Saturday 07/11/2026
Took a walk over to Zoe for coffee, then back through the farmers market. Spent the rest of the morning catching up on podcasts and reading. After lunch and a nap, I put a couple of hours into a beta test.
I was looking for a Mac app that would let me edit the metadata of my thousands of image files. Back in the day, I managed those files using the app called Adobe Bridge, and with Bridge I had painstakingly added titles and keywords and location info to, if not all, at least hundreds of slides.
I’d like to search on and edit those fields, for instance find all the pics with the keyword “statue” or “Marian”, or add info. Adobe Bridge is long gone, absorbed into Adobe’s giant subscription-only package deal. So I tried an app off the Apple App Store. It didn’t do what I wanted so I wrote a critical review, and the developer contacted me and asked if I would like to be a beta tester for the next release, which would have at least some of what I wanted. Sure. So last week I got an email, and installed the official Apple beta test app TestFlight, and today I finally got around to trying out the updated version. I gave them a bunch of constructive friendly feedback. We’ll see what happens.
At 5:30 I met up with Joanne and we walked to Rinconada Park carrying our new camp chairs, that we bought at REI some months ago and haven’t yet used. This was for one of the city’s Twilight Concert series. Tonight it was by an ABBA cover band. I thought I would recognize a lot of tunes but it turns out I didn’t know ABBA’s music all that well. So couldn’t sing along very much. “Take a chance on me,” I knew that chorus.
Codgerville 