What is a better program to replace Apple Mac OS X 10.5.7's iPhoto?
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From: AV3 on 18 Dec 2009 22:38 On Dec/18/2009 1:5332 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote: > In article<jollyroger-47C3E1.12282418122009(a)news.individual.net>, > Jolly Roger<jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > >>> Because I do not like to lose control >> >> It seems that pretty much sums up the core reason why most every person >> I've observed refuses to use iPhoto. > > Let's generalize this a bit: "<fitb> software doesn't do exactly what I > want in the exact way that I want to do it; therefore, it sucks!" > That is not a fair conclusion. I for one enjoy using iPhoto as a set of photo albums. I don't use it to edit images, as I have what I think are more versatile programs. I use my iPod every day, but its internal organization when mounted on the desktop is so mystifiing that I need Senuti to access its individual files. It isn't unappreciative of iPhoto or iTunes to suggest that the features of other programs are suitable for future, even more useful versions. The utility of outside organizational programs like Senuti are testimony to that. The perfect is not the enemy of the good in improving computer programs. -- ++====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====+====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====++ ||Arnold VICTOR, New York City, i. e., <arvimideQ(a)Wearthlink.net> || ||Arnoldo VIKTORO, Nov-jorkurbo, t. e., <arvimideQ(a)Wearthlink.net> || ||Remove capital letters from e-mail address for correct address/ || || Forigu majusklajn literojn el e-poŝta adreso por ĝusta adreso || ++====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====+====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====++
From: isw on 18 Dec 2009 22:43 In article <siegman-30803F.12472818122009(a)news.stanford.edu>, AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > In article <isw-EF27FC.10092618122009@[216.168.3.50]>, > isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote: > > > > > I have a feeling that Apple did not view individuals who spend a lot of > > their time looking through libraries *or* library catalogs as their main > > target for iPhoto. > > > > Isaac > > Absolutely agree with that. That's the sad part of the situation, for > iPhoto and iTunes. Sad when a company that once developed superb > hardware and software for people who read, and know what a library is, > now perceive their primary customer base to be people who don't. Companies can sell what the customer wants, or they can go out of business. Apple already caters to a niche market; otherwise 95% of all computers sold would be Macs. Isaac
From: isw on 18 Dec 2009 22:49 In article <u0my1gaxld.fsf(a)ethel.the.log>, Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis(a)gmail.com> wrote: > isw <isw(a)witzend.com> writes: > > > In article <181220091145278518%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, > > nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > > > > > In article <hgg943$uqe$1(a)news.albasani.net>, AV3 > > > <arvimide(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > > > > > > > No, I'm saying that opening iPhoto to search for the individual photo > > > > is > > > > one step more than I would like to have to take. > > > > > > leave it running. > > > > Well, that brings up an annoying "feature" of iPhoto; it's one of those > > apps that automatically quits when you close its window. So leaving it > > running means always having to look at it (yes, I know about the yellow > > button; I don't like doing that). > > Some of these posts seem to be magical in ways I don't understand. > You don't want to close iPhoto, but you don't want to see it. But you > "don't like" using the yellow button. Here it would seem like a very > easy way to do exactly what you want to do. No? No. Using the yellow button too many times clutters up the dock. *Most* apps are perfectly happy running with no windows open (IMO, that's one of the many advantages of Mac OS over Windows), so it's difficult for me to understand why iPhoto doesn't work that way.
From: isw on 18 Dec 2009 22:56 In article <181220091323467746%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article <isw-603693.09572918122009@[216.168.3.50]>, isw > <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote: > > > > > No, I'm saying that opening iPhoto to search for the individual photo > > > > is > > > > one step more than I would like to have to take. > > > > > > leave it running. > > > > Well, that brings up an annoying "feature" of iPhoto; it's one of those > > apps that automatically quits when you close its window. So leaving it > > running means always having to look at it (yes, I know about the yellow > > button; I don't like doing that). > > you can also hide it. > > are you also annoyed that you need to launch itunes to find a song? or > launch address book to find a name/phone number? or launch an email app > to find an email? Oddly enough, all the apps you mentioned (plus eight or ten others) launch automatically when my Mac boots, and run constantly -- and invisibly -- until I need to use one of them. You know, a lot of folks who have had some experience in the "design" of products find it easy to see ways that (in their own opinion) products they use could be improved. Sort of like cooks who criticize other cooks. Isaac
From: isw on 18 Dec 2009 23:02
In article <siegman-6E9A11.12293818122009(a)news.stanford.edu>, AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > In article <isw-838A4D.09445618122009@[216.168.3.50]>, > isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote: > > > How do you handle files that belong in more than one place? Say, a photo > > of both Churchill and Roosevelt, when you have folder structures > > dedicated to both? > > > > Isaac > > A valid question -- but one that just doesn't occur a lot. > > If I wanted a photo or other file in both places, I might just put a > copy in both places (which I might do even if I used iPhoto). But then, if you ever edit one (and how could you necessarily know about the others?) they will be different. With iPhoto, you can assign each image to as many albums as you please. > If I had a folder structure People >> Subfolders for Individual Names > (which in fact I do), I'd likely make an iView catalog that cataloged > all the photos located in all the individual name subfolders. You don't need iView for that; TextWrangler does it (and it's free). > This > catalog would be named ' * People Photos' so it would float to the top > of the People folder's list of contents, and could be refreshed/updated > instantly by just dragging the top level People folder onto it. > > This People folder is located in Documents and has been dragged into the > Finder sidebar. Thus, I can open (or dump something into) any > individual name subfolder instantly from within any other folder by just > using spring-loading on the People folder link in the sidebar. > > One basic (and invaluable) benefit: All navigation (and organizing) is > done only in the Finder, which just gets better and better for this. > Never have to learn (and remember between uses) the nonstandard (and > often irrelevant, and changing) navigation gimmicks that Apple has put > into iPhoto, and the different ones it's put into itunes. I use both those, and I can't exactly visualize what you mean by "navigation gimmicks"; could you mention a few? Isaac |