For our summer vacation my parents bought a new camera and we wanted to test it against 2 other cameras. So we headed to the beach with the 3 cameras and took the same shoots. Long story short I came back to the beach house and uploaded all the shots to iPhoto. I then wanted to see all the information about each shot so I knew which camera too the best shoots. I kept hitting “Command+I” but all I got ...]]>

For our summer vacation my parents bought a new camera and we wanted to test it against 2 other cameras. So we headed to the beach with the 3 cameras and took the same shoots. Long story short I came back to the beach house and uploaded all the shots to iPhoto. I then wanted to see all the information about each shot so I knew which camera too the best shoots. I kept hitting “Command+I” but all I got was a gray window with a map. No camera data. Then I found out to get the detailed information,or  Extended Photo Info, you have to use the option key modifier. So to get to the detailed information of a photo in iPhoto just use the keyboard shortcut “Option+Command+I”. You can also get the detailed information or, as apple calls it the “Extended Photo Info”, you can go to the Photos menu in iPhoto and it is the first item in the drop down.

By the way the Cannon PowerShot SX200 IS is a really nice camera. My sony DSC-H9 now looks so out of date. When the iphone 4 gets here tomorrow we are planning on taking the same comparison to see how it holds up to the cannon SX200 IS.

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A week or 2 ago I went to the At&t Store in Greenville to complain about the lousy coverage I have gotten on my iPhone and my wife’s blackberry. The AT&T rep stated that I should be resetting the phone at least once a week if not every day. I asked why and she went into the dissertation she received via e-mail a few month ago and I lost interest very quickly. The gist of it was so the phone ...]]>

A week or 2 ago I went to the At&t Store in Greenville to complain about the lousy coverage I have gotten on my iPhone and my wife’s blackberry. The AT&T rep stated that I should be resetting the phone at least once a week if not every day. I asked why and she went into the dissertation she received via e-mail a few month ago and I lost interest very quickly. The gist of it was so the phone will get the most up to date information and make sure that the phone is using the right tower for its signal. So I agreed and reset my iPhone on the spot. I really did not expect it to make any difference but it did. My only problem is the time it takes to reset the iPhone. Then I had an idea, what if I just put the phone on Airplane mode for a second? That would make it drop and regain its signal. IT WORKED!!!

Getting the iPhone into airplane mode is very simple just go the settings button and move the very top sider to turn “ON” Airplane Mode, wait a second or two and the slide it back to off.

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If your family is spread out and the best way for you to share your pictures is on the web then this is for you. I love to share my pictures of my family online but don’t like not having the control over them that I may have to give sites like flickr and others like it. In this post I am going to show you how to use iWeb to take total control over how you share your photos online.

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If your family is spread out and the best way for you to share your pictures is on the web then this is for you. I love to share my pictures of my family online but don’t like not having the control over them that I may have to give sites like flickr and others like it. In this post I am going to show you how to use iWeb to take total control over how you share your photos online.

Once you have iWeb opened lets create a new site for our photos. Start by selecting a theme and in that theme the “My Albums” page type. For my example I am going to use Darkroom.

After you have the new page opened lets make the page our own. First I would double click on the Page title on the left and Rename the page. I made mine “Chandler Family”. Next you should edit the text on the page to make it what you want. I am going to leave it alone for the most part because I don’t want to confuse anyone. 

After you have customized it as much as you want it is time to start adding photos. (This is a good time to save the file if you have not yet so you don’t mess up the work you have done to this point). Open the Media Browser by clicking on the “Media” button on the bottom of the preview area. Make sure that the photo tab is selected. If you have your photos organized by events then just drag the event you want to share to the iWeb preview area right on top of the blank album. You will notice that there will be a new page added under the “My Album” page, or what ever you renamed it to. This is what will be displayed when someone clicks on the album page.

