Lightning Brain ImageLibraryLoader is one of our freebies – it handles a floating library-palette filled with images that are automatically retrieved from one or more folders; a bit like a fast and lean mini-version of Adobe Bridge.

The free Lightning Brain ImageLibraryLoader has been updated to better support InDesign CS4. The main issue that we fixed was a CS4-specific problem where all imported assets carried the name ‘Untitled’. Click here for more info and for the download links.

There’s a common problem on Mac OS X when there are multiple versions of Adobe® InDesign® or Adobe® InCopy® installed on the same computer. Double-clicking an .indd file’s icon will often cause the wrong application to launch.

The horror scenario: your customer sends you their InDesign CS2 file; you double-click it. It opens in the brand new copy of InDesign CS4 you just installed on your Mac. You work on the file for two days, and send it back to your customer. They cannot open it – they only have InDesign CS2. The fun starts…

To fix this, we’ve been building a little app called Lightning Brain InDesignProxy; we had a rapid succession of ever-improving versions over the last month, but things seem to have settled – we’ve had no bug reports for a while now. Click here for more info.

We’ve released it as ‘cup-of-coffee’-ware: if you like the app, and it saves you time, we’d appreciate a nice ‘Latte Grande’ with bells and whistles – come back to the Lightning Brain InDesignProxy page and send us a US$4 donation to show your appreciation.

On the other hand, if you hate the app, or it does not work for you – please send us feedback at support@rorohiko.com; we would really appreciate that!

Check it out – click here to read more and to download it!

We’ve switched most of our web pages over to a WordPress-driven setup; there’s still a few odds and ends to clean up, but we’re mostly there.

From now on, you should be able to use the RSS features of your browser and simply subscribe to our web pages or web page categories to get automatic updates.

Over the years, we’ve steered clear from any mass emailing or mailing lists – we think that the overall irritation factor of mass emails is higher than the overall information factor.

We don’t believe in supplier-driven information flows – we believe in customer-driven information flows: every customer should be in control of just how much information he or she wants from us.

We also believe e-mailed information is close to useless – either you’ll delete it, lose it, or you’ll be stuffing it into a massive e-mail archive together with a million other unrelated e-mails. In your archive the info is immune to any corrections or additions we might want to do – so it rapidly loses value over time. And you just hope that you’ll find it back when you need it. We simply don’t think that’s a good approach, even if everyone is doing it.

So, instead, we put our info on our web pages. You can use a search engine to find it, and we can keep it up-to-date. Much better!

We also don’t run any ads on our web site (except of our own, of course) – you’re not visiting the Rorohiko web site to see some random ads, are you?

Thanks to WordPress, we’ve gotten a bit closer to the ideal situation! So, if you want to stay up to speed on the cool stuff we do – please subscribe!

Lightning Brain TextExporter now supports Adobe® InCopy® as well as Adobe® InDesign®, for any version between CS and CS4.

The latest version is 2.0.7. For more info and/or download, click here.