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From: Jim on 23 Feb 2010 11:43 On 2010-02-23, Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: >> > >> > But I really don't get iPhoto at all. >> > >> > Can anyone explain what the point of it is? >> >> It probably makes more sense with a digital camera - connect camera, iPhoto >> launches and offers to import the pictures, job done. Each import becomes a >> separate 'reel'. It's the fact that it makes it all very easy that is its >> strength. > > A reel, huh? > > Yeah, I've noticed that about iPhoto. Nothing makes sense about the UI, > pretty much, because it's filled with undefined terms that I don't > understand and can't find out about, like your use of the word `reel' > there. > > There's no bloody reel, there's just some computerized data structure > about which I know nothing, and to which Apple applied that noun. > > Any idea how I might find out about iPhoto's terminology? Um. No, not really. With the proviso that I've not actually looked too deeply, would this site be of any use? http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-iphoto-software-99833/ Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK "Get over here. Now. Might be advisable to wear brown trousers and a shirt the colour of blood." Malcolm Tucker, "The Thick of It"
From: Geoff Berrow on 23 Feb 2010 11:55 On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:36:44 +0000, real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: >> An XML file is like a database Would you need instruction to work out >> what this was about? > >I'm afraid I don't follow you Sorry cut and paste error Simple example: <phonebook> <number>12354</number> <name>Jim</name> <number>546362</number> <name>harry</name> </phonebook> You can see here how it's easy to add names and numbers to the phonebook. Or in another file we have a class list containing students <class_list> <student> <name>Robert</name> <grade>A+</grade> </student> <student> <name>Lenard</name> <grade>A-</grade> </student> </class_list> Any clearer? -- Geoff Berrow (Put thecat out to email) It's only Usenet, no one dies. My opinions, not the committee's, mine. Simple RFDs www.4theweb.co.uk/rfdmaker
From: Rowland McDonnell on 23 Feb 2010 12:10 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: [snip] > > Any idea how I might find out about iPhoto's terminology? > > Um. No, not really. <sigh> Ta. > With the proviso that I've not actually looked too deeply, would this site > be of any use? http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-iphoto-software-99833/ I've just looked - it's precisely the wrong sort of thing. I need written documentation that explains what it's all about, gives me a structural over-view of the thing, explains its point, operational principles, and terminology all in a concise way. All laid out in a few pages, so I can digest the structures and fit it all together in my head. It's got to be in writing, and it's got to be well-organized in a fashion intended to assist learning. Wikis are useless for this sort of thing. So are `support forums'. I've tried - the info I need simply cannot be got as far as I can tell. The sort of documentation you pointed me at: video tutorials demonstrating how to drive the software to perform certain tasks - well, I just can't learn anything at all from that style of documentation. But it's the only sort that exists these days - and I can learn nothing from it. :-( Actually, I can't learn from Web based video tutorials full stop. I've looked at many. None of them leave anything behind in my mind at all. Nothing - empty. Web video tutorials are as far as I'm concerned a totally useless form of pedagogy. Which is odd, because I've learnt a lot from OU maths programmes. They're video tutorials, but tutorials prepared by people who know how to teach rather than clueless idiots. I assume that's the difference. If I'd access to the information I seek, I might be able to understand the Website you pointed me at - but I probably wouldn't need it. Unfortunately, what I want no longer exists in the world as far as I can tell, not unless I write it myself. And it's hard to write a manual for software that you don't understand. I've pointed out to many open source projects that the total absence of manual is a problem which stops me using their software at all. The usual response from the developers is to suggest that *I* should write a manual. They don't seem to understand the concept that it's impossble to write a manual unless you understande the software, and since I can't do that without a manual (or help from a real person of a sort that cannot be got these days), it's impossible and frankly the job needs to be done by someone who understands the bloody software in the first place. But that seems to be too sophisticated an idea for these clowns. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Daniel Cohen on 23 Feb 2010 12:13 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Daniel Cohen <dcohenspam(a)talktalk.net> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > It's an Epson Perfection 1200U. > > > > Presumably fairly old. As mentioned in my other post, it almost > > certainly has TWAIN, but not Snow Leopard compatible TWAIN. > > Or, to put it another way, Apple broke something when it wrote Snow > Leopard and the device driver writers now have to catch up and deal with > these new problems Apple created. Not really. Apple moved from 32-bit programs as standard to 64-bit. Nothing's broken, one can always run programs in 32-bit mode. I don't know the full situation, but 64-bit provides extra functionality. -- <http://www.decohen.com> Send e-mail to the Reply-To address. Mail to the From address is never read.
From: Daniel Cohen on 23 Feb 2010 12:13
J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > Daniel Cohen <dcohenspam(a)talktalk.net> wrote: > > > Yes, but there may not be a TWAIN driver (is that the right word?) that > > works with 10.6.2. > > > > Graphic Converter worked fine with my Epson Perfection 2450 up to 10.5, > > but not with 10.6 for that reason. > > I have no idea about Epson's update policy for antiques like Rowland's. > Only way to find out is at Epson's support/downloads site. > If there isn't,it's not GC that is to blame. > (had no problem updating the drivers for my scanner) I agree that GC is not to blame. However, even for modern equipment, there can be a considerable delay before the drivers are updated. > > > Since Rowland has a scanner, and also has GC, first thing to try might > > be TWAIN-SANE, as this is free. I had a lot of trouble with its earlier > > versions, but the latest seems to work. > > > > Otherwise there is VueScan. > > Which may also depend on the factory driver. It *might*, but I don't think it does. -- <http://www.decohen.com> Send e-mail to the Reply-To address. Mail to the From address is never read. |