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'Cameras': Customizing OS X Automatic App Launching for Multiple Cameras [Updated]

Monday June 22, 2009 1:55 pm PDT by Eric Slivka
Cameras, a new application for Mac OS X from Flexibits, allows users with multiple cameras to customize OS X's automatic application launches on a camera-by-camera (and even iPhone) basis.

Do you have multiple cameras?
Do you spend time quitting iPhoto every time you connect your iPhone?
Wish you could have your DSLR open Aperture and have iPhoto launch when you connect your point-and-shoot camera?
If so, Cameras is the solution you've been waiting for.

With familiar System Preference functionality, Cameras allows you to manage what happens when you connect your:

- Digital camera
- iPhone
- Digital media reader
- Any photo device

The application also provides the ability to specify whether or not images are automatically downloaded from a given device when it is connected to the user's computer.

Cameras comes with a free 14-day trial period, and a full license is priced at $9.95.

Update: Flexibits has temporarily removed Cameras and will soon be offering the application for free.

Update 2: Cameras is now a free download.
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Diode
Posted: 35 months ago
Looks like a handy little app
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jackbenimble4
Posted: 35 months ago
$9.95? Really?

It's annoying but not that annoying.
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roland.g
Posted: 35 months ago

$9.95? Really?

It's annoying but not that annoying.


Exactly, it sounds like a script with a UI.

Sorry but make this a free app and people will be more likely to buy your more robust software.
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Stibble
Posted: 35 months ago
Annoying ? Yes - that its not part of this 21st century OS prefs as standard !
Not $10 annoying though.
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nagromme
Posted: 35 months ago
They provided a solution to a problem--they're free to charge what they like.

That's one of TWO iPhone synching annoyances I have. The other:

I synch my iPhone with two Macs (mail/contacts/bookmarks/photos on my laptop, and apps/media on my desktop). This works great--I just check different boxes on one machine than on the other. But BOTH machines keep backups. Wasted time and space. I only want backups on the desktop machine.
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jedijoe
Posted: 35 months ago
ok, maybe its something apple should fix, but i would put it at or near the bottom of the list.

I mean, how the hell hard is it to turn off automatic application launching and just launch the application you want via spotlight when you connect the device. Most of the time, I connect a device and then switch to another "space" to open. if it automatically opened when i connected the device, the app would be incorrectly opening on the previous desktop space.
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KT Walrus
Posted: 35 months ago

I only want backups on the desktop machine.


You could try this command in the Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true
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jedijoe
Posted: 35 months ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXNu4aWzqi4

Image Capture in Snow Leopard looks like you can do this exact thing..
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Apple Ink
Posted: 35 months ago
$10 for opening apps for me.... No, thank you!
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khunsanook
Posted: 35 months ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXNu4aWzqi4

Image Capture in Snow Leopard looks like you can do this exact thing..


Wow, thanks for that link. Image Capture and Preview are hugely improved in Snow Leopard - Can't wait!

I also noticed that when he closed the Image Capture window the application really closed - what I mean is that the application truly closed in the dock without having to Quit. Is there a way to get applications to do this in Leopard or is this a new feature of Snow Leopard?
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