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Version 2.2.3

Features:

  • Added basic support for Mac OS X 10.9, Mavericks. More to come, stay tuned.
  • 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 Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard.
  • Added the ability to download Instagram videos from within the detail view

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 yello '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 localization

Version 2.2.2

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

Version 2.2.1

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 a bug where the 'Share Album' function would not work for some people'
  • Fixed many smaller crashes

Version 2.2.1

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

Version 2.2

Big 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:

  • Updated the various open source libraries that InstaDesk uses to the latest versions.
  • Cleaned the codebase and removed old and unnecessary code.
  • Rewrote the networking code for faster image loading.
  • Rewrote the app to utilized ARC as the memory model
  • Deprecated 32bit systems. InstaDesk now requires a 64bit system.
  • Rewrote the image icon display. It is faster now, and clicking on the heart or comment icon will display the list of likes or comments.
  • Changed the albums function so it is faster and does not save binary data in a database.
  • Changed the looks of InstaDesk to a darker, more modern, less colorful design.
  • Added better error handling to inform the user of issues such as Instagram server fails, deleted items, or API limits
  • Made the template editor for comment templates available from different parts of the application, not just the detail view.
  • When loading a user by username (such as clicking an '@username' string) InstaDesk now displays a dialog that explains what is happening while InstaDesk tries to find the user.
  • It is now possible to select up to 30 users in the follow / follower list view for mass operations.
  • The limits for the 'Load More' function are now double as high, due to the fact that after the memory rewrite, there was much more leeway.
  • Changed it, so that the mid icon size is now the default.
  • If a favorite user deletes his account, the favorite user entry is displayed in red now.
  • The question to request authorization for a private user account is now also being displayed if the user is being loaded by clicking in a user list (such as all likes).
  • The Album View now also has a 'Share Album' button in the bottom bar
  • Removed the 'border' flag from the preferences. In order to stress the quality of the Instagram pictures, InstaDesk does not add a border anymore
  • Added a 'Logout' button to the main menu

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed an issue where the last element in the top breadcrumb bar did stay in the bar in certain circumstances.
  • The list view / icon view selector in the follow / follower view did not change when the user would dive down into a user-profile hierachy. This has been fixed.
  • Fixed an issue under Mountain Lion, where scrolling with a Magic Mouse did sometimes scroll the wrong view.
  • Fixed a whole category of bugs that happened when faulty data would come from Instagram.
  • Fixed a bug in album sharing that resulted in a problem for some users to share albums.
  • Fixed a bug where switching between images in fullscreen did not reload the comments
  • Fixed a bug where searching for a tag did only go to the tag screen, but not search for the tag.
  • Fixed an issue where follows / follower was the wrong way around
  • Fixed several display issues in the localizations.
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes the users' bio or website were not visible in the user profile
  • Fixed a bug where InstaDesk could crash when searching for a tag when a slideshow was active
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes when a user profile was loaded, it would not end up in the breadcrumb bar
  • Fixed a bug where when adding more than 100 images to an album, InstaDesk could become unresposive.
  • Fixed the tooltips for the buttons in the toolbar of the detail view.
  • Fixed an issue that arose when one was entering text into the comment field in detail view, and then switched to a different app, and then switched back. In certain circumstances the comment box would not close anymore after that.
  • Fixed a bug where deleting a comment could crash InstaDesk
  • Fixed a bug where the fast user preview could crash InstaDesk in certain situations
  • Fixed a bug where the popular tags in the tag view would sometimes not display
  • Fixed an issue where sometimes on the user profile follows and followers were inversed
  • Fixed a bug where, in certain circumstances, InstaDesk would consume 100% of the CPU.
  • Fixed a bug where InstaDesk could lock up during slideshow in fullscreen mode
  • Fixed the bug where InstaDesk would switch between different icon views almost randomly when switching between views like Popular nad Favorite Friends, etc
  • Fixed a bug where loading fast between views could sometimes lead to duplicate items
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes in Tag View InstaDesk would not open the tag that was being searched for. This does not affect, of course, tags that are censored / blocked by Instagram themselves.
  • Fixed several bugs which affected the sharing of albums and made it work sometimes and sometimes not
  • Fixed a bug which could lead to the images having the wrong order or being displayed multiple times
  • Fixed several interface issues in non-english languages.
  • Lots of small issues fixed that would result in crashes.

