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Offline Xairbusdriver

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« Reply #15 on: January 29, 2007, 08:41:14 PM »
I totally agree with your opinion of iWeb and hope Apple is working ahrd on improvements. And You are also correct that Photocasting is not the same as creating web pages. However, it sounded like that was what jjoan was doing, so I tried it and found it very easy and intuitive.

I also thought it was also possible to upload web pages to iDisk in the 'normal' method, using iDisk vs FTP and however you create your web pages vs iWeb. I think one must still create the original 'page' via Homepage to get the initial "home page ( index.html ) file. But from then on, just using the iDisk should be sufficient. dntknw.gif I must admit I have never tried this, nor have I made much use of .Mac for anything remotely permanent. It's just plain expensive for what you get. Easier to use, perhaps. Integrated well, usually. But not really designed for permanent and frequently edited and large web sites, IMHO.
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« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2007, 04:52:23 AM »
I tried the Photocast feature, it is still clumsy. What is there in iPhoto 6 that is better than iPhoto 5? Nothing that I can see. Now I'm going to see if I can find an install of iPhoto5 around. Would that be on a Tiger install disk? Or Panther? I have those. But I don't know how to find the applications on the disks, I've only used them to install the entire system. Any more advice?
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« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2007, 07:02:54 AM »
I do have all my pictures on both my external hard drives, so Im not worried about if something goes poof with .mac.   Now I do remember there was a small article in MacWorld for a workaround for iPhoto 6, I will see if I can find it, I dog-eared the page in the magazine, now to find it.
I just have so many albums, and also many many hundreds of pictures on my several accounts at pbase.com, imageevent, clubphoto, shutterfly, photonet,,,,,on and on.  Plus several of my older web pages which need to be updated.  And my blogs, Picassa pages and more.
All pictures are saved here as well.
iPhoto seems to be a quick and easy way to access them, have slide shows for family and friends, and convienience.
There are so many ways now to store, sort, show, and deal with photos.
Actually so many options that it can get confusing sometimes.
Ive got all the URLs in one place on all our computers, so I can keep track of them.  The digital photo age sure lets us keep a lot of photos, I know I should cull lots more than I do.
So many ways to do this photo stuff!
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« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2007, 07:52:47 AM »
Joan, iPhoto 4 was the last free version of iPhoto. You will need iLife '05.

MegaMacs has it for $34.99

iLife '05

As part of our general housecleaning before moving, I'm also selling a copy on eBay right now - auction ending around 10:30 p.m. EST today if you want to go and look. (If I'd thought anyone here wanted it, I would have posted a notice before I went ahead and listed it!) Anyway - I'd be surprised if it goes much beyond $15 or so, so if you're interested at least you know you're dealing with a trustworthy seller! Auction is at $6.50 right now.
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« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2007, 09:58:40 AM »
QUOTE(Paddy @ Jan 30 2007, 08:52 AM) [snapback]117415[/snapback]
Joan, iPhoto 4 was the last free version of iPhoto. You will need iLife '05.

MegaMacs has it for $34.99

iLife '05

As part of our general housecleaning before moving, I'm also selling a copy on eBay right now - auction ending around 10:30 p.m. EST today if you want to go and look. (If I'd thought anyone here wanted it, I would have posted a notice before I went ahead and listed it!) Anyway - I'd be surprised if it goes much beyond $15 or so, so if you're interested at least you know you're dealing with a trustworthy seller! Auction is at $6.50 right now.

Will iPhoto 5 work with my intel mac? Would I be able to trash the newer version ('06)?
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« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2007, 12:40:39 PM »
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I tried the Photocast feature, it is still clumsy. What is there in iPhoto 6 that is better than iPhoto 5?
Well, I mentioned what I thought were the biggest improvements in my last post. Being able to use images that are already on your drives ( even external ones ) was never possible before version 6. That alone enables drastic space savings as iPhoto no longer duplicates images when you add stuff to it.

As for "clumsy" I didn't think my two step Photocast process was all that difficult. Different, perhaps, but certainly simple, IMHO. It's not the same as using a web page, but I thought you were simply trying to make your pictures available to family/friends via the internet. YMMV, I guess. dntknw.gif I just hope Apple uses some of the user-friendliness to improve iWeb ( one of the worst designs I've ever seen from Apple, IMO ).
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« Reply #21 on: January 30, 2007, 12:44:59 PM »
Hi Joan,

Just replied to your email as well - and the sad answer is no - I just tried it on my MacBook Pro, since I couldn't find an answer online. sad.gif

As I noted in the email, JAlbum is a wonderful online photo album creator that is completely FREE and has a ton of skins available. http://www.jalbum.net All you need is somewhere to put the albums; .mac, your own ISP-provided web space, free space online or you can register a domain and have your own site for as little as just over $3 a month (GoDaddy - if you get the economy plan and pay for 2 years, $3.19 a month and you get 5 GB of storage, not the measly 250MB that .mac gives you! Works for me... smile.gif ) JAlbum has its own built-in FTP and it really is easy to use. If you want to really mess around and customize, you can also edit its output with any program that enables you to edit HTML.
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« Reply #22 on: January 30, 2007, 05:22:11 PM »
While .Mac is no bargain, they now allot you 1GB. You can adjust how much is for email and the rest for 'stuff'. I can't believe they are holding on to the base much less adding any new members...I'm about ready to dump my addy, also.
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« Reply #23 on: January 31, 2007, 12:22:21 PM »
Yeah .Mac has been at 1GB  for more than a year.   While it's true that there are many cheaper solutions, none of them are so well integrated into the mac.  This is really the reason I am so disappointed in iWeb.  I use .Mac as a quick and easy way to upload pictures directly from my iPhoto library.  Used strictly for that purpose, the old Homepage solution was much easier than iWeb.  I also use .Mac to keep my various macs in sync.  Again this can not be accomplished this easy with any other solution.

.Mac may be a little pricey, buit I still find it to be worth the money.

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