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Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac Photo Organizer
From Pecos Bill
PSE doesn't have a photo organizer, last I checked. My version 3 for Mac doesn't. The PC version does. The version 3 organizer for the PC sux terribly.
Hi Bill;
The Mac one has one now with Elements version 6.
Photoshop Elements 6 automatically organizes photos by date as it downloads, and you can further sort and categorize photos by adding star ratings, by stacking photos, and by assigning keyword tags to help you identify people, places, and events. For example you can efficiently view every photo you’ve ever taken of your pet by clicking on its assigned keyword tag. Elements can also find all photos that contain faces, for easily tagging and sortting photos of friends and family. You can also search for images based on date range, caption, filename, and media type.
Charles
Is Disk Defragmenting Worth The Trouble?
http://www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/is_disk_defragmenting_worth_the_trouble/
From John;
Yep, regardless of what Apple or anyone else says, a defragged drive (if it was significantly fragmented prior to the defrag) can run noticeably faster. But some defragged drives can also run not so noticeably faster - you won't know until you try it. And, if you use a defrag utility, you run the risk of problems during the defrag.
As cspheres says, not much beats backing up your drive, erasing it, and doing a file copy of the data back to the source drive - don't do a block copy back to the source, unless the backup was done using a file copy method - otherwise, the drive will still be fragmented, since a block copy will place all the blocks on the destination drive in the same fragmented locations as the source drive. SuperDuper is a good choice for a file-level copier.
Hi John;
Agreed on pretty much all points. I'm not a routine drive defragger, but I have realized significant performance improvements from defragging drives that had a lot of activity on them.
I haven't used Super Duper, but it certainly gets glowing reviews from thise who have.
Charles
Re: Is Disk Defragmenting Worth The Trouble?
From John
Charles:
I've seen good speed improvement from some defragged drives too, but one thing I forgot to mention: a backup, erase, and restore also takes a lot less time than a defrag util. Less time for something to go wrong, like a power outage (we should all have uninterruptible power supplies to plug our computers into, during these operations), cat on the keyboard, etc.
But there have been a few times when I haven't had a backup drive with enough free space to hold the source drive, but I still needed to defrag a drive, at least somewhat, so that a util like Diskwarrior could write a contiguous replacement directory to the drive--this happened to me last night. I started Drive Genius's defrag option, but then decided taking another approach that has sometimes worked for me before: copy as much of the source drive as you have free space available on your backup drive (preferably at least a few gigabytes), then trash those files from the source, then run Diskwarrior - it often (or usually) then finds enough contiguous free space to create a new, contiguous replacement directory. Then copy the files back to the drive.
Hi John;
You're probably right about the time thing. With defrag. runs I usually just set it up and leave for a while to do something else.
I must get around to experimenting a bit with SuperDuper.
I love DiskWarrior, and the latest edition of Drive Genius is on its way for a review.
The uninterruptible power/cat on KB issues do not loom large for me as I'm an all laptop shop and have no cat (currently at least).
Gotta love Time Machine, though. It's sublimely low-effort for backups, although I haven't had occasion to restore anything from it yet.
Charles
"iPod Audiobook"
http://eolake.blogspot.com/2008/02/tip-for-audio-books-on-ipod.html
I'd love to have an iPod designed for audio books. I use the iPod every day for audio books, it's wonderful.
I'm sure there'd be lots of improvements Apple could make for such a specialized model, but the biggest wish for me would be: an easy way to scroll back a few seconds to hear a difficult sentence once more. On the iPod it is very difficult to control scrolling precisely, and you're as likely to go back two minutes as ten seconds.
I have most of the iPod models which have been brought out. I recently bought an iPod Touch, and one of the things I hoped was that the big screen would make the above problem less. It does not, it makes it worse, since the screen is shorter than the potential scroll on a wheel.
Once partial solution which I just found is for use when not walking about: get a dock and a remote control. Funny enough, the remote control allows for much more precise scrolling than the iPod's wheel or screen!
It's a lot better, but it's not perfect. For one thing, it makes the iPod bound to the dock, and for another, the scroll action is a bit weirdly geared: it is really slow for the first few seconds, and then accelerates rather fast. So it's still not too easy to hit the five or ten seconds I often need. Though much easier.
One thing I'd like would be a button on the "iPod AudioBook", like on many DVD remotes, which jumps back the playback ten seconds with one press. Preferably the time delay should be controllable. For example, if you set it to five seconds, you could easily go back ten or fifteen seconds by pressing twice or thrice rapidly.
The button does not even have to be on the iPod itself, compromising the clean design, it could be on a remote or a control pad on the earphones lead.
Apple, how about it?
Yours, Eolake
http://stobblehouse.com <-- my art
http://eolake.blogspot.com <-- just commenting
http://youtube.com/eolake <-- various videos
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