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April 2nd, 2010

iPhoto 8.1.2 Update Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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November 24th, 2009

iPhoto Update 8.1.1 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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September 2nd, 2009

iPhoto 8.1 Update Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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March 18th, 2009

My Geotagging Workflow

How I add GPS coordinates to my photos.

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March 5th, 2009

iPhoto 8.0.1 Update Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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November 5th, 2008

Digital Camera RAW Comaptibility Update 2.3 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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October 28th, 2008

iPhoto 7.1.5 Update Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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July 22nd, 2008

iLife Updates Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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March 22nd, 2008

Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.0 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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February 28th, 2008

iPhoto 7.1.3 Update Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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February 5th, 2008

iPhoto Update 7.1.2 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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December 13th, 2007

Using Leopard’s Mosaic Screen Saver

A very cool screen saver for folks with a lot of photos stored on their Macs.

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November 15th, 2007

iPhoto Update 7.1.1 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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October 5th, 2007

iPhoto 7.1 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

This update addresses issues encountered when moving photos between Events, plus new greeting card themes, including holiday card designs. It also supports general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.

September 27th, 2007

Apple Software Updates

Information from Software Update.

Apple has just released the following updates to its iLife suite of products:

iDVD Update 7.0.1

This update improves overall stability, supports general compatibility issues, and addresses a number of other minor issues.

iMovie Update 7.1

This update addresses several areas including video and audio editing capabilities, and performance associated

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August 29th, 2007

iLife ‘08 Updates as of August 29, 2007

Information from Software Update.

The following iLife ’08 Updates have been made available as of August 29, 2007:

iWeb Update 2.0.1 addresses issues with upgrading and publishing iWeb 1.x websites. iPhoto Update 7.0.2 addresses issues associated with publishing to .Mac Web Gallery, rebuilding thumbnails, and editing books. It also addresses a number of other

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March 19th, 2007

How to Create a Slide Show for iDVD with iPhoto

The details.

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March 14th, 2007

iPhoto 6.0.6 Update Now Available

Information from Software Update.

This update to iPhoto addresses issues associated with EXIF data compatibility and Photocasting.

March 13th, 2007

Creating a Slide Show for iDVD

A shortcut with good results.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been banging away at an iDVD project. The goal is to show still images from my helicopter tours and excursions as slide shows with music. I’m rather picky about these things and decided that I wanted to use the Ken Burns effect with

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September 28th, 2006

iLife Updates Now Available

Information from Software Update.

Apple has released updates for the following iLife products:

iWeb 1.1.2. This update addresses compatibility for accessing Aperture 1.5 content in iWeb. iPhoto 6.0.5. This update to iPhoto contains new calendar, greeting card, and postcard themes for use with Apple print services, including a variety of holiday card designs. It

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June 28th, 2006

Mac OS X 10.4.7 Update Now Available

Information from Software Update.

The 10.4.7 Update is recommended for all users and includes general operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes for the following applications and technologies. It includes fixes for:

preventing AFP deadlocks and dropped connections saving Adobe and Quark documents to AFP mounted volumes Bluetooth file transfers, pairing and connecting

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June 21st, 2006

iPhoto Update 6.0.4 Now Available

Information from software update.

This update to iPhoto contains a variety of new Greeting Card and Postcard themes for use with Apple print services, including invite and thank you card designs for summer parties, weddings, birthdays, etc.

May 16th, 2006

iLife Updates Now Available

Information from Software Update.

The following updates to iLife applications are now available:

iDVD Update 6.0.2

This update to iDVD addresses issues with burning some 16:9 projects and improves overall stability.

iWeb Update 1.1

This update to iWeb adds comment and search support for blogs and podcasts published to .Mac. It also addresses a

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April 4th, 2006

Mac OS X 10.4.6 Update is Now Available

Information from Software Update

The Mac OS X 10.4.6 Update is recommended for all users and includes general operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes for the following applications and technologies:

login and authentication in a variety of network environments file access and byte range locking with AFP file sharing network access when

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December 31st, 2005

Articles About Mac OS

Links to some older articles I’ve written about Mac OS.

Looking for articles about Mac OS? Try these.

2005 "TV to Go: Watching Video on Your iPod," Informit.com, December 22, 2005 "Yes! You Can Use Your GPS with Your Macintosh!" Informit.com, November 18, 2005 "Creating a Photo Book with iPhoto," Informit.com, August 5,2005 "Setting

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