We continue to be thrilled and humbled by the community effort that's developed around the iMedia 2 framework. (Don't worry, we plan on incorporating iMedia 2 into a future version of Sandvox, of course!) The new iMedia 2 core framework has already been incorporated into Boinx's FotoMagico, Red Sweater's MarsEdit, Zykloid's Posterino, and Early Innovation's PhotoLinker. SInce then, the open-source iMedia framework has been incorporated into more than a dozen popular Mac apps.
IMEDIA BROWSER APP SOFTWARE
IMedia Browser 2 is a standalone app that's a useful addition to the toolbox of any Mac user.īut what's great is that the core technology of iMedia Browser 2 is also an open-source Cocoa framework that we at Karelia Software developed originally for use in our own award-winning application, Sandvox. QuickLook is also integrated into iMedia Browser 2: just hit the spacebar to bring up a slideshow of your selection. iMedia 2 expands this to include a new combination view, a list with both a thumbnail and a description of the item. iMedia 1 limited you to either a fixed grid of images or a list of titles. IMedia 2 also introduces the ability to switch between different views of your media. (Use the contextual menu - control-click - to see important attribution information for the photo.
IMEDIA BROWSER APP DOWNLOAD
If the photo is marked as "downloadable," you can just grab it and drag the thumbnail to your application iMedia 2 will grab and download the large-size version for you. It's so easy now to just search for photos on Flickr. We were even able to do this over the Internet with the included Flickr Browser that's now part of the Photos module. IMedia 2 also browses large collections of media asynchronously, again keeping the interface fast and responsive. Access to your media libraries should now be a lot faster.
We did this by making the browser load media as "lazily" as possible, meaning that no time is spent loading anything until it is really needed for display. The big goal for iMedia 2 was to make it much, much faster. IMedia 2 is a huge rewrite, with many aspects re-written from the ground up.
From there, Peter Baumgartner of Boinx Software really spearheaded development so that he could include it in the next version of FotoMagico. Work on iMedia 2 started a couple of summers ago when a group of developers got together for lunch at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) and mapped out what we all wanted for the next big version. Today we are pleased to announce iMedia Browser 2, available, for free, exclusively on the Mac App Store.
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