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v2010.102     07/28/10     

Priority: Low     

v2010.102 fixes some idiosyncrasies related to when/where the Print Properties panel opens.

Mike

http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage-u

v2010.102     07/28/10     

Priority: Low     

v2010.102 fixes some idiosyncrasies related to when/where the Print Properties panel opens.

Mike

Thanks John.


Sigh... first the Gizmodo/iPhone 4 leak and now this!  How does anyone keep a secret in this business any more?!?! 

Mike

Thanks for the feedback.  One thing I hadn't noticed is that if you open the folder browser so that it is very large, the Print Properties box is actually partially off the bottom of the screen.  That is not as intended of course: it's supposed to dock no farther than the bottom so that no part is ever going off past the bottom of the screen.  I'll fix that in 102.

Regards,
Mike

http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage-u

v2010.101     07/27/10     Low      v2010.101 includes the following:

    * Bug fixes: Eliminated some pop-up error message that could occur while using the full page editor such as "index out of bounds" and "cannot focus" popup messages.

    * Print properties (size) popup: Improved the controls found on the "Print Properties" auto-popup panel such as the ability to scroll through sizes with the mouse wheel plus tool button improvements.

    * Faster raw thumb building: Improved thumbnail building (and Lightning Raw caching) speed for raw photos by 15% to 25%.

Mike

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v2010.101     07/27/10     Low      v2010.101 includes the following:

    * Bug fixes: Eliminated some pop-up error message that could occur while using the full page editor such as "index out of bounds" and "cannot focus" popup messages.

    * Print properties (size) popup: Improved the controls found on the "Print Properties" auto-popup panel such as the ability to scroll through sizes with the mouse wheel plus tool button improvements.

    * Faster raw thumb building: Improved thumbnail building (and Lightning Raw caching) speed for raw photos by 15% to 25%.

Mike

I would suggest reading the "Getting Familiar" section of the help, as that and other questions are addressed in that one quick-look page.

http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage-u/help/familiar.htm

Just take a look at the description of "Area 2" and it tells you how to add photos with one click (per thumbnail), avoiding the size popup altogether.

Mike

I see what you are asking.  Absolutely!  I would never try to "take away" software from a legitimate user.  The software license is not time limited: just the upgrades.  If you bought it and upgraded it for a year and decided you don't need/want to pay $19.99 for another year of free upgrades, you can continue to use the latest version that you installed indefinitely.  You just won't get access to versions beyond the year mark.  In fact, the change list (by version) is public, so you could even watch that list and only pay the $19.99 when you need/want a feature on that list.  If you let a year lapse and then want a full year of updates, it's still $19.99.  I won't try to charge $39.98 because you went a year without updating.  $19.99 buys you a year of updates... regardless of when you pay for it.

Mike

Just confirming... you can safely uninstall Studio without it affecting Ultimate.

Mike

But what's your point?  The only real advantage of 64 bit code is that it can address more memory.  So unless you are one of the 1 in 5000 people working with 2GB images and you happen to run out of memory in Qimage, 64 bit is not really a valid want or need.

Mike

Completely irrelevant!  The product that people bought with free lifetime upgrades is still supported and updated.  Qimage Ultimate is a new product.  I could very easily have done what any other company would do (and do all the time) and just retire Qimage and name the new product "Widget Pro" or something.  Free lifetime support means lifetime of the product, not YOUR lifetime, so many companies would say that a 12 year run of a product is enough: it's reached the end of its useful life.  The simple fact of the matter is that because you bought (and still have) free upgrades for the life of Qimage doesn't mean you can prohibit us from ever creating new software.  Fortunately I don't believe most of our user base is that disrespectful or ridiculous about it.  If I thought they were, I'd probably just do what the rest of the companies do and dump Qimage and say we're done with that as it has reached the end of its life.  I'm not doing that simply because I believe in supporting my customers.

