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254 days ago: FlickrEdit 1.1.2 Released
We are happy to announce the release of FlickrEdit v1.1.2. This new version brings bug fixes as well as some new enhancements. Here are the release notes:
FlickrEdit 1.1.2
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- Fix: Photo edit dialog doesn’t set initial privacy setting properly
- Enhancement: Add Set as primary to photo popup menu
- Enhancement: Support drop files/photos and directories in local tab
- Enhancement: When new set is created it uses small “loading” photo as initial set photo, then the loading photo is deleted and replaced with first set photo when upload is done
- Enhancement: Improved upload and download/backup performance
- Fix: Fixed IPTC data handling on download
- Enhancement: IPTC Imagero library might be disabled in System Preference
- Fix: Fixed photo privacy settings
- Enhancement: Add timeout thread to upload/download threads 10min, to prevent hanging upload/download
- Fix: Backup dialog doesn’t remember last directory used for backup
- Fix: [BUG-9782] – png image present in sets is making flickr edit fails the backup
If you are using the recommended Java WebStart version (by pressing the launch button on the FlickrEdit page), then you will get the new version the next time you launch the application. If you are not using the WebStart, you can download the standalone versions from the product page.
269 days ago: Flickr Launches the App Garden
Flickr today launched a new part of their Services site called the App Garden where developers can list their apps for other to find. We have listed both FlickrEdit and FlickrBackup there for easy reference. If you like FlickrEdit, please go add it as a Fav in the App Garden! You can find the FlickrEdit page here.
415 days ago: Sorry for the downtime!
I just wanted to apologize for the downtime we’ve had here at sunkencity! I made a change to my DNS servers a little while ago and could have sworn things were working afterward, but seems I was wrong and the site has been dead since then. I want to give a big thanks to [Mike Patterson|http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikepatterson/] for sending me a message on Flickr letting me know of the issue! I don’t often check on sunkencity.org, so when things go bad, it takes me a little while to figure out. So thanks again to Mike and to all of you users out there!
523 days ago: FlickrEdit featured on MAKE!
We noticed today that FlickrEdit showed up in a post on the MAKE blog toady about how to backup your photos from Flickr. According to Google Analytics, traffic to the site today more than doubled! Remember FlickrEdit allows you to not only backup your photos, but also, upload, edit, and view your photos right in the application. Thanks to everyone who spreads the word about FlickrEdit. Word of mouth is the only advertising we get, so spread the word!
613 days ago: Announcing FlickrEdit 1.1.1
Thanks to our users, a problem was discovered with FlickrEdit that was causing users to not be able to download Sets from Flickr. We have just released an update to fix the problem. The new version will require that you re-authorize FlickrEdit to have access to your Flickr account when you first launch it. Once you have done so, you should be good to go to download your photos again!
If you are using the recommended Java WebStart version (by pressing the launch button on the FlickrEdit page), then you will get the new version the next time you launch the application. If you are not using the WebStart, you can download the standalone versions from the product page.
887 days ago: Announcing FlickrEdit 1.1
We are please to announce the availability of a new version of FlickrEdit, v1.1. FlickrEdit has now fully replaced FlickrBackup. All links to download and launch FlickrBackup will now launch FlickrEdit. Version 1.1 brings the following new features and updates:
New Features:
- Backup Title, Description, Tags, and Copyright and store them into the IPTC header of the images. This has been the #1 requested feature since FlickrBackup was first launched. After the photo backup completes, you can open your images in an application like Photoshop/iPhoto to view the backed up data. iPhoto with automatically import your tags as keywords even.
- Allow editing local photo info before upload (similar to new Flickr Uploadr)
- Add support for Flickr RSS feeds
- Add basic html editing toolbar to comments editor
- Add support for mark photos as favorites (only photos you do not own (Flickr limitation))
Updates and Fixes:
- Redesigned preferences dialog
- Enable editing local photos when offline
- Add “justFriends” flag for Favorites to Preferences
- Enable editing or commenting multiple photos or sets by scrolling through selected photos or sets in the dialog
- Add support for setting log level from Preferences
- Preparation for all text to be localized
We are very excited to get this new version out to the community as it has many features that you all have been asking for! We appreciate all our users and thank all those who have helped spread the word. Please continue to spread the word about FlickrEdit though your blogs, forums, emails, and websites!
