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PhotoDesk Changelog

What's new in PhotoDesk 4.1.6

Mar 5, 2017
  • Fixed a major bug which caused PhotoDesk to not work correctly for many users. This was related to the Touch Bar change as well as to some Instagram changes. This version works again, it does so, however, by temporarily disabling TouchBar support.

New in PhotoDesk 4.1.5 (Jan 22, 2017)

  • Added MacBook Pro Touch Bar Support
  • Added new "Fast Filter" feature (accessible via Edit -> Fast Filter) or Shift + Comman
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes the detail view did not open anymore
  • Fixed a bug where for some people the collections / albums would not display any items
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes the pro statistics would only be displayed after the second click on the item
  • Fixed bug where sometimes something liked would be displayed as unliked and vice versa
  • Fixed several crashes

New in PhotoDesk 4.1.0 (Dec 27, 2016)

  • Rewrote the statistics engine.

New in PhotoDesk 4.0.3 (Jul 25, 2016)

  • Fixed a bug where, for some users, Photodesk would display no content at all
  • Fixed a bug which caused the Logout functionality to not work correctly
  • Removed the artificial limitation of not being able to delete all accounts
  • Fixed several crashes & bugs

New in PhotoDesk 4.0.2 (Jul 17, 2016)

  • Added a new screen "Bookmark Feed" which shows you a feed of all new posts from all your favorite friends / user bookmarks.
  • Fixed a bug where the statistics would not load for users and would just display "waiting 30min"
  • Changed the statistics code so that the "more than 5000 requests" message appears far less often
  • Fixed several crashes & bugs

New in PhotoDesk 4.0.1 (Jun 4, 2016)

  • Fixed a bug that prevented statistics to be displayed for Photodesk Pro
  • Fixed a bug where the sidebar would not display the selection correctly
  • Added support for the new Instagram requirement that "Private" accounts can't be displayed anymore in third party apps like Photodesk. Even when the user in question is following the private account
  • Improved the looks of the image selection in the icon view
  • Added additional help & information
  • Changed the menubar icon to look good on dark tinted menubars, too
  • Small speed improvements (more to come).

New in PhotoDesk 4.0.0 (Jun 1, 2016)

  • Implemented all the new Instagram requirements: Removed Popular, removed Feed, removed followers and follows on the user profile.
  • Revamped the UI
  • Added extended statistics as a pro feature
  • Added comment management as a pro feature
  • Added account management as a pro feature
  • Better multi-account support
  • New Account sidebar
  • Photodesk pro

New in PhotoDesk 3.2.2 (Dec 1, 2015)

  • Login Issue: Fixes an issue which caused users to not be able to log in into the app anymore due to very recent changes in the Instagram authentication process.

New in PhotoDesk 3.2.1 (Nov 13, 2015)

  • Changed the detail view to better scale images to the proper size
  • Fixed a bug that caused the menubar item to become unresponsive in certain situations
  • Fixed a bug where the app would sometimes open the wrong user when clicking an @username
  • Fixed several bugs and crashes

New in PhotoDesk 3.2 (Oct 14, 2015)

  • Features:
  • Support for HD Quality Instagram images.
  • Support for Non-Rectangular Instagram images.
  • New Blacklist for tags in order to hide all posts with a certain tag.
  • Force Touch support for the new Apple Touchpads
  • Added two new actions for tags in the tag view "Copy to clipboard" which copies the selected tag to the clipboard as "#tag". And "Append to clipboard" which appends the selected tag to the clipboard, i.e. "#tag" becomes "#tag #tag2".
  • Adds support forcopying the names of places
  • Added new View function "Open Random Image" which pics a random image from the current list of visible images and displays it. Great if you want to pick a winner for an Instagram lottery.
  • Changes:
  • Searching for anything using the search bar at the top of the window now requires pressing enter. This improves the search quality.
  • Improved the Photo Collages feature to utilize the new HD Instagram images if available
  • Don't scroll down in the feed if the user is at the very top and new images arrive
  • Added new buttons to detail view: Scale to image full resolution, Scale so that the image fits the current screen

New in PhotoDesk 3.1.2 (Jun 26, 2015)

  • Fixed a bug where ordering a print would not allow to enter the address
  • Fixed bug where feed view items were cropped
  • Fixed a bug where users of 10.8, Mountain Lion, could not open the detail view anymore
  • Changed it so that when Photodesk is offline, it will detect automatically when the system is online again and go online
  • Changed the looks of the selection rectangle to correctly enclose images in all view modes under retina, and non-retina systems
  • Fixed a bug where the 'reloading' indicator for comments would never disappear, and comments would never reload.
  • Fixed a bug where when closing the window via Apple-W, it was not possible to open the window again
  • Changed some internals so that Photodesk consumes less Requests per hour for users who have many favorite friends.
  • Fixed a bug where using Finder Tag Sync would cause a crash
  • Fixed many small bugs which caused crashes or undefined behaviour in various situations

New in PhotoDesk 3.1.1 (Jun 3, 2015)

  • Fixed a bug where printing products was not possible
  • Fixed a bug where creating an album would crash the app

New in PhotoDesk 3.1.0 (Jun 2, 2015)

