Using iPhoto to create and buy Photo Album

Okay, so this post is more about iPhoto than it is about the MBA. All I can say is that I did it with a MBA. I really never knew what iPhoto could do until recently. I thought it was just a way to organize photos and preview them. However, I saw a spiel on creating your own photo album and I thought, who has hard copy photo albums anymore? Everyone shares on the web. Well, call me old fashioned, but there is just something nice about sharing a hard copy photo album when you have company or you want to give a gift. I think grandparents would really dig something like this. So I tried it. The hard part was sifting through hundreds and hundreds of pictures stored on an external drive and importing them into iPhoto. If I had a complaint about the MBA now, it would be the lack of storage capacity. Using iPhoto to create the album was simple enough once I had all the photos I was going to use. Depending on the type of album you pick you can only have a max of 20 pages. However, you have various layouts that give you up to 16 photos to a page. At the end ordering was rather simple to. iPhoto checks for some types of errors. For example, I had not filled out all the pages that had text to them, so iPhoto warned me that it would be blank. Again, if I had any criticism of the product it was that it told me there were so low res photos in the mix, but did not tell me which one. I didn't have the energy to go look at the directory to see. It was my first album anyway. If it turns out nice, who knows, maybe I'll make another one for our upcoming vacation! Anxiously waiting to see what it looks like.

Remote Desktop Connection Beta 3

In a previous post I talked about using RDC beta version for Mac to connect into work PCs. In a April release, Microsoft put out a new Beta rev. This Beta will not expire and will allow users to continue to use the Beta version to RDC into Windows based machines.