BravoBug’s latest shareware app, EasyBatch, has just been released. It is a simple but powerful batch image processor that makes manipulating your photos and image files a snap. It packs plenty of handy features into its all-in-one interface, and best of all, it’s shareware- so download it for free and give it a try!
Any questions/suggestions, send them my way: info@bravobug.com.
Google is apparently undertaking yet another awesomely massive project: it will be hosting the entire LIFE photo archives, with 10 million images dating back to 1780. As reported on Slashdot:
“Only a small percentage of the images — including newly digitized images from photos and etchings — have even been published. The rest have been sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints. At this point about 20% of Life’s archive is online; the rest is promised within months.”
Check out this wonderful archive here:
As a way of wishing you a happy holiday season, BravoBug has released MiLife Holidays, a theme updater and add-on program for MiLife. It provides two new holiday-style window themes for your MiLife Diary software, and it’s completely free. Grab your MiLife Holiday download here.
Enjoy! 
A big Thank You to those of you who have donated to help support Lotus‘ development. Plans are in the works for a brand new version with several user-requested features, including a no-sleep mode to prevent your Mac from going to sleep, new sounds, and several other neat features. Those of you who have donated, your codes will still work to personalize the new 2.0 version.
EasyBatchX™ is also still in the works and is on schedule for release before December. Please visit the blog again soon and grab your free downloads of these apps once they become available!
Thanks for visiting!
I was working in Photoshop on my iMac today while 2001: Space Odyssey was in the DVD player. I suppose it was inevitable that something like this would happen…
Here is a ‘iHAL 9000′ wallpaper for anyone who might like it. It’s 1680×1050. Click the thumbnail for the full image, then just ‘Save As…’ from the File menu. Enjoy!
“This conversation can serve no further purpose. Goodbye, Dave…”
This is one of those stories that just makes you go, “HUH?”. We’ve all received (some of us daily) those classic spam E-mails claiming that there is some huge sum of money in some foreign bank, and you’ve been chosen magically by email to receive a huge sum of it if you can just help this random stranger get the money out, or some such thing.
Well, a woman in Sweet Home, Oregon got the same E-Mail… but instead of clicking ‘Mark as Spam’, she decided to empty out her husband’s retirement account, remortgage their paid-for house, and take out a lien against the family car.
Full article here: http://www.katu.com/news/34292654.html
Well, I don’t think we have to worry about robots taking over the world anytime soon, seeing as how the most advanced robotics we’ve built yet have trouble just navigating a set of stairs. (The robots are attacking? Quick! Shut down the elevator and head to the 2nd floor!) But until humanity finally succeeds in simulating itself completely with a machine, there are some pretty novel gadgets being created by those in the robotics field.
Jules is a robot that can mimic human expression simply by observing people’s faces. To be totally honest I was kind of unimpressed by this. It reminds me of something I’d see on a ride at Disneyland. Although the dialogue they gave this guy was pretty funny. 
Calling all coders and Mac game enthusiasts! For those of you who may not have heard, the official 2008 uDevGames starts on December 2nd! Yahoo!
Be sure to keep an eye on: www.udevgames.com for more details as they are posted!
BravoBug has some fun projects in the works! Besides the epic ‘top secret’ project which has been hinted at a few times here, a new batch processor is also being developed right now and is expected to be released before December.
“Does the Mac really need another batch image processor?”
I happen to think Yes, it does. In my search for a simple, streamlined batch program I must have gone through more than two dozen OS X apps, some free, some shareware- and some professional tools. And yet none of them seemed to fit my exact needs. So in the hopes of solving this dilemma for others who may have encountered the same problem, BravoBug will be releasing EasyBatchX™, a powerful, fast, all-in-one batcher with scaling, watermarking, file conversion, and a few other goodies. The image posted here is a quick preview, although the app itself is still being coded. But so far it’s progressing nicely and I hope to have it released soon, so please check back and grab your free download when it’s available! Thanks for visiting.
“Melon
in morning dew-
mud-fresh.”
- BASHO
