A simple question - what is a photocast?

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A simple question - what is a photocast?

I have used iPhoto for years without coming across the term 'photocast'. I am now trying to use Dashcode and find the term constantly referred to, however I cannot find any definition of the term anywhere. I realise it probably seems to be a stupid question but I would welcome an explanation.

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Posted on Aug 13, 2010 6:03 AM

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Yer_Man

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Aug 13, 2010 6:28 AM in response to zanyjudy

Basically, it's a way of sharing photos via RSS feeds.

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TD

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zanyjudy Author

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Aug 13, 2010 6:33 AM in response to Yer_Man

Does that mean it has to be loaded onto the web and accessed from there?

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Yer_Man

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Aug 13, 2010 8:05 AM in response to zanyjudy

Not as I recall.

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TD

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zanyjudy Author

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Aug 13, 2010 8:17 AM in response to Yer_Man

I am sorry to persist but it sounds like it is simply a folder with some photo files in it, so why the term and why does Dashcode insist on a URL for a photocast?

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Yer_Man

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Aug 13, 2010 8:44 AM in response to zanyjudy

I have no idea what Dashcode is not to mind why is insists on things 😉

That said, it's been a while and I suspect that Photocasting involved using MobileMe or something similar.

Have you tried googling it?

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TD

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zanyjudy Author

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Aug 13, 2010 9:49 AM in response to Yer_Man

Dashcode is Apple's system for developing Dashboard Widgets. MobileMe, something else I know nothing about!
If you want to be confused go to iPhoto Help and search for photocast. If you can make sense of what you find you are a better man than me Gunga Din.

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Chris CA

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Aug 13, 2010 11:32 AM in response to zanyjudy

A photocast is simply a feed with photos (as opposed to a podcast in iTunes) on the internet.
You add photos to it and others subscribe to view the photos.

With iPhoto, you can create a photocast and publish it to your MobileMe account. You add/delete pictures as you want (thru iPhoto).
Others can subscribe to it and simply open iPhoto to see (and download) the photos in your photocast.

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Old Toad

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Aug 13, 2010 12:12 PM in response to zanyjudy

The photocast was discontinued with iPhoto 7. iPhoto 6 was the last version to use it. Only iPhoto users are able to subscribe and view photos in photocasts. It's similar to subscribing to a MMe gallery and was replaced by MMe galleries so that non-Mac users could view the photos as well.

UPDATE: Actually you can determine the rss feed by going to your iDisk/Web/Site/iPhoto folder and getting the path to the index.rss file in the album folder of the photocast. It would be http://web.me.com/MMeAccount_Name/iPhoto/AlbumName/index.rss.

I made a quick test photocast with my old iPhoto 6 library and it came thru as http://web.me.com/toad.hall/iPhoto/v6pc/index.rss. Several of the thumbnails don't show for some reason in the test.

OT

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