AJView is a simple image viewer for Mac OS 10.5/6. AJView will not modify images.

[Update: I lost the source files for much of this application a year ago. The latest version is a rewrite. Some of the functionality and bugs differ from what’s written below.]

Usage

After launching AJView, open a folder via the menu (File => Open Folder…), or by pressing Command-O.

The main options for viewing can be found in the View menu. Other options can be found in the preferences (File => Preferences, or by pressing Command-,).

View options

Key(s)	Function
l	Lock zoom to current level. The level of zoom will be applied to subsequent images viewed.
w	Fit images to the current window. This setting applies until the zoom level is changed.
+ or =	Zoom in
-	Zoom out
0	View the image at actual size
f	Toggle full-screen mode
←, ↑ or b	View the previous image
→, ↓ or n	View the next image
⌘← or ⌘↑	View the first image
⌘→ or ⌘↓	View the last image
r	Rotate image clock-wise by 90 degrees (buggy)

Full-screen mode can also be accessed by double-clicking the main or thumbnail images. Double-clicking during full-screen mode also returns the view to a normal window. Full screen mode can also be closed by pressing the Esc or Q keys.

The thumbnail sizes can be controlled by moving the slider bar located below the thumbnails.

Images viewed in the normal window are scrollable if the size/zoom level is larger than the viewing panel. Move two-fingers on the touch-pad to scroll around the image.

AJView attempts to automatically rotate images according to the Orientation meta-data. This works for photos from Nikon cameras, but is untested on other cameras.

Preferences

(self-explanatory)

Bugs

• *Big nasty bug to fix* Full screen mode kills scrolling. Scrolling isn’t available in full-screen mode, and becomes unavailable when returning back to the standard window.
• Scrolling sometimes jumps on the first image
• The zoom level is lost during image rotation
• Transparency is not properly handled

To do

• Fix big nasty scrolling bug above
• Add thumb zoom level to preferences
• Add recursive folder loading to preferences
• Fix transparency (or remove support for transparent images altogether)
• Add scrolling indicators
• Support mouse scrolling
• Add in-window folder navigation
• Add pre-fetch mechanism to speed up image viewing
• Add ‘open with’ function on right-click
• Add Meta-info panel

Installing AJView

Requires Mac 10.5 Leopard or Mac 10.6 Snow Leopard

Download AJView here. Open the DMG file and drag AJView into your Applications folder.

Uninstalling

Automatially: drag the application folder into your favourite application deletion utility, such as AppZapper,

Manually: drag the application folder into the trash. Delete the file com.ajsoftware.AJView.plist found in home_directory/Library/Preferences.

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This script lets you either highlight comments or hide comments from specific users. The hidden comments are replaced with a button allowing you to reveal the comments (and subsequently to hide them again). The script works in Firefox via the Greasemonkey plugin.

To install the script, download it here., set the User IDs that you wish to hide via that usersToHide variable, and install through Greasemonkey. Enjoy less drivel.

I originally wrote a jQuery plugin to draw files from an Imagistable JSON feed — that’s how the random thumbnails on the left-hand side of this page are added.

That plugin isn’t very usable for anybody other than myself, because well, nobody else can yet upload to Imagistable, so I’ve adapted the plugin to work on flickr, taking full advantage of their URL-based JSON API.

Usage is pretty simple:

1. Import the latest jQuery library and the jquery.flickr.js plugin
2. Set up some options. Only the flickr ID is required.
3. Apply the library to populate a designated div, like this: $(’#gallery’).flickr(options);

The usage is best described with a demo. Click here to view a demo page using the bare minimum of markup. A more comprehensive example, complete with styling and customised options can be viewed here.

The plugin can be downloaded here. A full description of the available options can be found in the source file.

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I recently picked up a copy of Textpattern Solutions and finally got a grip of what Textpattern is all about. Textpattern is the content management system that Something Changed is built on/around/in. After many years in the wilderness it now makes complete sense.

What you’re looking at now is a half-way revamp. A quick redesign and rebuild of SC. If the borders on these boxes have square corners then you need to use a real browser – Firefox or Safari are both good.

That’s it!

It’s really very simple:

• Install xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse in your favourite package manager (adept / synaptic / apt-get…)

• Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the mouse driver from mouse to vmmouse

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