  • Big Features:
  • Collages: You can now create beautiful photo collages from your albums. Simply select an album, click the collage button and the editor will open. You can select a template, change the looks, and order the collage as a print right from within the editor.
  • Blacklist: Users can now be blacklisted. You will still follow them, but their images will not appear in your feed, tags or popular anymore. Simply right click a user or image to add them to the black list.
  • Features:
  • You can now rearrange the images in your photo albums
  • Added a new shortcut 'Shift+Space' to scroll up by one line
  • Added a 'Reset' option that allows to delete all albums, tags, locations or fav friends
  • The feed now shows if there're users tagged in an image, or if you yourself are tagged in that image
  • Added the ability to export albums, tags, locations and fav friends as parseable json files. (Previously, the format was a Photodesk internal one)
  • The 'Big Like' heart can now be set to 'always visible' as well.
  • Changes:
  • In the feed view, the scrolling position will now stay in place when new items appear in your feed
  • The statistics can now be printed
  • the 'Map' and 'Open' buttons for the Map view were switched. This is fixed now.
  • Implemented small speedups for scrolling large amounts of images
  • The main window will now hide automatically at startup
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixes the app to accommodate a change on the Instagram servers which prevented login. This release supports Instagram login again
  • Fixed a bug where the follow / follower list would sometimes only load the first 50-100 users.
  • Fixed a bug where the loading of favorite places didn't work.
  • Fixed a bug where where the 'forbidden tag' screen did not disappear anymore
  • Fixed several bugs which amounted to weird Photodesk window behaviour, such as suddenly popping up, not poppin up when being activated, not popping up when being activated from the menu bar, changing window order, and more.
  • Fixed a bug where the 'Delete' button for album items would not be displayed all the time
  • Fixed a bug where activating a tag in the sidebar would sometimes only work for the first tag
  • Fixed bugs in the import and export code
  • Fixed a bug where the menu bar update notification would sometimes not go away
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes the preference panel would not show up or show up only once.
  • Fixed a bug where most shortcuts would randomly not work anymore
  • Fixed a bug where the printing from the detail view would result in a weird error
  • Fixed a bug where the rendering of usernames with a dot character in their name was wrong
  • Fixed a bug where the Map items / annotations would sometimes not load
  • Fixed a bug where the album details would sometimes not open anymore
  • Fixed many, many bugs that led to crashes in various situations
  • Fixed a bug that would lead to too many server requests
  • Fixed a bug, where sometimes the "cancel" doesn't work for blocking views.

New in PhotoDesk 3.0.1 (Nov 20, 2014)

  • Features:
  • Added new exporting / importing mechanism for Albums
  • When exporting / importing Favorite Tags, Favorite Users, Favorite Locations or Albums, the folders are now also being exported.
  • Added a new mode to display the heart like / unlike icon always so that one can easier distinguish which items were already loaded
  • One can now doubleclick next to the big image in the detail view in order to close the detail view
  • Added the option to see the news in the old 2.x way again. To enable this, start Terminal.app and enter the following line:
  • defaults write com.stylemac.instadesk PDUseOldNewsView true
  • Added a new item to the right click / context menu for sidebar items that allows to move the selected item to a folder
  • Added a new help menu entry to easily access the startup tutorials
  • Improved the "dark mode" to apply to many more situations in the app now
  • Changes:
  • When Photodesk is quit in fullscreen mode, it will startup in fullscreen mode
  • Improved the look of many items when the font size was set to big
  • Updated the looks of the "big like icon"
  • Improved Secure networking mode, to prevent issues where loading of data sometimes did not complete, or only completed half.
  • Slightly improved the speed with which images are being displayed
  • Using the "L" shortcut for multiple images now will like those multiple images, if mass operations are active (in the Preferences)
  • Added a warning that appears when PhotoDesk is still loading the data for the "follows back" information, because this data has to be loaded calculated first after startup and depending on the amount of followers, this can take some time.
  • Changed it so that the feed is not being reloaded when viewing a users profile and going back
  • Update the login view to accomodate the new buttons that Instagram displays there
  • Folders in the sidebar are not sorted alphabetically
  • The loading indicator now better indicates that Photodesk is still loading.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed a serious memory leak
  • Fixed several translation issues
  • Removed a white bar above the feed list view on Retina devices
  • Fixed a bug where selecting an item was impossible if the mini sidebar menu was open
  • Fixed an issue where the biography in the user detail view would not be displayed correctly in small window sizes
  • Fixed a bug where scrolling down in any view would not load more items
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes the account switcher does not work
  • Fixed a bug where scrolling down in list view for followers and follows would not load more items
  • Fixed a bug, where deleting a Folder would turn the sidebar all white
  • Fixed many, many bugs that lead to sudden crashes
  • Fixed a bug where scrolling in the follower / follow icon view mode would re-select a previously selected user
  • Fixed a rare bug that could corrupt the folders for a user account
  • Fixed an issue where when scrolling down in a user detail view, it would suddenly say "Private" at the top
  • The message “this user has set his profile to private” has been changed to his/her

New in PhotoDesk 3.0.0 (Oct 17, 2014)

  • Statistics: Quickly see how your account is performing with the built-in statistics
  • Secure Networking: Due to a secure networking layer, the app supports more likes / comments per hour again
  • Yosemite UI: The complete UI has been revamped, many views have been completely rewritten to make use of all the cool Yosemite features. However, Photodesk also looks really good on Mavericks and Mountain Lion.
  • Sidebar Folders: You can create folders in the sidebar to sort and structure your Favorite Images, Favorite Friends, Favorite Tags and Favorite Places
  • History: The last 250 images or user profiles that you visited are stored in a visual history, which makes it easy to find that one image again.
  • Yosemite Today Widget: You can now see the most recent feed images in the Notification center
  • Sync Finder Tags: Every image/video you put into a folder is automatically stored on disk and Finder tags will be added for the album's name and any folder that the album is in. This makes it easy to find items that you downloaded right in the Finder with specific tags applied to them. You can activate this in the preferences under advanced.
  • Search & Filter Facilities: You can refine very detailed and specific searches on image sets (Only images shot after date xx and before date xy, only with tagged users, only those which contain this text, etc). You can find this functionality in the filter popup, under "Custom Search".
  • Integrated news: Instagram news, Photodesk news, Favorite Friends updates, new follow requests, it's all in one handy news interface now.
  • Integrated Search: Just type something into the new search bar at the top, it will search for tags, locations and users with that name.
  • Zoom: Images in Detail View can now be zoomed either by pinching or by using the buttons or shortcuts
  • Retina: Far improved Retina support. On Retina systems, images will now be displayed in high resolution (if possible).
  • Faster networking: I spend more time analyzing and optimizing the networking engine, and the results are blazing fast.
  • Grouping: If you enter the feed, the images are now grouped by date. Images in any view can be grouped by date or username in the filter popup.
  • Completely Revamped & Rewritten Tag & Location Views: These two views have been completely rewritten, and they're just so much better.
  • New shortcuts (consult the help page)
  • Added an easy way to see the actual date / time when an image / video or a comment was posted (for comments, context click the profile image of the comment)
  • See people tagged in an image in the detail view by hovering over the image
  • The now Feed only reloads if there're new items, and can reload every 15seconds
  • New Sidebar: There's an entirely new sidebar that looks a lot cleaner and is a joy to use. The old sidebar is still available via the small button at the bottom right of the new sidebar

