Simon Schoeters <h3>Download</h3> <p><img src="/images/lightroom.gif" alt="" /> <a href="http://svn.suffix.be/public/lightroom/iPhotoExport.dmg" title="Download the iPhotoExport plugin from the public SVN repository">Download iPhotoExport v0.1</a></p> <h3>What?</h3> <p>The Lightroom to iPhoto plugin exports the selected photos from Adobe Lightroom to iPhoto and creates an album with the exported photos if needed.</p> <p>Why would one like to duplicate photos from Lightroom in iPhoto? Well, Lightroom is my main photo repository but I miss the tight integration with Mac OS X like iPhoto has. iPhoto makes it easy to browse your photo library from different applications (like Finder and Mail) or export the photos to external devices (like the iPhone or iPod), Ligthroom doesn't.</p> <p>The plugin was tested with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.3.1 and iPhoto '08 7.1.1, other versions may work but I didn't check.</p> <h3>Installation</h3> <p>Installing is pretty easy: </p> <ul> <li><a href="http://svn.suffix.be/public/lightroom/iPhotoExport.dmg" title="Download the iPhotoExport plugin from the public SVN repository">Download</a> the plugin,</li> <li>open the downloaded disk image and</li> <li>double click on it. Lightroom will install the plugin for you.</li> </ul> <p>To install manually, move the plugin folder to /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules/ to install for all users or move it to ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules/ if you only want to install the plugin for yourself. In either case you'll have to create the Modules folder within the Lightroom folder if it's not already there.</p> <p>Restart Adobe Lightroom if it was running.</p> <h3>Export a few photos</h3> <p>Just export your photos like you would normally do but select iPhoto from the top area of the export dialog. Set the options (resolution, export format, create an iPhoto album or not, etc.) and export your photos.</p> <img src="/images/export_plugin.gif" alt="Export window screenshot" /> <h3>Uninstalling</h3> <p>To uninstall the plugin you just need to delete it from the &lsquo;Modules&rsquo; folder or move it to where Lightroom won't find it.</p> <h3>For developers</h3> <p>All Adobe Lightroom plugins are written in <a href="http://www.lua.org/" class="ext" title="A light-weight, embeddable scripting language">Lua</a>. It's not possible to address the iPhoto API directly from Lua as the API is only available for AppleScript. The plugin exports the photos to a temporary location with Lua and triggers an AppleScript that imports the photos in iPhoto. The workaround is ugly for various reasons (an intermediate file is used for the Lua - AppleScript communication, the user sees the AppleScript popping up when exporting, etc.) so if anyone knows a decent Lua to AppleScript bridge it would be nice to know.</p> <p>It's also the very first time I used Lua so feel free to optimize the code where needed. I'm planning to add the following when I can:</p> <ul> <li>Get rid of the Lua to AppleScript overhead.</li> <li>Error handling when something goes wrong.</li> </ul> <p>Features I would like to add but the iPhoto API doesn't support (yet). Let's hope one of the following iPhoto releases updates the API.</p> <ul> <li>Creation of iPhoto folders form within the export dialog.</li> <li>Name the new iPhoto event.</li> </ul> <p>You can get the source code from my <a href="http://svn.suffix.be/public/lightroom/" title="Plublic SVN repository for Lightroom plugins">SVN repository</a>.</p> <p><strong>Update:</strong> I haven't tested it myself but it should work in Lightroom 2 as Ingemar points out, will test it myself as soon as possible.</p> 2007-12-19T15:32:49+01:00 13 1 lightroom-iphoto-export 2008-09-01T13:00:45+02:00 Simon Schoeters <p>Today we launched a new website: <a href="http://www.milkcarton.be/" title="Mac OS X applications and frameworks by milkcarton" class="ext" rel="me">milkcarton.be</a>. Last year we started developing a small Cocoa application but got stuck and never got to something &lsquo;release worthy&rsquo;, the half finished program was waiting there to be forgotten. A few months ago we decided to pick up where we left of and fix the design mistakes we made last year. We started from scratch and here we are, releasing our first private beta today!