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the fun machine! everyone loves the fun machine.

applejuice 1.0 beta 2.

Response to applejuice has been great, though I haven't done much marketing yet. Feel free to spread the word!

And here's a new version: Applejuice 1.0 beta 2. New in this version:

• A "large thumbnail view" (on the right-click menu, or press T). To make this look better, I cranked up the thumbnail size from 75px to 200px; hopefully it's worth the extra bandwidth.
• "Link to this image" should work right in all cases.
• "Open image for download" opens a new browser window with the source image.
• Up/down cursor keys work.
• Thumbs are always centered above the main image - not sure I'm done with this yet.

Check the updated demo to see everything in action.

Also, a zip with source code is available! This is a pretty good piece of OpenLaszlo sample code, if you're curious how a Laszlo employee codes.

A few people have asked about future plans. Here's the short list:

• Real UI: graphical controls for next/prev/play and other commands. All that text stuff is placeholder.
• Full-screen slideshow mode.
• Better deployment instructions - including how to run many galleries using only one .swf, and how to use PHP to generate XML on the fly. (sounds like somebody's already working on this)
• Fancier image prefetching
• Slideshow interval slider
• Nicer/bigger title display at startup
• Windows installer for picasa plugin?
• iPhoto plugin

That's about it for now.

Thoughts? Please, send me feedback! Email me or post in the comments section.