HOWTO Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack
Good is the enemy of Great
Latin-1 is the enemy of UTF-8You write web apps. You understand the web is global, and want to support internationalization. You want UTF-8.
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Planetary is a all-new, stunningly beautiful way to explore your music collection, available only on iPad.Â
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Very much looking forward to the day, hopefully within my lifetime, that they bring these hopeful machines back to Earth.
Lap-what?
Some well thought out new UI conventions for iOS. Pretty sure this will be obsolete by next week though. (by Color Monkey)
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“Rise Above” performed live on American Idol (feat. Bono & The Edge) Slam dunk, boys. (by IdolXfactor)
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Roundtrip editing with iPhoto & Flare
One of the things I love about taking photos on the iPhone is the immediacy with which you can post process and then directly share them. Camera+ and Instagram offer some great one-click effects, while Photogene is great for easily cropping, rotating and adding simple overlays (speech bubbles, frames, etc.)
On the desktop, while iPhoto has some great editing tools built right in there’s nothing like the one-click filters and effects either Camera+ or Instagram offer.
Enter Iconfactory’s Flare app.
While the app is basically a dream come true for easy cropping and one-click filtering, it does have a single fault: it does not roundtrip photos out of iPhoto directly.
Roundtripping is what’s referred to when you click on a photo in iPhoto, have it open in an external editor (like Pixelmator or Photoshop), and when you save the file in the external app, the photo updates in iPhoto automatically.
While Flare supports saving an image TO iPhoto, this sends the image to iPhoto as a brand new import, with the current date and time stamp on it. So if you’re browsing through an event in iPhoto, select a photo to edit, and then save it out of Flare, it’ll show up as a brand new event. Merging the events is no use either, since the edited photo will show up at the top of the event since the timestamp is reset to the time it was saved.
The solution:
- Set up Flare as the external editor in iPhoto.
- Select a photo to edit, right-click and choose “Edit with External Editor…”
- Manipulate your image in Flare
- In Flare, choose Save > To a file
- Go back to iPhoto, with the current photo still selected, choose File > Reveal In Finder > Original File
- In the Finder, you will now see the file you’re editing. Drag and drop this (or just copy the location) into the Flare app Save dialog box that’s currently open
- Click Save and confirm to replace/overwrite the file
Voila! Roundtrip editing with iPhoto & Flare.
Here’s hoping Iconfactory make this a little more straightforward in a future update!
[Updated] Just heard from the guys at Iconfactory who make Flare: roundtrip editing with iPhoto is due in a future update!
