Support

FAQ:

Q: What is facebook?

A: As the people at facebook put it, "Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you." Millions of people have already joined facebook, so chances are, you know someone who uses it. It is completely free, and once you sign up, you can easily add people as your "friends". PhotoBook focuses on sharing the millions of photos uploaded to facebook in a very Mac-friendly way.

Q: Some of my friends' photos are not showing up in PhotoBook. Why?

A: Your friend has probably disabled access of their photos to third party applications. You can ask them to re-enable access on their Privacy page

Q: The effects and transitions run very slowly on my computer. How do I fix it?

A: You probably have have an older Mac that does not have a Core Image capable video card. You can disable these features in the Preferences window by unchecking "Use superfluous visual effects" in the General pane, and unchecking "Show transitions in slideshow" in the Slideshow pane.

Q: Does PhotoBook collect any of my facebook information?

A: No, all communications with facebook are shared with facebook alone, according to their privacy policy. PhotoBook does not save or send your email address or password. (If you have PhotoBook set to check for updates automatically, it will connect to the Caffeinated Cocoa servers only to check if a new version is available.)

Q: How do I uninstall PhotoBook?

A: Quit PhotoBook if it is open, then drag the application from the Finder to the Trash

More Support

You can contact me via email at support@caffeinatedcocoa.com

Release Notes

1.1

• PhotoBook can now open Facebook album and photo URLs
• Added bookmarklet: open Facebook albums and photos in PhotoBook directly from a web browser
• Added instant slideshow controls when viewing a photo
• Added option to view the album a photo is contained in
• Added option to display the creation date below photos
• Added support for "text tags"- photo tags that do not refer to a Facebook user
• The total photo count is now displayed in the album list
• Added 512x512 application icon for Leopard
• Pressing space when viewing photos will open/close the selected photo window to match the behavior of QuickLook
• Thumbnails are now displayed before the full sized photo is loaded
• No longer adds "is" to status updates to match Facebook's new behavior
• All counts displayed at the bottom of the main window are now formatted (adds commas, or whatever separator is used, as appropriate)
• Changed connection timeout from 20 seconds to 60 seconds
• Added keyboard shortcut to refresh the current view
• Fixed a bug where thumbnails were sorted after a transition completed
• The scroll position for each album is now reset to the top
• Newline characters in photo captions are now replaced with spaces
• If a button was selected other than "All Albums" in the filter bar, the "show x's albums" menu item in a tag will now automatically switch to "All Albums"
• Other minor bug fixes and interface improvements

1.0.2

• Fixed an issue where an "unknown error" could appear after logging in
• Fixed an issue where photos or friends get stuck on the loading screen for some users
• Albums now scroll more "like butter"
• Page up/Page down now works properly
• Improved handling of albums with missing information
• Improved error handling when downloading info from facebook
• Pressing any key or clicking will now close a slideshow
• Clicking the smaller and larger thumbnail buttons will now resize the thumbnails to their minimum and maximum sizes
• Holding the shift key will now make animations and transitions go in super-duper-slow-mo
• Added placeholder text when no photos/albums are being displayed
• Fixed a minor memory leak
• Many other minor bug fixes and interface improvements

1.0.1

Many minor bug fixes.

1.0

Initial release

Changes from 0.9:

• Added support for infinite sessions: If you check the "Keep me logged in" box when you first login, you will be taken immediately to your albums whenever you launch PhotoBook in the future
• Added preference to choose what information you want displayed under thumbnails (title, creator, etc.)
• Added ability to login as a different user
• Performance improvements when loading and displaying albums/photos
• Fixed iPhoto importing with iPhoto 6 and 7. Downloaded photos are also now saved in ~/Picures/PhotoBook/
• Fixed a bug where the login page would sometimes not load
• Better error handling if (or, more accurately, when) facebook goes down or there are other problems

0.9

Initial public beta release