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iPhoto 09 Now Works from External Drives and Network Shares
Tidbits.com has a report on the 10 new features that appeared in the latest update to iPhoto 09 ( xx ) that Apple neglected to advertise. One of the new additions that is particularly interesting to me and many others with more than one Mac, is the ability to open iPhoto libraries from external drives or network drives. This works for any logged on user not just the person who created the library.
This is a real benefit and means I can now maintain a single library on the network and a backup on a removable drive. Not sure as yet what the performance will be like and it may be that it is not really practical to use a shared network drive for this ( on 100Mb network anyway ). I will have a go and report back on my findings later, meanwhile if you had already spotted this and have tried it out I would be interested to hear how you got on.
How To Geotag Your Photos Ready For iPhoto 09
The recently announced update to iLife includes a number of really desirable new features, not least of which is the iPhoto function called Places. If you missed the KeyNote you can see a demo of Places at http://www.apple.com/ilife but basically it is a very cool way of browsing your photo library using Google Maps. Of course this is dependant on iPhoto knowing where you were when each photo was taken. This won’t be an issue for iPhone users as photos taken on Apples phone are automatically tagged with the location courtesy of the built in GPS receiver. A number of other mobile phones will also do this as well as a small number of consumer digital cameras, however if your camera is not state of the art you are left with the task of manually tagging photos to get the benefit of this new feature. This might not be to hard for the odd photo, but if you are about to embark on a trip and intend to take many hundreds of photos then it could be quite a major undertaking when you return home.
Well there may be an answer for you which if you already have a phone with a built in GPS such as a Blackberry in the shape of two applications, the first being a free GPS Tracker for Blackberry and a small number of Nokia handsets called bbTracker and the second a free OS X application called GPSPhotoLinker.
Accurately Selecting Video Clips In iMovie ‘08
The new “skimming” feature of iMovie ‘08 that allows quick and easy grabbing of video clips from your library to drop into the current movie project is a fantastic feature for speeding up the creation of content, however depending on your mousing skills it can be quite difficult to get the EXACT start and stop points of the clip that you want.
One way of accurately selecting the endpoint of the current clip is to use the cursor keys to move the end of the highlighted section instead of dragging around the mouse. Basically all you need to do is to roughly grab the clip that you are looking for then put down the mouse and simply press and hold the SHIFT key while you move the clip forward and backward by pressing the left and right cursor keys. The selection will extend or contract by one frame for each press of the cursor keys.
Unlocking iMovie ‘08
iMovie ‘08 is easily the most changed product in the latest release of Apples iLife Suite and as such is already the subject of a number of web sites aimed at helping you get the most out of the new features. One such site is Unlocking iMovie ‘08 which has about a dozen howtos posted already.
Worth watching this one.
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