A student software developer by the name of Sean Farley has just released a plugin for Aperture that allows easy uploading of images to the social networking website, Facebook.com. Sean, a PhD student in Mathematics has converted most of the code for Facebook’s iPhoto plugin, originally developed by Facebook’s own Josh Wiseman.
The plugin allows you to select any number of photos, and tag each person’s face, by clicking in the image. Once you are finished, the plugin uploads the tagged photos to your Facebook.com account.
Sean says the plugin is still largely under construction, although he has made some major improvements, including a fix that keeps Aperture from crashing when displaying the upload progress bar. He has also added functionality to add a ‘Facebook’ keyword to each uploaded image, and the plugin will add facebook tags to your photos via Aperture’s keywords.
Sean is currently leaving this project as open source and you can download his source files from his website at http://seanfarley.org/aperture.
You may need to download and install the framework MKAbeFook in order to get his plugin to work properly. The framework is also available from his website, and you can install it simply by copying the framework folder into your /Library/Frameworks directory.
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