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Why not take a snapshot?
I thought it would be cool to write a post on my iPhone. So I did. Here it is.
This is what graphics card corruption looks like. Weeeeird.
2 Aperture Timesavers: Metadata Views and Metadata Presets
Aperture’s feature set is a unique ‘1 stop shop’ for image acquisition, processing, output and storage. This tidal wave of features is both empowering and daunting– some great features aren’t as obvious as others.
I’ll cover two of those features today, Metadata Views, and Metadata Presets. Ellen Anon covered the step by step over at the Inside Aperture Blog, so I’ll be sticking to an overview– and an explanation of why views and presets are important features to understand and use.
iPhone Notes Syncing Tip
As any self respecting GTD’er knows, you need a ’safe, with you at all times, easy to edit’ place to keep notes for yourself. Enter the iPhone: a perfect, ’safe, with you at all times, easy to edit’ notepad.
So if you have a iPhone you can use it to take notes– to start, go to your Mac and launch Address Book.
Yes, Address Book*. Create a new Group called ‘01 Notes’, and then create a new ‘company’ contact in that group with the name you want to give your notes list. Then scroll down to the notes section of this new contact and put in any of the text you’d like.
Type away to your hearts content– when you plug in your iPhone, the new contact you created will be synced back to your computer. You can edit the notes in the contact on the iPhone and all those changes will be synced back to the Address book on your Mac.
Creating a group makes it easier to get to your notes, and putting the number at the top forces the iPhone to alphabetize it to the top of your groups.
*Now, if you’re scratching your head wondering ‘why use contacts when you could use Notes?–here’s why: Notes doesn’t sync back to your machine in any way– where as Address Book contacts (along with the notes you create and edit) do. Using Address Book you can have synced access to your notes on both your computer and your phone, instead of just making/viewing notes on the iPhone alone.
Why the iPhone update changed my mind
After impulse buying a 600$ (plus tax) piece of Apple foolishness, I have the ritualistic remorse that always follows such impulse purchasing. While it is nice to whip the iPhone out, and have friends and family ogle it, and ask you all sorts of questions– deep down,it’s hard to shake feeling a bit silly for having dropped 600$ (plus tax) on a phone.That all changed for me today. (Technically, it changed about 4 days ago with the iPhone 1.01 update– but it wasn’t until I read this post on iLounge that I realized it).Apple will tell you that the new iPhone update was basically a security fix update…but it turns out it also fixed a bunch of other stuff:
- Always BCC added to email settings so you can carbon copy yourself
- Battery diplay updates to provide more accurate display of charge
- Passcode lock can have a longer timeout– prevents you having to enter your passcode EVERY time the phone goes into standby mode– instead allows you to picke a time frame to allow the phone to wait before it requires a passcode
- Audio out now works on many popular stereo docks and adaptors
So, back to the regret part…I really only listen to music in my car. Until this update my iPhone just couldn’t take the place of my iPod– it had iPod features, but no audio out to my car’s iPod setup. Read more…
A new power adaptor: AppleCare comes to my rescue
As an owner of a Rev A MacBook, I expected my fair share of issues– I’m currently on my 3rd Macbook, as Apple resolved issues with the previous 2 units by replacing them. Apple has, each time, taken care of my issues (sleep issues = new lappy, dead USB port = new lappy).
Over the weekend I noticed that my power adaptor was buzzing when charging my laptop. I’d read that there were issues with some adaptors, and that Apple had replaced them, so I called on Saturday.
During my less than 20 minutes on the phone, I spoke with 2 courteous AppleCare reps, and explained my concern to each of them. After advising me to unplug the buzzing adaptor, the AppleCare Specialist requested my address info, and today– less than 2 fully business days later– I’m using my new–NON BUZZING– power adaptor