUploadr is now at 1.0. Admittedly, there aren’t that many changes between this release and the 1.0RC1 release, but I did manage to sneak in one goodie for everyone.
There’s been an open bug for a couple of months now that really isn’t jUploadr’s fault. When you add a progressive JPEG to jUploadr, the bug in the underlying libraries would cause jUploadr to consume gobs of memory. For instance, the image that I’ve been using to test is only 700k, but it causes jUploadr to consume 100 MEGS of ram.
I filed a bug with the kind folks at IBM (the makers of the library) and in fixing it, they exceeded my expectations. Not only can you load a progressive JPEG, image loading in general is much faster than it was before. How much faster? A 3 megabyte image would take roughly 20 seconds to load in jUploadr 1.0RC1, jUploadr 1.0 loads it in 2 seconds. Zoom!
In addition, all bugs have been fixed, so it should be smooth sailing from here on to 1.1. Download away!
May 10th, 2006 at 7:25 am
Thanks, i will try this soft … it seems interesting
May 14th, 2006 at 3:33 am
I really like jUploadr. Now I’ll try out 1.0. Have fun and watch two others who like jUploadr too here.
May 14th, 2006 at 3:53 pm
Thanks for this update. Still no sign of jUploadr on the Flickr pages. Shocking really.
Cheers again. Your hardwork is much appreciated.
May 16th, 2006 at 6:38 pm
Sweeeet,
this is probably the most usable uploader for flickr I tested so far (on windows).
thx
May 16th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Thank you all. I really appreciate the comments.
May 21st, 2006 at 7:50 am
This is really good news, I’m downloading it now (see how often I’ve been using Flickr lately!). Glad to see that bug fixed.
June 2nd, 2006 at 10:44 pm
Any chances of updating v1.0 to work with Zooomr?? I’ve got a Zooomr mod v1.0RC1 but it would be sweet to get the most recent version working as well.
Thanks!
June 3rd, 2006 at 12:02 am
Dan:
Actually, I did not make 1.0RC1 work with Zooomr, that was done by one of the zooomr guys. However, since zooomr is essentially a flickr clone, I decided to include zooomr support in version 1.1.
I’ve been making great progress with 1.1, and zooomr support is next on my list. If you like, I can send you a development build when I get it done. I’d anticipate sometime in the next few days.
June 3rd, 2006 at 9:27 am
Hi
I loved that auto-resizing feature, but the JPEG quality setting is too low - I get so many artifacts on pictures I had to manually resize and re-upload them. Any plans to improve on that?
Thanks for such a great software.
June 3rd, 2006 at 7:34 pm
Vieira,
I haven’t had a problem with artifacts, but you might not be on the same architecture that I’m on.
What processor/OS are you running?
All the JPEG scaling code is handled by SWT, and I’m kinda limited as to the quality. I can file a bug with the SWT team, and they’ve been fairly responsive, and if you want, I can see by trial and error if I can improve quality without involving the SWT people.
June 24th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
jUploadr works great! There is only one minor nit that I wish to pick. It seems like there is no way to add the photos being imported to an existing or new set of photos.
Anyway, keep up the good work! The Flickr folks really should give you a plug for this heroic effort.
June 26th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
George:
“It seems like there is no way to add the photos being imported to an existing or new set of photos.”
Sure there is! Select the photos you want to add by either single-clicking on them or by right-clicking the jUploadr window and clicking ‘Select all photos’, then right click and select ‘Add selected to’, your old photosets should be in jUploadr, and there should be an option to create a new set.
“The Flickr folks really should give you a plug for this heroic effort.”
Yeah, but they don’t. jUploadr gets no respect.
June 26th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
Steve:
I apologize for saying that the feature doesn’t work. A better description would have been that it’s not obvious to the casual observer.
For the life of me, it simply did not occur to me to select them all and right click (before pressing the upload button). Not only does it work but it rocks!
Anyone out there who is having doubts because this is a Java application, this is a non-commercial announcement: It doesn’t suck. Not one damn bit! I really like the way it shows you the photo being presently uploaded and a check mark for each photo that has been completed superimposed on the photo itself. Cute.
One thing that I did notice is that the preferences that I set for the default Privacy (Friends and Family) appeared to be ignored when I do the upload. I’ll do some more testing, but it appears that one does have to set these also by right clicking and checking Friends and Family. My testing was on my OS X laptop, so I’ll give this a whirl on Linux, which is where I plan to use it.
Thanks for your hard work on this application. Hopefully, the Flickr team will get a clue and give this app the plug it deserves. There is an argument to be made that it’s superior to the Windows Flickr uploader!
George
June 27th, 2006 at 2:08 pm
I assume that you meant that the default privacy that you set on flickr is ignored by jUploadr when you upload. JUploadr also has its default privacy and tags settings. Perhaps I should read those from Flickr as well.
Thanks for the kind words, George. JUploadr doesn’t suck!!
August 1st, 2006 at 3:38 am
When running with my java install, the %java_home% environment variable includes the \bin\ folder - easy to modify the .bat to make it work, but a bit of a nuisance. otherwise excellent peice of software…
August 1st, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Dan,
The new version looks in the registry for JAVA_HOME, so this will hopefully be moot in a little bit. Also, JAVA_HOME is not supposed to include the bin directory, but instead point to the Java installation. I’m almost certain other apps would make the same assumption.