New in PhotoDesk 2.3.9 (Aug 7, 2014)

  • Fixed the sorting of accounts in the accounts pop up as well as in the accounts list
  • Removed a useless alert box that appeared oftentimes when logging out of the app or adding a new account
  • Fixed several crashes due to the security changes of the last release
  • Fixed a bug that made it impossible to search for non-english tags (i.e. chinese or kyrilic)
  • Fixed issues in the Spanish localisation

New in PhotoDesk 2.3.8 (Jul 10, 2014)

  • Implemented the new Instagram security guidelines in order to keep the amount of allowed likes and comments per hour as good as possible.
  • Added error messages to explain to users the new Instagram limitation for posting comments: Only 300 chars, max 4 tags, only one link, no all capitals.
  • Added feature to filter only for images that contain tagged people
  • Now the "Icon Font Size" setting from the Preferences also affects the size of the font in the feed list view as well as the detail view. I.e. setting this to large will cause large text to appear in these two views.
  • Added the "Follows Back" field to the "Follow" screen. Due to the nature of Instagram, this information may not be correct all the time if you have a lot of followers.
  • Added the option to follow a user by right-clicking an image in any of the image views;
  • Added support for queueing up likes when liking very fast, in order to prevent your account from being flagged.
  • If you have multiple accounts, the list of accounts is now sorted alphabetically
  • Fixed localization errors
  • Fixed a bug where tagged people were shown even if there was noone tagged in the image

New in PhotoDesk 2.3.7 (May 29, 2014)

  • Features:
  • Added support for importing Favorite Friends
  • Added support for importing Favorite Tags
  • Added support for importing Favorite Places (due to a bug in 2.3.6, it is impossible to import Favorite Places generated in versions of Photodesk prior to 2.3.7)
  • Changes:
  • Improved the speed of loading images in the Detail View (a lot!)
  • Pressing reload in the Detail View will now not only reload the comments but also the current user information, follow status as well as teh current image.
  • The auto completion list in the comment popup now always shows the author of the image in question as the first result.
  • When an image is not loading in the Detail View, pressing cmd+R (for reload) will force a reload of the image.
  • Changed the Popover Comment Window so that it appears at a more deterministic place when being triggered via keyboard shortcuts for a selection. I.e. if an image is selected, and "c" is pressed, the window will not appear at the mouse position but at the lower center of the image that is selected.
  • Added new information to the Detail View so that one can see the username and the full name of the user that shot the image.
  • Added initial support for users that are tagged in an image. Currently, only the usernames are listed, their location on screen is not yet displayed, this will be added in a future release.
  • Lots of Bugfixes

New in PhotoDesk 2.3.6 (May 14, 2014)

  • Fixed the bug where the "reply" button would show the wrong text.
  • Made the username in the user detail view selectable again.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the app to crash on 10.7, Lion upon startup.

New in PhotoDesk 2.3.5 (Apr 29, 2014)

  • Big New Features:
  • New User Detail View: The view should load faster and by default displays more information in one screen. There's also a small arrow button in the up right: If you click it you can unfold the follower / follows list to display much more information and bigger images.
  • Add Tags to Images: You can now right click one or more images and add your already defined favorite sidebar tags as a tag comment to an image. This allows you to quickly tag your own images with your most beloved tags.
  • Icon View Full Keyboard Navigation: C = Add Comment, L = Like or Unlike, K = only Like, D = open in detail view, Q = quicklook preview, left arrow = previous image, right arrow = next image.
  • Export Favorite Friends / Favorite Tags: There're new functions for exporting favorite friends and favorite tags. These can then be used, for example, in statistical processing.
  • New Features:
  • Set Distance when searching in Map View. Now you can define for Map View searches how detailed you want the search region to be
  • When downloading images, the caption, tags, and the location data will now be stored as IPTC data
  • Big Change: In the icon view, the visible selection now has priority over mouse hover. So if you have an item selected, like, unlike, and comment actions will be performed on the selected item, not the hovered item.
  • New keyboard shortcut: "C" to add a comment to an image, add comments without touching the mouse: (1) Click "C" to enter the comment view, (2) enter your comment, (3) hit command+enter to submit your comment, (4) hit ESC to close the comment window, (5) use the arrow keys to navigate to the next image
  • Added a "Deny All" button in the Requests View

New in PhotoDesk 2.3.2 (Jan 22, 2014)

  • Fixed an issue which caused the map mode to not work anymore after installing an app from the App Store
  • Fixed a bug where selections were not being kept during loading more
  • Fixed an issue in the German localization

New in PhotoDesk 2.3.1 (Jan 15, 2014)

  • Features:
  • Completely revamped the "Likes" Popover view. Now, you can see a preview of the person who liked, and you can dive into a fast user preview right away. This makes it easy to "like back" a person.
  • Also added the fast user preview to the "Comments" Popover view, for similar purposes.
  • Added more functionality to the menu bar icon.
  • Greatly improved the feedback dialog
  • Expanded the arrow navigation for the icon view that was included in version 2.3.0. Now, when you forward through the icons with the arrow keys, the view will automatically scroll and load new images if necessary. I've also added support for quick preview (see below).
  • Added the ability to remove previous tags or locations. If you searched for a tag and you want it to be removed from the 'recent searches' list, just right click it and select 'Remove'. This only works if the tag is currently not selected.
  • Added support for QuickLook previews. Whenever you're in an icon view and want to preview the image in big size, without opening it in detail view, simply click the 'Q' key. This only works if the icon is selected.
  • 14 Bug fixes

