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Busy week-end

For different reasons, I had to update two of my apps, LocalIntelligence and Image Filters for Shortcuts, over the week-end.

Image Filters for Shortcuts 1.2

Over the week-end I received a bug report for my Image Filters for Shortcuts app. It turns out that the app did not consider the EXIF orientation data. This mistake caused pictures taken on the iPhone (and other digital cameras) to not be properly handled. Since this was a pretty bad bug, I decided to fix it immediately. On Sunday, I updated both the macOS and iOS versions and uploaded them to App Store Connect. Both were approved before noon today and are available on the App Store. It seems that Apple is no longer facing App Review delays.

I am extremely grateful to the person who submitted the bug report. That is the way apps improve.

By the way, this version comes just on the heels of version 1.1, which added integration with Apple’s Photos app. All the filters can now be applied directly within Photos, which should make the app even more useful.

LocalIntelligence 1.4

Gemma 4 was released a couple of days ago and I decided to test it. It turns out that I had to upgrade Ollama to install the new model. This made me wonder if Ollama had made some significant under-the-hood changes. It turns out that Ollama hadn’t but the official MCP Swift SDK was recently upgraded to version 0.12, so I decided to use the latest version in my app. That broke a few things but I was fortunately able to quickly fix the issues. The new version is now available both on the App Store and on my web site (that version has support for local STDIO MCP servers).

By the way, I must say that Gemma 4 is quite impressive. It is a great model and I am planning to use it for some tasks to reduce my Gemini API token consumption. For example, when I ask it to translate a text into Mexican Spanish, there are now noticeable differences with Spanish from Spain and the results are actually quite good, much better than expected for a local model.