This build fixes one issue that was causing launch failures on Intel Macs. It should at least allow you to get the app launched. After that, I can’t guarantee a problem-free experience 
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I’m tracking other bugs for drag-selecting, the “downloading photos…” status message not going away, and photos not displaying for areas where a user does have photos. Please leave comments for other issues you find.
I’m digging Mugshot, Blake! I just used it to add a several images to several different groups in a matter of seconds, compared to *multiple* seconds per group when on flickr.com. A couple of quick thoughts: it’d be nice to have some kind of feedback about which groups an image is currently in (perhaps highlight or grey-out the group in the groups list?). I’d also like to see something indicating a pending request to Flickr for an operation such as adding an image to a group; maybe one of those spinny thingies like Safari uses on a tab when its loading?
It seems that I’m not alone in adding one image to multiple (typically similar) groups at once; I’d love some method to be able to batch these changes in some way. I don’t know how, exactly, but it’d be nice to say “copy the set of groups this image belongs to and put that image over there into the same groups”. I’m also thinking that something akin to Lightroom’s “quick select” (?) grouping would be handy; I scroll to an image, hit “a” to add it to the quick selection assortment, and then go view it (when I’m done selecting images) as I would a group or set. Then I could (presumably) perform batch operations on those images.
Great bit of software; I look forward to what else you come up with! Maybe a way to upload to Flickr via Automator?
Sweet! I’m glad it’s working for you!
And definitely thank you for the suggestions. Some of the things you mentioned are currently in my long range plan for Mugshot. I basically started it as an experiment and as a way to learn Cocoa, but to make it truly what I want it to be, I will have to make some fairly major changes in how it works. But, slowly but surely, I’m getting there!
I reckon Mugshot is 10.4 only?
Here’s wat it says starting up on 10.3.9:
dyld: /Users/stevenn/Desktop/Mugshot.app/Contents/MacOS/Mugshot Undefined symbols:
/Users/stevenn/Desktop/Mugshot.app/Contents/MacOS/Mugshot undefined reference to _NSSQLiteStoreType expected to be defined in Cocoa
Steven – Yep, Mugshot is Tiger only. I guess the initial released mentioned that, but not 0.5. I still haven’t added anything to make it fail gracefully on earlier systems. (The main reason for the 10.4 requirement is CoreData – I store all the Flickr metadata in a CoreData store.)
Thank you!
I was just wishing for something like this earlier today.
congratulations on the aperture job! I am a huge fan of the project, and I have many suggestions
I like mugshot too! I wish you could do two things for me:
1. provide me with a way of viewing the image in a larger format. the picture is too small on my 17″ laptop!
2. show me some of the comments as well.
to me, mugshot is really a conduit to the flickr website…(just as netflix freak is a conduit to netflix.com)…nice work!
Vishal,
I’m glad you like it. I know it still needs a LOT of work. Viewing full-size images is certainly something that makes sense and that I’ve looked at. I need to make the caching system a bit smarter before I do that, I think.
For comments, Flickr does not currently provide an API to access them – Mugshot will be able to tell you how many comments there are, but will not be able to show them to you.
-blake
looks great, too bad its only 10.4, ill have to try it later on my family’s newer iMac. so it crashes in 10.3 because of the core image right? it looks great though, can’t wait to try it out. btw- congrats on the apple job, im really looking forward to an aperture i can actually run!
Mugshot is fantastic. Any way of restricting it to the last 100-200 photos in a photostream or a group ? Seeing as some groups have thousands and thousands of photos
Again cheers for exactly the programme I was looking for. Congrats and have fun with Aperture.
I couldn’t agree more on UC’s comment. Great idea and great implementation!
Many thanks for this goodie. Only one question now:
using the “download” feature works fine, “send to iPhoto” doesn’t.
Am I missing something here?
(using iPhoto 06.02 on an “alternative” library)
to echo the above two comments, it would be nice to be able to set in preferences some limit so that the photocache doesn’t take up too much space – I DL’ed 32000 from one of the amateur groups, as well as a few others with a couple of thousand (which took abut 6 hours all up!) and it’s taken up 1.4Gb already! it is a more convenient way to view one’s flickr pictures though – thanks.
Cache management/deletion is a feature that’s on the list… i have no idea *when* it will make it in, but it’s on the list.
Pieterjan – Because of changes between iPhoto ‘05 and ‘06, I disabled the “Send to iPhoto” feature in the latest releases. At some point, I need to go in and clean up the iPhoto code so it appropriately detects and handles the various versions of iPhoto and their various behaviors. (They each have different photo import behaviors, iPhoto ‘04 cannot create new albums via AppleScript, etc.).
It’s yet another thing that’s “on the list” but I don’t know when I’ll have time actually implement it.
-blake
I’m afraid Mugshot hangs after importing all that stuff from flickr (displaying “finishing startup”)… any ideas what the reason could be?
Thanks,
–Markus
Uh-oh, seems I just gave the spinning ball not enough time. After minutes, the application appeared. Thanks!
Every now and then Flickr takes a bit to respond with the final bits of info – but for some reason, Mugshot gets a little optimistic