New iPhoto

January 7, 2004

The possibilities suggested by Apple's new iPhoto announced yesterday is great. I'm wondering, though, will iPhoto have to be running to share photos? Will it's server (almost certainly doing http at some level) run only when iPhoto is running? This is the case with iTunes and it's too bad. It greatly reduces the usefulness of the the application.

iLife 04

January 6, 2004

Apple's iPhoto got a major overhaul today. The demo given by Steve Jobs had over 20,000 photos, great performance, date based organization, easy rating of photos, better slide shows and photo sharing through Rendezvous. iPhoto jumps to version 4.0.

Next Jobs went on to demo iMovie 4. New features include iSight importing, new titles, audio scrubbing and enhanced exporting.

Not to leave out any part of the "i" suite Jobs also revealed the new iDVD 4. Throughout all the applications the Cube transition, as seen in Apple's fast user switching is everywhere. Possibly that indicates the reintroduction of the Apple Cube? Read more about iLife 04

Stella and iThink

January 2, 2004

I'm not sure when it happened, but HPS has released Stella and iThink for OS X. I downloaded the demo of iThink. It has some bugs and quirks, (forward delete doesn't work, and another I can't recall at the moment). But it runs in OS X (10.3) nicely. It must be time to upgrade!

Gallery installation and iPhoto integration

January 2, 2004

Gallery installation and iPhoto integrationMatt Raible has great things to say about Gallery. He asks about .mac import/export. It is possible at least to some extent by telling Gallery to upload a URL. If you have the URL of your album on .mac you can have it upload the URL to Gallery. Not perfect and there are several of the ancillary graphics that you have to make sure are unchecked.

Using Proxy.pac in OS X 10.3.2

December 18, 2003

Having downloaded OS X 10.3.2 today here is how to setup a proxy.pac file.

Go to the System Preferences
Select the Network panel
Select the connection you want to edit and the network port you are wanting to edit.
Select Proxies from the right tab at the top of the window
Scroll to the bottom and select "Automatic Proxy Configuration"
Enter the address of your proxy.pac configuration file (usually something like (http://servername.com/proxy.pac).

Finally

December 18, 2003

Apple has released 10.3.2 via software update today. One of the enhancements mentioned in the notes is the ability to configure proxy servers via proxy.pac files. This has been one annoying area where OS X has been lagging for some time. I can't wait to finish the current project so we can upgrade and test it out.

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