Flamingo For Mac



Every year for the last 26 years, Santa Flamingo delivers a flamingo to my husband to join the flock. Sometimes more than one flamingo a year takes up residence at our house. Since we all know flamingos enjoy macarons, I decided to invite the flock inside for a macaron party. MAC Flamingo is a moderately warm-toned, medium-dark pink with a pearl finish. It is a permanent lipstick that retails for $20.00 and contains 0.1 oz. Video card speed does not affect Flamingo NXT. Running Rhino 5.0 for Windows on Macintosh hardware with Bootcamp and one of the Operating systems above is supported. Simply Rhino suggests that if you are using a Mac then BootCamp with Windows 7 64bit is the best option. Flamingo for Mac (sometimes referred to as Flamingo) was added by rguilleminot in Mar 2014 and the latest update was made in Mar 2019. The list of alternatives was updated Oct 2019. It's possible to update the information on Flamingo for Mac or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Permalink Reply by Roy Hirshkowitz on February 21, 2014 at 7:50am

It's still in the planning stages. It will not be part of the initial Rhino release for the Mac. It's possible it will occur during the V6 time frame, but no definite plans yet.

The nXt Studio product could be more easily ported and could come out a lot sooner if there is demand.

Permalink Reply by Suhas on February 22, 2014 at 9:08am

Hi Roy, thanks for the info. I am desperately waiting for a mac version!!

Permalink Reply by William on March 2, 2014 at 12:21am

+1

Though FlamingoNxT runs fine under Parallels V8+Win7 [64]; but my Sail Yacht model becomes so huge ... 500 MB 3Dm file; and when rendering with deck hardware consumes 10GB of RAM assigned to //+Win7

William

Flamingo

MacPro 3,3Ghz; 12 cores; 16GB Ram OSX 10.9.2

with Parallels v8+Win7[64] 8 cores and 10Gb assigned. Rhino v5[64]+Orca+TSplines+NxT.

I still prefer working under Parallels than in a Bootcamp working session.

Permalink Reply by Suhas on March 2, 2014 at 5:07am

As if now Parallels is the Best!!!! But i like the overall feel of mac ver rhino, and hence the craving for mac flamingo.. all of it is so smooth.... i wonder how flamingo will run on mac version!...

Permalink Reply by Roy Hirshkowitz on March 2, 2014 at 2:34pm

Are you using a commercial texture map for the decking? If so, these are sometimes very high-res and can consume lots of memory. These high-res versions can often be down-sampled in Photoshop without sacrificing any quality.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Naden on November 4, 2014 at 7:17am
Flamingo for sale

Flamingo Macbook Case

I put up a petition to see how much interest there is.

Sign if you want nXt for OSX

Permalink Reply by Mark Naden on November 25, 2014 at 7:50am

Hi Roy,

I thought there would be massive demand to release a OS X version ASAP. I am disappointed that there seems to be only a few of us. But please could you port nXt Studio for us. Even a rudimentary version would be really helpful so we can keep our work flow on the MAC OS and avoid switching back and forth.

Thanks!

Mark

Permalink Reply by Mark Naden on February 12, 2015 at 9:45am

Hi Roy,

How could we persuade you to start porting nXt Studio? Demand is hard to quantify. I think it is more of an 'if you build it ...' situation.

Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Mark Naden on November 4, 2014 at 6:52am

Can someone please give advice on the best MAC alternative to nXt while we wait, and wait, and wait ... I now have a huge partition on my mac solely devoted to nXt rendering. It is the absolute last thing I cannot do on the MAC. I am buying a new computer next month and would prefer not to buy another copy of Windows.

Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Suhas on November 4, 2014 at 6:56am

if u want to do professional renderings on next, i suggest u buy a windows pc or use parallel desktop i.e. if you have a heavy running machine(MAC), SINCE its not sure as in when the nxt for mac will be released.. from the looks of it i don't think it will happen any time sooner!!

Permalink Reply by Mark Naden on November 4, 2014 at 7:44am

Thanks for the reply. I put up a petition to see how much interest there is. Please sign if you are interested.

