This time I felt like implementing PTViewer inside a blog-post just to see the effect. The photo is a panorama of Baldeneysee, which was also on Panoramio (Panoramio is shut down by Google).

Update 2018: PTviewer.jar doesn't run anymore in webbrowsers, due to security restrictions.
So here's the photo in it's full:



Click to enlarge

A new version of HandbrakePM, the batch video conversion tool based on the famous HandBrake video converter, is now available:

v1.5 (8-sep-2012)
- Found a way to reactivate the app after processing so it responds to mouse clicks again. Hopefully this solves the problem where the app would not come forward.

v1.4 (7-sep-2012)
- Replaced the 'Done'-window with a text below the list-window, since the sheet-window-state did not react to mouse clicks when the app was in the background and ready with a conversion.
- Changed the Growl-scripts so now they should work on newer MacOS and Growl installations.
- Made Growl-notifications sticky, like Handbrake does.

A new version of SetEXIFData, my GUI for exiftool by Phil Harvey, is now available:

v3.3 (8-sep-2012)
Fix:
- Found a way to reactivate the app after processing so it responds to mouse clicks again. Hopefully this solves the problem where the app would not come forward.

v3.2 (07-sep-2012)
New:
- Added support for a sticky Growl message when processing has finished, which lists all processed images.

Changes:
- Replaced the 'Done'-window with a text below the list-window, since the sheet-window-state did not react to mouse clicks when the app was in the background and ready with a conversion.
- Changed the sheet-window into a movable modal.

For every one interested, I have some MP3Fiesta.com invites. You can use them to be able to register there and buy digitized music cheap.

Note: each link can be used only once to sign up. If you do not sign up, the link remains available to others.

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Have fun!
 

Trees through Tree

Zuid-Hollandse Molen at sunrise

Ik heb onlangs een erg leuk boek gelezen: Nederlandse Wereldreizigers door Johan van Hulzen uit 1947, met daarin verhalen over 12 wereldreizen, gemaakt door Nederlanders:

01 - De eeuwige reis (De Vliegende Hollander)
02 - Naar het hart van Azië (Willem van Rubroeck)
03 - In Portugese dienst (Jan Huygen van Linschoten)
04 - Om de noord (Willem Barents en Jacob van Heemskerck)
05 - De eerste schipvaart naar Indië (Cornelis de Houtman)
06 - De wereld om (Olivier van Noort)
07 - Schipper, Koopman en Ondernemer (David de Vries)
08 - Op zoek naar het Zuidland (Abel Tasman)
09 - Een verkenning van de Stille Oceaan (Mr. Jacob Roggeveen)
10 - De eerste Nederlandse luchtreis naar Indië (A.N.J. Thomassen à Thuessink van der Hoop, H. van Weerden Poelman, P.A. van den Broeke)
11 - De tocht van de K XVIII (D.C.M. Hetterschij)
12 - De Melbourne-Race (Koene Dirk Parmentier)

Ter illustratie van de betreffende reis begint elk verhaal met een erg leuke pentekening. Deze tekeningen heb ik gescand en zijn op deze pagina te zien en te downloaden, mocht je dat willen. Veel kijkplezier!

Ik vond deze uitgave over misleiding in de journalistiek d.m.v. foto's in de boekenkast tijdens het opruimen en omdat het zo leuk is en zeldzaam, heb ik deze gedigitaliseerd. De PDF is hier te downloaden: Lens om Lens, Krant om Krant: een kroningsweek misleiding met dagbladfoto's.

Yesterday I purchased Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 Editor in the Mac App Store, for my wife's Mac. Of course I installed it on my Mac too and the application seems to runs just fine, but I could not save any image I edited. Huh!? When I tried to save edits made to an existing image, PSE10 constantly showed messages about disk errors (-38) and problems writing to the scratch disk and then froze itself somehow.

Well, I also have Photoshop CS5 installed and with that application I have no problems at all, and it uses the same scratch disk: my internal HD. There is no other disk and that disk is ok – which means that the error from PSE10 has in fact nothing to do with the disk. Therefore, the error must have something to do with the file(s).

My gut feelings started to probe all information I have about files under Mac OS 10.7.4, and suddenly a thought popped up that it might have to do with the new OS X Lion's file locking 'feature'. That somehow PSE10 does not use Apple's file I/O routines or this version of PSE10 (v10.0) doesn't know about this 'feature' in Mac OS X Lion. The images I edited were from 30.5.2012 and when I opened them in Preview, the word 'Locked' showed in the titlebar.

I googled shortly and found a way to turn this 'file locking' off, and it is really very simple. But the setting is not where I would expect it to be, it's hidden in the 'Time Machine'-preferences' Advanced settings, whereas I would rather search it under 'Security'-preferences. At Mac|Life I found a short how-to: How To Disable Mac OS X File Locking

After turning it off, my Mac began to act strange - a few apps started to crash, others suddenly hung. So, hop, restart that Mac! Luckily that solved it all and what is more, since I turned it off, PSE10 works without problems - no more 'disk'-errors. And ... I have about a few 100MB more free memory and the free memory remains stable, it doesn't get 'eaten' anymore! That might be subjective, but the numbers don't lie.

I can really recommend PSE10. It's fantastic! Thumbs up Adobe! Features from applications like iResizer, inPaint and others are all built-in into PSE10! Time to clean up the application folder!

Now if there only would be Adobe Illustrator Elements for that price.... I would not be needing CS5 anymore.