The Twits
August 3
Apple today announced that it has sold more than 1.7 million iPhone 4 devices through Saturday, June 26, just three days after the phone’s launch on June 24. “This is the most successful product launch in Apple’s history,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Even so, we apologize to those customers who were turned away because we did not have enough supply.”
July 22
Just when I thought I could hold off getting another phone, Apple sends out it’s 4.0 upgrade. And boy is it a disappointment on the 3G. Significant slowness and lag, make the phone practically useless. I was hoping to put off getting the iPhone 4 until Verizon gets its act together and starts carrying it. But no dice. I may jump on the Droid bandwagon. Anyone else make the jump? What’d you think?
June 23
Here’s the top line features for the new iOS 4 for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
May 27
For anyone who is interested in word games, scrabble games, Word With Friends has to be the best app out there.
It’s a scrabble imitator, but it is far better than what Scrabble put out. The Scrabble version is lame, slow, and obnoxious. On the flip side, Word With Friends is clean, easy to use, fast, and satisfying!
Click here to buy it! 
You can play with your friends, or strangers. You’re also alerted with a badge or a notification when it’s your turn. The app checks your moves, and lets you know if it can be played. Not only is it fun, I actually learned a lot of new words in the process.
I definitely give this 5 stars.
May 26
Ok, not quite as remarkable as YouTube will become. It foreshadows the millions of lame videos.
May 25
After years of collecting photos and organizing them in iPhoto, I realized that not only was it taking up a large portion of my hard drive (30%), but that they were difficult to share. Also, I would feel better if they weren’t stored directly on my MacBook in case it was lost or stolen.
In this article:
Difficulty: Nuanced Novice
(You don’t need a degree, but you have to be familiar with the lingo)
The Big Picture
Conceptually you need a central location on your LAN that you and other users will access for photos. I chose the WD MyBook World Edition 1 TB network drive. For $150, it’s more than enough room. Because I’m paranoid about hardware failure, I bought another 1TB drive so that I can mirror them in case one fails. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this step! You don’t want to put all of your eggs in one basket and have it break. I have both drives set up on my Power Mac G5 with a backup application set to mirror the drive every night.
Regardless of the hardware choice, set up folders and shares as desired and make sure the appropriate users have Read/Write privileges for the folders as needed.
Once completed, move all of your images (preferably in an organized fashion) into the desired shared folder(s). Once this is done, go to Step 2.
Other Options
Another way to do this is to get a Firewire or USB drive and share it on your network. The G5 I have is almost 7 years old, but it has more than enough juice to do the work I need it to do for this project. If you don’t have a computer to attach these drive to, the best option is to make sure both drives have network connections (Ethernet) and set up the backup cycle on your primary. You’d have to remember to let the computer run and not Sleep or Shut Down overnight which the mirror process complete. For my G5 with 600GB of data to mirror, it takes about 1-5 hours depending on how much data has changed between sync events.
Fresh Setup
This is the easy part. In iPhoto, browse to the following menu item:
iPhoto>Preferences>Advanced
Uncheck “Copy items to the iPhoto Library”
What this means: Typically, iPhoto will copy the image to its own directory (on your hard drive) and store the image, all of its meta data and edited versions there. By unchecking this, you are telling iPhoto to keep the image where it is. However all of the meta data will be kept on your local machine still.
Once you have done this, import your photos from the network drive:
Browse to the network folder and select the photo folder you wish to import. If you have more than about 5,000 images, this could take quite a bit of time. I have over 15,000 and it took a few hours.
Transitioning
If you already have iPhoto set up with the events, faces, and places you like, you may have to start from scratch. Although it’s not tough, you will have to move you library to the shared network location and re-import your images. Then, you’d have to re-tag them as necessary. This may be a big step for some. I have yet to test moving an existing library, importing the files, and see if the meta data sticks. I’ll have more on this later.
The most obvious benefit is that you can have multiple users accessing the same image files. This is helpful in keeping your source files clean and organized. I have done the same with videos and files that I need to share. I can use the external drive as a central location from which to share everything between multiple machines and operating systems.
Before you jump into this head first, keep in mind a few limitations. Since all of your images are stored on a separate drive, you will not have access to them if you are outside your local network. You can take that drive with you, and you would have access to them, or you can set up a VPN that would allow you to access you local network when you are remote. Since I do most of my editing in my office, this is an acceptable limitation. I will set up a VPN, however, just in case I need to get to the files in a pinch.
If you are attempting this and need some help, don’t hesitate to contact me. Use the link on the right.
May 13
Behind the scenes at Quintessa Winery in Napa Valley, California, iPhone is helping staff track vineyard data, craft elegant presentations, and bring the beauty of the estate to their customers.
May 7
Apple today announced that iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK on Friday, May 28. Customers can pre-order all iPad models from the Apple Online Store in all nine countries beginning Monday, May 10.
May 7
PCMag.com reviews the 27-inch iMac, calling it “an excellent multimedia-oriented all-in-one desktop” computer and making it the Editors’ Choice in its class.
May 6
Try out Twitter Pro for the iPhone/iPod Touch – The best twitter app out there!
Most of you may be familiar with these shortcuts, but you never know.
I found a few I never knew were so popular.
Here goes:
1 = one, won
2 = to, too, two
4 = for, four
4ward = forward
4U = for you
ab or abt = about
B = be
b4 = before
b/c = because
BFN = bye for now
bgd = background
BR = best regards
BTW = by the way
chk = check
cld = could
clk = click
da = the
deets = details
DM = direct message
EM/eml = email
EMA = email address
fab = fabulous
fav/fave = favorite
F2F = face to face (as in meeting someone in person)
FYI = for your information
fwd = forward
GR8 = great
IC = I see
IM = instant message
itz = it is
IRL = in real life
JK or j/k = just kidding
JSYK = just so you know
IMHO = in my humble opinion
K = okay
kewl = cool
L8 = late
L8er = later
lmk = let me know
LOL = laughing out loud
LMAO = laughing my ass off
mil = million
Njoy = enjoy
OH = overheard
OMG = oh my god/gosh
peeps = people
pple = people
props = proper respect
plz = please
R = are
ROFL = rolling on the floor laughing
RT / Retweet = when you repeat a tweet from someone else
RU? = are you?
shld = should
thx/tx = thanks
TIA = thanks in advance
tweeps / tweeple = peeps / people (on Twitter)
TY = thanks
ttyl = talk to you later
ttys = talk to you soon
TYT = take your time
TYVM = thank you very much
Tweetup = an in-person meet up of Twitter members
U = you
u’ve = you have
ur = your
V2V = voice to voice (as in chatting on the phone)
w or w/ = with
w/e = weekend
wazzup?/whaddup? = what’s up?
wld = would
wth = what the heck
wtf = what the f***
woz = was
w00t! = an expression of joy/excitement!
yep/yeppers = yes
yr = your
YW = you’re welcome
YVW = you’re very welcome
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