Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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A few months ago the folks on the Photo Gallery team sent me a pointer to the new Publish SDK in Windows Live Photo Gallery. A few hours later I had put together a crude Plugin for uploading to SmugMug.
As some of you might know, long ago I created an application called Send to SmugMug. This was a very simple program that let you select photos in the Windows Shell and upload to SmugMug. Since then I have added many features, but I personally like to use Windows Live Photo Gallery to manage all my photos and videos. Switching back and forth from application to shell got annoying.
So I was ecstatic to write a plugin. Now I can just publish directly from Photo Gallery.
You can download the Publish to SmugMug Plugin and try for yourself. It requires the new beta of Photo Gallery.
The new beta has a ton of nifty features by the way. The User Experience is redesigned to make it easier to tag, view and edit metadata. The people tagging feature is super, and you can tag using contacts from your Windows Live Address Book. For most of you that means your Messenger or Hotmail contacts.
The plugin is very simple. You select a bunch of photos in the Photo Gallery and select Publish on SmugMug from the Publish Menu. You will see this dialog:
Select an existing Gallery or create a new Gallery and click Publish.
Anyway, it’s an awesome upgrade and I hope you enjoy the new Plugin I wrote.