Stefan Hafeneger

I created an Aperture Edit Plug-In for computer generated tilt-shift photography. The software allows you to create fake miniature versions of regular photos, simulating the effect of expensive tilt-shift lenses.

Since I hardly made any money so far with Sofortbild I want to sell this plug-in. But I didn’t yet came up with a price. So please let me know what you would be willing to pay (I was thinking about something like ten bucks).

Download: TiltShift.dmg.zip

I used the code from the application mentioned in the previous post and made a Mac OS X screen saver. Please note that you need Snow Leopard to use it because no earlier version supports multi-touch.

Since I am using mouse and trackpad input you have to press any button to quit the screen saver.

Download: Aurora.saver.zip

So everybody is talking about Windows 7 coming out on Thursday. One of the major features is multi-touch.

Well, of course that is true, but don’t we have that in Leopard already? Sure, Leopard has just gestures but isn’t that what most applications need? (I am excluding the famous multi-touch photo applications that are fun to use for about an hour but honestly are not very productive.)

Now Windows 7 has also direct touch through several hardware products. Again, it is fun to use this for about an hour. But after that you use your mouse again.

So the question is, do we need more than gestures on a desktop computer? Well, in most cases probably not. But still there might be a few situations where this could be handy.

But did you know that Snow Leopard (which is available since about two months) has this as well? Sure there are no input devices for the Mac yet which let you use direct touch, but the trackpad in all the new Macbook (Pro) models has a multi-touch trackpad that is capable to recognize more than four touches (which is currently the limit on all hardware devices for Windows 7) which you can use to do some fun stuff.

To demonstrate what you can do already today without any further hardware or special SDK I wrote a small application that you can try out. Launch the application and generate some touches on your glass trackpad. For the full experience enter full screen mode.

Download: Aurora.zip

Sofortbild 1.0.1 is available for download. The new version is basically the beta version that was available since a few months now. It needs Mac OS X 10.5.0 or later including 10.6 and works with Nikon D3x, D3, D2xs, D2hs, D2x, D2h, D1x, D1h, D1, D700, D300, D200, D100, D90, D80, D70s, D70, D60, D50, D40x, D40 and D5000.

There are no new features besides the support for all remaining camera models. The GPS location is now shown at the correct position in the map in the inspector.

Please use the auto update feature of Sofortbild to install the latest version.

This might be one of the last blog posts about by iPhone barcode application. I finally decided to upload the source to Google Code to make it available for anybody who is interested.

The reason is simply I don’t have time to work on it further. I didn’t since about a year now and it does not look like I will have time in the next months.

The code is basically the same as in the version available in the App Store with a few additions that should have been in the next version.

I heard a few complains that the application won’t work in a few situations on phones running iPhone OS 3.0. So if there is anybody who likes to take the code and update it to the latest APIs please let me now.

Also, if someone wants to contribute to this application – I have a couple of cool ideas that might make this app into a really awesome application – please drop me a line. I can then still upload newer versions to the App Store.

Otherwise feel free to use the code for your own projects. I don’t know much about those Open Source licenses so I just picked the first one. I personally don’t really care about this all different licenses, just make sure that you don’t do something illegal while using my code since I am using two other open source projects with different licenses.