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Microsoft has launched a iPhoto/Picasa type application called Max. Max allows you to organise your digital photos, create slide shows etc.

Interesting Nerd note.. its built on WinFx

Location. Location. Location – its a retailers mantra.

Getting prime shelf space in high street shops is a big deal for a manufacturer. And if we use this a measure of the success, Apple are really on a roll.

Its seems every phone shop and digital Photo shop in Dublin are stocking the Mac-Mini, the iPod (and many accessories and even the full iMac.
Those lovely white machines are pride of place in these stores, not sitting on a back shelve somewhere.

To put this in context; they are not stocking PCs, just the Macs.

So Vodafone are selling linux and non wintel machines to Joe Bloggs.

Now that is a mini-revolution.

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A public Phone in San Franciso - August 2004
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Some tools to help manage your iPhoto collections..

Slim down the size of your iPhoto folder

iphotodiet

Extract your originals, duplicates etc. with
iPhotoExtractor

Split up you libraries
iPhotoLibraryManager

I’ve just splashed out on a Nikon digital camera , the D70. I love it. I bought it on a whim, after using a friends and so far I have no regrets. Not bad since it cost about $1400.

I had my PowerBook with me on holidays so I used the Apple iPhoto software to import my photos for my camera. Now iPhoto is very easy to use, like most of the applications on the Apple, it just works. There are lots of nice features, but there are also a few missing features. One I find really annoying is the fact that iPhoto doesn’t autorotate images. It annoys me because it should be so simple to do, using the EXIF info that the camera provides.

So the best why to deal with annoying features to to fix them. Since these applications are not opensource, the hack will have to be more subversive than just fixing it.

So first step, lets see what we can use.

Applescript : there are sample applescript to rotate a image provided by apple.
Perl : there is a perl module that read EXIF info .
Folder actions : you can attach scripts to folder that will run when an item is placed into them.

Seem that we should be able to stitch something together with the above .