Fitting the battle of life

Would have been better two release ago, and it would have been facebook and f-spot in feisty for alliterative goodness, but oh well.

The previous facebook plugin for f-spot (0.95) was pretty broken, and the online facebook uploader won’t work with Firefox 3 at the moment, which sucks a little because photos is an application I use quite a lot - I’m now up to 35 albums, many of which have the full 60 photos in them.

So imagine my delight when I realise there’s a new version of the plugin available (0.96) which does indeed work. I had a few glitches getting the log-in working, but once it did I was able to export photos to facebook without a hitch. The plugin allows you to create a new album or add photos to an existing album, add captions, and right-clicking brings up a ‘Who’s in this photo?’ dialogue, although that’s quite buggy (and by quite buggy, I mean, I won’t be using it because the dialogue doesn’t seem to work at all, and doesn’t come off the screen until you close f-spot).

Uploaded photos require your approval when you open the album online, but this is standard facebook behaviour.

I saw a friend exporting photos to an album from iPhoto (is it called that?) on his Mac last summer, so we’re a little behind with a fully functioning version, but at least it now works for me.

[On a side note, f-spot very rarely exits gracefully on my system, always requiring a force quit. Anyone else have this problem?]

Well, everyone knows what facebook does, right? It’s a social networking site, the bane of productivity and a spam folder for all those useless applications you’ll never use, yes?

Check out mirror.facebook.com. It’s a repository for plenty of open-source applications.  Who’d have thunk it?

This is a wonderful story about how the French press was so easily deluded by things that were said and done on Facebook, believing them to be true. Moral of the story: just because it’s in a book (or newspaper) doesn’t make it true.