Sparkbooth Photo Booth Software News

Sparkbooth 2.3.2 has been released. Changes include:

• Switch ScreenTweet uploader to new OAuth API
• TweetPhoto is now Plixi. Updated service urls for new domain
• Use control-K or command-K to switch video/image color on “Press space bar to begin” screen
• Print prompt dialog now shows print preview

Sparkbooth 2.3.1 has been released. This is a minor maintenance release to sort layout list by image size and title.

To download this update, please start Sparkbooth and you will be automatically prompted to install the update.

Sparkbooth 2.3 has been released. This is a major release and contains many new features:

• Convert Twitter service uploaders to new OAuth authentication. On August 31th, Twitter turned off basic authentication which is used by all the Twitter upload services in Sparkbooth 2.2, so these upload services stopped working on that date. The conversion to OAuth will allow those upload services to continue to work.
• Add yfrog uploader
• Removed ScreenTweet, TwitDoc, and TwitSnaps uploaders since they do not support Twitter OAuth authentication requirement
• New re-print feature. Press control-P or command-P to reprint the last photo during the “Press Spacebar to Begin” screen.
• New application lock feature. When locked, users cannot quit the application, exit full screen, access settings or camera dialogs. Press control-L or command-L to toggle lock mode. Unlocking can be protected with a password.
• Added 3-photo and 1-photo layouts. Sparkbooth can now handle less than 4 photo sessions.
• Added video display-only theme. This is useful if you are using a 1-photo layout.
• Added usage statistics to Settings > Options > Other
• Fixed issue with clicking on “Press Spacebar to Begin” message to start photo session.
• Add missing “2 x 2 Top, Portrait” layout
• New 1 + 3 layouts
• New 4 x 1 duplicate strip with logo layout
• New 2” x 4” strip layout

To update, start Sparkbooth on your computer while connected to the internet and you will be prompted to install the update.

Starting today, August 31th, 2010, Twitter is switching off basic authentication for third-party services. This means all the Twitter upload services in Sparkbooth 2.2.1 or lower will no longer work. If you want to continue to use any of these Twitter upload services, please download and install Sparkbooth 2.3 Beta. TwitrPix, Img.ly, MobyPicture, Posterous, TweetPhoto, TwitGoo, TwitPic, and yFrog have all been updated to use the new OAuth authentication method now required by Twitter. Unfortunately, ScreenTweet, TwitDoc, and TwitSnaps have not updated their services to use the new authentication method, so they have been removed from Sparkbooth for now until they have been updated.

Sparkbooth 2.3 Beta 2 is now available to try. You can download the beta from here. If you have a previous version of Sparkbooth installed, click the replace option during installation (the version is displayed as 2.2.1 in the install dialog). Changes since 2.3 beta 1 include:

• Added 3-photo and 1-photo layouts. Sparkbooth can now handle less than 4 photo sessions.
• Added video display-only theme. This is useful if you are using a 1-photo layout.
• Added usage statistics to Settings > Options > Other
• Removed ScreenTweet, TwitDoc, and TwitSnaps uploaders since they do not support Twitter OAuth authentication requirement

Sparkbooth 2.2.1 has been released. This is a maintenance release to add back the “2 x 2 Top, 4 x 6 Portrait” layout.

If you are running Sparkbooth 2.3 Beta, you do not need to install this update.

Sparkbooth 2.3 Beta is now available to try. You can download the beta from here. If you have a previous version of Sparkbooth installed, click the replace option during installation (the version is displayed as 2.2 in the install dialog). Changes in this beta include:

• Convert Twitter service uploaders to new OAuth authentication. On August 31th, Twitter will be turning off basic authentication which is used by all the Twitter upload services in Sparkbooth 2.2. So these upload services will stop working on that date. Please use Sparkbooth 2.3 if you wish to continue using Twitter for uploads.
• Add yfrog uploader
• New re-print feature. Press control-P or command-P to reprint the last photo during the “Press Spacebar to Begin” screen.
• New application lock feature. When locked, users cannot quit the application, exit full screen, access settings or camera dialogs. Press control+L or command+L to toggle lock mode. Unlocking can be protected with a password.
• Fixed issue with clicking on “Press Spacebar to Begin” message to start photo session.
• Add missing “2 x 2 Top, Portrait” layout
• New 1 + 3 layouts
• New 4 x 1 duplicate strip with logo layout
• New 2” x 4” strip layout

Adobe AIR 2.0.3 runtime is now available at http://get.adobe.com/air

According to the release notes, this release fixes the following issue “Camera resolution limit on Linux. Camera resolution cannot be increased beyond 320x240 on Ubuntu Linux”.

Changes in this release include:

• New landscape layouts
• Fix layout preview in layout settings
• Add option to enable click to start
• Fix centering of message display
• Add option to automatically set print orientation
• New photo layout rendering engine

Note: I accidentally excluded the “2 x 2 Top” layout, you can download the fix for that here. Sorry about that!

This is a maintenance release. Changes include:

• Generates upload log. Some photo sharing services may not be reliable, so each photo’s upload status will be logged in the file “partybooth-upload.log” in your Documents folder. You can use this file to manually upload failed photos later.
• Other minor bug fixes

If you have Sparkbooth installed, start the application to get this update.

Have a great July 4th weekend!