If you are using the recommended Java WebStart version (by pressing the launch button on the FlickrEdit page), then you will get the new version the next time you launch the application. If you are not using the WebStart, you can download the standalone versions from the product page.
941 days ago: Happy New Year from Sunkencity Software!
Another year has come and gone and what a year it was. 2007 was a quiet year here at Sunkencity until the last few months when we released a new application FlickrEdit. We have had great feedback from the users and are excited at the number of users using FlickrEdit. The transition from FlickrBackup to FlickrEdit has been slower than we had hoped, but people are catching on. Here are a few statistics for you all to see just how excited we are!
FlickrBackup/FlickrEdit Combined
- Number of authenticated users: 11,513
- Total calls in the last hour: 4,534
- Max Number of API calls in one week over the last year: 461,937
- Average Queries Per Second in the last year: 0.76
So you can see why we are excited and so thankful for all our users!
We have some exciting things in store over the next few months for FlickrEdit including one of the most requested features: Backing up Title, Description, Tags, etc with the Photo! We will try to start giving more updates and teasers over the next year, so keep watching the blog!
We hope you all had a wonderful Holiday season and have an even better New Year!
Andrew
Sunkencity Software
981 days ago: Sunkencity Software Accounces FlickrEdit!
Sunkencity Software would like to announce the 1.0 release of a new application called FlickrEdit! FlickrEdit is an extension of FlickrBackup and from this point replaces FlickrBackup as your one stop application to pull your Photos back from Flickr.
FlickrBackup continued to grow in scope so much so, that we found needs to be able to upload, comment and edit photos directly from FlickrBackup. Because we have expanded the application to support these new features, we decided that the name didn’t fit anymore and we now have FlickrEdit.
FlickrEdit would not have been possible without the help of a new developer, Lubos Pochman. He found a need to extend FlickrBackup and gave a breath of new live into the application. Many thanks to him for his help!
One major new feature of FlickrEdit is that we are trying to do away with supporting separate installers for multiple platforms and are now deploying the application using Java Web Start. Java WebStart will give us the ability to update FlickrEdit and ensure that our users (that’s YOU!) get the updates every time you launch the application!
There are so many new features in FlickrEdit, it is best to read the product page, or better yet, just go Launch it!
Thanks again to everyone for being supportive and patient with us over time. We appreciate all our users and hope this will be a welcome step forward for all!
989 days ago: An Exciting Day is Coming!
Keep your eye out here for an exciting announcement within the next couple of days! New releases are coming from sunkencity software!
1227 days ago: FlickrBackup v1.0.2 Released!
Back around the beginning of March, Flickr changed the way that URLs are built to include the server number of the farm that a photo is coming from. They said that they would always honor the old URLs, and I took this to mean that FlickrBackup didn’t have a pressing need to be updated. Turns out, Flickr really meant that they would honor the old URLs for old photos. Any new photos would only be accessible via the new URL scheme. Therefore, when you tried to download a photo with FlickrBackup, all you got was a place holder image that said “Photo currently unavailable.”
FlickrBackup v1.0.2 resolves this issue and can now be downloaded from the Sourceforge page as usual. I’d like to thank the new developers over at flickrj for fixing the issue in there so the update was minor on my side. I also like to note the this version now writes a log file to the java.io.tmpdir (which on Windows should be in your HomeDir\Local Settings\Temp and *nix (including OS X) will be either /var/tmp or /tmp). The log file is called FlickrBackup.log. This should help when users notice a problem with FlickrBackup so they can send me the log.
One more note I would like to add is that the next version will very likely be a Java WebStart version only. I would like to get away from having to maintain 3 different releases, and also worry about users not having the latest and greatest version of FlickrBackup. So keep your eye out for that one.
Thanks to everyone who have help and supported FlickrBackup up to this point. I know that I have been slow in doing development on this project lately, but life gets hectic sometimes. Thanks again for all your kind words.