New in PhotoDesk 2.3.0 (Dec 17, 2013)

  • New Features for Mac OS X 10.9 Only:
  • Added support for maps for each view. There's now a new view mode that shows you the images aligned on a map.
  • The image detail view now has a mini map that allows you to see where the image in question was shot
  • New Category - Places: Here, you can search for locations to see which pictures were being shot there. You can also store favorite places in the sidebar.
  • Features:
  • Added a new filter mode. It allows you to filter the current visible images based on type (image / video), whether they contain geo information, amount of likes, and amount of comments.
  • Added a new preferences that allows you to set the size of the font that is being used for the image icon views
  • Added more keyboard navigation options to the icon views:
  • Left Arrow now takes the selection to the next element on the left
  • Right Arrow now takes the selection to the next element on the right
  • Enabled the ‘K’ button for the detail view, too
  • Many, many bug fixes and speed improvements

New in PhotoDesk 2.2.5 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Features:
  • Added the 'k' key to the shortcuts. This will only like the current image, but not unlike it if it is already liked.
  • When downloading multiple items, and there're videos in there, PhotoDesk will now download the videos instead of the images for these items
  • Changes:
  • Added an error message that appears if an item cannot be liked anymore because the user hit the like limit on Instagram.
  • Added an error message that appears if the Instagram token / session is turned invalid on the Instagram side. In that case, it is required to reset the token by going to the Instagram website and revoking access for PhotoDesk.
  • Added higher delays for the multi-like and multi-comment functionality. The reasoning behind this is, that Instagram has a ghost follower / bot detector now, and when you like too many items too fast in a row, your account will be flagged. PhotoDesk tries to insert delays beween multiple likes so that you like less over a certain period of time and thus can't flag your account.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug that could in rare circumstances cause PhotoDesk to consume 100% cpu in the tag view
  • Fixed a bug that could sometimes lead to 100% cpu in any view
  • Fixed two bugs that would cause the downloading of image
  • Fixed two bugs which lead PhotoDesk to crash in some rare circumstances
  • Fixed the issue that on 10.8.5 or later, the view would sometimes look weird when going into fullscreen mode. Some users also had this problem in general, not just in fullscreen mode.
  • Fixed a bug where the feed would sometimes display the wrong descriptions for images

New in PhotoDesk 2.2.3 (Jul 3, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Added Instagram Video support. Videos can be played in the detail view or in the icon view by hovering and clicking the play button. This does not work on 10.6 Snow Leopard.
  • Added the ability to download Instagram videos from within the detail view
  • Added basic support for the next OSX release, more to come, stay tuned
  • Changes:
  • Added easier access to the 'Block User' button in the 'Followers' view, to make it easier to block unwanted ghost followers
  • Added the ability to select several users in the 'Followers' view and block them all at once
  • Improved the scrolling speed for the icon view on Mountain Lion and beyond
  • Added Italian translation
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed the bug where editing text in the template window did not work anymore
  • Fixed a bug where going fullscreen on Mountain Lion would lead to weird results drawing errors on some systems.
  • Fixed an issue where comments that were smaller than 1 char would not display and could cause the app to act in a weird way
  • Fixed a bug where the yellow 'Follows-you-back' icon would sometimes display the wrong username
  • Fixed a bug where some users would see the app in the German language instead of their local language or english (if the local language is not supported yet)
  • Fixed a bug where the 'Open in Detail View' command in the menu did not work for some users
  • Enhanced the German localisation

New in PhotoDesk 2.2.2 (Jun 4, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Added a simple feature where right clicking in any view (especially tag view) will allow you to load one more set of images. This is especially useful in tag view on huge screen like 27". Because usually, InstaDesk automatically loads new images as you scroll, but if the initially loaded images are too few to trigger scrolling, no new images will be loaded.
  • In the News view, one can now move to the other news items right from detail view
  • Changes:
  • Changed the bottom bar logo a bit to better fit the new layout
  • Added additional reporting for cases when the Instagram servers respond really slow
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes the wrong description would be displayed in the feed view mode.
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes the feed view didn't work for some users
  • Fixed a bug that would crash InstaDesk unexpectedly for some users
  • Fixed a crash that would happen when Instagram would return weird data
  • Fixed the bug where the big like button did not work in feed view mode
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes when leaving detail view, InstaDesk would end up in a state where the whole UI was just white, and only a restart could fix it.
  • Fixed a bug where the News view would have strange redraw errors when scrolling
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes the mini gallery would only display one image even though there should be more

New in PhotoDesk 2.2.1 (May 15, 2013)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed the bug where the interface became pixelated / weird for some users and nothing worked anymore
  • Fixed the issue where the wrong likes were in some views displayed
  • Fixed the issue where going into tags via sidebar tags sometimes did not work correctly.
  • Fixed several other tag related issues.
  • Fixed a bug where trying to share an image via Facebook or Twitter would lead to a crash
  • Fixed a bug where quickly switching between two or more accounts could confuse the list of favourite friends of one of the accounts
  • Fixed several bugs where the auto update in the slideshow did not work correctly.
  • Fixed many smaller crashes

New in PhotoDesk 2.2 (May 1, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Speed and memory: We completely revamped the core memory and speed infrastructure. InstaDesk 2.2 is a magnitude faster than previous releases. It also consumes far less memory. This was a huge change that required rewriting most of the apps internals.
  • Revamped albums: The InstaDesk albums function has been rewritten, so that it is faster and automatically saves images and thumbnails for items that you drop onto it on your harddisk. Now, even if an item that you dropped onto your albums has been deleted, you can still see the image, open it, and more.
  • Interface enhancements: The user interface has been improved, the looks have been modernized. One example of this is, that images now have a small bar on top which takes the most dominant color of the image and displays the comment and like count.
  • Features:
  • Images can now also be downloaded by dragging and dropping them from detail view
  • Added next image / previous image arrows in the detail view.
  • Added option under view toggle hiding of the sidebar. Very handy if InstaDesk is being used for presentations.
  • Added a way to delete individual items from the news. News are now not automatically being deleted if you view them. Instead, to delete them from you news view, click the new small 'x' icon on the right.
  • Changes:
  • Cleaned the codebase and removed old and unnecessary code.
  • Rewrote the networking code for faster image loading.
  • Rewrote the app to utilize ARC as the memory model
  • Made the template editor for comment templates available from different parts of the application, not just the detail view.
  • Added a 'Logout' button to the main menu