Mike

Lightening it up a bit here, my vote is go Android!  We have four iPhones in our household and two have failed with hardware issues, each in about a year and a half.  Apple's solution: we'll be glad to sell you a new one at $500 (not even mentioning that you can get one for $200 if you renew your AT&T contract).  That plus the fact that Apple came out with a defective iPhone 4 that, even if it worked, is still only a marginal improvement, added to my severe dislike for iTunes, led me to get an Evo 4G on Sprint.  I wanted to explore the possibility of writing apps for Android anyway so it was a no brainer for me.  What I didn't expect was how much I'd like that phone!  I was a bit worried about Sprint coverage because I'm in a "fringe" area until I found out that Sprint and Verizon share cell towers.  Sure enough, I get better service with Sprint than I ever did with the AT&T and the iPhone: I can use the phone in the doctors office (quietly on 3G) because I actually have a signal and I can use it inside stores like Best Buy where the iPhone has zero signal.  But that's just the reception side.  I am ecstatic about how much better the Evo 4G is than our iPhones in general!  The screen is finally big enough to see while the phone is only marginally bigger (no wasted screen real estate like the iPhone).  I can just click and drag my MP3 files from my Windows media center folders right to the phone, and I can even play all the MP3's from Windows Media Center through wifi in the house, which means while around the house, I have access to my entire library of MP3's that I access via all the computers and my Xbox 360.  Want a ringtone?  Just drag an MP3 or a WAV file right to the ringtones folder.  On the iPhone, you have to convert it to some Apple format, try to get iTunes to accept it into it's "library", connect the phone, sync it, then it won't let you sync without either wanting to delete apps or sync those too.  Can't just sync ringtones alone.  And you'd better not have plans that day if iTunes decides it wants to back up your phone and you make the mistake of letting it do that!

Anyway, I find the Evo a brave new world without limitations.  I now realize how restrictive the iPhone really is and I'm really enjoying all I can do on Android.  If you want to look at some good Android phones, there's the Evo 4G on Sprint or the Droid X on Verizon right now.  They're both great.  I prefer Sprint due to the lower prices and I also lean toward the Evo 4G just because I like the interface and the "soft" buttons on the front rather than the "push" buttons on the Droid X.  I'm paying about $20/mo less for the exact same service as I was getting on the iPhone... minus the poor reception.    Oh, and when you get a firmware update on an Android phone, you get a message on your phone that the firmware is ready to install.  You click on the phone, and 5 minutes later you are done.  No computer needed.  Beats spending half a day trying to update the iPhone through iTunes!  One final observation: all of our iPhones (we have 2G, 3G, and 3GS... not buying into the iPhone 4) would continually get into a state where 3G data would stop working.  They'd generally work for maybe a day but then when you go to use the browser and you have full 3G bars, it just hangs.  Rebooting the phone always fixed the problem.  I think it's a bug that Apple never acknowledged.  Same thing happens with push notifications.  They work for a few hours and then just stop.  Have to cold boot the phone to get them working again.  I never have problems like that on the Evo.  Never have to "reboot" it and the 3G just always works.  In fact, AT&T claims they have the fastest 3G network but I don't see it.  The Evo is faster on 3G than my iPhones ever were.  The iPhones seem to "stutter" on 3G.  Load a little, wait, load a little, wait.  The Evo is just smooth and seems to load faster.  And that's when both phones are getting a full 3G signal.

My 1 cent...

Mike

Just about right, with one correction.  Qimage doesn't just use the center square (technically a rectangle most of the time) by default.  It is weighted more on the center square but it also looks at the other squares to make an intelligent decision about what might be important in the photo.  Simple example: if it sees a small spot of highlight detail in the top right square, it might ignore that as a stray specular reflection.  If, however, there is more highlight detail in all three of the top squares, we might be looking at something like sky and it'll use a weighting of all three top squares instead of the center.  So the initial exposure (no square selected) is more "intelligent" than just picking the center square.

Mike

Right.  The whole point of Qimage raw is that you shouldn't have to fiddle unless you need to.  If you need (or even want) to, you can fiddle all you like using the refine in Qimage.

Regards,
Mike

Yes.  Having the profiles is always an improvement.  It's hard to quantify though other than to say it will make color more accurate.  Some cameras benefit a lot while others only show subtle changes with the profile.

Mike