For SnapShooter, I’m trying to implement S/FTP. I’ve seen two things so far – FTPConnection and CURLHandle. I’m going to try and delve into them between tonight and this weekend and look to see what the best way to upload files would be.
This week’s episode was similar to last week’s. Some action, little plot advancement, etc. However, there was some obvious tension with the whole Michelle vs. Tony thing, and I found that to be enjoyable (I still have to wonder how Tony risked his career and his life to save Michelle’s ass last season, and 6 months later she’s gone because ‘he drinks too much’). But I hope the season can get some of its luster back. This one and episode 12 were kind of stale.
Rating: 2/5
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Tomorrow I will be releasing my new app SnapShooter. It will be Twisted Ninja’s first application.
What is SnapShooter?
On MacThemesForums.net, people like to take screenshots of things (I’m sure this is true of other forums, but this was designed FOR MTF). Sometimes, those screenshots are huge. So huge that they stretch and distort the forums in your web browser. So the good people over at MTF came up with a unique idea – create “borders” for images that fit nicely into the forums, and when clicked, load to full size.
So this went on very nicely, and the people were happy. At least the people who had Photoshop, which is what was required for such a border to be applied. Even then, you have to deal with loading up Photoshop, pasting in the image, scaling it, exporting it to web, blah blah blah. And if you have a lot of different borders, you have to keep the PSDs lying around. It just took too much time and was just too much hassle. And you could only play if you had Photoshop.
SnapShooter fixes all of that. It starts up with a simple interface. Click around the table and choose a border from the thumbnailed previews. Drag an image into the full-size border. A sheet that looks suspiciously like iChat’s buddy icon sheet will let you manipulate it a bit. Then, save it as a PNG. Simple as that. You’ll probably spend less time in SnapShooter than you will waiting for Photoshop to load.
Does it use PSDs?
No. SnapShooter uses a proprietary file format to store borders. This is done for a lot of reasons. Since PSDs are so flexible and can have many, many layers, SnapShooter can never be sure of where to layer your picture in between those of the artist. SnapShooter’s file format is closed, but artists can make borders with it with my companion app, SnapShooter Builder, which I’ll also be releasing tomorrow.
Will there be a place where I can find new borders?
Yup. I’ll be hosting Borders on my site.
This episode was rather boring. There was very little in the way of action or plot-advancement, very little in the way of what the rest of the season will hold (remember, we’re half way through the season and we’ve had not one but two major national security threats), and a whole lot of whining by Driscoll and OMG-I-feel-sorry-for-yous by Heller. There was a little bit of tension near the end, but not much.
Rating: 2/5
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The cold here in sunny Strongsville, OH doesn’t seem to be stopping. It’s quite aggravating. It’s been snowing since Monday night, and has shown no signs of slowing or stopping.
To give you an idea about the snow, Strongsville had a snow day yesterday.
We had a snow day.
A SNOW DAY.
And it was called off on Tuesday night.
This kind of stuff doesn’t happen. EVAR.
Jef Raskin, pioneer of the Macintosh and a UI god, passed away yesterday. May he rest in peace.
Looks like all that speculation about Apple being pissed about how iFlicks was an iTunes ripoff was right.
Hexilent removed a bunch of the biggest iTunes-y things, like the big jukebox LCD across the top of the panel, as well as the big ugly square buttons. But other than that, it still looks like crap.
As we all know, I’ve got a 4G 40GB iPod, and have had one since August. Well, with the advent of cheaper iPods, and with my acceptance to Rochester Institute of Technology, I can get me a 30 GB iPod Photo for about $80 less than I paid for my current iPod.
Here’s what I’m thinking. Sell the 40GB on eBay for like $330 or something. Take the money, get myself a brand new iPod Photo. Since someone is going to want a 40 GB iPod, I’m sure I can get rid of it, no problem. And I’ll be able to play color solitaire.
OMGWTF!! I’m back! It’s been over two months since I’ve updated this beautiful website. Here’s the DL.
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