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iPhoto Buddy is a Mac OS X application (Universal) that allows you to easily create, manage, and switch between multiple iPhoto Libraries. The advantages of splitting your One Huge Photo Library into multiple, smaller ones include improved iPhoto performance, increased flexibility in organizing your digital photo collection, and a consistency with most other Mac applications that allow their respective data to be stored in as many documents (in this case, "Libraries") as you like.
iPhoto Buddy uses a simple, streamlined interface that was inspired by iPhoto itself. Anyone that has used iPhoto will immediately feel right at home using iPhoto Buddy. It truly is a companion application--a real buddy!
iPhoto Buddy will never alter/move/delete your Libraries or your photo files. It's perfectly safe!
With iPhoto Buddy, you can easily manage an entire list of iPhoto Libraries, enabling you to quickly and easily open the Library of your choice for viewing/editing/printing in iPhoto. You can easily switch between your multiple Libraries, and iPhoto Buddy will automatically quit iPhoto and instantly re-launch it with the newly selected Library (iPhoto can only have one Library open at a time). There is no limit to the number of Libraries, and they can be located in various locations--even on external hard disk drives, network volumes, or encrypted disk images. Each Library can be assigned its own name that differs from its folder name in the Finder; each Library can be assigned a thumbnail image that can help to remind you of its contents; and each Library can be password protected for privacy/security.
iPhoto Buddy also displays various details about your Libraries without launching iPhoto. Information like each Library's size and image count as well as a complete listing of the Albums, Smart Albums, Folders, Books, Slide Shows, etc. contained therein.
And in keeping with the enhanced integration of the iApps that Apple introduced with the original iLife package, iPhoto Buddy also allows you to open iMovie, iDVD, and iWeb using any of your iPhoto Libraries for importing photos into your Movies, DVDs and websites. In fact with iPhoto Buddy, any application that contains a Media Browser for accessing your iPhoto Library, can used with ANY of your iPhoto Libraries.
With the introduction of iPhoto 7 (as part of the iLife '08 suite), Apple has further improved iPhoto's performance. So, is iPhoto Buddy still useful even with iPhoto 7? Absolutely!
Regardless of the improvements Apple has made, there is simply no getting around the fact that iPhoto is much faster, smoother and generally easier to live with if the Photo Library has fewer than a few thousand photos in it. Especially if you're running an older, slower Mac. Besides, can you imagine storing all of your spreadsheet data in one spreadsheet, and then using Excel's search features to find what you want when you want it? How about storing all of your text-based information in one word processing document and counting on Word or Pages to find that important fax in a hurry? I don't think so.
When iLife '04 was introduced at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco in January of 2004, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said, "It's like Microsoft Office for the rest of your life." And in many ways it is (except, of course it works better!). But none of the components of Microsoft Office (or iWork, or Adobe Creative Suite, or most any Mac or PC software -- including most of the other iLife programs, iMovie, iDVD, Garage Band) require that you store all of its data in one document. So why does iPhoto? Why indeed.
Using multiple Libraries allows you to a great deal of additional flexibility in organzing your photos. And it preserves the tried and true paradigm in which each program has a collection of user-created and user-managed documents (in this case, Libraries) for storing its data.
New in version 1.2.7:
• Added support for iLife '08
• iPhoto Buddy is now a Universal Application
• Added preferences for selecting the specific version/copy of each iLife Application Buddy will launch
• Buddy now automatically adds the Default Library to the Library List upon first launch
• The Default Library is now highlighted in the Library List
• Libraries can be added to the Library List by dropping them on Buddy's icon in the Finder/Dock
• Thumbnails can be added to the selected Library by dropping them on Buddy's icon in the Finder/Dock
• Random thumbnails can now be assigned from Libraries that do not contain the original photo files
• PDF files are now supported for thumbnails
• Improved Library searching
• Corrected a bug that prevented the modifier keys from being properly recognized when attempting to register a Library without launching one of the iApps
• Corrected a bug where Buddy didn't always properly honor the "Attempt to mount network and Disk Image volumes at startup" preference setting
• Minor performance and stability improvements
System requirements:
iPhoto Buddy requires a Macintosh computer running OS X 10.2.4 or later, and iPhoto 2 or later. iPhoto Buddy is fully compatible with iLife '04, iLife '05, iLife '06, and iLife '08
System Support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.iphotobuddy.com/
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