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iMedia Browser 1.2.1 — and a preview of things to come

Submitted by Karelia from blog

Nov 03, 2009

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We just released version 1.2.1 of our freeware iMedia Browser. This update fixes a number of issues that were a result of changes in Snow Leopard — most notably, it solves a problem with display of the "back of the window" where licensing information and display settings are found. It also adds two new localizations: Brazilian Portuguese, contributed by Paulo Neto, and Russian, contributed by Alexandr Slavyshensky.

We thought we'd use this post as a chance to give everybody a sneak peek at the next major update to iMedia Browser. (Since the core functionality of the browser is the open-source iMedia Browser framework, it's not like development can proceed in secret!)

Peter Baumgartner, lead developer of FotoMagico, has been doing the heavy lifting of rewriting the framework from the ground up. This new version is much more responsive than the current release, because it loads its data "lazily" as needed. The new architecture also allows for asynchronous loading, which means that data sources that take a moment to load (such as over a network) can now be used. C

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