Tag: iLife

Faces completed scanning my library in about 90 minutes. The first photo I opened, one of my niece, was not recognized as a face. Odd because it is a fairly clear shot of her, but maybe the face is too small or blurry. There is a button labeled “Add missing face” which I clicked. You… Continue reading Faces in iPhoto 8 (iLife ’09)

Thanks go out to Charles at the Beaverton Mac Store for letting me know that iLife was in stock! I picked up my copy (and iWork as well) and have it fully installed. iMovie won’t import the MPEG-2 movie files our team’s HD camera generates without a component from Apple, so I converted the file… Continue reading iLife 09 has landed!

I have hired Scotts Lawn Service to handle my lawn. I do the mowing and watering, they do the weed killing, aeration, over seeding, fertilizing, etc. They come every 6-8 weeks, 8x a year, for $42 a visit. The people have been very nice and informative, for example, any spots that don’t take on the… Continue reading The power of .mac and web galleries

500 photos is a lot, but if you plan on making a web gallery to upload photos from your iPhone with, you should be aware of this limitation. Eventually it would be nice to be able to create web galleries on the iPhone. This way I can be at an event and think “Damn, I… Continue reading Web Galleries are limited to 500 photos

iPhoto 08 adds Events. Events start out as film rolls as we know from previous iPhoto incarnations. When you import photos you get an Event. You can view the rolls via the photos category, or view the Events via the Events category. But here is where it gets very, very cool. I had 5 film… Continue reading iPhoto ’08 has some great features!