News
15.07.2005
Just to let you know that I'm still here to answer your questions and to collect your money. I, for one, am using Retriever every day with my digital images. It does do some things better than the competition. However, I use Win98 here for reasons of common sense. Since practically anyone else will use Win2000/XP nowadays, here is a plea: let me know what does not seem to work correctly on your XP. Contact sheets may not print correctly on XP/2000, that one is already known. You can take a detour through html or bmp's if you need to print out a contact sheet.
09.08.2001
This Rosa Laetitia project is much more demanding than I would ever have expected. Especially since I'm still liable for maintenance re: my earlier Lilli Marie joint venture. So I still don't have anything that is worthy of a new release. But my private version of Retriever shows thumbnails for AVI files, courtesy of my recent vacation with a digital camera (and Lilli & Rosa). If that is something you have been desperately waiting for, you can request a beta by email :)
21.01.2001
You will have noticed that there were no new releases lately. This is because I was busy releasing my second daughter Rosa Laetitia, which still takes up too many system resources. Hopefully this is only temporary and can be fixed... ;o) However I made Retriever 2.3 "official" now.
12.03.2000
A bug has been fixed in Retriever 2.3. If you got it before 03/12/2000 you should download again (below). The bug was in rearranging thumbnails by drag&drop.
17.01.2000
Retriever 3.0 will still take a while to be released. But I have put an intermediate release on my FTP server here.
To see if there is some change that is of interest for you, see changes
The online help is not yet updated with new features. Features in this version may be changed in the final release.
Retriever 2.3 Full Setup (1.3MB)
Retriever 2.3 Without Setup (648KB)
Please don't link to these files directly on your web page. Better link to http://www.djuga.net/retriever.html .
"Without Setup" is for users who already have a version of Retriever installed, or have a slow connection. Copy the files in the .zip into your existing Retriever folder, replacing the existing files. If you don't have Retriever installed, just make a new empty folder.
The penalty for running Retriever without installing via the Setup is that it doesn't get into the "Start" menu... You can do that yourself. Also you can't uninstall it via the control panel applet. Instead, just delete the folder. There will remain a registry key that stores Retriever's settings.
Sometimes I get complaints that Retriever associates itself with image file types without asking. Look at the menu option "Options->Launch Retriever with these files..." (that is not new in this release... ;o)
22.10.1999
Just so you know that I'm still alive... Retriever 2.22 seems to be a reasonably good piece of software and I don't have AmazingNewFeatures(tm) for now. But I've collected lots of little nuissances and I'm working on a new release that will eradicate them.
14.3.1999
Finally there's a version of the Retriever
Screen Saver that is compatible with 2.2. This is for registered users
only (others will experience what "nagging" is all about ;o)
You can point it at one of your contact
sheets and it shows the images in a slide show, with various transition
effects.
1.2.1999
There is a Patch
available for version 2.2. It fixes the following problems that some of
you might experience:
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Retriever appears to lock up when you open many files at once (eg.
"include subdirectories")
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Retriever appears to lock up if you open an image file that is really
something else than what it's extension says
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The "Clear" buttons in the photo mosaic dialog box were swapped
It also adds these enhancements:
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You can Start/Stop the automatic slide show by pressing the [SPACE]
key
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Accepts certain malformed WMFs that were previously not accepted
Download the patch: ret22p3.zip
(473k) link changed to point to 2.3
To install, replace the retriever.exe
in your Retriever folder with the one in the archive.
PS: Some users reported that Retriever
exits with an error box whenever they use the database. This is the fault
of a buggy Windows system file (comctl32.dll), that was probably installed
by an older version of MS Internet Explorer... You can get an update for
comctl32.dll here:
http://mssjus.www.conxion.com/msdownload/ie401/patch/comcontrol/en/401comupd.exe
this is the only known cause of Retriever
exiting with an error. So if you have a different error, please tell me
at retriever@djuga.net
17.12.1998
Now I got my own site, www.djuga.net
! The old redirected URL for Retriever's homepage was simply too unreliable.
I want to keep you updated.
By the way, there is also a new release
available: Retriever 2.2 !
It adds many of the improvements you have
suggested:
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added a 90° rotate - left or right
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the full path is shown in the window caption if you select a
thumbnail
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slide show controls remember your preferences
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Added a "Use as wallpaper" option for the current image
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labels under thumbnails can be edited
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thumbnail labels can show path, name, size, date, index etc.
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you can sort the thumbnails by all of the above
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thumbnail labels can be multiline
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thumbnails can be rearranged by drag and drop
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thumbnail format can be saved & loaded, and is no longer
automatically used for new contact sheets
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thumbnails can be arranged in rows & columns - html pages
can be made to scroll endlessly
Go get it! Free
of course for registered users.
17.9.1998
Retriever 2.1 is officially released! These
are the changes, since 2.0:
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A slide show view lets you conveniently browse the pictures in a contact
sheet. Manually or controlled by a timer.
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You can create image mosaics, ie. large images that are composed of
small images.
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You can now include files in subdirectories when you open files; this
goes for Dupe Detective, thumbnails etc.
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If you open "all in directory" you will only get files of the selected
type. Eg. only image files, only jpegs etc.
+ some bugs fixed and minor improvements, the database is slightly
faster, the "Enhance" feature is slightly less conservative, and the rest
I have forgotton.
Get it now !Update
is free for registered users, as always.
2.9.1998
While there are no news, there is a
new little product by yours truly. It's WinGlobe,
a tiny earth that sits on your desktop. Hence it's totally unrelated, but
fun. If you came here to register Retriever, do that first, so that you
don't forget about it! :o)
26.7.1998
A "maintenance release" Retriever 2.01
is available. There were 2 bugs reported in Retriever 2.0. This made me
feel uncomfortable... So I released a 2.01 right away, that fixes these
issues.
Fixed: - on machines with
very large memory resources, if you opened a large number of files, thumbnails
were made too large, causing an error.
Fixed: - Dupe Detective would cause an error when he encountered
images smaller than 8x8...
There is also one small, but very handy
enhancement:
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You can now include files in subdirectories when you open files; this
goes for Dupe Detective, thumbnails etc.
-
If you open "all in directory" you will only get files of the selected
type. Eg. only image files, only jpegs etc.
1.7.1998
Retriever 2.0 is released! These are some
of the new features:
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size of thumbnails can be chosen
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more/larger thumbnails in one contact sheet
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open all files in a folder without selecting
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contact sheets can be split into pages with a selected number
of thumbnails per page, for printing, save-as-image and save-as-html pages
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multiline text in contact sheets supported
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dynamic fields like "page number" in contact sheet texts
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database is shown in it's own pane that can be displayed while
you view images
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drag & drop of database items
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can use multiple databases, and create your own database files
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thumbnail and database files can be redistributed
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Dupe Detective can search a directory for dupes, without needing
thumbnails first
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a contact sheet is shown for each group of dupes
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Dupe Detective has been enhanced (using a whipleash and a hot
cooker)
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crop and cut images
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cut images that contain multiple pictures, or a picture in a
frame, automagically
+ some minor features & enhancements
+ some cosmetic & exotic bugs have been fixed.
Get
it now ! As
always, it's free for registered users.
5.5.1998
Old news are no news... Get 2.0 now !:o)
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