I keep looking for more and more ways to have my Apple Watch be really functional without having it talk to my phone when I need the function it’s performing. One of those can easily be looking at photos. One of these is to sync some photos to the watch so that if my battery dies or I leave my phone on my desk, I still have access to photos if I want to get to some. To sync pictures from your First, open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone. Then tap on Photos in the list of apps under the default My Watch tab. From the Photos screen,…
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Not My Face
Dear iPhoto/Faces, No, this is not me. But thanks for trying. Charles
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Sync'ing iTunes Libraries
I recently spent a few days trimming down the amount of space consumed by my home folder. In so doing I discovered a number of things I could be doing better with regards to utilization of my drive space. So I decided to offload most of my media (photos, movies, etc) off my laptop and onto my Mac Mini server. I also decided that one thing I’d like to live on both is iTunes. Note: Before you do anything in this article you should verify you have a good back up. Also, both machines will end up needing to be Authorized for your iTunes account. There are a lot of…
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QuickLook
If you click on a file, folder or image in Mac OS X and then press the space bar to see a QuickLook screen. Here, you can click on the diagonal arrows pointing outwards to move into full screen – great for showing documents or images during presentations. While in full screen mode, click on the diagonal arrows again to go back to a windowed appearance. If it is an image then you can will also have an icon to save the image into iPhoto and can option-click on the image to zoom in.
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Moving that iPhoto Library
There are a number of reasons you might choose to change the location of your iPhoto library. Maybe you want to store pictures on a firewire drive, or maybe you want to store them on an iSCSI LUN, which I described how to work with recently. Either way, there are two ways I typically see people go about changing the location that iPhoto uses to store data. The first is to actually create a symbolic link from ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library to the directory you would like to use. The second, which is a better option is to go ahead and edit the location that the iPhoto preferences set as the path…