Free shared pictures software for linux

Shared Mime Library is my implementation for libsharedmime. It reads the Shared Mime Info database and returns you the MIME-TYPE of a file. Freedesktop make this database freely available, but they dont seem to be distributing a library to read it anymore (Its no where in their CVS that I can find).
It is different to the freedesktop version in the following ways:
- Licensed under LGPL instead of the GPL at aid all developers. *sigh*
- Has NO dependencies. Which is an important feature in this world of tangled packages all depending on each other.
- Probably not as fast?
- Not as complete (yet)?
To install the package firstly you need the Shared Mime data files. Which you can get from here. Then download and unpack libsharedmime and:
% make
# make install
Enhancements:
- Added code to check for a text file if the content lookup fails, if it matches it gets a text/plain type.
- Stopped the content lookup being performed on directories.
- Fixed a bug in the magic matching code that caused valid matches to fail. This means that some files will now return the correct mime type as opposed to a default "not found" type.

IPC::SharedCache is a Perl module to manage a cache in SysV IPC shared memory.

SYNOPSIS

use IPC::SharedCache;

# the cache is accessed using a tied hash.
tie %cache, IPC::SharedCache, ipc_key => AKEY,
load_callback => &load,
validate_callback => &validate;

# get an item from the cache
$config_file = $cache{/some/path/to/some.config};

This module provides a shared memory cache accessed as a tied hash.
Shared memory is an area of memory that is available to all processes. It is accessed by choosing a key, the ipc_key arguement to tie. Every process that accesses shared memory with the same key gets access to the same region of memory. In some ways it resembles a file system, but it is not hierarchical and it is resident in memory. This makes it harder to use than a filesystem but much faster. The data in shared memory persists until the machine is rebooted or it is explicitely deleted.

This module attempts to make shared memory easy to use for one specific application - a shared memory cache. For other uses of shared memory see the documentation to the excelent module I use, IPC::ShareLite (IPC::ShareLite).
A cache is a place where processes can store the results of their computations for use at a later time, possibly by other instances of the application. A good example of the use of a cache is a web server.

When a web server receieves a request for an html page it goes to the file system to read it. This is pretty slow, so the web server will probably save the file in memory and use the in memory copy the next time a request for that file comes in, as long as the file hasnt changed on disk.

This certainly speeds things up but web servers have to serve multiple clients at once, and that means multiple copies of the in-memory data. If the web server uses a shared memory cache, like the one this module provides, then all the servers can use the same cache and much less memory is consumed.

This module handles all shared memory interaction using the IPC::ShareLite module (version 0.06 and higher) and all data serialization using Storable. See IPC::ShareLite and Storable for details.

dvupicts is a program that allows the user to easily organize their digital pictures.

dvupicts lets you download the pictures from the camera memory card, view them and last select album to upload to you gallery (.sf.net) site.

Simple shell script that uses "dialog" to:

1 download picts from media cards (mmc/compact flash/sd ...)
2 view from a picts-dir (~/pictures/) with "qiv" or any other command-line able image viewer
3 upload to you "gallery" site

SPGM is a PHP script that displays picture galleries on the web. It is intended to provide a very simple way to set up online photo albums: creating directories, filling them with pictures and uploading to your website... That is what its all about !
Several cool features are also included, while keeping in mind that the program aims to be as lightweight, simple and portable as possible. Dont expect automatic thumbnail generation, advanced search functions, nor per-gallery full statistics then.
SPGM generates XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant code and makes extensive use of CSS stylesheets to render galleries. It only requires PHP version 4 or higher and does not rely on image manipulation libraries (like GD), or any database system whatsoever.
Main features:
- gallery/picture captioning
- unlimited sub-galleries
- per gallery complete configuration (inheritance supported)
- several sort options for both pictures and galleries
- random/fixed thumbnails used for gallery previews
- new pictures highlighting
- hidden galleries
- EXIF support
- slideshow mode
- easy integration into websites
- multi-language support (29 languages are currently provided)
- flavors (themes) available for use
Enhancements:
- This is a maintenance release that provides various bugfixes and small features.
- People who want to upgrade from previous versions should pay attention to the release notes, as a few configuration files must be updated as well.

Picture Downloader is an app suitable for downloading pictures from websites. Picture Downloader as the name implies is an application written in C-Sharp and Gtk-Sharp made to automate the process of downloading images from websites, Perfect for TGPs.
Right now Picture Downloader is in a very early stage of development , this means bugs are still there and some features are on their way.
Main features:
- Scan HTML code to extract links to images.
- Save pictures to a desired directory.
- Filter type of pictures (jpg, jpeg, gif, png).
- Can download from secure sites (.htacces, .htpasswd).

Wb is an remote conferencing application for shared drawing developed by the Network Research Group of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Pre-compiled binaries are available on ftp. Wb-related questions and feedback are welcome and can be sent to the developers via wb@ee.lbl.gov.

gnome-user-share is a small package that binds together various free software projects to bring easy to use user-level file sharing to the masses.

gnome-user-share is meant to run in the background when the user is logged in, and when file sharing is enabled a webdav server is started that shares the $HOME/Public folder. The share is then published to all computers on the local network using mDNS/rendezvous, so that it shows up in the Network location in Gnome.

The dav server used is apache, so you need that installed. Howl is used for mDNS support, so you need to have that installed and mDNSResolver running.

Illustrated project is aiming to provide a way to share picture and photos in a structured way. Therefore just like most other web galleries, a title and a description can be added to each photo. But pictures can also be presented as groups within chapters, where they illustrate the text.
I started developping it because although there are many Web galleries already, none was made to do what I wanted to do. The project is very young and therefore much features are too be implemented.
What is Illustrated, and what it is not
- Illustrated is made to share pictures with others with a structured description.
- It supports multilanguage description: you can either add a single description, or add various descriptions with < intl-xx > tags (for instance: < intl-en >English description< /intl-en >). The language used will then depend on the browser settings.
- Within a same album, pictures are shared by chapters, allowing you to storytell what those photos are meaning, just like you would do if you showed to your friends photos of a trip.
- Illustrated is not made to upload loads of pictures for visitors to browse just like with a picture viewer. You could do that, but I would rather recommend you Gallery or Coppermine.
- It is not made to post daily photos and let visitors write some comments. Comments are not supported, and I do not plan to implement this. If you are looking for a photoblog, I would rather recommend you Pixelpost.
How to install it
Illustrated should work on any system as long as PHP, MySQL, and ImageMagick or GD are present. Since it is still at an early development stage, it does not include yet a guided installation, so you will have to set it up manually. This is quite simple though.
Edit the connect.php and index.php files, then just upload all PHP and CSS files in a directory of your web space, and create a directory called pictures with permissions for writing.
Create the database. To do so, if you have access to a command line, just run the following line with your own MySQL login and password.
mysql -ulogin -ppassword < illustrated.sql
If you have access to a phpMyAdmin interface, you can use it to import the file. Just pay attention to the maximum file size.
At last, if you do not have other option left (which would be surprising), you can write a PHP script to build the database. I will write one later.