New Star*Explorer version 188

New: resizing capability, separate file size limts for photo and video, and more.

100,000+ hits!

Star*Explorer crossed another major threshold, acquiring 100,000 hits.
This comes as no surpise, since S*E continues to be the leader of the pack. With its most recent build 175 Star*Explorer added a bulk Image Replace functionality, the feature pros were longing for. This build also accomodates for new Exta Large download sizes that recently became availalbe on the Smugmug.
More news and details on the site.

S*E v.172: Full set of album flags

After much delay, S*E finally sports a complete set of flags for album creation.
Dialog became a bit bigger to accomodate the new options such as:

• Backprinting
• Password Hint
• Hide Owner
• Default Color
• Geography
• Allow Ranking
• Proof Days
• Hello, Smug!
• Hello, World!

Also, Password was not handled properly, it's fixed now.

You can get the latest version here

S*E v 168: no need for admin mode under Vista

New version of Star*Explorer, the best 3d party smugmug tool, is now Vista-safe.
New VSPS licensing system is lighter, faster, simpler for the end user and does not require administrator mode to activate.
Existing license holders are safe, though. S*E currently work with both systems, so unless you are experiencing Vista-related issues, there is no need to request a new license.

400

Tonight Star*Explorer crossed another nice threshold: customer #400!

You wanna know why 400 smugmug users decided in favor of the (only) commercial tool while there are plenty of free ones?

Get a free trial and see for yourself.

Hint: you get for you pay for...:-)

New version 167 uploaded

The latest version fo Star*Explorer features online duplicate validation. With this option turned on it very easy to implement "picture of the day" logic locally. You can simply drop the same folder to the same album, and S*E will take care of what has been already uplaoded and only let new images to go through.

V.165 uploaded

Numerous usability improvements.
Enjoy!