Tristan O’Tierney | Mac Geek

Well, something I had suspected and maybe secretly known for awhile was in the works landed yesterday! Flickr Video! This is a natural feature addition to FlickrBooth that I’ll eventually be supporting. I don’t have much time these days and lets face it, FlickrBooth being free isn’t much of a cashcow. Is this feature something people really want? Put your money where your mouth is and donate! I’m not saying I won’t do this without donations or that I’m holding my FlickrBooth users hostage, but I certainly up the priority of work based on the interest of my users. I’d be interested to hear what sort of feature(s) surrounding the new addition you guys would like. Should uploading videos allow going to YouTube and Flickr at the same time? What if the video is over 90 seconds, should I clip at 90 seconds or split it into X number of videos? (The latter might actually be pretty tricky…). As an aside, I’ve also tossed around the idea of FlickrBooth for the iPhone, especially with some big names asking for it.

Hot on the heels of my recent ObjectiveYouTube release, I bring you two for one! ObjectiveYouTube 0.2 for developers and FlickrBooth 2.0 for users. As you can probably guess, the big new feature for this release is YouTube uploading of videos. YouTube videos are big, and take awhile to upload? No problem! I’ve also added a handy little upload progress window to view the status of your YouTube uploads as well as the ability to cancel them should you change your mind :). To top it all off, FlickrBooth now automatically checks for updates. Head on over to the download page and give it a spin.

Good news! For those waiting for an update to FlickrBooth, I’ve got all my hooks in photo booth updated. Now I just have to clean up my flickr authentication code (it’s torn apart right now due to some refactoring) and it should work. In the process of all this I’ve created a “PhotoBooth plugin API.” Which I’ll be releasing separately for those interested in writing their on photo booth plugins. Give me another few nights, and I’ll have something to share with everyone.

So apparently FlickrBooth is becoming a anti-thief plugin! When people install it, thieves don’t really know that the snapshot is going to wind up visible to the whole world. The last time this happened I didn’t mention much about it because a lot of folks thought it was a hoax. Then others said it wasn’t. There seems to be a lot less controversy this time around however. Globe and Mail a Canadian news site has the story.

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Originally uploaded by Philapple.

I think Apple went a little overboard on this one.

I released a point update to FlickrBooth today. Minor changes mostly (few bug fixes) but the big ones people will appreciate are:

• I now use a tokenfield for the tag input fields
• The name of the selected photo booth effect can be automatically added as a tag

The “add current effect” tag is my favorite, because now you can search by flickrbooth + effectname to find all flickrbooth photos with say, the glow effect.

Just finished the last touches on flickrbooth and my website. Go check it out!

So I don’t post so often, I know.. shoot me. I think these days I’m best expressed through my photos over at flickr. I keep that fairly up to date at least. Uploading pictures just seems quicker / more descriptive than simple words can suffice. Well another Yahoo! Hack Day has passed, and I’ve got some cool stuff to show off in the not to far off future (involving flickr!). It’s a cool little plugin called FlickrBooth. Once I finish up the website for it I’ll certainly pimp it on my website here. So besides that things are going well. Quynh and I are still as cute as ever (we’re one of those couples that can’t stay away from each other :P). The Mac client’s starting to reach a great milestone that I hope I can talk more about during Macworld — I’ll certainly have more to say then as well.