I have gone through many changes with this blog, and one reason I don’t update it as much as I would like to is that I try to keep this thing a constant topic (or group of topics) that draw a particular type of user. Now, I love blogging, and I will continue to, but just like my wife, I find myself struggling with one thing. There are often blogs that I want to write, and should write, but I don’t because they aren’t quite appropriate to my blog.
I am pretty sure I will never be a professional blogger, and if I become one, then I will have made many more changes than this to get there, but as far as that goes, I am going to start using this blog a little more like a journal in addition to technology articles. Some of the things I would like to add are photo-a-day type blogs where I post cool photos I take and the story or inspiration behind them, stuff about music I am listening to or movies I have recently enjoyed and just general life stuff.
I won’t be on here whining about stuff or blabbing out personal information, that’s still not an appropriate use of my blog, but as I have so many friends I have made through this blog that follow it (and often ask why I don’t post as much) I will try to make it more active.
Sometimes writing long posts on technological topics takes time and it makes for a slow blog, so with that, I’ll pick up the pace a bit and start writing more about things that may or may not always be of interest to you.
I’ll be sure to organize my feeds in such a way where you can subscribe to just the tech articles if you want, if not, get ready, hopefully it will start as a trickle but end up as a flood of information that you might find interesting.
Wow, that’s a heck of a topic for me, the biggest geek, biggest gadget head and most electronically obsessed person I know. I have a point with this though. Those of you who are into music are surely aware that the once lofty recording studio is going down to the power of digital audio workstations and the power of recording software. ProTools dominates the studios and anyone not hip to the DAW is considered a dinosaur.
I have been kicking with ProTools and more recently Apple’s Logic for probably 7 years or so now. I started with a DIGI001 on a G4 Mac and have never looked back to tape. Honestly I have never owned a tape recorder because when I was biggest into recording when I was younger I couldn’t afford one. My first recording system was a sound blaster sound card recording into an old program called SAW.
These days I am as digital as ever and I still haven’t gotten the sound I want. I had been toying around with this idea for awhile, maybe my beloved Ibanez just didn’t have the ass end I wanted and no matter how powerful Logic got, I just couldn’t add it in digitally. So I decided at the music store that I would do the unthinkable, I would consider the purchase of a Les Paul, not a real $3,000 Gibson Les Paul, but a more economical Epiphone Les Paul of the sub $800 variety. I played a few, decided they didn’t play like the planks of wood I always thought they were, and I brought home a beautiful honey burst Les Paul Standard that is just plain beautiful.
Tonight I started laying down some tracks and I have to say, this beauty was the difference. The meaty heavy hooks I have been trying to capture that weren’t translating to the recorded medium are now there, they are fat and they were mean.
The point to the story is that you, as well as I, many times make decisions to make shortcuts in some places to try and fix it later digitally (I find this to be especially true with digital photography) and sometimes the right guitar, the right lens or getting a real flash instead of the cheap copy makes all the difference in the world.
So you saw my list of updates I wanted to make to this little application I assume, if not, my want list is:
- The ability to separate RAW and JPG files into separated folders if you shoot in RAW+JPG modes.
- The ability to save your previous source and destination folders
- pre-populate the new folder name with the date/time formatted how you want
- Removing the status text and using a progress bar with a label to indicate the current action
- add a preview box so you can view the photos being transferred
- add a cancel button to stop the process
I got some of my updates in so I am posting a new version for your downloading pleasure, unfortunately I didn’t get everything in so there is still no separating RAW and JPGs into different folders and I haven’t added the prepopulate date/time to the new folder dialog but the updates are:
- Different UI Look to support images and progress
- Ability to cancel an operation in progress
- Ability to save and clear your source, work and archive locations
- JPGs being transferred are previewed during transfer
- Progress is tracked on a folder per folder basis
- Status displays current folder being copied and destination
- Fixed Recursive Delete Functionality
Here is a little screen shot of how it looks now, slightly different than the previous version.
As before the source and executables are available for download:
