Club Photo Releases New Photo Album Software for Palm OS Devices Album To Go v 2.0 links Palms, Visors, and CLIEs with online and desktop photo albums for on the go sharing
SAN JOSE, Calif. March 23, 2001 - Club Photo(tm) Inc., the photo processing and sharing service that set the standard for online and PDA-based album sharing, today announced the highly anticipated follow-on to its award-winning software, Album To Go(tm). Album To Go 2.0 makes 'on the go' viewing, organizing, and sharing photo albums easy from any handheld device running Palm OS(r) 3.1 or higher, including products from Palm, Handspring, and Sony. Previous releases of Album To Go were greeted with tremendous success, sparking a new trend and driving hundreds of thousands of users to share their pictures from their Palm OS devices.
The Album To Go 2.0 viewer and desktop photo organizer are free and can be downloaded at www.clubphoto.com/tools. Favorite photos can easily be sent from online Club Photo albums or via the desktop, to 'Hot Sync(tm)' directly into the Palm device. Its features surpass Palm-centric image viewers that cost up to $24.95, and provides the ability to showcase multiple albums, view albums by picture icons, support 16 bit color for the Handspring(t m) Prism, beam albums between friends and family, and create slideshows with a variety of creative effects. Album To Go also supports high-resolution images in addition to the default 160 x160 size. Users can pan or zoom-in on pictures to provide expanded views of larger images. It also displays GIF and BMP formats along with JPEG, and supports drag-and-drop handling of multiple image files.
"Before Album To Go, the only way to share photo albums was to pull them off the shelf when guests were present or carry a wallet or organizer stuffed with photos," said Richard Park, Director of Product Marketing at Club Photo. "Club Photo has changed how consumers share their pictures, allowing them to easily share special moments with family and friends, anytime, anywhere. Now Palm OS users can discover the exciting world of film and digital photo sharing and finishing to always stay closer with friends and family."
The Album To Go 2.0 experience will remind users of viewing a traditional photo album, but with exciting new options for sharing memories on-the-go. Each album can have searchable photo titles and photo notes, with a "share view" function for thumbnail views of images or entire albums. Album To Go 2.0 also offers batch selection and deletion, thumbnail viewing, photo copying between albums, real-time scaling and panning, and enhanced slide show effects.
The Award-Winning Club Photo Difference
Club Photo is redefining photography by integrating the traditional film and printing process with extensive photo sharing services to help people stay in touch with friends and family all over the world. Club Photo offers film developing, high quality prints, special photo gifts, electronic photo greeting cards, and a free personal photo album Web site, to help users share the magic of pictures. Club Photo's Pick Your Photos service allows users to send in film, share selected photos online in free digital "photo albums," and only order the prints they want. Whether from a film or digital camera, scanner or CD, the company's free software allow users to easily organize and annotate albums on the Palm, Visor, Windows PC, or Apple platforms, then share them on a their own Web site for all to enjoy with a few clicks of the mouse.
Club Photo is located at 650 Saratoga Avenue, San Jose, California and can be reached at (408) 557-6743 or www.clubphoto.com.
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