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Webshots Desktop survival kit
Webshots Desktop is a free photo management application. It displays stunning professional photos as your screensaver and wallpaper. You can even add coments to displayed photos.Unlimited sized album producer
Build a webshots compatible album without the 128 items barrier as encountered when using Webshots HMI for creating albums. Really handy when you have a huge photo library...
Technical informations
This script has been developped under Windows XP/Cygwin using very common UNIX tools. Porting it or even using it under any open source UNIX-like operating system should be straigth forward...
Known drawbacks: Allways creates a new album and does not allow to update existing albums by adding news.
Cygwin package dependencies: findutils, coreutils, bash, ImageMagick
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latest: create-album.sh (September, 2005)
Airliners database comments extractor
Parse photos.txt file found in webshots album, search for entries with a potential airliners id as title (a number), retrieve data through web page parsing, update photos.txt file and add both title and comment.
A cache file can be specified to speed-up further processing of the same photos in other albums. If specified, this cache file is used as the primary source for title and comment. Web processing is then used as the secondary source in case of missing information (based on non empty title). The cache file is automatically updated with downloaded data.
Technical informations
This script has been developped under Windows XP/Cygwin using very common UNIX tools. Porting it or even using it under any open source UNIX-like operating system should be straigth forward...
Cygwin package dependencies: grep, sed, coreutils, lynx, bash
Download
latest: extract-data.sh (September, 2005)
My current cache file
latest: airliners-cache.txt (September, 2005)
