JCatalog has been ported to the 3B Soft package structure and it is now available for download here:catalog.jar

You can of course also download the sources and compile it yourself (using the ANT build file) from the SVN forge: https://forge.3bsoft.net/jacatalog/trunk — which is the url for the latest version (not necessarily stable!) of the software. More details about using SVN to build our apps, in the forums section.

Alternatively you can download the binaries here: JCatalog Binaries - The JCatalog utility binaries-the JAR file that allows you to run the application

Or download the sources and the binaries here: JCatalog Sources & Binaries - JCatalog utilies sources and compiled binaries

Our first utility has been made available in SVN: JCatalog. This is a simple tool intended to simply in managing a large set of digital media and split it into catalogues / folders.

The need for this product came from my lazy bad ways of operating my digital camera — as I would find myself every now and then in a position where I couldn’t take any more pictures because the memory card was full; at this point I would finally connect it to my PC and start downloading all the pictures from it only to realise that I probably have pictures on it that have been taken at last Xmas party, at my friend’s birthday, on holiday, at a conference and so on. Sorting them (we’re talking hundreds of photos) used to be a nightmare and I would give up half the way through (typically whack them all on a CD which would then get thrown in the back of my drawer never to be found again!). So I’ve put together this little handy Java/Swing app which allows one to view the pictures in a folder one by one and move them with one click into one of the sub-folders created in the original folder — so all you have to do is just create some sub-folders called “Xmas party”, “holiday”, “conference” etc and then start the app which goes through pics one by one and just press the button corresponding to each folder to move the file in the corresponding folder and move onto the next.

Here’s a quick screenshot of this little app in action:

SVN has been configured on our servers and the first repository for this has been populated and is now available for anonymous checkout from our Forge section.

Please be aware that the SSL certificate used to access the SVN repository is a self-sign certificate and therefore it will render a warning in most browsers and SVN clients. For the time being, until we install a VeriSign certificate on our servers please bear with us and ignore this problem — typically you will have to “accept” or “add exception” in your browser/SVN client.

You can follow us on twitter now and keep up to date with our updates and announcements for new releases and/or changes to our software packages by using this well-known social service.

Simply visit http://twitter.com/3bsoft and follow us from there!

You will notice that the mobile section and the hotel section of our website are currently offline.This is due to our staged migration of our sourcecode to SVN which is currently in progress, with the software utilities section being the first to be migrated — once this is sorted out and made available to the public, then we move onto the mobile section and finally onto the hotel software. During the migration we expect to occasionally experience SVN/forge downtime — please bear with us throughout this process. An announcement will be made on our website once the full migration is finished — however, expect to see some intermediary updates as we make progress on each section.