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Your images are precious, but so is your email

February 2, 2010

As digital photographers, we live in constant fear of the crash. It’s not a matter of IF, but WHEN. The crash is inevitable. At some point, one of your precious hard drives will head down the dark path of no return, taking gigabytes upon gigabytes of precious data with it. Obsessively backing up our work [...]

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TTG Highslide Gallery (PRO) 1.9.4 released

January 31, 2010
TTG Highslide Gallery Pro

TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro 1.9.4 are now available. This update addresses a critical bug in 1.9.3 that caused the engine to become unresponsive for some LR2/Win users. In the Pro version, sales tax support has also been added to the transactionless shopping cart, configurable from within the config.php file.
To update existing [...]

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Fotomoto reveals Collections; Digital download services coming soon

January 29, 2010

As a part of their greater plan to redirect their own increasing traffic to the benefit of their users, Fotomoto has unveiled Collections, culling together the best work from its members into groups of featured images. Valentine’s Day is the theme for the first collection, featuring 67 handpicked images. Taken as a whole, the collection [...]

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No plans for a TTG iPad Gallery

January 28, 2010

Apple yesterday unveiled the latest version of its iPod Touch device. Strangely, all press materials relating to the announced device suffer a severe typo, the ‘o’ in iPod having mistakenly been replaced with an ‘a’. How this made it past Apple’s stringent QA team I fail to understand … Pursuant to queries as to whether [...]

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TTG Highslide Gallery (PRO) 1.9.3 released

January 25, 2010

TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro 1.9.3 are now available. In the Pro version, this update adds support for prices including cents. Both versions benefit from the new Google Analytics implementation, and custom script and CSS options recently introduced in TTG Pages 3.4. See the TTG Pages 3.4 feature overview for instructions on [...]

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Matched donations for Haiti

January 21, 2010
Donate for Haiti earthquake relief

By now, everyone should be aware of the tragedy that has befallen Haiti. My alma mater, Hallmark Institute of Photography, today announced a fundraising campaign to help those in Haiti that have been devastated by the recent earthquake. This is a Premier Education Group (PEG) organization-wide campaign that allows all staff, faculty, students, families [...]

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Highslide Poll: Does anyone use the Shared Resources feature?

January 18, 2010

This is a question for users of TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro. The “shared resources” feature was an experimental idea built into the gallery. At this point, I’m wondering whether anyone actually uses it. Would anyone miss it if it were gone?
The argument against future inclusion of the feature has several points:
1) [...]

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New Google Analytics, Custom CSS and Custom Javascript implementations in TTG Pages 3.4

January 17, 2010

TTG Pages 3.4 is now available. With any luck, this will be the last update to this one for a while, because I do have other projects I’d like to spend time on. This update brings several new features and revisions, a few new styling options, and some bug fixes.
One big change is the engine’s [...]

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Password Protecting Your Image Galleries

January 17, 2010

Photographers often have need to password protect galleries of images, whether providing clients with a layer of security or for other reasons. In a previous article, I proposed using a password protection script from Zubrag.com as one possible solution. Another solution was recently brought to my attention by TTG user Steen Brogaard. After testing the [...]

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Fotomoto: Building a community?

January 14, 2010

The Fotomoto service allows users to sell prints directly from their websites, and has been garnering rave reviews. With Fotomoto support built into TTG Highslide Gallery Pro, many TTG users have been raving about it too. Fotomoto is unique in giving photographers the ability to sell prints from their own sites, rather than forcing them [...]

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