Carl Antaki’s blog

October 26, 2009

Bloom 2.6 released

Filed under: facebook, swing, Java — carl @ 9:41 pm

Bloom 2.6 has been released. Photographers using IPTC to tag their photos with Aperture, Adobe Lightroom, Picasa or any other software will love this release it as Bloom can now import all the IPTC metadata they want into the photo caption.
To customize the keywords go to the Preferences dialog and click on the Photo tab as seen below, click on the Add button and then click OK or Apply, you need to restart the applications for the changes to take effect:

Bloom - Customize IPTC metadata

Bloom 2.6 brings the following:

  • Adds the ability to customize the imported IPTC metadata
  • Fixes the proxy server support
  • Enlarges the photo caption text area for a better user experience
  • Adds the support in the help for Snow Leopard and Windows 7.

Get it from http://getbloom.com

July 4, 2009

Bloom 2.5 released: 200 photos, video upload and improved user experience

Filed under: Uncategorized — carl @ 1:27 am

Bloom 2.5 is finally here. It increases the number of photos per album to 200 photos, adds the ability to upload videos, and brings an improved user experience with the ability to track the progress of the uploaded file (each 100 bytes transferred). It also improves the load of the photos viewed from FB. This release is a must so upgrade ASAP.
Get it from http://getbloom.com

April 26, 2009

Bloom 2.1 released

Filed under: facebook, swing, Java, Uncategorized — carl @ 10:54 am

Bloom 2.1 adds the ability to import photo exif information. You can enable it from the Photo tab in the preferences menu. It brings first class Mac OS X support with a native DMG installer. It improves the album UI.. More on that here

Bloom 2.1 on Mac OS X

Get it from getbloom.com

February 28, 2009

Bloom 2.0 released

Filed under: Uncategorized — carl @ 8:12 pm

Bloom 2.0 has been released. It improves the Login process and adds the ability to add captions in the large image view mode.

Check out the relase notes on http://antaki.ca/bloom/release_notes.php

Get it from getbloom.com

December 14, 2008

Bloom 1.7 released

Filed under: facebook, Uncategorized — carl @ 10:07 pm

Bloom 1.7 has been released. It brings new features such as working offline, improvements in the quality of the images uploaded, UI improvements, better native integration on Windows XP/ Vista and Mac and stability improvements.

Download it from http://antaki.ca/bloom/index.php

August 9, 2008

Bloom 1.6 released

Filed under: facebook, swing, Java, Uncategorized — carl @ 6:25 am

Bloom 1.6 has been released. It brings the ability to download albums, sort photos by name and other attributes as well as it fixes the upload to an existing album.

Get it from http://antaki.ca/bloom/

Windows: http://antaki.ca/bloom/Bloom_1_6.msi

Webstart: for Mac and Linux

June 20, 2008

Bloom 1.2 has been released

Filed under: swing, Java, Uncategorized — carl @ 6:31 am

Bloom 1.2 under Windows with the Nimbus Look And Feel

Bloom 1.2 has been released. It brings new Look And Feel improvements, authenticated Proxy server support, fixes important bugs and adds french support. Bloom 1.1 brought a new filmstrip view, the possibility to view your friends photos and great performance improvements.
Get it from http://antaki.ca/bloom/

Windows

Webstart: for Mac and Linux

March 17, 2008

Swing Application Framework

Filed under: Uncategorized — carl @ 7:00 pm

The Swing Application Framework that will be part of Java 7 makes developing Java Swing applications easier and helps in avoiding writing boilerplate code such as saving an application Window dimensions, locations, it provides a structured approach to developing Swing application which was lacking apart from the Netbeans platform which has a steep learning curve. For the time being there’s not as much documentation as someone would like to have but it should be straightforward because the framework is small. Coupled with JGoodies FormLayout it’s the best way to create small to midsize Swing applications.

February 25, 2008

Bloom 1.0 the best Facebook photo uploader has been released

Filed under: Uncategorized — carl @ 11:57 pm

I have released Boom 1.0. Bloom is a desktop app that let you upload your photos easily and efficiently to Facebook. Bloom is multiplatform and has been tested on Java 5 and 6 on Windows XP and on Java 6 on Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10.
You can run it using Java Web Start: Run Bloom using Java Web Start

Bloom 1.0

May 17, 2007

Useful Java VM switches

Filed under: Java2D, swing, Java — carl @ 6:48 pm

These switches apply to Java 5 and up.

Switch Description
-Dsun.java2d.d3d=false Disables direct3d in case you have a problem in full screen mode, this solves also the bug 4417798
-Xms: ex. -Xms64m Default Java heap size
-Xmx: ex. -Xmx1024m Maximum Java heap size
-XX:+PrintGCdetails Prints the basic GC information
-XX:+PrintGCdetails Prints the detail GC information
-client Uses the client JVM
-server Uses the server JVM
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