Starting today, August 31th, 2010, Twitter is switching off basic authentication for third-party services. This means all the Twitter upload services in Party Booth 2.2.1 or lower will no longer work. If you want to continue to use any of these Twitter upload services, please download and install Party Booth 2.3 Beta. TwitrPix, Img.ly, MobyPicture, Posterous, TweetPhoto, TwitGoo, TwitPic, and yFrog have all been updated to use the new OAuth authentication method now required by Twitter. Unfortunately, ScreenTweet, TwitDoc, and TwitSnaps have not updated their services to use the new authentication method, so they have been removed from Party Booth for now until they have been updated.

Tags: twitter, uploaders

Party Booth 2.3 Beta 2 is now available to try. You can download the beta from http://bit.ly/9xqNt7. If you have a previous version of Party Booth installed, click the replace option during installation (the version is displayed as 2.2.1 in the install dialog). Changes since 2.3 beta 1 include:

• Added 3-photo and 1-photo layouts. Party Booth can now handle less than 4 photo sessions.
• Added video display-only theme. This is useful if you are using a 1-photo layout.
• Added usage statistics to Settings > Options > Other
• Removed ScreenTweet, TwitDoc, and TwitSnaps uploaders since they do not support Twitter OAuth authentication requirement

Tags: beta

Party Booth 2.2.1 has been released. This is a maintenance release to add back the “2 x 2 Top, 4 x 6 Portrait” layout.

If you are running Party Booth 2.3 Beta, you do not need to install this update. For more information on 2.3 Beta, click here.

Tags: release

Party Booth 2.3 Beta is now available to try. You can download the beta from http://bit.ly/bY8g4m. If you have a previous version of Party Booth installed, click the replace option during installation (the version is displayed as 2.2 in the install dialog). Changes in this beta include:

• Convert Twitter service uploaders to new OAuth authentication. On August 31th, Twitter will be turning off basic authentication which is used by all the Twitter upload services in Party Booth 2.2. So these upload services will stop working on that date. Please use Party Booth 2.3 if you wish to continue using Twitter for uploads.
• Add yfrog uploader
• New re-print feature. Press control-P or command-P to reprint the last photo during the “Press Spacebar to Begin” screen.
• New application lock feature. When locked, users cannot quit the application, exit full screen, access settings or camera dialogs. Press control+L or command+L to toggle lock mode. Unlocking can be protected with a password.
• Fixed issue with clicking on “Press Spacebar to Begin” message to start photo session.
• Add missing “2 x 2 Top, Portrait” layout
• New 1 + 3 layouts
• New 4 x 1 duplicate strip with logo layout
• New 2” x 4” strip layout

Tags: beta

Adobe AIR 2.0.3 runtime is now available at http://get.adobe.com/air

According to the release notes, this release fixes the following issue “Camera resolution limit on Linux. Camera resolution cannot be increased beyond 320x240 on Ubuntu Linux”.

Changes in this release include:

• New landscape layouts
• Fix layout preview in layout settings
• Add option to enable click to start
• Fix centering of message display
• Add option to automatically set print orientation
• New photo layout rendering engine

Note: I accidentally excluded the “2 x 2 Top” layout, you can download the fix for that here. Sorry about that!

Tags: release

This is a maintenance release. Changes include:

• Generates upload log. Some photo sharing services may not be reliable, so each photo’s upload status will be logged in the file “partybooth-upload.log” in your Documents folder. You can use this file to manually upload failed photos later.
• Other minor bug fixes

If you have Party Booth installed, start the application to get this update.

Have a great July 4th weekend!

Tags: release

Changes include:

• Add custom voice settings. Use your own mp3 audio files
• Add customizable upload messages
• Fixed TwitrPix and TweetPhoto uploads. Sorry about that!
• Other minor bug fixes

If you have Party Booth installed, start the application to get this update.

Tags: release, voice, localization

This is a maintenance release. Changes include:

• Add print margin controls. If your system’s print dialog does not have configurable margins, use these settings instead.
• Fixed Flickr authorization
• Re-enable click to start on Party Booth 1.0 theme
• Other minor bug fixes

If you have Party Booth installed, start the application to get this update.

Tags: release

What's new with Party Booth 2:

• Print automatically without the print setup dialog displayed
• New user interface and animated timer
• New skin themes
• New voice prompts
• Customize all photo layouts with overlay and background
• SmugMug uploads
• Flickr uploads
• Fix Facebook extended permissions
• Minimum screen size is now 600px by 400px
• More count down and timing options
• Save individual photos
• Customizable logo
• Option to upload and print

If you have a license for Party Booth 1, you can update to Party Booth 2 for free. Just start-up the application and it will prompt you to update.

If you have Party Booth 2 beta installed, you will need to uninstall the beta before installing the release version of Party Booth 2. You may have to reactivate the install, here are a couple FAQ articles that may help you with activating or resetting your activations:

http://help.partyboothapp.com/faqs/purchasing-and-activating/activating-different-computer

http://help.partyboothapp.com/faqs/purchasing-and-activating/restting-activations

Tags: partybooth2, release