If you want to change the lay out of the My albums page just select the first album and a H.U.D. will display titled “Media Index”. In the Media Index you can change:

• Number of columns
• the animation effect that is used when someone mouses over the album, the skim effect is the same that iphoto has when you mouse over the event. 
• Whether or not there will be an RSS feed for this page (Allow Subscribe)
• Whether or not you want the title of the album and the number of photos to be displayed
• You can even choose what the album look like on the page (Index style). This is fun to play with, each template uses different ones as a default.

Now that the page is set up, oh yeah, save again, lets get some more albums in there. To do that open the Media button again and find the event or album you want and just drag it over to the preview area. 

Now we need to deal with each of the photo pages that have been generated. Select one of the photo pages and select one of the photos on the page to bring up the “Photo Grid”. In the Photo grid we will be able to customize the page to our liking. There are many of the same options as the Media Index. In the Photo Grid you can:

• Select the number of columns 
• Spacing of the photos
• How many of the photos will load on each page
• The amount of caption lines you want to display (I set mine to 0 because I don’t rename my photos and the names look funny)
• Change how the photo is displayed on the page using the Album Style drop down

You will need to do this for all of the photo pages you have made. For good design try to keep them all the same. For example if you set the captions to 0 lines do it on all the pages.

There are a few other things that we can do to help make the site better for your family. I would love to let them comment on the pictures. To do this we need to allow the comments on the site. This is a very easy thing to do in iWeb. All you will need to do is open the inspector and make sure that you are on the photo tab. Move down to the moments section and check the “Allow Comments” box. If you want to enable or disable any of the other features that go with the comments do so now. After you check the “Allow Comments” box you will be presented with a confirmation window. Make sure you read and agree with it and press the OK button. 

There is one other thing you may want to consider, if you want to make sure that you and your family are the only ones who can view and comment your photos and such then you will want to enable passwords.

To enable a password for the site (yes it is the entire site) you will need to open the inspector. Make sure you are on the Site tab (it’s the blue globe on the very left side of the inspector) and click the password button. Putting a check on the “Make my published site private” will enable the password boxes. Just enter a Username and password and you are ready to go. If you have any questions about the password feature the “help” link has a real nice explanation for you. The password feature is not available unless you use .Mac

Now all you have to do is publish this site to your .Mac account or your private domain. I put this one out for you to look at (newmacuser.com/family). 

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The nice folks over at Apple.com have put their photo printing services on sale for the books and calendars. It is a very simple process per the page that they have devoted to the sale. The sale runs now through the end of February 2008. I must say they did a good job with the books. I have 2 of them and my wife is working on one now with our Christmas Pictures from just a few days ago.

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The nice folks over at Apple.com have put their photo printing services on sale for the books and calendars. It is a very simple process per the page that they have devoted to the sale. The sale runs now through the end of February 2008. I must say they did a good job with the books. I have 2 of them and my wife is working on one now with our Christmas Pictures from just a few days ago.

The codes are:

For calendars, use code: NAWinterCal08

For photo books, use code: NAWinterBook08

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I have been using iphoto and loving it for some time now. I have tagged and rated just about every picture i have taken thats worth keeping. My only problem is that i am still having a problem finding a single picture. The DSC#$@$%@#$% name is just getting in the way. If only there were a real easy way to rename my stuff so that the names would conform to a naming convention I could understand.

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I have been using iphoto and loving it for some time now. I have tagged and rated just about every picture i have taken thats worth keeping. My only problem is that i am still having a problem finding a single picture. The DSC#$@$%@#$% name is just getting in the way. If only there were a real easy way to rename my stuff so that the names would conform to a naming convention I could understand.

Well I can do it and it can be done easily right inside iPhoto. I know that there are dozens of ways to rename a file, like use automator. But why go through opening another program to do it?

The process is very easy all you have to do is open iPhoto and select the photos you want to rename.

1. Go to “Photos” and Select “Batch Change”
2. You will see a dialog box that will allow you to change Title, Date, And Description.
3. I selected “Title” and I used “Event Name” because I have already done that and it seemed like a good name for me to use.
4. If you want to add or modify the description or date this is also where you would do that.
5. Your done the Title of the File has been Changed.

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