update

so things have been going. i got my zen vision: m and the only negative thing about it is the name. it's not very catchy. other than that i couldn't be happier. for a pirater, like myself, it is AMAZING! i use gnomad2 on ubuntu to send files back and forth from it. all of the videos i've put on it work fine. it also has a couple video functions i find so key.

the video has a zoom to fit and squeeze to fit functions. so if it's not very widescreen it can squeeze the video to fit the screen, or if it's very widescreen and you want to see better, it has a zoom to see it better(though you miss a bunch of the screen). i haven't yet gotten annoyed by the small 2.5 inch screen. it fits perfect in my little pouch on my backpack. i just can't say enough about this thing. it's just perfect for me, i love it so much. and for $140 i can't ask for a better price. it has one little scratch. the battery lasted me almost two days, which i watched about 6 hours of video and listened to the radio about 20 hours. so cool.

for $80 less i'll take the little scratch that was on it.

so my picture manager is almost going. here are the steps i needed to get done when i started:
1.) upload multiple files
2.) convert each picture to 2 different sizes + high res
3.) create folders/filenames based on a standard
4.) create ajax display functions for:
a.) folders/dates
b.) thumbnails
c.) medium display(main display)
d.) lightbox for highres display

i've almost got 1-3 done which is definitely the hard part. hopefully by the weekend i'll have the display up and working. after i have the first version working and licensed i'll put it up on the project page to for other people to take and test. it's beauty i think is in it's simplicity, but other developers will figure that out on their own. i did have to use 3 languages though(php, js & java) to do all the code, but everything seems to be working pretty well together and you really only should need to know a little php and js to implement it on your site.