After three months we finally released a new version of Intermedia Fotoficient. Our timing is adjusted to the fact, that provided demo licenses from the previous release are due to terminate in a few days.
If you are hestitant to perform the upgrade (either by downloading the ZIP or through svn support), then download the ZIP and grab just the license file itself.

You'll miss out some great new features - so don't blame us then.

Copy the following link to your bookmarks: Intermedia Content Bookmarklet (for instance by drag & dropping it to your bookmarks toolbar).

The New York Times has an interesting piece about retailers advance into mobile ecommerce. The craze on how mobile devices will change our lifes, especially in the online world, has raised the expectations on all sides.

Summary:

New Feature:

• A persistent metadata cache see doc/configuration/intermedia.properties: intermedia.metadatacache.type

Bugfixes:

• A xss vulnerability has beend removed within modules/pixelboxx/intermedia.js as well as within the Helma JSON module
• The handling of invalid imageids in imageProperties was added, which could also lead to XSS vulnerabilities, see Root/macros.js

Special thanks to Marcus Niemitz (mail@mniemietz.de) for finding this nasty one.

An interesting study reveals, that a slow performing website actually is stressing users more. They have to concentrate up to 50% more on slow performing websites. This white paper describes the CA 2010 Web Stress Experiment in more detail.

The Image Editor is a highly customizable and easy to integrate interactive tool. Build on a powerful OEM component and let your users generate and edit image content in your CMS or Web-to-Print solution.

Mobile and Tablet computing asks for an effective use of the available pixels. Don't waste precious screen estate with compromise borders or way too small thumbnail images.

When your design tries to run at the cutting edge of what's reliably possible, don't try to invent another hundred wheels.

Complex business requirements and the need for effective and efficient collaboration build a strong case for dependable and interconnected tools in the modern workspace.

Compelling images increase the conversion rate. But using large amounts of images in a multitude of resolutions and decorations has always been a costly struggle. With Intermedia Fotoficient this is no longer true.