You can apply comments to the wrong photo by accident by doing the following:
Select an album or Last Film Roll that has more than one photo
Drag your photo zoom slider all the way to the right so you see just one photo
Select photo 1
Type in some comments for photo 1
Now Click on the down arrow in the photo pane (or scroll down with your mouse scroll wheel)
Notice the comments box still has the comments for photo 1
Click in the blank area around the photo
Photo 1’s comments are now applied to photo 2
Solution
If you edit comments this way, edit the comment and then click in the blank area to get iPhoto to save the comments before you scroll to a new picture.
oooh ooh ooh, one that feels real good, in my geeky grip..
Yes the MacMice mouse is less than a week old but it proved to have several flaws:
The mouse wheel is slick, and my finger would slip over it easily
The mouse wheel only scrolled every other detent, making it tough to mentally map the clicking of the scrolling wheel to movement on the screen
The mouse was light, and with the harder than normal to click buttons, the mouse would slide while clicking or double clicking, causing some clicks to fail.
So I bought this kensington optical elite mouse for $19.99. So far, it feels nice and the Kensington software is ok. The software did not come set up for prev/next for safari on the extra buttons, but I added those pretty easily by mapping the buttons to command-left and command-right for Safari only.
If you are having problems getting iPhoto 4.0.1 to update your thumbnails, check the permissions on your Pictures and iPhoto Library folders.
In my case, both folders had a group of “unknown” instead of “staff” Changing that allowed me to update my photo library!
And no, using Disk Utility’s Repair Permissions did not fix this, nor did Disk Warrior, nor any of the other of myriad of fixes.
I am still not able to rebuild my photo library by holding down shift-option while launching iPhoto. the rebuild gets to the end and then iPhoto crashes.
The mouse is nice - It is a little loud when clicking, and due to how they implemented the two buttons, when you pick it up to reposition, it drops away from your grip, but it does come with software which lets you set up the three buttons (and a handy “enable left handed” button) The scroll wheel is ok, a little tough to roll, but it is new, we’ll see how it is over time.
The SightFlex first caught my eye, as the Apple supplied iSight hold made it so I could not use my iSight in any other view than where the monitor faced. This little gem has a gooseneck so you can position it in a myriad of ways and the firewire cable runs inside the gooseneck. The top of the SightFlex is just a firewire connector that allows the iSight to snap on tightly.
As you can see from their site, you can flex the gooseneck in many positions, the weighted base holds it in place, or you can just pick it up and go!
Six Apart, who makes MovableType, the software this weblog is using, has released a FAQ about TypeKey.
Essentially, TypeKey is a free service for people running MovableType (although it can be licensed by other apps) to provide a user registration system. Users will register with TypeKey and then have access to every TypeKey enabled weblog, plus other applications.
This means that it is easier for people who have registered once, to use any TypeKey blog, thus lowering the cost of entry in terms of time, and makes it easier for Six Apart to block accounts abusing systems.
Once MovableType 3 ships, it will be interesting to see if I can block accounts individually on my own. I would expect so.
I get a lot of spam posted to my entries, which is why posting is off for new entries, and once I switch over to MT 3, I’ll be going through and deleting the spam from my older entries.
Elizabeth took me to see Colin Hay of Men At Work fame last night in a very small setting at Artichoke Music on Hawthorne. Less than 50 people fit in the room and the man was a hoot! Very fun, great music, much fun was had.
Colin has had a solo career since Men At Work broke up in the mid-80s. Check out his music at Colin’s website.
This just in - Apple announces hot new LCD Dislays, in 1.7″, 2.0″ and 2.3″ sizes and available in silver, gold, blue, green and “we can’t keep em in stock” red. Dubbed the “Apple Cinema Mini” displays, these displays pack a whollop in such a small space. “Now you can wear your display on your wrist, freeing up your desk for air,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
I use a program called SpamSieve as my spam filter on the Mac. I turned off Apple’s Mail.app spam because I like SS better, as it is updated more, it works with many email clients and has statistics.
Since 1/26/04, I have received 1233 good emails and 10,000 spam. In other words, 90% of the email traffic I get is junk.
I’ve been a Pronto user for many users now. I loved my pronto, but I didn’t love designing screens, the lack of hard buttons nor teaching people how to use it.
So when I heard about the Harmony, I waited for awhile and then finally picked one up.
Pros
Anyone with a home theater, or at least TV/stereo needs one. You program it via the web, then it downloads a file to your mac which installs it over USB. The database is user supplied and it knows things like “How do you listen to sound, through the TV or stereo?” You tell it what devices you have, and since it is ACTIVITY based, there is one off button and no on buttons nor device buttons.
You click “Watch a movie” or “Listen to music” and it turns on what needs to be on, turns off what needs to be off, and sets up the inputs.
My Toshiba TV sucks. It has 5 inputs but no discreet codes for any of them so the thing knew to press channel up to get to the first input, then source 5 times to get to HD component. However it never worked. The wrong input was always selected. I went to the website, clicked on my TV, clicked edit options and it had timing delays for tv on, between input and bewteen keypress. So I changed the TV on delay to 5500ms and the inter input to 1500ms. Now it works like a charm!
The Harmony has three emitters, I can control my iPOD from around the corner! Harmony even knew about my Navipod IR remotre for my ipod. Though not at first, so I recorded the play button into the remote then connected it and it searched thieir database and said “You have a ten technogies navipod, right?” and I said yes and boom, done!
This is one great, easy to use remote and for the $199, ($159 at MacForce) highly recommended.
Cons
I had to dremel the case a little, as some buttons were sticking. There seems to be some QC issues as all of the remotes at MacForce had sticking buttons, and one person’s backlight didn’t work, but Harmony will replace it. My problem only required a #000 philips and a little time, plus was fun
The programming is all done via the Harmony website, so should the company every go bust and not release the software in a client form, it’ll take the will of the community to generate software before you can change your remote.
If ever someone needed a reminder that anyone, I mean anyone can make it in this country with a little courage, honesty and determination, William Hung’s popularity, whose life expectancy is unknown, is that proof.
Close to signing a record deal, police escort, clogging the streets of Berkeley to get a view of this guy from Hong Kong with the imperfect look and even worse voice, yet offset by a huge heart.
