Auto Importing iPhone Pictures to iPhoto
One of the things I hate about syncing my iPhone is that it fires up iPhoto everytime there's any pictures that need to be imported. That's a pain. I'd rather that the photos got automatically imported and deleted off the device. Today I figured out how to do it. Note that these instructions assume Snow Leopard. First thing to know is that Image Capture is your friend. You can use it to determine what happens when you plug in a device that looks like a camera on a device-by-device basis. For our purposes, there's a little
Continue reading {Auto Importing iPhone Pictures to iPhoto }
On Demand Publishing Creates 21st Century Photo Album
Photo Album Cover(click to enlarge) A while back, Moira Gunn interviewed Eileen Gittins, founder, president and CEO of Blurb, about publishing a first-quality, professional-looking books for Tech Nation on IT Conversations and that got me thinking. For Christmas I made for my wife and two oldest children a photo-book of our vacation to Europe last summer. It was a universal hit. As the Apple ad says, it was pretty easy to do in iPhoto. Make no mistake however, selecting, editing, and arranging 200 some odd pictures takes some time. iPhoto has a "Buy Book" button at the bottom of the
Continue reading {On Demand Publishing Creates 21st Century Photo Album}
iPhoto Slideshows on DVDs
I've recently been creating some DVDs of pictures for some friends. I found a few things that others might fin helpful. First, use iPhoto to create the slideshow and then share it to iDVD, rather than creating the slideshow in iDVD itself. There are more bells and whistles in iPhoto and the results are better. This isn't hard, once you have a collection of photos, just click on the "slideshow" button at the bottom, play with the settings, and then export it to iDVD. Exporting takes a long time. Once it's in iDVD, you can choose a theme, edit
Continue reading {iPhoto Slideshows on DVDs}





