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Bloom 2.6 released

Posted October 26, 2009 by carl

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 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

Bloom 2.1 released

Posted April 26, 2009 by carl

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

Get it from getbloom.com

Bloom 1.6 released

Posted August 9, 2008 by carl

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

Bloom 1.2 has been released

Posted June 20, 2008 by carl

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

Useful Java VM switches

Posted May 17, 2007 by carl

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

JavaFX!

Posted May 9, 2007 by carl

Sun announced yesterday that they are building JavaFX their next generation scripting technology which is their answer to Adobe’s Apollo and Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. The beauty of JavaFX is that it’s going to run on Desktops, cell phones, Blue Ray players and other devices.

JavaFX is going to bring Java2D and Swing to the masses.

Java Traversal Policy

Posted March 14, 2007 by carl

Swing Custom traversal policy is so easy to use check it out:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/focus.html

What should be done is to write a class that extends FocusTraversalPolicy and then provide a collection of Components so that we won’t have to implement the class over and over in an application.