Matte 1.2

Major Features:

1. Provide a simple and easy-to-use web-based application for sharing media items and organizing items into albums.
2. Publish album slideshows that look beautiful and focus on the media.
3. Publish an album-centric blog of all shared albums.
4. Allow complete customization of the look and feel of published albums.
5. Be easily extensible to support many media types, but primarily focused on image, video, audio media types.
6. Scale well to handle many thousands of shared items.
7. Support multiple users, each with their own media items and albums.
8. Good time zone support for adjusting photo dates from photos taken while travelling around the world.
9. Support customizable and extensible metadata support (e.g. EXIF, ID3, etc) by way of sMeta.

Enhancements:

• Fix default handling of EXIF orientation metadata based rotation.
• Previously the default configuration had orientations 6 and 8
• reversed, causing resized images to get rotated incorrectly.
• Update to sMeta 0.6 for EXIF GPS support.
• Add Latitude/Longitude info to Woosh theme; add "Map it" link to
• Google Maps.

Requirements:

• Java 5
• Database
• Java servlet container
• Web browser