macfidelity

big thanks once again to Christine for the picture:

Full-size at her flickr page

I am still working on my small User-Interface for Exiftool on Mac OS X. guess i’ll be able to put a test version online in some days.

After having finished this app i should be able to write a small summary about my experiences with AppleScript.

Till now the UI is able to:

• Write a Comment into the EXIF-Data
• Write a new CreatorTool into the EXIF-Data
• Write a new Software into the EXIF-Data
• Delete all Photoshop informations

including Growl-Support.

Thanks to Christine. check more of her images at flickr

Read the review here.

quote:

It’s hard to believe that over two years have passed since Aperture’s launch. It seems like only yesterday that I was fielding e-mails from livid zealots and supportive professional photographers regarding my less-than-glowing review of the buggy, unfinished mess that was Aperture 1.0 (and see our follow-up look at Aperture 1.1). But much has changed in those two years, including a price drop from $500 to $200 to compete with Adobe’s Lightroom. By version 1.5, most of the problems, missing features, and RAW quality issues were addressed.

But there was still one area widely acknowledged to need improvement: speed. Users of Lightroom often cite its general responsiveness and background processing as the main reason for picking it over Aperture. It’s no secret that even after Apple’s many tweaks, this was still a big issue with Aperture 1.5.

This is where Aperture 2.0 steps in. Apple has also overhauled the RAW engine in 2.0, and, combined with the speed upgrade and Quick Preview, they probably felt that it was time to give Aperture a shiny new number without all the baggage of the old one……….

As i had some time over the weekend i started to play around with AppleScript (AS) and Exiftool to create s small AS-based Exif-Changer application.

This worked after some tries and errors but then i reached the limits of AppleScript and ScriptEditor as development environment….so i switched to XCode 3.

right now, after some hours of playing blind cow in xcode i have a working application which can change several exif-information fields in jpg-files .

Lets see how it develops…right now its just a fun project

Today was wordpress Patchday for me. This includes the upgrade to the latest wordpress release, updates of several plugins and some new plugins / widgets.

• New TagCloud (customize-able)
• Seo Plugin
• Today on Wikipedia

In addition i did some small configuration / preferences tweaking to pimp this blog a bit.

Finally some images ( www.tine.vido.info ) to pimp this post

My collegue at work showed me PicturePopPro today.

Basicly � its a Graphic Viewer as Context-Menu.

A quote from the project page:

PicturePopPro (initialy named PicturePop) was born in 2001. It was one of the first contextual menu plugins for MacOS X, and the first picture viewer as contextual menu plugin for MacOSX. PPP2 is designed to work on all PowerPC macs, from 10.3.9 to 10.4.x, especially with less memory [on low configuration]. With Tiger, Apple has introduced a contextual menu with similar diaporama functionality but.. just test PPP2 and compare.. PPP2 offers fast browsing-viewing-searching-marking-actions. With the help of donations, PPP 2.0 is now ready for intel. Check donation page to learn more about it.

I guess i will use it in addition to my basic image viewer (Xee.app)

Just as reminder some galleries:

• coppermine
• gallery 2

Today i found another image-application called ChocoFlop

At the moment you can use a free-version which forces you to solve a little math-question each time you save. Well ok for me. Or just buy it…

Link to the project FAQ

Link to the project goals

Ever wanted to have an easy & free solution for creating mac-icons ?

Take a look on img2icns

Quote from versiontracker:

Img2icns is a converter tool for your images. Enjoy creating thousand of icons from your pictures.

Img2icns is an great tool both for developers and home users:

• Can create .icns file (for developer) or folder with attached icon
• Very nice and unique user interface
• Convert from 1 to 1000 icons without pain!
• Very fast conversion, also from huge files
• Free and opensource application!

I have tested 0.5.1 and it was really easy to use, so give it a try.