Magnesia - A distributed Image Manager

Client and Server are entirely written in Java and consist of two parts:

1. Chalk: The server part, available with some small gui (miniframe or trayicon) or without.
2. Magnesia gui client: Currently the only client available, easily to be distributed, e.g. via Java Webstart

Magnesia offers a flexible way of showing your photos to your friends as well as organize your photos remotely. To offer a complete and useful solution some simple ways of modifying images are also implemented.

Installation

Give Magnesia a try by downloading the sourcetarball from sourceforge.net or by running the webstart version of the Magnesia gui client or Chalkbag.

Component Names

Some might wonder why the logo of Magnesia is a crime scene. Well, that's a long story.

The name Magnesia came in mind because early photographers used magnesia for their flashes - and after all magnesia is used for managing photos. Chalk on the other side comes from magnesia oxide (MgO) used by climbers. Chalkbag is also climbing equipment - that little bag holding your chalk. And well, the logo. The crime scene is drawn using chalk ... ;).