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I am happy to announce the immediate availability of JustLooking 3.3.3. This is a minor maintenance release, and includes the following:

• A couple of minor bug fixes related to resources and window sizing.
• Romanian translation (ro) by Silviu Turuga
• Arabic translation (ar) by Mohammed Al-Yousef
• Portuguese (Portugal) (pt_PT) translation by André Lamelas

The JustLooking home page has links to the new files to download.

As always, any feedback, comments, or gifts of bottles of wine are appreciated! :)

Enjoy!

Visit the JustLooking home page

I am happy to announce the immediate availability of JustLooking 3.3.2. This is a minor maintenance release, and includes the following:

• An important JPEG image rotation bug fix.
• A completely new Croation translation by Orlando Mali (thanks!).

The JustLooking home page has links to the new files to download.

As always, any feedback, comments, or gifts of bottles of wine are appreciated! :)

Enjoy!

Visit the JustLooking home page

I am happy to announce the immediate availability of JustLooking 3.3.1. This is a minor maintenance release, and includes the following:

• A quick bug fix for image blurring in the main window that I accidentaly re-introduced in 3.3.
• A completely new Turkish translation by Oğuzhan Öçbe (thank you).
• Updates to French and Korean

The original 3.3 release announcment has links to the new files to download.

As always, any feedback, comments, or gifts of bottles of wine are appreciated! :)

Enjoy!

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I am thrilled to announce the immediate availability of JustLooking 3.3.2. JustLooking is a program to view pictures and images on your Mac OS X (Tiger or newer) based computer. JustLooking is a Universal Binary, and can be run on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. The program is and will always be very free

• Download JustLooking-3.3.2.dmg now (HTTP – USA)
• Download JustLooking-3.3.2.dmg now (BitTorrent – TPB)

Version 3.3.2 of JustLooking is the best version yet, and contains some massive changes and improvements over previous versions:

• Switching between images is significantly smoother and less jerky than before.
• Images can now be sorted by the same order as “Finder”, or by date, with support for reverse sorting.
• Shuffle mode for full screen slide show.
• You can now rename files or move them to a different folder
• When you ‘save as’ or move an image to a different directory, you can now tell JustLooking not to switch folders and reload the file list.
• Image properties and meta data (i.e. Exif) are now properly saved along with files. Colour Profiles are also correctly managed now.
• Zooming is fixed to be a bit less unpredictable
• File resizing and saving is also much better than before, although, due to limitations in the CoreImage filters I’m using for resizing, still not perfect. The huge white lines seen in previous versions after resizing are now gone, but there are still some unfortunate artifacts on occasion. I will completely rewrite this code for the 4.0 series of JustLooking.
• The JustLooking application icon looks less horrible now.
• New Slovakian translation!

JustLooking 3.3 ships in the following languages:

• French
• Italian
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• Dutch
• Slovenian
• Polish
• Korean
• Catalàn
• Finnish
• German
• Slovakian (new!)
• Turkish (new!)
• Croatian (new!)

Swedish, Russian, Traditional Chinese, and Norwegian have not been included in this version as they are getting too out of date now.

Feedback and Bug Reports

I will soon begin work on 4.0, although I have a full time job now (gotta pay the bills, y’see), so the progress will be a bit slower again. If you have any feature requests, please do let me know, and I will endeavour to add them.

It was with no small amount of dismay that I recently noticed JustLooking was leaking tonnes of memory on my Leopard machine here at home. When developing the program, I put enormous amounts of time an energy into ensuring the program behaved well and didn’t leak. And yet, browsing through 75 photos from a trip to Hong Kong ground my 2GB system into the dirt in a hurry.

Upon further investigation, this appears to be a bug in Leopard—my Tiger machine has absolutely no leaking at all. The bug occurs specifically when using CoreImage and NSImage interchangeably. In effect, CoreImage works entirely on video card RAM, and NSImage works entirely in system RAM. The resizing method I use causes the system to copy some of that memory from the VRAM to the system RAM, and that code leaks a tonne at a time.

The good news is that you can fix this by just having CoreImage do the rotation. The bad news is that this is 100% incompatible with the fade effect transitions I use. So, right now, I have the choice between transitions or memory leaks. Or just using Tiger (for which there are a number of other great arguments).

One of things I had been looking at for JustLooking 3.2 was reworking exactly how I use CoreImage, filters, and the system’s loading code. It looks as though this work has just taken on added urgency.

So, after a month or so of active development, I’m almost ready with version 2.0 of JustLooking. I’m just waiting for some localisation help, and then I’ll go ahead with the release. The first releases were quite functional, but pretty ugly, I think. A few users from the internet made some suggestions on how to improve the UI and I have completely redesigned it.

In addition to a complete update to the user interface, I have added the following new features to version 2.0:

• Saving of rotated images (JPEGs, GIFs, PNGs, BMPs, and TIFFs)
• Remote Control Support in slide show mode.
• Image displaying and resizing is muuuuucchhh faster now.
• Hold down the ‘OPTION’ key on startup goes to full screen slide show.
• many bug fixes in the code, including some animated GIF problems.

I will spend the next week or so fixing the last couple of bugs in the program and waiting for the last bits of localisation help to come in, and will then release it both on this server and on the BitTorrent networks.

Please feel free to send me your requests for future versions or reports of any bugs or problems you find in the program. I’m thinking the next big features will lie in image resizing and saving of images in different formats.