Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
See beauty in the Kaleidoscope
Category: Utility
Sofa love to create beautiful things. They worked on Aristo, the the open source theme that came from Cappuccino, but has also been picked up by jQuery UI and others.
This time around Sofa has created a simple purpose Mac application called Kaleidoscope that allows you to visualize diffs for both text docs and images.
The Website for this tool is so well done, that I feel compelled to click buy even before downloading the free 30 day demo :)
With Image Scope, you get a tool that can enable some BrowserLab-esque work, as well as diffing any old images.
With Text Scope, you get a nice looking diff viewer that integrates with your VCS workflow.
Nice work on creating something that you *want* to use guys.
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I’m waiting for a diff on layered Photoshop files.
Looks pretty, but $35 for a graphical diff app is pretty steep. (And that’s the introductory price.) Maybe if I did more image editing I’d feel differently.
Am I the only one who remembers when a Mac application called Kaleidoscope was for theming? Man some of those themes were hideous!
It doesn’t seem better than “Kompare”…
Very pretty site, though for some reason the background spotlight effect doesn’t work on Chrome Dev. Works on Firefox though
Very nice app indeed. For text comparison I would like to se 1) folder compare and 2) direct realtime editing of texts inside the app. If they add these features, like they are already available in DiffMerge, it would be the perfect comparison app :)
Hey Dion,
Thanks for the nice words about our app :)
@eyelidlessness: Yes, that app was awesome. I set up a virtual OS 9 box just a couple of months ago just to play with it again and take some screenshots. Man, those themes were crazy.
- Dirk
They have a really nice use of -webkit-mask-box-image and css3 transforms with the the logo on http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com
Here are the image sources they used along with it http://idzr.org/0w6e
see also Araxis Merge @ http://www.araxis.com/merge/