Version 2.1.3

Bugfixes:

  • 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

Version 2.1.2

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

Version 2.1.1

Bugfixes:

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

Version 2.1.0

Big New Features:

  • 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
  • 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 accomodate 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.
  • Enanced 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

Features:

  • Several News Enhancements: You can now search for names within the News, News can be filtered by 'likes', 'comments', and 'followers', For followers, clicking them will go to a fast user preview instead of leaving the news view. This makes it easier to process a huge amount of followers
  • The blue bar at the bottom can be hidden now
  • The mini gallery in detail view can be hidden now
  • The most important actions for a view are now always visible in the top bar and don't require opening the actions dropdown anymore
  • There's a new search field now, that allows to search within the current list of tags
  • The display of the 'Requests View' can be toggled in the preferences now
  • Added a new action in the action dropdown for the detailview: "Copy link of image to clipboard"
  • Doubleclicking the image in detail will now also leave detail view
  • Fast User preview can also be used in the follow / follower list view.
  • Added a way of providing feedback and asking questions right from within InstaDesk.

Changes:

  • Downloaded images now contain the username of the user in question
  • Improved the looks of the menu item in retina mode
  • Fixed a problem that could lead to the news not showing any content from time to time
  • The tag view now shows thousands separators for tag result numbers
  • The 'user is private, do you want to request to follow' view now also offers a cancel button
  • Going beyond the like limit while trying to like 30 items does not trigger 30 error boxes anymore
  • The reload time can be set to 2 minutes now (previously, 4 minutes)
  • In one-click-mode, double-clicking likes or unlikes the image
  • New status bar icon specifically for retina.
  • Rename 'Popular Tags' to Tags
  • For an empty news count (0) don't display anything, not a zero either
  • Double clicking a row in the follow / follower row view will now open that user.
  • Comments in the detail view con now be reloaded through the standard cmd+r command

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed a notorious bug where InstaDesk would sometimes crash when scrolling though comments
  • Fixed a crash that would sometimes happen when trying to reply to a comment
  • Fixed an issues where the comment popovers did not always close
  • Fixed a bug where, when the InstaDesk window was being resized, the image in detail view would be distorted a tiny bit
  • Fixed a redraw issue where tableview items sometimes had a weired blue border on the left or right side
  • On Mountain Lion, Notifications for new feed items are now also correctly removed from the notification center
  • Removed a huge memory problem, especially on Snow Leopard
  • Fixed an issue where the images in the detail view mini gallery sometimes didn't load
  • The 'Help' and 'Cancel' buttons on the start screen work correctly now and look more native
  • Fixed that the tag view tag sidebar sometimes would scroll vertically
  • Fixed that the reload circle for the comments would not align correctly
  • Fixed several instances where there were still non-retina icons used in InstaDesk.
  • Clicking a feed item in the Notification center on Mountain Lion will now open the feed image instead of just going to the feed.
  • Added a more detailed help to the login screen
  • And many more small issues

Version 2.0.2

New Features:

  • 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.
  • Support for the new Mountain Lion sharing system. Currently, Mountain Lion doesn't support Facebook sharing. Until this is working, the old InstaDesk sharing mechanism and the Mountain Lion sharing mechanism will be displayed side by side (click the 'more' button to access the Mountain Lion sharing in the share dialoge). When Mountain Lion adds Facebook Sharing (presumably this Fall) InstaDesk will switch to the new system completely.
  • 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:

  • 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.
  • Made the comment list faster, smoother, and more responsive on Lion and Mountain Lion systems
  • 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.
  • Under Mountain Lion, clicking a news notification will also remove it from the News section.
  • Also under Mountain Lion, deactivating Notifications will also remove all remaining notifications from the Notification center
  • 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.
  • InstaDesk now notifies the user when the Instagram feed needs to be reset with the iPhone or Android app (until Instagram fixes this issue).
  • The popover comment controller from the feed view now respects the comment sort order when opening the 'add comment' text box. I.e. when the comment sort order is set to oldest first, when the comment text box grows big, it will also scroll the scroll view down, so that the bottom comment is still visible. If the comment set order is set to newest first, on the other hand, it will not scroll so that the top comment is still visible.
  • Changed the slideshow icons to be retina compatible
  • Changed the detail view information 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.
  • 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.
  • In the Find User dialog, added the ability to double click a user to open it

