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.. and is live now on the App Store. I was being massacred in the reviews but the new FTP code everyone will get updated too should change things. PhotoUpLink Lite is on its way next, giving free access to Facebook and MySpace album uploading.
Did it using the Xcode submission dialogs. Which provide NO. FEEDBACK. WHATSOEVER. The only way to know its working is to open Activity Monitor and go to the network traffic view. I’m still not sure what the bug is, as y’all know I have been gleefully uploading Facebook photo albums directly from my iPhone with this build. I fixed a couple of assumptions in the Facebook SDK so it may have more to do with the PhotoUpLink application not being installed into the Facebook account of whoever is testing it at Apple. So here’s hoping. Back to contract work meanwhile.
View the checkin wall here.
Post to the checkin wall one touch with PhotoUpLink 2.0 for iPhone when approved.
Members of the ad-hoc mailing list will be receiving a new build with the potential bug fix that will be submitted to Apple.
They say it crashed trying to upload to Facebook:
At this time, PhotoUpLink cannot be posted to the App Store because it is crashing on iPhone 3GS running iOS 4.0.1 on a 3G and WiFi network. The application crashes when the user selects to upload photos to Facebook. The following are steps to reproduce:
a. Lauch the application connected to a network
b. Select Photos
c. Select “Choose Destination” from the Home Screen
d. Select Facebook
e. Login to Facebook
f. Select Upload
g. The application crashes
I tested that feature for hundreds of hours across different Facebook accounts and several different devices with varying iOS versions on them, with no problem, I would not have submitted it otherwise. I have tested it again on an iPhone 3GS running iOS 4.0.1 on a 3G and WiFi network, and I am unable to reproduce the crash after many attempts. Yet there it is. Something nasty I’m sure, but I will find it!
PhotoUpLink was first developed in the second half of 2006, before there was an official SDK for iPhoto plugins. A couple of sites had done some reverse engineering, and written about it. That and learning how to use class-dump eventually led to the launch of PhotoUpLink for iPhoto in February of 2007. You can view the original press release here. There was no way to FTP directly from iPhoto at the time, and PhotoUpLink filled the gap.
My original research was during a 2006 summer vacation at a lake in Michigan. I never got in the water once, but I was able to create an iPhoto plugin that dumped selected items into a DeBabelizer batch list and execute a Debabelizer script using an awful, eye-watering combination of C, Cocoa, and generated text Applescripts.
I had spent four years at Equilibrium working on both the Mac and Windows versions of Debabelizer previously; so I started there instead of PhotoShop’s new Actions…. that never saw the light of day, but it was great hacking that gave me the foundation I needed to move forward. All of the the work I did at the time was on the now classic 12″ PowerBook G4 now described by some as Apple’s netbook of today.
It was most of the time connected to an external monitor and keyboard on my desk, next to the PC that was hosting MySQL to test the ODBC portion of PhotoUpLink. When Mrs. PhotoUpLink announced we were now a family, it became the primary research and shopping terminal for all the associated issues and accoutrements. Turns out having a G4 balanced on your head during most of your gestation has no ill effects! I’m now using an earlier Intel Core 2 Duo 19″ iMac.