</p> <h3>Lustro</h3> <p>What is this mysterious app? It listens to the name <strong>Lustro</strong> and is a small Address Book exporter for Mac OS X Leopard. It exports all your contacts to <abbr title="Comma-separated values">CSV</abbr>, tab-delimited or hCard files or overwrites your Google Contacts with the ones on your Mac (so that you have access to all your Address Book contacts in GMail). If this sounds like something you could use you can <a href="http://www.milkcarton.be/contact" title="Contact milkcarton" class="ext" rel="me">drop us a note</a> as we are still looking for beta testers. Lustro is free and open source so there is no excuse to chicken out on this one.</p> <h3>milkcarton</h3> <p>We didn't really have a decent home for Lustro so we decided to create a new website to host these little applications, frameworks or other bits of code we designed and will design. That's <a href="http://www.milkcarton.be/" title="Mac OS X applications and frameworks by milkcarton" class="ext" rel="me">milkcarton.be</a>: hop over there to and have a look around.</p> 2008-06-20T18:15:57+02:00 29 1 launching-milkcarton-lustro 2008-06-20T18:15:57+02:00 Simon Schoeters <div class="hreview"> <p class="item"><span class="fn">Sharecard</span> is a &euro;1.59 app from <a href="http://www.doseido.com/products/sharecard" title="Sharecard product page @ Doseido" class="url ext">Doseido</a> that sends an iPhone contact in vCard format by mail. I browsed around on the App Store for a way to easily share my contact information when I meet someone. My requirements: fast, efficient, easy to use and a polished <abbr title="User Interface">UI</abbr> is a plus.</p> <div class="description"> <p>I couldn't find a free app to send vCards and choose Sharecard for it's good looking UI. Yes, I know, the iPhone <abbr title="Operating System">OS</abbr> 3.0 should do this out-of-the-box, fingers crossed. With Sharecard you can choose to include your name, organization, e-mail, phone, address and/or chat information in the vCard. I played with the application and sent some feedback to the author. The next release fixed some &ndash; not all &ndash; of my remarks. Here are a few things I'm still missing:</p> <ul> <li>The mail will be send from a Doseido mail address. To me this feels like sleek advertising from the developer. It would be acceptable for a free app but for a paid app I expect it to use my own e-mail address (idem for the subject field, or the ad link at the bottom). It also makes the mail more obscure for the guy receiving my vCard, not to mention spam filters.</li> <li>Notes are not included in the card. This is a pity as I use this field to add all the missing data (eg. my Skype or bank account).</li> <li>The company name is replaced by <samp>(null)</samp> when no company name is given, this should be an empty field.</li> <li>The contact photo is not included, now, I know from my own experience that this is hard to do so I shouldn't be too picky about this one.</li> <li>The type of both the phone number and e-mail address is wrong, the vCard source shows <samp>type=TERNET</samp> and <samp>type=bile</samp>.</li> <li>All my phone numbers are prefixed with the country code (eg. +32 for Belgium) but Sharecard removes the plus sign, making the phone number unusable.</li> </ul> <p>Let's wait for the next iPhone OS update. It'll include contact sharing out-of-the-box, making applications like Sharecard <abbr class="rating" title="1">superfluous</abbr>.</p> </div> <h3>Related</h3> <ul> <li>&ldquo;<a href="/blog/future-of-business-cards" title="My business card concept blog post">The future of business cards</a>&rdquo;, my view on business cards with <abbr title="Radio-Frequency IDentification">RFID</abbr>.</li> </ul> <div class="hidden"> <span class="summary">Sharcard, vCard mailer for iPhone</span> <abbr title="2004-03-31T20:00" class="dtreviewed">Mar 31, 2004</abbr> <span class="reviewer vcard"><span class="fn">Simon Schoeters</span></span> <span class="type">product</span> <span class="version">0.3</span> </div> </div> 2009-03-31T17:57:21+02:00 53 8 sharecard-review 2009-03-31T17:57:21+02:00