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An AppleScript wrapper for Winkflash/iPhoto Apps
My wife uses the online photo service Winkflash to print out pics of our little one. One problem with Winkflash is that their file submission scheme is pretty much Windows-only. Fortunately, I ran across blinkflash, and immediately set about making an AppleScript wrapper for it to interface with iPhoto. I call it iBlink, and it's available for download (230KB file).

It's not super fast, but it will allow you to select photos or albums and upload them to Winkflash directly from iPhoto. It will also allow you to specify destination albumns on Winkflash or create new ones, which I find very convenient. It's ditributed as an installation package/script bundle, with all the necessary goodies, and will install by default in /Library/Scripts. Make sure you install the scripts menu if you haven't already done so.

A few notes -- iPhoto will be unusable during the submission process. I wanted to add a progress meter to help give users feedback that the script was indeed working, but don't know of an easy way. (Any AppleScript Studio users have any suggestions?). Also, it will by default prompt for your Winkflash username and password. Pry the script open in Script Editor, though, and you'll see you can easily hardwire those in there and get rid of the prompts.

For those who wish to hack this, it was developed on OS 10.3 with iPhoto 4. Your mileage may vary, but I hope someone out there finds it helpful!
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An AppleScript wrapper for Winkflash/iPhoto
Authored by: i5m on Feb 17, '06 07:47:21AM

I stumbled accross this appelscript progress bar. Not tried it though: http://burro.allhyper.com/



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Would love to see this for ImageEvent!
Authored by: dzurn on Feb 17, '06 09:48:38AM

This looks like a great little solution for winkflash.co.uk

I'd like to see if this can be modified to scrape the pages for ImageEvent.com which has a similar clumsy upload page.

Hopefully it would not be too hard to modify to do this, I see some HTML form work in my future :)

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An AppleScript wrapper for Winkflash/iPhoto
Authored by: DeltaTee on Feb 17, '06 10:32:58AM
ProgBar (version tracker) works very well, and is free.

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An AppleScript wrapper for Winkflash/iPhoto
Authored by: zebrapb on Oct 15, '06 10:02:06AM

The download link for iBlink doesn't seem to work anymore. Can someone please direct me to a working download link?
Thanks!



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