Category: Pursuits

  • Review of iPhoto 5.0

    (Updated with quick slide show button on 1/27 and on 2/3 with 5.01 release) Steve Jobs’ introduction of the updated iPhoto in the iLife suite had me salivating immediately. Cutting the price of photo prints in half from 39 cents to 19 cents and offering a zillion new options for photo books (also at lower…

  • iPhoto 5.01 is out

    Apple has listened! They’re out with iPhoto 5.01. Fixes include: upgrading iPhoto 4 libraries, dragging albums into folder, importing MPEG 4 movies, and also includes a number of other minor fixes. So far it only seems to be available through “Software Update” but I’m sure it will be posted on the web soon. Original review

  • Vanity search ratings

    My old boss, John Battelle, who among other projects writes SearchBlog, has a tongue-in-cheek method of evaluating new search engines. Discussing beta search site exalead, he checks how it performs on the vanity search, aka your name in quotes. I like this idea (although my wife says this post should be called “it’s all about…