Recent changes to Motivation

Motivation modified by Nico Max

Nico Max — Fri, 21 May 2021 21:03:32 -0000

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 Features
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-I expect pBrowser never to be as feature packed as other tools in its category Yet I intent to aim pBrowser of being highly excellent and conformant to common expectations at the features it has as much as possible.
+I expect pBrowser never to be as feature packed as other tools in its category Yet I intent to aim pBrowser of being highly excellent and conformant to common expectations with the features it has as much as possible.

 For now pBrowser offers the following features

Motivation modified by Nico Max

Nico Max — Fri, 21 May 2021 21:01:38 -0000

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 Requirements
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-- Microsoft Windows 7 (x64-bit) or later
+- Microsoft Windows 7 (x64) or later
 - Java Runtime v1.8 or later

 Installation

Motivation modified by Nico Max

Nico Max — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 18:30:07 -0000

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 Requirements
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-- Microsoft Windows 7 (x32 or x64-bit) or later
+- Microsoft Windows 7 (x64-bit) or later
 - Java Runtime v1.8 or later

 Installation
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 Unzip the zip archive into any directory. To launch the application execute the supplied exe-file.

-pBrowser will run under 32bit Windows, yet I strongly suggest a 64bit Windows as operating system as it WILL consume memory very quickly on larger image files and no hassle should occur even with really big image files on a 64bit platform.
+pBrowser will not run under 32bit Windows as it WILL consume memory very quickly on larger image files and therefore having a 64bit platform is the senseful choice..

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 For now pBrowser offers the following features

-- Image Rotation; 90 degrees in either direction; lossless for Jpegs
-- Image Conversion to most used image fomats
-- Video image snapshot creation intended to aid in finding video duplicates (needs image duplicate detection tools though to be useful)
+- Image rotation for angles of 90 and 180 degrees; lossless for Jpegs
+- Image conversion to most used image fomats
+- Video image snapshot creation intended to aid at finding video duplicates (needs image duplicate detection tools to be useful though)
 - Automatic selection of similar named files
-- Colorization schemes based on custom rules
-- Activity Log recording file operations aiding in common "I-forgot-something" situations
+- Colorization schemes for files based on custom rules
+- Activity log recording file operations aiding in common "I-forgot-something" situations
 - File searching by utilizing Locate32; browsing and common operations on the result list; tested with really huge file collections
-- Jump Lists; holding the last visited places providing several common operations
+- Jump lists; holding the last visited places providing several common operations
 - "Pickup Words" for easier start of L32 or Google searches
 - File operations surpassing the simple Copy&Paste-scheme by utilizing several destination picking methods.
 - Several file selection variants; expected to be more helpful and to avoid common handling errors
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 FAQ
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 Q) Why is the download file this big?
-A) As pBrowser relies heaviely on external tools the download archive contains them as needed. This also ensures that the version of each tool matches as required. Additionally all tools are contained twice to accomodate for both 32- and 64bit target platforms.
+A) As pBrowser relies heaviely on external tools the download archive contains them as needed. This also ensures that the version of each tool matches as required.

Motivation modified by Nico Max

Nico Max — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 21:50:49 -0000

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-The current release is the first release of this application and contains those features that I feel are the single most frequently used ones. I expect pBrowser never to be as feature packed as other tools in its category Yet I intent to aim pBrowser of being highly excellent and conformant to common expectations at the features it has as much as possible.
+I expect pBrowser never to be as feature packed as other tools in its category Yet I intent to aim pBrowser of being highly excellent and conformant to common expectations at the features it has as much as possible.

 For now pBrowser offers the following features

 - Image Rotation; 90 degrees in either direction; lossless for Jpegs
+- Image Conversion to most used image fomats
+- Video image snapshot creation intended to aid in finding video duplicates (needs image duplicate detection tools though to be useful)
 - Automatic selection of similar named files
-- Thumbnail and Details-style views with optional colorization scheme and variable sorting order
+- Colorization schemes based on custom rules
+- Activity Log recording file operations aiding in common "I-forgot-something" situations
 - File searching by utilizing Locate32; browsing and common operations on the result list; tested with really huge file collections
 - Jump Lists; holding the last visited places providing several common operations
 - "Pickup Words" for easier start of L32 or Google searches
-- File operations surpassing the simple Copy&Paste-scheme by utilizing several destination picking methods
+- File operations surpassing the simple Copy&Paste-scheme by utilizing several destination picking methods.
 - Several file selection variants; expected to be more helpful and to avoid common handling errors
+- No hassle with file names containing non-Latin-alphabet characters

 FAQ
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Motivation modified by Nico Max

Nico Max — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 16:10:05 -0000

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 Requirements
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-- Microsoft Windows 7 (x32 or x64-Bit) or later
+- Microsoft Windows 7 (x32 or x64-bit) or later
 - Java Runtime v1.8 or later
-- Mongo Database v3.0 or later

 Installation
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 Unzip the zip archive into any directory. To launch the application execute the supplied exe-file.
-
-The next task will be to install the MongoDB database. On first launch a window will come up describing the steps of how to accomplish this. But don't worry, it is really simple.

 pBrowser will run under 32bit Windows, yet I strongly suggest a 64bit Windows as operating system as it WILL consume memory very quickly on larger image files and no hassle should occur even with really big image files on a 64bit platform.

Motivation modified by Nico Max

Nico Max — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:36:13 -0000

Home modified by Nico Max

Nico Max — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 20:42:09 -0000

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 - Thumbnail and Details-style views with optional colorization scheme and variable sorting order
 - File searching by utilizing Locate32; browsing and common operations on the result list; tested with really huge file collections
 - Jump Lists; holding the last visited places providing several common operations
+- "Pickup Words" for easier start of L32 or Google searches
 - File operations surpassing the simple Copy&Paste-scheme by utilizing several destination picking methods
 - Several file selection variants; expected to be more helpful and to avoid common handling errors

Home modified by Nico Max

Nico Max — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 17:27:12 -0000

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 - Microsoft Windows 7 (x32 or x64-Bit) or later
 - Java Runtime v1.8 or later
-- Mongo Database v2.4 or later
+- Mongo Database v3.0 or later

 Installation
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Home modified by Nico Max

Nico Max — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 20:11:42 -0000

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 Requirements
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 - Microsoft Windows 7 (x32 or x64-Bit) or later
-- Java Runtime v1.7 or later
+- Java Runtime v1.8 or later
 - Mongo Database v2.4 or later

 Installation

Home modified by Nico Max

Nico Max — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 18:43:54 -0000

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 - Java Runtime v1.7 or later
 - Mongo Database v2.4 or later

-Installation & Usage
+Installation
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 Unzip the zip archive into any directory. To launch the application execute the supplied exe-file.

 The next task will be to install the MongoDB database. On first launch a window will come up describing the steps of how to accomplish this. But don't worry, it is really simple.

+pBrowser will run under 32bit Windows, yet I strongly suggest a 64bit Windows as operating system as it WILL consume memory very quickly on larger image files and no hassle should occur even with really big image files on a 64bit platform.
+
+Usage
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 As soon as you have the application up and running try to browse around for some files, try the application's different windows and tools. But the tool you will use the most with pBrowser is the context menu. it offers several "interactive" features like an adaptive jump list, a "Favorites"-feature as well as a window into the operating system.

-pBrowser will run under 32bit Windows, yet I strongly suggest a 64bit Windows as operating system as it WILL consume memory very quickly on larger image files and no hassle should occur even with really big image files on a 64bit platform.
+Double-click on an image to see it in the Image View frame. Turning the mouse wheel will display the images in the current directory while pressing Ctrl doing it will zoom the image.

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