Derrick Story has found yet another hidden feature in iPhoto '09 8.0.2. You can Control-click a photo with geotags attached, choose Copy, then Control-click another photo (or selection of photos) and choose the new command Paste Location. Sneaky, but useful!
Apple doesn't want to tell you about what has changed in the recent updates to iPhoto '09, but Adam has tracked down ten notable changes that will significantly improve your iPhoto experience.
Behind the facade of "improves overall stability," Apple's frustratingly vague description of the iMovie 8.0.1 Update, lie a handful of noteworthy changes to iMovie '09.
For people still using iWeb '08, we have released a free update to "Take Control of iWeb: iLife '08 Edition." (If you own it, click Check for Updates in your copy to update.) In it, author Steve Sande swaps .Mac for MobileMe and explains how to add a Twitter feed to an iWeb page. The iWeb '09 edition of the book is also underway and will be a free update for anyone buying the '08 edition in 2009.
Confused by all the possibilities available when building a book in iPhoto? Liz Castro has done an incredible job of documenting all the details of each theme.
Let's be real. Browsing the Web on a mobile phone, even an iPhone, is a lousy experience in comparison with using a full-fledged browser on a Mac. Jakob Nielsen explains the problems and offers suggestions on how to improve mobile Web usability in his Alertbox column.
While starting work on the next edition of his book about iMovie, Jeff Carlson reveals 10 tips and new features in iMovie '09 that until now have escaped attention.
Fraser Speirs, who develops the FlickrExport plug-in for iPhoto and doesn't pretend to be unbiased, offers a detailed look at just what iPhoto '09's Flickr support provides in this blog post. Our take: iPhoto's built-in support will be sufficient for basic uses, but serious Flickr users will stick with Fraser's FlickrExport or one of the competing plug-ins.
Photographers had plenty of products to tempt their eyes and wallets at this year's Macworld Expo. Jeff Carlson looks at some items that made an impression.
Even if you can download trial versions of most programs from the Web, sometimes a live demo from an expert is just what you need to grasp the point of a program. Here are a few applications that grabbed our attention as we walked the show floor.
iPhoto '09 now offers face detection and geotagging capabilities, along with integration with Facebook and Flickr, and new slideshow themes that can sync to an iPhone or iPod touch.
If you work with fonts professionally, need to solve font-related problems, or just want to understand how fonts work in Mac OS X, our "Take Control of Fonts in Leopard" and "Take Control of Font Problems in Leopard" ebooks have all the information you need.
There are a variety of ways to label a recordable CD or DVD disc, but if you want attractive results with a quick turnaround, check out the Dymo DiscPainter, a compact printer dedicated to printing on special inkjet-printable discs.
After much hair-pulling, we finally figured out why the Download Ebook button on the last screen of our Take Control shopping cart couldn't be seen by Apple's VoiceOver technology.
Authors and publishers have agreed to settle with Google over its book search program. The surprising part is that the resulting agreement will likely make millions more books widely available, benefit the public, and increase revenues to Google, authors, and publishers.