ImageBox Flash gallery app

I stumbled across this post on RMW Web Publishing’s blog today, and it struck me the app they mentioned could be useful for doing this whole CD/DVD thing for the year 12 photo website.

The purveyor’s website is horribly Flash encumbered (i.e. I’d have never found it if I were looking for it in a search engine — I actually temporarily lost the developer’s URL for a bit there, and had to trawl through my browsing history to find it again!), but the app itself is rather useful if you’re looking for a run-from-the-desktop gallery kinda thing. My only qualm is the difficulty of generating metadata for it to do interesting stuff with, but a quick spot of shell scripting should see that problem met, hopefully. (Or even just nagging Ben until he hacks support for this gizmo into Cat-scan natively… wink wink? :P) This is the kind of app that’s a prime candidate for XML application, not in the least because of Flash’s reputedly excellent support for that kind of stuff… but it uses boring and rather confusing (mostly because I don’t speak German so a few words are odd) flat files instead. With that one caveat, it’s an otherwise helpful application. Just don’t make the mistake of confusing applications with websites.