I happily announce the first public version of Mugshot – an iPhoto-like photo management application using the Flickr API. Since this is the very first release, and since Mugshot is far from complete, are several known issues! Please take a look at the readme file that comes with the download – it has much more information about those known issues and version 0.3 in general.

After playing around with Mugshot, I’d love to know what you think – besides the known issues, does it suck? Is there some killer feature that would make you want to use an app like this? Is there some major flaw in the direction I’m headed with it? Please send feedback to feedback@mugshot.blakeseely.com

Here’s the download. Enjoy.

(And now you know why this blog has been so quiet lately! Next up is getting some content – besides these blog entries – onto mugshot.blakeseely.com)

UPDATE: Aargh! It looks like I botched some of the minimal unit testing I was doing and didn’t correctly test some of the edge conditions. So if you’ve got zero photosets, Mugshot will likely crash before you see the main window. I haven’t checked to see whether this is a problem for having zero contacts or zero groups as well. I’ll fix it and put out an updated version soon. In the meantime, let that be a lesson to myself and everybody about vigorously unit testing library code