See it again at Toxic Junction.
I seriously think it’s being done by pulling on the straps. Looks good anyway.
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
Daily Archive
It’s not just bad for gamers. Computers must be real-time in their feedback.
Lightroom is pretty cool, but it is getting a little laggy for me at times. This is not cool, but becomes downright dangerous under some conditions. For instance, if I double-click a Shoot title, to edit it, and begin typing, sometimes the double-click doesn’t take, and I’m not editing the title. Instead, my keypresses are passed on to the application to handle.
Often, this isn’t too much of a problem - the text will just be entered into the active text entry section, or ignored. But Lightroom uses some keyboard shortcuts without the Command key, for things like rating, or viewing in particular modes. This is bad, as it builds a queue of actions, and these happen, often causing the lag to become worse, as they are sometimes complex series.
Luckily, I realised early, and was able to use the Undo feature to recover.
And, while I’m at it, Firefox’s handling of most Instant Preview type code is bad too - it lags between text entry and catchup. Not cool at all. IE can handle it much better.
Can’t believe I said that!
Well, I’ve moved over to Adobe Lightroom. It’s still a beta, and it’s free in a couple of ways for me - the first is that it was a no-cost download.
The second, more important missing cost is that I gave it a set of my photos that are hard-linked to the originals, so there is no extra disk space usage.
It uses a slightly different schemata than iPhoto - photos are stored in “Shoots” rather than being date sorted, but it still looks rather good. It seems a bit faster than iPhoto, but not as snappy as I’d like it to be. Maybe I just need more RAM.
