What I wanted to change is mainly to get control over IPTC Tags alrady inserted in your exported file and get a fast response, when dropped a new file in your uploader. Mainly I was always astonished about the order your files will appear in ipernity, when you drop more then one file: The upload sorting is the reverse order you dropped the files. This fact is annoying, thus you start to upload file by file instead of managing a upload set and the start to upload the whole set.

A year ago I start using the Apple Platform personally, so this was a opportunity to get accustomed with this platform inernally too and change the workflow of uploading pictures to ipernity with my own uploader. And: I do not like the UI of this old Java Uploader. And don't talk about Lion.

So this is the bad news: The new uploader is for Apple only, sorry all Win Folks, if you want your brand new uploader, you have to write your own (Do it, do it, but do not ask me, hm?). Next weeks I think a good beta will be available. Maybe you: Apple user (*Yay*!) are interested to attend to a beta testing phase?

I am very busy with other projects, so please be little patient for the final beta. But I am searching for some Apple ipernians which may want to contribute to a beta test phase of this new ipxUploader. All comments and other ideas (Maybe things you got angry and I don't know obout it) are very welcome.

The ipxUploader will be distributed for free, to have one more good news on top.

Talking so much; I want to share a little movie as a preview of this new uploader:

Sorry, the quality of this video is not sooo ultra, I am photographer, not video maker ;-)

Feel free to contact me on iperMail if you are interested, want to see a first beta and try it. Do not forget to send me your real mail adress, I will send to all beta testers a fine .dmg for installation. Based on the experiences of the beta testers the uploader will be distributed to all interested users via Apple Store and a dedicated website.

What I am working on: Show a list and a icon view, toggle upload sorting direction, edit the IPTC tags already contained in your pics and correct automatically some iper-bugs with IPTC keywords. Gather some information after uploading, especially track the upload ticket to get the information when this pic is really processed by ipernity and is now visible, so that you can spend more time in editing your pictures than constantly reloading the page till you see the upload result...

Any comments? Suggestions?

[Currently working on: Toggle upload direction, Thumbnail-Upload-View, missing privacy settings Friends/Family, missing commenting permissions, license default & settings on image (Creative Commons) , jUploader IPTC-tag bugfixing**, reduced memory consumption*, upload ticket tracking, open uploaded image page by button, threaded network requests on startup, Lion tests, support other files than images (e.g. mp3), hardening concurrency issues, keep alive & online update check, stop upload possibility, bug on uploading videos, license agreement, dmg file, support website ]

*:Yea: 80% less memory consumption than jUploader

**:IPTC Bugs (IPTC: Photo meta tags, maybe set by your photo editing software):

1. If IPTC Caption set, but jUploader description is set to empty, upload will result in IPTC caption.

2. If IPTC Keyword is a single keyword containing a space, this will result in two tags.

3. Ipernity adds author information as tag.

See this all in a brand new updated preview.