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 the Growl and User notifications would not display as set in the preferences
  • 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 news would not display all content from all images if there were lots of images.
  • Fixed a memory leak which happened when users would scroll a lot 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 sometimes the message in a comment would be empty.
  • Fixed a bug where the contents of the carousel at the bottom of the detail view would not appear if opening an image really quickly after entring a section
  • 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.
  • Fixed several issues with NSCache under Mountain Lion and Lion which could cause InstaDesk to freeze.
  • Fixed an issue where the Favourite Friend icon in the sidebar would be of inconsistent size under Lion and Snow Leopard.
  • Fixed a bug where the preferences could be openeed multiple times
  • Fixed a bug in the 'Find User' dialog which could crash InstaDesk
  • Fixed a severe memory leak.

Version 2.0.1

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 a small icon in the bottom left in the 'I follow' view that indicates that this person folows you back
  • 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.
  • Added support for also searching tags that begin with a #
  • Added visible status indicator when marking huge amounts of news as 'read'

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
  • Fixed a bug where favourite users didn't work correctly

Version 2.0.0

Big New Features:

  • 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.
  • e 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 Features:

  • When you select a couple of images you can now press L to like them all. This is limited to up to 25 images.
  • Retina support throughout the whole app.
  • The sort setting is now being saved per view.
  • Updated to the new version of Growl but also made sure to still support older systems.
  • The icon view now features a right-click menu which lets you act upon one or multiple selected items.
  • In the Tagview, there is now a strength indicator for the related tags. This makes it easier to see how strong the relation between the current tag and the related tag is. If you hover over an indicator, it will give you the numbers in a tooltip.
  • The comment fields now save current comments as drafts until they're being posted or until they're manually removed. When quitting InstaDesk, they're lost though.
  • The comment field now contains a character counter so that one doesn't accidentally hit the Instagram comment length limit.
  • For private accounts, there is now a "Requests" view that allows you to allow / deny / block requests.
  • Changed the "Like" heart icon to be smaller so that it can't be accidentally clicked anymore. The old, big, icon can still be re-activated in the preferences.
  • From the Userview, it is now possible to block or unblock a user.
  • There's a new indicator that shows you whether a user is following you (small yellow triangle in the bottom left)
  • Updates from any of your favourite friends are now indicated by a white star in a red triangle in the right bottom corner.

Changes:

  • Completely enabled everything to make InstaDesk run in the App Store Sandbox.
  • If one clicks on an already selected item in the left navigation list again, it will jump back to the top of the currently selected stack.
  • InstaDesk now remembers the size of the comment list in the detail view.
  • Switching images in the detail view should be faster now.
  • When the reply button in a comment cell is clicked, the @user is now correctly appended, caring for existing spaces and inserting new spaces when necessary.
  • Made the scrolling in large comment lists happen quite a bit faster.
  • The display of the location of the image has been cleaned and reorganized.
  • The indication for new images from favourite friends is stronger now
  • With Growl Mist all users, even these without Growl, can now have InstaDesk notifications for actions
  • Created new background images

Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug in the news so that news should be more concise now.
  • Removed a big memory leak in the detail view.
  • Removed a memory leak in the slideshow.
  • Fixed a bug where slideshows started from detail view would sometimes not start.
  • When changing the current tag, the navigation now reflects that.
  • In the detail view, tags or usernames with umlauts are now displayed correctly
  • Loading detail view doesn't suddenly reduce the like displayed count to 199 anymore.
  • Cleaned up the app so it consumes less memory.
  • Fixed a bug, where sometimes, when clicking an image in an album to open it, InstaDesk would crash.
  • Fix a bug where old images in the albums could cause a crash
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes the Follow / Unfollow status of users wasn't displayed correctly or couldn't be changed.
  • Fixed a bug where the Picturesync wouldn't work correctly if the sync folder didn't exist anymore.
  • Changed the news algorithm so it is less prone to the error where it displays all previous news again
  • Fixed a bug where the right-click menu in the outline-view would sometimes appear even though it shouldn't.

Version 1.4.3

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.

Version 1.4.2

Fixes:

  • 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.

Version 1.4.1

New 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

Version 1.4

Main New Features:

  • Favorite Friends: 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 now. Based on the rewrite, more functionality will be added in the next versions.
  • 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 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.