Permalink Reply by Suhas on November 4, 2014 at 8:01am
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It’s been awhile since I wrote about a Mac app, in fact its been 6 days since I posted something on this blog, my bad. But today, I am writing about one of my most favorite Mac app that I first used when it was launched, and the app is Flamingo. The Messages app in OS X works fine for me and since we can use it to chat with our Facebook friends too, its good to use that instead of keeping Facebook opened in a tab in the browser. But when it comes to user experience, OS X’s Message app isn’t the best we have, or is it? I find it a bit complex.

Flamingo is a new messaging app which allows you to chat with your Google and Facebook friends. And, this app is gorgeous. I was looking to use this app primarily since I saw its screenshots on Flamingo.im, not because of its modern and classic interface, but also for the features it had. I downloaded it after few days of launch and unfortunately, it didn’t work well for me at first. I logged into my Facebook account and it froze there for infinite time, and I had to Force Close it every time. Though Google Hangouts was working fine. It was like heart breaking thing for me.

But recently, the guys behind the app, Christian Dalonzo and Indragie Karunaratne, pushed a new update and I instantly downloaded the new update. The Change-log said “Lots of Crash fixes“, so I was desperate to try Flamingo 1.1.1 and was just hoping that it fixed the Freeze problem. And yes, it did fixed the problem, and I am using this lovely app all day.

When you first start the app, it shows a Welcome window which covers the app’s features as you slide. When you get to the last screen in the same window where you can’t slide anymore, it shows the option to login into your Facebook, Google accounts or XMPP account. XMPP is yet another protocol used for communication and messaging purposes. So, you can not only use Flamingo to chat with your Google and Facebook friends, but you can also add your XMPP account.

When you click on the Facebook or Google login option, it opens up a login page in the same window. If you are logging in the app for the first time, which I guess you probably are, then you need to allow the app to access some of your profile’s data, which I think is safe. Once you log into the app, it takes some time to fetch the data. Once its done, you will see all your online friends on the left block.

Flamingo comes with modern interface, with list of online users on the left, which by default shows only the profile photo of your friends grouped by account type and expands to display the name too when you hover over the block. There’s also a search box on the left block on the bottom, with the help of which you can quickly find the friend you want to chat with. The right block displays a list of active chats.

The main window expands when you click on your friend’s name or photo you want to chat with on the left block. The conversations window looks classic, with messages with bubble backgrounds. You can send the same set of Emoji’s that come with OS X’s Message app. The app features nice transitions, specially the one when you hit the enter button to send the message.

One nice feature that comes with Flamingo app is it displays Inline media for some popular services like CloudApp, Droplr, Twitter and Instagram. So, you don’t have to leave the conversation to view media from these sites. Also, it allows users to transfer file within the conversations, using Direct transfer, or with the help of CloudApp or Droplr.

While in the conversation, it notifies when the friend you are talking with goes offline, or comes online. There’s a button on the bottom left on the conversation window which detaches the conversation window from the main window. Flamingo also supports full-screen view, so you can click on the expand button at the top right to switch to full-screen mode.

If you do a lot of chatting, you may be knowing how hard it is to find something from the chat history. And there’s a full-fledged Mac app dedicated to finding chats from Flexbits. But with Flamingo, searching chats is easy with the Message Search and History browser. You can quickly search chats using the search icon on the top of active chats window. On clicking it, you get a new window with list of all your conversations. You can search anything quickly from this window by filtering the type of messages and you can also browse through the chats quickly.

Apart from all these features, it also supports Notification Center notifications and unread messages count in the dock icon. In the Preferences, you can enable or disable Notification Sound, choose the text size and choose whether to display the menu bar icon, the dock icon or both.

Flamingo Mac Wallpaper

Final Thoughts

Flamingo Nxt For Mac

There are not many IM apps for Mac, while most users use Messages app, some third-party apps like Adium are also quite popular. This beautiful app is intuitive and comes with standard set of features. All I can say is I found it better than Messaging apps I have used till date. You can buy Flamingo for $9.99 from Mac App Store.





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