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MarsEdit Integration
While I appreciate that Viewfinder's Keynote integration is very useful for people who give talks, it seems to me that it would be more useful to more people to include MarsEdit integration.
MarsEdit is a highly-regarded OS X application that allows the owners Web-hosted CMSes (such as, among others, WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, TypePad, Movable Type, LiveJournal, Drupal, Joomla, Mambo and Vox) to manage and write content for their Websites from their desktops, which is faster and more convenient that using a Web interface.
While Keynote integration presumably targets a more professional niche, I believe it is dwarfed by the number of people who now regularly write online content and who, if anything, would find Viewfinder useful more often. There is also the added benefit that this niche would be more likely to write and spread the word about Viewfinder.
MarsEdit already has it's own Flickr integration but it only gives the user access to their own photos - it provides no way to search for images that are not in your own account.
What I would like to see is a way to search for images within Viewfinder and, when I find one I would like to use, double-click to send it to MarsEdit and have MarsEdit upload it to the catalog (the image storage area) of the Website that it is currently managing.
An example of how useful this streamlined approach could be: a guy wants to liven up his general blog about edinburgh. He uses Viewfinder to search for CC-licensed images of a minimum 400 pixels size and related to the keyword "Edinburgh". Viewfinder returns 91 images, 30 of which he guesses will be useful for future posts to his blog. Ideally, he should be able to bulk-select them for download and, once handed to MarsEdit, upload.
Apart from being extremely useful, MarsEdit integration would also generate a lot of interest in Viewfinder.
MarsEdit is a highly-regarded OS X application that allows the owners Web-hosted CMSes (such as, among others, WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, TypePad, Movable Type, LiveJournal, Drupal, Joomla, Mambo and Vox) to manage and write content for their Websites from their desktops, which is faster and more convenient that using a Web interface.
While Keynote integration presumably targets a more professional niche, I believe it is dwarfed by the number of people who now regularly write online content and who, if anything, would find Viewfinder useful more often. There is also the added benefit that this niche would be more likely to write and spread the word about Viewfinder.
MarsEdit already has it's own Flickr integration but it only gives the user access to their own photos - it provides no way to search for images that are not in your own account.
What I would like to see is a way to search for images within Viewfinder and, when I find one I would like to use, double-click to send it to MarsEdit and have MarsEdit upload it to the catalog (the image storage area) of the Website that it is currently managing.
An example of how useful this streamlined approach could be: a guy wants to liven up his general blog about edinburgh. He uses Viewfinder to search for CC-licensed images of a minimum 400 pixels size and related to the keyword "Edinburgh". Viewfinder returns 91 images, 30 of which he guesses will be useful for future posts to his blog. Ideally, he should be able to bulk-select them for download and, once handed to MarsEdit, upload.
Apart from being extremely useful, MarsEdit integration would also generate a lot of interest in Viewfinder.
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Inappropriate?This is actively being designed. I don't know that it will work exactly as you describe in the _near_ future, but I definitely want MarsEdit integration soon.
The first iteration of this feature will probably be a "copy HTML" command, with some drag-and-drop capability, but larger features could follow if there's demand.
Let me know if you think that's a useful direction to go in.
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Copy HTML sounds useful for quick, temporary uses but I suspect that most people would, like me, not use images in a post if they can't be sure that it won't disappear or, worse, be replaced with something objectionable. Control is a must and the only way to achieve that is to upload images to your own server. -
Very glad, though, to here that MarsEdit integration is on your radar, I am certain that it will be a powerful combination. Perhaps a good intermediate measure would be a Connect Flow-provided Applescript that acts as a temporary bridge between the two apps.
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