Carl Antaki’s blog

March 15, 2010

Bloom 2.8.0 released

Filed under: bloom, facebook, Uncategorized — carl @ 10:01 pm

Bloom 2.8.0 has just been released. It’s a big release it includes the following:
* Adds cover flow: the ability to view photos by pressing on the SPACE button, ESCAPE dismisses the preview, the RIGHT and LEFT arrows are used to navigate between photos
Bloom 2.8.0 Cover Flow
* Increased the upload photos size to 720 pixels
* Added Spanish translation thanks to Francisco Viollaz
* Added the ability to choose the default file dialog directory (in the Preferences menu)
* Added the ability to save photos from the thumbnails list
* Added the ability to locate the added images in the file manager (Explorer, Finder)
* Performance improvement when viewing albums
* Fixed the caption defect: when selecting a photo with a caption then selecting other photos, the other photos captions used to get overwritten

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 9, 2007

JavaFX!

Filed under: Java2D, swing, Java, Uncategorized — carl @ 9:45 pm

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.

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