Carl Antaki's blog

Bloom 2.8.0 released

carl — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:01:50 +0000

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

* 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

Bloom 2.6 released

carl — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:41:05 +0000

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

carl — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:27:20 +0000

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

Bloom 2.1 released

carl — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:54:30 +0000

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 2.0 released

carl — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:12:30 +0000

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

Bloom 1.7 released

carl — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:07:53 +0000

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

Bloom 1.6 released

carl — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:25:27 +0000

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

carl — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:31:41 +0000

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

Swing Application Framework

carl — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:53 +0000

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.

Bloom 1.0 the best Facebook photo uploader has been released

carl — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:57:03 +0000

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: