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Archive for February, 2009

Email Still #1 Collaboration Tool

It seems a little weird that, for almost all of my collaboration with other employees of my firm about work product (mainly word documents) we still use email and send attachments around.
We do use Instant Messaging, mainly our reception lets us know when a client has arrived. For some reason though I [...]

Convert Pages To High Quality PDF With Script

An Automator Workflow containing an Apple Script to convert pages documents to high quality PDF by printing to a virtual printer called “Virtual Printer” — you need to set that up using CUPS-PDF.
I mainly use this for the output of mail merge from Daylite.

Everything Buckets

I wrote awhile back about my move from Yojimbo to the file system.  In similar vein Alex Payne takes on everything buckets here.

IPhoto 09 Loses Face Information on Upload to Flickr

Unfortunately, uploading a photo to flickr with built in IPhoto Flickr support doesn’t create a flickr note for the face.  I am very underwhelmed with IPhoto 09 geotag support and faces support.  

Jpeg2000 and IPhoto 09

I imported a JPEG2000 photo into IPhoto 09. Unfortunately, after an edit, it saves the image as JPEG, not JPEG2000, at 50% more space.  As I accumulate more and more photos, I would prefer to store in jpeg2000 to save space (mostly for keeping the cost of offsite backup down).  Most photos I take at [...]

IPhoto 09 and Previously Geotagged Photos

I could not wait to try IPhoto 09 Places Features.  I have many geotagged photos in my IPhoto database (I don’t know how many - keep reading).  Like most IPhoto users who have geotagged photos, the workflow has been:

import photos into IPhoto
make any edits using internal editor or external editor like GIMP or Photoshop Elements.
only [...]