New in PhotoDesk 2.1.3 (Feb 23, 2013)

  • Fixed an issue where sometimes seeing all likes for an image did not work.
  • Fixed a bug where InstaDesk would sometimes crash in the German localization

New in PhotoDesk 2.1.2 (Feb 16, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Localized InstaDesk to the following locales: Spanish, Portugese, Swedish, German, and Indonesian.
  • Changes:
  • Cleaned the codebase and removed cruft / old and unecessecary bits. Due to this, the "Store Backup" dialog had to go
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed an issue where sometimes right-clicking an image and and clicking 'Open in Detail View' didn't work
  • Fixed an issue where every image would display 'Mayfair' as the filter in question
  • Fixed an issue where sometimes "The file does not exist" errors would pop up.
  • Fixed an issue where after selecting a favorite tag the Feed wouldn't display anymore

New in PhotoDesk 2.1.1 (Jan 17, 2013)

  • Fixed an issue where the app would not sign into Instagram for some users.
  • Fixed an issue where some images would not open in the detail view.

New in PhotoDesk 2.1 (Dec 6, 2012)

  • Far, far enhanced comment system. New features here are: Beautified the looks of comments, InstaDesk saves which comments you already replied to, You can 'star' comments for later review, You can filter comments by author, replied, stared, and much more, New 'Templates' engine, that allows you to easily post similar comments, Emoji Popup that allows to easily insert Emoji, just like on iOS, Added a right click context menu to every comment item, The width of the comment view can be changed now to accommodate for images with many, long comments, When you click the small 'Person' icon in a comment, you will get a 'Fast User Preview' that shows you a users' profile without leaving the current view. Really handy to see whom to follow., Added the option to quote comments.
  • Favorite Tags: You can now add individual favorite tags to the sidebar, so that it is easy to see if there're any new items for a specific tag right away.
  • Fully working multi account support: You can add multiple accounts, Switching accounts will go to the new account without you having to login again, New privacy option so that InstaDesk never logs in into Instagram during startup, Favorite Friends are local to accounts now. So if you add a new favorite friend, it will only be visible for the current user account
  • Enhanced the search system: It is easier to search for users, tags, or content now
  • Enhanced the Slideshow: It also displays the image description and the 4 most recent comments now, Items in the slideshow can be liked with the L key now
  • Download All: For every view, you can now download the visible images into a folder on your computer. This works especially well with the 'Load More' feature that was introduced in 2.0
  • 11 Additional Features
  • Many Bugfixes

New in PhotoDesk 2.0.2 (Aug 23, 2012)

  • New Features:
  • Support for the new Mountain Lion sharing system.
  • The detail view features a reload action now which allows to reload all the comments in the comment list.
  • Picture Sync enhancements: There's a new 'Sync Now' button, which triggers sync right away.
  • Picture Sync enhancements: There's a new progress indicator that lists how long it takes until all pictures are synced.
  • Picture sync enhancements: Instagram now also syncs the picture published date. So the file creation date on the harddisk is equal to the date when the image was taken / posted to Instagram.
  • The 'Follow' list now displays a small yellow icon in the bottom left that indicates if the user in question is following you back.
  • Changes:
  • Under Mountain Lion, clicking a news notification will also remove it from the News section.
  • InstaDesk now notifies the user when the Instagram feed needs to be reset with the iPhone (until Instagram fixes this issue).
  • Change the slideshow icons to be retina compatible
  • The login sheet now sports a 'cancel' button so that InstaDesk can be quit if the network doesn't work.
  • If the user is scrolling in the feed, i.e. if the user is not in the most recent area of feed items, the auto reload will not trigger in order to prevent the scenario where the feed would reload again when the user was just half way through it, requiring her to scroll all the way down again.
  • The menu icon has been adopted again to display more detail in retina mode.
  • Added a 'Why no uploads' help entry in the menu to make it easier for people to understand that the lack of file uploads is not InstaDesk's fault.
  • Added support for the 'Page Up' and 'Page Down' keys to scroll the feed and icon views.
  • Made the like and comment icons in the icon hover view more beautiful.
  • Enhanced the detail view comment loading process so that it should happen far less that InstaDesk doesn't load all comments (i.e. only 5 even though there're 120). Please note that everything beyond 199 is cut by Instagram. If an image has more than 199 comments, InstaDesk can't display all comments since Instagram doesn't serve this data.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed a bug in Picture Sync that caused it to not work in sandboxed environments (Lion, Mountain Lion).
  • The start at login setting now also works in sandboxed environments (i.e. Lion, Mountain Lion). Due to sandboxed limitations, the app doesn't start right away but around 20 seconds after startup.
  • Many Favourite Friends fixes: Newly added Favourite Friends now appear in the list right away.
  • Fixed several race conditions where the Favourite Friends sync would crash InstaDesk.
  • Fixed an issue where the Favourite Friend sync would cause the InstaDesk window to not update anymore.
  • Favourite Friends requires less Instagram requests now especially when the Favourite Friend has many pictures.
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes selecting multiple images (for liking, or adding to an album) didn't work correctly.
  • Fixed several bugs that could crash InstaDesk when the user scrolled through comments.
  • Fixed an issue where when posting a new comment it would not be displayed afterwards until opening the image again.
  • Fixed a bug where when InstaDesk was hidden, it would suddenly appear again.
  • Disabled the Like & Follow buttons in the follower table view for the current user (since it is impossible anyway to follow yourself).
  • Fixed a bug in the News system where it wouldn't work correctly under Mountain Lion in certain corner cases.
  • Fixed an issue, where the detail view would sometimes display the current user's name and 'You' as likers of an image.
  • Fixed several Core Animation related issues that could cause freezes or crashes in certain environments.

