21st December 2009
As mentioned in my previous post, Photato has been nominated in the Best free Windows Media Center application category for this year's DigitalLifestyle.com Awards. The voting is now open so if you've enjoyed using Photato and want to see it develop further then the best way to show your appreciation is to vote for it here.
15th December 2009
I've just noticed that Photato has been nominated in the Best free Windows Media Center application category for the upcoming DigitalLifestyle.com Awards. That's great news but wouldn't it be great if it won the category? There's some tough competition but soon you'll have a chance to show your appreciation for the work that's gone into Photato so far. When the voting opens I'll post the link on the blog
18th November 2009
So it's been a few month's since my last post. For those of you who were concerned, it wasn't anything to do with the kitesurfing course I mentioned, it's just that I've been busy with other projects. Unfortunately generating income needs to take precedence over the development of Photato.
17th July 2009
I've been working this week mostly on making the Facebook synchronisation service more robust, but I've also fixed a few minor (but irritating) UI bugs. I'm still categorising this release as experimental but it is a significant improvement over the previous experimental releases. Once I've had a few more people try this release and I'm happy it's working ok then I'll promote it to the download link on the home page. For now you can download it here. As always if you have any problems please report them in the forum, although I'm away for the next 3 days on a kitesurfing course so I'll only be able to respond to queries when I get back.
13th July 2009
Just a quick post to say that I've released a minor update of Photato.  This release includes a few small fixes to the Windows Service and I've added logging to the Windows Event Log to help with diagnosing problems. This is still an experimental release and is not yet available through the download link on the main site. Follow this link to the Support Forum post to download it and for more details
10th July 2009
You can download the 1.0.6.0 release of Photato here. Please be aware that this is an experimental release rather than a beta as there is a significant amount of code that has been rewritten compared to the previous beta release and hence is only available through the link above and in the support forum. The version on the homepage download link will remain as the 1.0.5.0 beta for the time being. The idea with this release is that it will be tested by those of you who want to be at the bleeding edge so that I can iron out the major bugs before making a general release of the next beta.
2nd July 2009
Here are a few screen shots of some of the new UI features that are being added to the upcoming release of Photato.
2nd June 2009
So things have been somewhat quiet on Photato over the last few months, mainly because I've been working on a third party Media Center add-in (details to follow shortly). I am now working to get the Photato beta into a reasonable state for release. I'm mainly looking at improving the performance for users with lots of friends and photos and ensuring it works on Windows 7, but I'd also like to improve the login experience.
17th February 2009
I just noticed a small peak in the website visits and realised this was probably due to a recent review of the add-in on Missing Remote. You can read the review here
15th December 2008
I haven't posted in a while so I thought I'd better let everyone know that development of Photato is still progressing, although at a somewhat reduced rate currently due to the demands of some other projects. It's unlikely that there'll be any new versions of Photato in January, but hopefully full time development will resume in February. Have a good Christmas and New Year everyone