iPhoto Library Manager 3.2.6 released

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Brian Webster
Filed Under News, Updates, iPhoto Library Manager | 1 Comment

I released a minor update to iPhoto Library Manager today, bringing it to version 3.2.6. It’s a free update from previous versions, and is mostly a bug fix release. The only new feature of note is that you can now click the header of the album/roll list to sort the albums/rolls by name. This is particularly handy with rolls when you are looking for a specific one, in which case the default sort order (the order in which they were imported) isn’t usually too helpful.

In case anyone was wondering, I have not actually been working on this minor update for the entire 4 months since the last one. I’m inefficient sometimes, but not that inefficient! I’ve been spending most of my time lately working on a brand new project. Details will be forthcoming soon, but for now let’s just say that it involves something rhyming with “iSwoons”…

Spotlight Browser

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Brian Webster
Filed Under Freeware, Development | 3 Comments

In some recent development work, I came to want to be able to easily display the Spotlight metadata for various files in the file system. There is a command line tool, mdls, that lets you do this, but using it was kind of a pain and not very user friendly. There are approximately one kajillion programs out there that do various forms of Spotlight searching, but I couldn’t find one that just listed the metadata for files.

So, I grabbed Apple’s SimpleBrowser example code, made some modifications, and thus was born Spotlight Browser! It’s pretty simple, it just displays a Finder-like column browser at the top of the window that lets you browse through the file system, then displays the metadata value that Spotlight has indexed for the selected file in a table beneath the browser. You can also drag a file onto the window or to the dock icon to make the browser jump to that location.

I figured other people might find this useful and decided to release it, along with the source code as a free download, which you can get here.

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