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cdfinder

@cdfinder@techhub.social

Curious Mac software developer
Photographer
Entrepreneur
Informatiker
Creator of NeoFinder (was CDFinder)
Travel

#Bonn #Germany #ObjectiveC #macOS #iOS #Developer #Software

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cdfinder, to macos
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Watermark with an image! Until now, we had the option to have a text as a visual watermark, but now there can also be images!

Patch in your company logo, or whatever to your exported photos!

https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=443#p443

#macOS #MediaAssetManager #Photography #Photographer #Lightroom #PhotographySoftware #PhotoLibrary #IndieDev #Software #Aperture #Apple

cdfinder, (edited ) to macos
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So, it turns out that in 14 , if you have a NSPopUpButton, and use removeFromSuperview and then later addSubview to add that item again to a view, macOS doesn't draw the button properly, until it gets clicked at least once.

(setting up said Popup is very expensive, as in "slow", in the app in question, so for 15 years, it was a working idea to keep it around)

Awesome.

Yet another in the long long list of massive problems in the system frameworks in .

lapcatsoftware, to random
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Me: [calls clinic]

Clinic: Our first appoint is… let’s see… November

cdfinder,
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@lapcatsoftware What year? 🥳🤪

cdfinder, to macos
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Q: Could you advise whether to format a new external drive as APFS or Mac OS Extended?

Interesting question indeed.

What format would you use?

https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=278

#NeoFinder8 #macOS #MediaAssetManager #Photography #VideoTools #PhotoLibrary #AudioProducer #MusicStudio #Apple #PhotographySoftware #IndieDev #Software

cdfinder,
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@spidermedic

Yes, that was once the official stance from Apple indeed.

But HFS+ doesn't really fare so well for very large volumes with a huge number of smaller files, due to the allocation block size.

In these cases, APFS, though slower, might be a better choice...

cdfinder, to macos
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Wow, #Xcode 15.3 and #macOS 14.4.1 are such a weird dumpster fire of strange bugs and problems.

Merging the AppKit and UIKit low-level system frameworks is not going all too well, obviously.

That error message in Xcode is catastrophically ridiculous, really.

It indicates yet another serious bug in Apples own private frameworks.

Sigh.

cdfinder,
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@i2h3

The massive problem is that this is of course NOT officially documented by Apple.

We have just seen that from numerous crash reports, "hang" reports, and also when setting breakpoints in system callback methods, and checking the callback stack. More often than not we see the "UIKit.framework" playing a great role in macOS applications, especially when there are problems..

And not only is that not documented, it also causes massive amounts of problems, when the behaviour of the long established AppKit frameworks suddenly changes, and you have no idea where to start looking.

Essentially, after each new major yearly macOS release, we should test EVERY SINGLE system call, which of course is not really realistic.

This is very bad for the overall stability of macOS itself, and all the Mac applications.

martin, to random
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Anybody remember that?

cdfinder,
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@martin Oh yes! 🥰

frankreiff, to random
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Germany has just “survived” its first year without nuclear power.. and nothing bad has happened. At all. Nothing.

It was supposed to be the end of industrial Germany, blackouts everywhere, etc.

.. and nothing happened.

Which does not prevent the same doomsayers from insisting that without nuclear energy, Germany is finished.

Presumably their lobbying contracts haven’t run out yet..

cdfinder,
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@clafou @frankreiff

Actually, no, we have actually burned less coal than ever before, which is really good.

cdfinder, to macos
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Yes, #NeoFinder for #macOS can #catalog #thumbnails and metadata of #Apple #ProRAW photo files!

And you can add ratings, keywords, descriptions and all, too.
And convert these files to other formats.
And check every pixel in the Light Table.
And build beautiful web galleries with them.
And so on.

Enjoy!

https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=441#p441

Sample Images in the screenshot from:
https://www.dpreview.com/sample-galleries/9434362346/iphone-15-pro-sample-gallery/4187692333

#photography #IndieDev

cdfinder, to macos
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Well, this one was not easy, as the gpr library from GoPro is, uh, well, you know... #developer

But, here we are:
Another often requested ability is cataloging ".GPR" files written by the popular #GoPro Action Cameras with #NeoFinder.

https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=440#p440

#macOS #MediaAssetManager #Photography #Lightroom #PhotoLibrary #IndieDev #Aperture #Apple

BenRiceM, to random
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cdfinder,
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@BenRiceM

tsss....

cdfinder, to macos
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We have discovered a bug in #PhotoMechanic, which will write GPS #GeoTag values with a low precision to the XMP metadata of photos.