New in PhotoDesk 2.0.1 (Jul 20, 2012)

  • Changes:
  • Better Retina Support
  • Better Mountain Lion Support
  • Support for Mountain Lion User Notifications
  • The Auto reload feature in the slideshow now reloads every one minute.
  • Added an internal notification mechanism to notify users when external factors keep InstaDesk from working. One example is when Instagram goes down.
  • Added 'Share to browser' to the Share Menu
  • Added a menu entry to open images in detail view
  • Added arrow down and arrow up key support to the feed view for moving up and down along the feed
  • Added a feedback menu entry to the help section.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed a bug where the app would sometimes crash during startup
  • Fixed a bug where the app would sometimes crash when opening a image in detail view
  • Fixed the bug that lead to the 'Wrong Format' error message.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the news from working correctly on some systems.
  • Fixed several 'Favourite Friends' bugs that caused the Favourite Friends view to not display all new data when switching between favourite friends
  • Fixed an error where opening a popover comment view would cause the app to sometimes not work correctly anymore afterwards
  • Fixed a bug where the app could crash during syncing the Favourite Users

New in PhotoDesk 2.0.0 (Jun 27, 2012)

  • Completely redesigned. InstaDesk 2.0 has a complete new layout that fits much better into Lion and Mountain Lion. Almost all parts of the interface have been changed to accomodate for the new layout and fit better with Apple's Human Interface Guidelines. The icon has been changed, too, to celebrate version 2.0. I hope you like it.
  • The new redesign uses more smooth animations and fancy shadow effects. On older machines, some of this can be turned off in the preferences.
  • Multiple user support. InstaDesk now lets you easily switch to a different user. By clicking on the account icon in the top left.
  • The detail view now supports a 'mini gallery' that shows you all other images in the current selection. You can navigate it either with mouse or touchpad gesturs, or with your mouse wheel, or by clicking and moving like you would click and move the scrollbar paddle.
  • Images can now be downloaded simply by dragging and dropping them on your desktop or any folder on your Mac. This also works with multiple selections.
  • Introducing a new Follow / Follower view that shows you all persons in a list. This is faster to navigate than the old view, displays more information, and even allows you to select multiple persons and follow / unfollow them at once. Also, you can sort by specified fields simply by clicking the headers of the table.
  • For selected views, there is now a 'Load More' menu entry, that allows you to load all, or a huge amount of items at once.
  • Selecting images has been changed from Single-Click to Double-Click. This makes it easier to select a set of images and act upon it (Liking, Slideshow, etc). You can get the old behaviour back by changing it to Single-Click open in the Preferences. You can select multiple images by drawing selections with your mouse, or shift-clicking individual items.

New in PhotoDesk 1.4.3 (Apr 24, 2012)

  • Changes:
  • Greatly enhanced the detail view image loading speed.
  • InstaDesk now always saves the last download folder
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes images weren't downloaded at all.

New in PhotoDesk 1.4.2 (Mar 1, 2012)

  • Fixed an important issue where InstaDesk was generating too many requests and thus overloading a web service as well as the slowing down the loading speed of the app.

New in PhotoDesk 1.4.1 (Feb 21, 2012)

  • Features:
  • Added a preference setting to disable the small 'heart' icon in order to make it more difficult to accidentally like images. Uncheck the 'Like Hover' checkbox on the 'Advanced' panel of the InstaDesk Preferences
  • Added support for automatic updates in the slideshow: When a slideshow is active, the slideshow settings window has a new flag 'Auto Reload Images'. When you activate it, the slideshow will continously load new images for the selected view (Tag View, popular view, feed view) and iterate over them. Set the slideshow to a certain tag (say #manhattan) and you'll see new images from manhattan all the time without having to restart the slideshow
  • Added the ability to save images in different file formats: JPEG, PNG, JPEG2000, TIFF, and BMP
  • Added better support for displaying the location of images in the detail view
  • Added support in the preferences for choosing different mapping providers to use when clicking the location of an image: Google Maps, Virtual Earth, Nokia Maps
  • Sped up the loading of images even more, especially on Snow Leopard systems
  • Changes:
  • The image list view doesn't accept accidental clicks or hover anymore when the main InstaDesk window is inactive. So that it is more difficult to accidentally like an image.
  • Updated InstaDesk to use Growl 1.3
  • Changed the name of downloaded images to stay below 31 characters so that they can also be saved on non-hfs volumes
  • Changed the default and minimum news reload time so that the max requests barrier is reached less easy
  • When one has a huge amount of news, Growl will only display the most recent ones and not clutter the screen with hundreds of notification windows
  • The Slideshow settings panel now supports clicking the label of a setting to change the setting which is in compliance with the HIG
  • Added support for 32bit systems again
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed the bug that caused the 'CRSF Login Error' for some users. This bug was introduced with a Mac OS X security updated due to a previous faulty behaviour of InstaDesk. In order to fix it, the 'Global Cookie Storage' feature had to be removed. It will be rewritten and come back in one of the next versions.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the app to crash on startup for some people
  • Fixed a bug where InstaDesk would not work correctly anymore if the file sync was active but set to a nonexisting folder
  • Fixed a bug where the "About InstaDesk" window couldn't be closed anymore
  • Fixed a bug where Kotoeri input was not working correctly
  • Several small fixes where textfields in dialogs weren't focussed
  • Fixed a bug where changing the icon of an album wasn't displayed until after restarting the app
  • Fixed a bug where deleting images from albums was impossible
  • Fixed a bug where sorting images in albums didn't work correctly
  • Fixed an error where trying to download a private image would cause InstaDesk to switch randomly to a different image.
  • Fixed a bug where the detail window would suddenly popup in the preferences window when clicking a Growl notification
  • Fixed a bug where album downloads always saved as .jpg even though they were png files

