Daily Mugshot

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Daily Mugshot Redesign!

Hey Mugshotters,

We are working on a redesign of the homepage at dailymugshot.com and would love to hear your feedback! If you have any ideas or suggestions please comment on this post or shoot an email to support@dailymugshot.com. We look forward to hearing from you :)

Monday, February 21, 2011

Facebook is Back!

Facebook connect is back! Check it out: www.dailymugshot.com/publish#facebook_connect

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Flash Update

Adobe has released a new version of Flash that is now compatable with the Mac iSight. Check it out: www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Monday, January 24, 2011

Twitter Is Back!

Hello Mugshooters!

We have been making huge strides with the Daily Mugshot website and although you may have not seen a lot of the changes on your end, we really ramped things up behind the scenes. A quick overview of what's been done:

- Ruby: upgraded from 1.8.4 to 1.8.7

- Rails: upgraded from 2.0.2 to 2.3.8

- Exceptional: this plugin helps us track errors in the web application so we can get them fixed as soon as possible.

While these updates may seem meaningless to many of you, they have been paramount in our ability to put out more meaningful updates such as the Twitter upgrade :) That's right, the Twitter integration is now available again! You can setup your twitter account now by visiting www.dailymugshot.com/publish#twitter.

With these robust updates we hope to be cranking out lots of new functionality so send in your ideas! You can expect the Facebook integration to be coming out soon too :)

Thank you all for your loyalty and sticking with us! I know it's been a long time, but now we're back in action :)

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Finally! A Workaround.

Hello Mugshotters!

I want to extend my apologies to those of you who loyally came to our site every day only to wake up one morning finding that your computer would no longer connect to your webcam. Well as it turns out there appears to be a compatibility issue with the latest version of Flash for Mac OS X. The solution (as I have tested) is to downgrade your Flash. I will guide you through the steps in this post.

If you are experiencing the problem as described above, and fiddling with the Flash settings hasn't solved the problem, you are likely running Flash 10.1.102.64 (or 10.1.103.19 for Chrome). You can verify the version of Flash you are using by visiting www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/. What you want to be running is Flash 10.1.85.3. So here we go:

1. Download the flash uninstaller here: Flash Uninstaller.

2. Run the uninstaller.

3. Download the Flash 10.1.85.3 installer here: Flash 10.1.85.3

4. Open or restart Safari.

5. Visit www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ to verify that you are running 10.1.85.3

6. Verify that flash has access to your camera.

7. Verify that flash is accessing the proper camera.

8. Take your mugshot :)

Notes:

If you are using Chrome, please see further instructions here.
If you are using Firefox, please see further instructions here.

Please leave comments!

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Possible Flash Solution

Did a little more research, and it looks like this might be a solution:

obamapacman.com/2010/11/flash-player-high-cpu-usage-no-isight-webcam-video-bugs/

Please leave comments if this works for anyone!

iSight Bug Update

Hey Team,

I just got off the phone with Apple, and they seem to be completely oblivious to this problem. If you are having this issue please go through the following steps to get Apple to fix this problem:

1. Call Apple here and walk them through the issue.

2. Leave feedback for Apple here.

Please leave comments if anyone is able to find anything of interest to this issue.