iPhoto ‘09 – Worth the upgrade?

As a long time Windows PC user I had become acustomed to managing my data myself. So photos were all organized chronologically by event, backed up both locally and offline (in Flickr), and I was happy that if anything were to ever go pear-shaped, I could recover the situation. This meant that when I switched [...]

iLife ‘09 is on it’s way!

Having watched the demo of iLife ‘09 I didn’t need much persuasion to take the plunge and so ordered it back on January 6th. Well, I checked the order status today (25th Jan) and it’s been shipped!
The new features in iPhoto and iMovie look like they’ll be good fun, the idea of being able to [...]

The Apple device that I really want…

People love to kick around rumours about what will be the next killer item to emerge from Apple’s secret labs, and there are quite a few on the go at the moment. An updated Mac Mini with nVIDIA graphics, bigger RAM and hard disk capabilities, 802.11n and some fancy unibody case. A speed-freak Mac Pro [...]

Entourage 3-way sync with MobileMe

So someone asked – how about doing a 3-way sync between Entourage on a Macbook Pro, Entourage on an iMac and iCal on the iPhone? Well I’ll try anything once, though in may case it’s a Mac Pro, a Mac Mini and my iPhone. Sure I’d love a new unibody Macbook Pro 17″ but I [...]

Windows 7 Beta… Silenced!

Despite being a confirmed Mac user at home, part of my job requires me to be familiar with Windows operating systems in all their ‘glory’. Now I have Windows XP SP3 on my work laptop and it is relatively stable and so I was quite relaxed when it came to installing the latest Windows 7 [...]

Stop iPhoto loading when your iPhone is connected

I have a Canon digital camera and an iPhone 3G, and while the iPhone can take reasonable pictures (that look best when they stay on the iPhone), I tend not to use it much for photography. So every once in a while I connect my camera to my Mac Pro and up pops iPhoto ready [...]