New in PhotoDesk 1.4.0 (Dec 22, 2011)

  • Main New Features:
  • Thumbnail Details: Display detailed information about an image right in the thumbnail. Amount of comments, likes, date published and username can be set to be displayed. In addition, the info can be visible all the time or only on hover.
  • Tags: The tag view has been improved a lot. InstaDesk now calculates a list of related tags for the current tag. The tag view also supports the standard user breadcrumb now. This means that when you click on a user, you can always go back to your previous tag search.
  • File Sync: There's a new setting in the preferences now, that allows you to define a folder for InstaDesk to sync your images in. Whenever you upload a new image to Instagram, InstaDesk will automatically place a copy of that image into said folder.
  • Sorting: InstaDesk now adds a sort button that allows to sort the contents of a view by likes, comments, date, or name
  • Slideshow: The slideshow has been completely revamped. It doesn't go fullscreen immediately now (though that's just one button click away), one can select different background images, we added a simple Ken Burns effect, the scaling has been fixed so that it still looks good on huge screens, it is in general a lot faster, looks a lot better, and displays the published date of the current image and the username. Even more, the slideshow settings are automatically saved now.
  • Enhancements:
  • Completely revamped the code for the favorite friends feature. New images are highlighted, and the amount of unread items will decrease when you scroll past an image in the feed or any other view. Favorite friends can also be sorted by name, amount of unread images, or date now.
  • We spend a lot of time testing and optimizing the whole codebase to improve the speed of InstaDesk. In addition to that, we reorganized a fair amount of code to allow for further optimizations in the future.
  • The sorting of the albums can be defined in the preferences now
  • There's a setting in the preferences now to define the default thumbnail view (small, medium, feed)
  • InstaDesk should support Kotoeri (Japanese Input) now. Please send me a mail if it doesn't, so I can figure out how to fix it.
  • InstaDesk now displays if an account is private
  • One can now set the background image for the standard thumbnail view
  • There're added preferences now, especially there're more options for change the background images in various views.
  • The networking speed is faster now. InstaDesk 1.4 is better at downloading multiple images at the same time.
  • Changed the looks of the app in various places, most notably the breadcrumb bar
  • Added a feature so that when a comment doesn't get through to instagram (i.e. network error), the comment isn't gone, but you're free to try again.
  • The white border in the detail view is optional now (see preferences)
  • The button to mark a user as favorite is visible in the detail view as well now

New in PhotoDesk 1.3.6 (Sep 22, 2011)

  • Important: Fixed the bug where InstaDesk caused MacOS X to freeze, on some systems.
  • Fixed the bug, where random pictures opened, when one closed a detail picture too fast
  • Fixed the bug where one couldn't download or share his own pictures, when one had a private account.
  • Changed the like animation, so that it doesn't block the UI anymore when performed in detail mode
  • Fixed the menu, so that the 'New Folder' button works.

New in PhotoDesk 1.3.5 (Sep 12, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • Added the ability to jump back to older backups of the album store. You can set the amount of backups in the preferences. Default is 5. Go back to previous backups by clicking "File -> Restore from Backup".
  • InstaDesk now features a help section! With shortcuts, description, and more. It is under Help -> InstaDesk Help.
  • The feed list view now allows you to see the comments for a picture and add comments to a picture without having to enter detail mode. Simply click the "Comments" button.
  • Added the ability to print a picture. In detail mode, just click "File -> Print". The functionality is still very simple and will be expanded upon.
  • Users can also be shared with friends now. If you're in the user view, simply click the "Share" button in the toolbar.
  • Registered Instagram / Instadesk URL's. If you are in a Webbrowser, and there is instagram://photo/97s98f or instadesk://photo/98797 url, and you click it, it will automatically start InstaDesk and open the picture for you. The following links are supported: instadesk://tag/? instadesk://user/? instadesk://photo/? and the very same for instagram://
  • From the feed view, one can now click on the name or icon of a user to open her in the user view.
  • Added the cmd + w shortcut to close / hide the window.
  • One can now delete all comments on one's own images.
  • Added the cmd+enter shortcut to submit a comment from within the comment text box.
  • The images of the followers and follows of a user are now displayed in the profile view lists.
  • Added more entries to the menu for the various InstaDesk tasks.
  • Added many new keyboard shortcuts, have a look in the help to find them.
  • The searchfield now remembers your 10 last searches
  • Huge memory and speed improvements
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed the bug where the "Mark All As Read" button in the news didn't work for some users.
  • Autocomplete in the comment form (when you enter an @) now correctly lists all people you follow.
  • Fixed the error where the app would lock down after a certain amount of usage due to too many Instagram requests.
  • Fixed a lot of problems with the comment listing. Now, the images show correctly and jiggle less.
  • Since Emoji can't be rendered under Snow Leopard, they're now invisible there (no more weird characters in comments / descriptions)
  • Fixed the problem that when one had many favourite users or many albums, the sidebar would always jump back to the top after selecting one.
  • Changed the looks of the app and the app icon so to not violate any rights that Polaroid(TM) has on their characteristic images.
  • The width of the sidebar is now being saved in between restarts.
  • Changed the albums feature so that whenever you add an album, it is automatically saved. Previously, it was only saved when you quit the app. This behaviour caused data loss if the app crashed.

