Article on how to manage iPhoto Libraries using burn-to-DVD strategy.

Thanks Ted.

I’m posting this because I want to remember where I can donate when I run into these in the future!

Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness

Carl recommends Lexar Media 256MB w/ 12x write speed.

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

Security Update, February 13, 2002 (MSXML 3.0)

Q320920: Security Update (Windows Media Player 6.4)

814078: Security Update (Microsoft Jscript version 5.6, Windows 2000, Windows XP)

816093: Security Update Microsoft Virtual Machine (Microsoft VM)

823559: Security Update for Microsoft Windows

Security Update for Windows 2000 (823980)

330994: April 2003, Security Update for Outlook Express 6 SP1

818529: June 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1

Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Express Install for End Users

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (Windows 2000)

Wednesday, January 09, 2002

Windows 2000 Service Pack 2

Root Certificates

Security Update, November 20, 2001

Intel Corporation – Networking

Windows 2000 Compatibility Updates

Security Update, June 7, 2001

Security Update, October 10, 2001 (Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 2)

Security Update, July 27, 2001

Security Update, July 6, 2001

Security Update, June 22, 2001

Security Update, February 12, 2001

Security Update, February 5, 2001

Security Update, October 24, 2000

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6

Euro Conversion Tool

Security Update, December 13, 2001 (Internet Explorer 6)

Three new variations of FireDaemon services popped up. I disabled them.

I left NT LM Security Support Provider running last time, but based on this decided to shut off:

NT LM Security Support Provider Service

Followed this advice:

ITC Newsletter, Volume 7, No. 4 May 2003

Convert you Home Movies from VHS to DVD Part 2 suggests this product: Dazzle Multimedia DM-2200 Hollywood DV Bridge.

This is lengthy article (a.k.a. advertisement for Groove) but a good overview of the state of mobile computing with some nice Lotus history in the middle.

Extreme Mobility

Cool camera metioned in article: EX-S3 Camera Page.

Dave Winder hosts web logs at Harvard’s law school. He explores what makes up a weblog compared to other publishing formats…

Harvard Weblogs: What makes a weblog a weblog?

MovableType is great for managing text-based blogs as well as a photo or two embedded in an article. Photo gallery management requires something more. TypePad has come up with a very clean, complimentary approach.

However, my goal is to manage our growing library of family photos over years and years using an approach that the whole family can use. Apple’s iPhoto has been an excellent way to gather, store, lightly edit, and arrange what is now a library of thousands of photos that we’ve accumulated over three years. I’ve read about performance concerns, but I think we are riding behind the curve of performance, so I’m happy. (Every night our iPhoto library, which is simply directories and jpg files, is backed up to our file server… don’t want to lose them.)

Because iPhoto lets us easily title, categorize, and group a photo and then add text comments, I want a web-gallery publishing solution that draws from that work. I don’t want to have to retype captions and titles.

iPhoto has a built in HTML export method, but it isn’t very flexible. If I don’t like the way text or buttons are positioned, I can’t do anything about it.

That’s where Drooling Cat’s BetterHTMLExport comes in. It integates with iPhoto and provides templates that you can use “out of the box” or tweak. There is a forum where you can get templates and share your own. It still feels like a work in progress, but it is functional and feels like the solution I’ll want to use for years to come.

ImageRodeo is an application that also has the template building/sharing concept. It has both the pros and cons of not being integrated with iPhoto. The pros are that you can work with digital photos from a variety of sources… not just iPhoto. However, the big drawback for me is that ImageRodeo does not read the photo titles and comments from the iPhoto library, so I have to retype them all.

It feels like there is not a tagging standard with digital photos like there is with mpg music files. Or if there is one, iPhoto and ImageRodeo are not talking using one. I prefer the ImageRodeo templates, but I’ll continue to use BetterHTMLExport because it picks up photo titles and comments.

Here you go Kelly, color names that work in HTML…