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jAlbum is a great tool for photo and video clip albums. Not much to say about it here, but here are a couple of items.

Removing ads. As the tool has developed, somewhere along the way they made it ad supported, so that any page you create will pop up ads. For a $24 license, you can get rid of these ads. Well worth the price in my book.

Java heap error. As megapixel numbers have gone up, the image files I have processed have gotten bigger. My current camera (d200) is 10 megapixels, but some pictures I am getting from friends or relatives are as big as 24 megapixels. I was getting error messages from Jalbum that the Java virtual machine was running out of memory (heap error.) A web search revealed this simple fix:

Open the program files directory, and edit the jalbum.ini file with any text editor. 
You'll see a line that starts like this:

Virtual Machine Parameters=-Xms64M -Xmx700M ...

For the "-Xmx" attribute, change it to a larger value, like:

Virtual Machine Parameters=-Xms64M -Xmx1200M ...

Some details for windows 7

• The file is in C:\Program Files (x86)\jAlbum
• To modify the file, you have to open your text editor with "Run as Administrator"
• I increased the heap size to 1200M, as suggested in the example, and this solved my problem.