Experiences setting up Potion Store

I wrote recently on some options I was considering for A Tasty Pixel’s store. Rather than going with a service like Kagi or eSellerate, I decided to build the store upon Potion Factory’s Potion Store, which is free and open-source — the latter being a big draw, as it means infinite customisability. Potion Factory have done a wonderful thing for the indie Mac developer community! Together with PayPal’s ‘Website Payments Standard’ service, which offers quite reasonable fees, all my needs were addressed.

So, I thought I’d follow up by writing about my experiences putting it all together.

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Store options for the Indie Mac Developer

With my new product, Talkie hitting the iPhone App Store, it’s time to investigate options for the selling of software for the Mac too, as Talkie will also be available shortly on Mac OS X, in both free and commercial versions.

Happily, and unfortunately, there are many, many options available for store systems, requiring varying degrees of effort to set up. In case it’s useful for kicking off others’ research, here’s what I’ve found out.

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Living the dream

Us at Hampstead Heath in London
Just in case it’s of interest to any current readers of this blog, I’ve created a new blog where I’m fairly diligently (at least, for now) chronicling our adventures as we re-invent our lives travelling Europe for a few years in a motorhome.

Read about it here

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Links for June 3rd through June 18th

Links for June 3rd through June 18th:

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Sort your Flickr photostream

Flickr has a limitation that your photostream is ordered by the date you uploaded your photos, and this order can’t be changed. If you’ve done a big import of photos – say, from iPhoto – then they could show up in your photostream in any order.

There’s been some talk about the issue, with one suggested solution being to manually set the ‘posted’ date of every photo to the ‘taken’ date. A utility exists to do this, but it has some major limitations, including a difficult user interface and limitation that causes the process to fail if you have any photos that were taken before the date you set up your Flickr account.

So, I’ve made a utility specifically for sorting a Flickr photostream. It should be fairly user friendly, and provides the ability to backup and restore your photo metadata, in case you ever want to revert.

Check it out here: SortMyPhotostream, or get access to the SortMyFlickrPhotostream source.

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Leave a comment below if it’s useful to you.

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Flickrpress: WordPress Flickr widget

Flickrpress screenshotFlickrpress is a widget/shortcode function to display items from Flickr in the sidebar or within pages and posts. This widget supports:

  • Flickr RSS feeds
  • Photostream
  • Filtering by tag
  • One or more photosets
  • Favorites
  • Displaying random items

Other features:

  • Choose from three different thumbnail types
  • Lightbox/Thickbox are supported
  • Data is cached locally to lower server load
  • Secure Flickr API used, to eliminate the risk of damage to your server, unlike some other Flickr widgets
  • Flickrpress is a multi-widget, so you can use more than one instance (e.g., one in your sidebar, one in your footer)
  • Use as a shortcode to insert into posts and pages — multiple instances supported in the one entry

Flickrpress uses the excellent phpFlickr library.

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Links for May 21st through June 2nd

Links for May 21st through June 2nd:

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