New Features:

  • 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

Bugfixes:

  • A huge amount of fixes for the news. It should work much better now.
  • Fixed a couple of bugs that prohibited searching in various circumstances
  • Fixed a bug where the images downloaded from InstaDesk couldn't be opened with Photoshop
  • Fixed a bug where users couldn't be clicked if the username ended with a !, ? or .
  • Fixed a bug that allowed to add the same image multiple times to an album.
  • Improved the memory behaviour a bit.
  • Fixed a bug where upon entering the detail view, the comment field would suddenly loose focus.
  • Fixed the bug where when you would save a tag as favorite tag, it would reload the complete image list.
  • Fixed the bug where the InstaDesk application window came flying onto the desktop when it was minimized and one would switch to a different app.
  • Fixed a bug where InstaDesk would write huge amounts of debug info into the syslog for some users.
  • Fixed a bug where the CPU would run high in some rare cases
  • Fixed a display error where the 'Private Account' notification looked weird
  • Fixed a bug where one couldn't share his/her own pictures for private accounts
  • Fixed a bug where one the arrow navigation didn't work anymore after commenting on a picture
  • Fixed a bug in the tags where sometimes the same content was loaded twice
  • Fixed a bug where the slideshow toolbar button was sometimes inactive even though it should be active.
  • Fixed a bug where the album detail view would sometimes not work right
  • Fixed a bug where clicking L in the Detail View would not update the icon in the toolbar
  • Fixed a bug that lead to situations where, in the favorite friends, sometimes it would not load new followers when changing friends and continue displaying the old list of followers.
  • Lots of smaller bugfixes all around InstaDesk

Version 1.3.6

Bugfixes:

  • 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.

Version 1.3.5

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.
  • InstaDesk now respects your followers call for privacy. If you follow someone who is set to private (i.e. you had to apply to follow him/her), then you won't be able to download or share his/her images.
  • 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://
  • You can now unlike an image from the image lists.
  • 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.
  • In the user profile view, all followers / follows are now being loaded automatically. The "more" button has been removed.
  • The searchfield now remembers your 10 last searches
  • Huge memory and speed improvements if you have a lot of albums
  • Added the changelog view directly to the startup view (what you see right now)

Bugfixes:

  • 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 a huge error where many detail view keybindings would only work for the first opening after starting the app.
  • 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 autocomplete @username in the comment box.
  • Fixed a lot of problems with the comment listing. Now, the images show correctly, jiggle far less, the looks are more in line with Mac OS X and more beautiful, and drawing errors are gone. Also, it is faster now.
  • Fixed a problem where InstaDesk would do too many requests to the Instagram service which would lead in slow performance.
  • Fixed a bug where the App wouldn't display the albums in offline mode.
  • Album and Favourite Friends are now only visible if they actually contain entries
  • Since Emoji can't be rendered under Snow Leopard, they're now invisible there (no more weird characters in comments / descriptions)
  • The forward / backward gestures for the detail view and the slideshow didn't work under Lion, that has been fixed.
  • Fixed a memory leak in the slideshow
  • 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 led to data loss if the app crashed.
  • Fixed the looks of the feed view where it was especially ugly.
  • Fixed an error where sometimes when dropping an image on an album, the preview image wasn't saved in the image cache.
  • Fixed an error where the app would crash when performing a slideshow in offline mode.
  • Fixed an error where the app didn't behave correctly on multi screen setups.
  • Changed it so that if the posting of a comment fails, the text is still there and one can try to post again
  • Fixed a couple of problems with the news system.
  • Changed the preferences appearance icon
  • Fixed an error with the feed where it didn't automatically load all images in icon mode
  • Fixed a display bug in the comment list where the reply-to arrow wouldn't hide if one would use a common scrollwheel to scroll down.
  • Fixed a bug where in rare circumstances the app would crash when opening a user.
  • Made the "Remove Image From Album" "x" button more beautiful.
  • Redid the sharing so that the text that is generated makes more sense.
  • Fixed a bug that would lead to a crash if tags would contain whitespace in the tag search field

Version 1.3

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 on www.instaalbums.com
  • 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.

Version 1.2.6

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed the bug where the toolbar icons would sometimes be greyed out. I'm terribly sorry about this bug.

Version 1.2.5

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.

Bugfixes:

  • 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.

Version 1.2.1

  • 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.

Version 1.2

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

Bugfixes:

  • 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.

Version 1.1

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

Bugfixes:

  • 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

Version 1.0

  • Initial Release