Important news for everyone using Gurkes Fotobatch: The new version 0.5 introduces multicore/multiprocessor support for image resizing and fixes a small bug.
Implementing multicore support and keeping the progress bar for image resizing wasn’t trivial. But it’s clear that today any software accomplishing tasks that can be run in parallel has to support multiple processors. It leads to speedups by the factor 2, 4 or even 8 and 16 on computers of some crazy guys. So it was worth a try and I think the result works very well: I got a speedup of almost exactly factor 2 on my dual core machine.
Using the new version 0.5 is recommended for everyone, even for the single core users: a small bug was fixed that could lead to wrong file creation dates for pictures in the compression directory (only on very fast machines).
The complete changelog can be found here:
http://gehrcke.de/fotobatch/changelog.html
The new version of Fotobatch can be downloaded — as usual — here:
http://gehrcke.de/fotobatch/download.html
I’ve created a short illustrated tutorial for using Fotobatch:
http://gehrcke.de/2009/11/illustrated-introduction-to-fotobatch-tutorial