nessMediaCenter 1.7 & nessViewer 3.7 for Mac available

Access to media of the new "Photos App" by the media center is the most important innovation in these versions. In the preferences can be specified which data is made available (albums, moments, collections, media types), which possibly reduces loading time. In early February, we had begun to implement this feature, as the "Photos App" according to Apple will replace the applications Aperture and iPhoto. Those who participate in the Apple beta program for Mac OS X, can install 10.10.3 - this version is required for the "Photos App" and access by the media center.

Another new feature in nessViewer is the display of a map with the GPS position of the captured image and the images in a media show. In the media show map, each image can be displayed in the media show by clicking on the marker. The MediaCenter displays the GPS location (country, city, street) now more accurately (if these data are available) and in the media presentation the GPS position of a picture is now displayed in the bottom center.

In addition, the handling of the DLNA availability has been improved to access DS214play and a presentation can now be started from the selected entry in the MediaCenter.

The media server can now be started automatically when nessViewer is started, so that the shutdown or start of the computer can be setup by the "Energy Saver" (schedule) and the media server is always available after the computer start. Or you can use, for example, VPN to restart the computer...

In the 64-bit versions, we noticed that some images with orientation data (EXIF) were not displayed correctly what we have hereby fixed.

Once Yosemite 10.3 is officially released, we will upload nessMediaCenter to the AppStore - unfortunately it will then still take (at least) about 1 week until the AppStore version will be available. We would like to upload the new version now, which unfortunately is not allowed.

nessViewer media show with a map of the GPS locations

nessViewer App 1.9.2 for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch available

As previously reported, we have fixed a bug in this version that occurred apparently only on iPhone 5s and iPhone 6 with iOS 8. It crashed nessViewer App on these iOS devices after selecting "Open URL", entering an URL and confirming with "Open.

Since this routine - display of this view and entering an URL or a file name - is used in several places in nessViewer App, it crashed on these iOS devices in other places as well: for example, when one created a folder at "Open File", at "Present URL", added an URL to a media show and when one saved a new media show.

This was caused by calling a system routine ("callback") that is apparently not supported (anymore) on these iOS devices - we have not found appropriate documentation for this problem. Fortunately, we were able to develop a different approach which works on all iOS devices on all supported versions of iOS (iOS 4.1 to iOS 8.2).

In addition, we have also fixed some issues with displaying the status bar and we adapted some provider offers.

Meanwhile, we are already working on the next version 1.9.3 which among others allows it to access the media of the "Photos App" with the new structure (years, collections, moments, etc.).

And the news web page has been enhanced to show what is going on with nessViewer App for iOS in the same way as with nessViewer for Mac.

nessViewer App for iPad / iPhone / iPod touch & crash

Thanks to Gandhi and Ulf who informed us about a heavy problem in the "nessViewer app" for iOS (iPhone / iPad / iPod touch): with some iOS devices - as far as we were able to test iPhone 5s and iPhone 6 - "nessViewer app" crashed on iOS 8.x as soon as the URL dialog was used. And this dialogue is very much used ...

Amazingly, it concerned only (as far as we know so far) these iOS devices - with iPhone 4, iPhone 5 and iPad 2, for example, there were also under iOS 8.2 no problems or crashes. What we find very puzzling - and what made testing & debugging rather difficult.

Since the problem was neither understandable nor could be achieved with the beta testers (and their iOS devices) in the short term, we have now bought an iPhone 6 and were able to solve the problem. While still not really understandable - but if a code or a solution does not work on all devices, then we just have to develop a different approach.

Playing around with the iPhone 6, we also have found a few other small discrepancies - eg the status bar was not always shown so far, when the iOS device has been moved from portrait mode to landscape mode.

But apart from that, it makes really fun to play around with the iPhone 6. After we have changed in the "Settings App" at nessViewer the background to dark (by simply deactivating "Light"), the iPhone 6 looks even cooler. Not to mention the incredible number of features and available media...

Tomorrow we will upload the corrected version 1.9.2 and hope that Apple will releases this version soon. Where it might take a little bit longer - at the moment, Apple seems to have a lot of problems with their servers and services.

All beta testers aka registered iOS devices can download the modified nessViewer app ad hoc version 1.9.1 from the download page.