New in PhotoDesk 1.3.0 (Aug 5, 2011)

  • Main New Features:
  • Added the ability to choose between three different list views: Small Icons, Medium Icons, and Feed View. The current selection is saved per view or user.
  • Added new sharing feature, where one can share albums with friends..
  • Added complete emoji support under Mac OS X 10.7, Lion
  • Reworked the app to make everything Lion compatible and keep it working on Snow Leopard as well.
  • New Features:
  • Added the ability to see the biographie, full name, and website of a user in his / her profile.
  • Added a badge indicator for the favourite users that tells you whether the favourite user has uploaded new images since your last visit to his profile.
  • Added the ability to define any kind of color as the background color in the Photo Detail view.
  • Added more background images to choose from for the Photo Detail view (see preferences)
  • Added the ability to remove favourite friends from the list by clicking the minus button below in case the user in question was removed from Instagram.
  • Your complete albums are currently backed up in the InstaDesk folder whenever you quit the app so that they can be restored in case of data loss.
  • You can click CTRL+Enter in the comment field of the Photo Detail view now in order to submit your comment
  • Pressing space in any view and any listview mode will scroll the contents one image or one block of images.
  • You can click ESC in the Photo Detail view now to leave it again
  • Cleaned up and realigned the preferences.
  • Added a feature where medium sized images are also temporarily cached on your system to allow for faster lookups.
  • Included a new, and faster version of the json library in order to speed up the app.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed a problem where InstaDesk would get blacklisted from the Instagram server for a certain amount of time due to too many relationship requests.
  • Fixed a problem where one had to reenter his username / password after each reboot. Now, when you activate "use global cookie storage" you shouldn't have to enter your username / password anymore.
  • Fixed that favourite friends were visible when one was actually offline
  • Fixed the problem where the images of your followers / people you follow were mostly black.
  • Fixed a bug where the picture in the Photo Detail mode was always a bit blurry. Now it is as crisp as it should be.
  • Fixed the favourite user mode so that it would switch to a new user faster.
  • Fixed an error in the FollowerView where it would crash from time to time
  • Fixed an error in the welcome screen where it wouldn't work right.

New in PhotoDesk 1.2.6 (Jul 7, 2011)

  • Fixed the bug where the toolbar icons would sometimes be greyed out.

New in PhotoDesk 1.2.5 (Jun 25, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • Added a new screen that shows you all items that you liked
  • Added the option to export all the images in your albums (right click an album).
  • Performed a major code clean up to speed up the application and to prepare for future feature additions and enhancements.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a couple of bugs in the news system, made it more reliable.
  • Fixed the problem that sometimes InstaDesk would only load the first 25 pictures from a user.
  • Fixed an error where the slideshow wouldn't work in a 2 screen setup.
  • Fixed a bug where shortcuts would sometimes not work.

New in PhotoDesk 1.2.1 (Jun 3, 2011)

  • Fixed the bug where one couldn't click left or right arrow in the comment field.
  • Fixed the bug where the heart icon was always being displayed

New in PhotoDesk 1.2 (May 28, 2011)

  • New Favorite Friends Function: If you follow many people, you will certainly enjoy having your close friends always visible.
  • Growl support: Now you can always see what's up in your feed, even if you're working in another app.
  • Enhanced keyboard shortcuts: The new shortcuts make it even faster to browse or like pictures.
  • Multiselect: Now you can select more than one image if you want to add it to an album.
  • New Features:
  • Added the ability to create favorite friend lists. If you follow many people, you will certainly enjoy having your close friends always visible.
  • Added support for Growl notifications. Activate them in the preferences
  • Added two additional skins in the preferences to change the looks of the detail view
  • Support for private users. InstaDesk will ask you to send them a follow-request.
  • Added shortcuts for opening the detail view, and liking.
  • Added support to use the left / right arrows for browsing.
  • Added support to use the space bar in the feed to advance one entry
  • Added apple-r as the shortcut for reloading
  • You can now drag more than one image into an album! Multiselect only works if you start your selection on the right side where no pictures are.
  • Added the option to edit existing albums
  • Added more icons for the albums
  • Added a screen to display new version features and also acts as simple help
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed the bug where the next / previous buttons would stop working from time to time.
  • The state of the toolbar, if changed, is now being saved in between restarts.
  • Fixed a bug where the feed would reload multiple times
  • Fixed several small UI bugs
  • Fixed a bug where clicking on @username didn't open the user but a webbrowser
  • Changed and enhanced the comment fields
  • Fixed the 'cliend_id or access_token URL parameter missing' error that would pop up from time to time
  • Fixed a probably where news wouldn't work from time to time
  • Fixed a bug where the previous / next image buttons wouldn‘t work anymore
  • Fixed a bug where it was not always obvious how to open the main window again if it had been closed.

New in PhotoDesk 1.1 (May 4, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • Revamped the tag screen and added the ability to add, save, or delete custom tags
  • Added a feature that allows to click hashtags or users in the comments or the photo description and immediately go to the profile or tag
  • Now, you can delete your comments or unlike your likes
  • Added the ability to easily reply to people by clicking a small arrow next to their comment in the comment list
  • Now all likes are automatically loaded when opening a photo
  • Added a menu that pops up in the comment field when a @ is entered. One can select out of the current set of followers or follows then.
  • Made it possible to like photos from within the slideshow
  • The location, where a photo has been taken, is also being shown in the photo details now. Just click on the small arrow and it will be opened in Google Maps
  • Changed the feed so that it displays click hashtags or usernames
  • Added the ability to set the sort order for the comments (newest first or oldest first)
  • Added more details to the photo detail view
  • Changed the slideshow so that it starts with a nice animation
  • Changed the size of the login window to better fit big screens.
  • Added the ability to use the search field to filter the current set of images by tags.
  • Now, the enter tag can be used to confirm in the 'Search for tag' sheet.
  • Added a place where the release notes can be found (you're reading them right now :)
  • The amount of comments and the amount of likes is now being displayed in the tab header in the detail view
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug that lead to the news sometimes displaying many of old events as unread.
  • Fixed a bug where after clicking an user in an album one could not get back to the picture.
  • Fixed bugs where the breadcrumb suddenly wouldn't work anymore
  • Removed a bug that lead to the like / control buttons in the window menu sometimes not being available
  • Removed a bug where the comments weren't visible anymore after liking a photo.
  • Removed the bug where it said Instamac in the menu
  • Fixed the bug where you couldn't click a photo twice to open it
  • Removed the bug where the word 'Following' sometimes wasn't visible.
  • Fixed a bug where the author pictures in the comment listing would display the wrong author
  • Fixed a bug in the feed view where the amount of comments or the amount of likes would suddenly disappear after viewing a photo in the detail view
  • And some smaller bugs