This can cause #NeoFinder to show a slightly wrong GPS coordinate as well when cataloging photos.

Folks: Precision in GPS coordinates are really important!

https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=276

#macOS #MediaAssetManager #Photography #Lightroom #PhotoLibrary #IndieDev #Aperture #Apple

tempelorg, to random
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While developing and testing my Mac tool Find Any File, I ran into a weird effect with Cloud storage drives such as OneDrive:

Each file in the cloud is mirrored as a seemingly online version but with its contents all zero-bytes, even if the file has been downloaded (i.e. if it's online). I wonder how I can identify these fake files in a generic way and hide them from the search results.

Can anyone shed light on this?

Pictures below show Finder's and FAF's view of the same files in OneDrive.

A window from FindAnyFile showing the search results for a file name of a file stored in OneDrive. It lists the same file twice, once under the home's Library/CloudStorage and once under Library/Group Containers/.../OneDrive.noindex. Both files show the same size and modification date, with the first showing a Cloud symbol to indicate that it's offline, while the second has no such symbol.

cdfinder,
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@tempelorg

Some xattr maybe? I'd love to know that, too!

cdfinder, to macos
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Using the plugins in , can now catalog text content from Pages, Apple Numbers, Apple Keynote, Microsoft , and Microsoft files.

That is pretty cool when you need to search your for a certain spreadsheet...

https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=437#p437

cdfinder,
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@tempelorg

Genau, ganz herzlichen Dank für den Tipp auch nochmal! 😍

Das Parsen des Outputs war spannend, weil Apple ziemlich schräge Ideen zum Thema Umlaute und Sonderzeichen hatte, aber hey...

cdfinder, to macos
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Yeah, so we got a lot of requests for an option to hide folders in the Display Filter, so...

Here it is! #NeoFinder 8.6 can do that. And more!

You can now set up multiple options at once, like for example, have it show all landscape photos with a GPS GeoTag, keywords, but no Person data yet. And so on.

I think that is pretty cool!

https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=434#p434

#macOS #Photography #VideoTools #PhotoLibrary #Apple #IndieDev

cdfinder, to macos
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8.6 adds a new web gallery template, "Concertina", to present your photos on a website.

https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=433#p433

Check out a real example with actual photos:

https://www.cdfinder.de/gallery/Concertina/

How do you like these Arches?

cdfinder, to macos
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One of the areas that has received some #developer love in the new #NeoFinder 8.6 version is the QuickFind global search tool, which now offers some pretty cool options to narrow down what is being searched.

We had a lot of requests for this, and well, now we have added it!

#macOS #Apple #MediaAssetManager

Cdespinosa, to random
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Don’t go around the barriers, people. (Monterey Rd. in San Martin, CA; the driver suffered “moderate injuries”)

cdfinder,
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@jimluther @Cdespinosa

Simple physics, indeed.
400 tons momentum...

Funny how some car drivers thinks they know better...

cdfinder, to macos
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Yeay, 8.6 has just been released!

This is always a strange time, all the hard work and pressure in the previous weeks, then the release, and then? Nothing. At least for a while.

It somehow feels like a little black hole.

I call that the "post release blues".

What to do? A nice long walk along the river banks. Get some fresh air, and then?
Start with the next version! 😅

https://mastodon.social/@neofinder/112275160816124961

sasastanisic, to random German
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Neuen Drucker in Betrieb nehmen ist das Mystischste, was ein Mann machen kann

cdfinder,
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@sasastanisic Hoffentlich keiner von HP...

lovinurbanism, to random German
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Liebes Gehirn, wenn im Radio über "Menschen im Entenalter" gesprochen wird, kannst Du natürlich darüber nachdenken, wie alt Enten werden und wieviele Entenjahre ein Menschenjahr sind. Aber vermutlich hast Du Dich einfach verhört und es ging um Personen im Ruhestand. Bitte, gerne.

cdfinder,
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@lovinurbanism @susannelilith

Ist der Orangensaft alle? 🙄😱🤪

cdfinder, to macos
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Are you as excited as we are?

My new 8.6 is ready to go, and we have our "official song" for the new version!

It is "Rock-Paper-Scissors" by Katzenjammer, a really cool band from Norway.

https://www.universal-music.de/katzenjammer/videos/rock-paper-scissors-270481

Enjoy the weekend!

cdfinder, to apple
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It is always incredibly exciting to prepare a new version for a release, and this new makes no difference.

Did I find all the bugs, are all new features working as expected?

So far, it is looking very good, so stay tuned for another NeoFinder for Mac release coming next monday.

https://mastodon.social/@neofinder/112253325365640936

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