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Lightroom 2 Quick Tip: Put Your Favorite Photos on Your iPhone

Eric — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:25:53 +0000

Got an iPhone (or iPod Touch)? Looking for a quick way to take your favorite photos with you? Follow along with this demo:

Step 1: Choose the photos you want to export. Ideally, put them in a collection so you can update this later. A keyword or folder will work too.

Here, I’ve chosen [...]

Lightroom Technique: How I Organize My Catalog and Why

Eric — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:50:25 +0000

Update (September 2009): I’ve changed my workflow fairly significantly from what is described here. Please see my new article, “How I Organize My Catalog and Why (2009 Edition).”

In this article, I talk about the way I use Lightroom’s folders panel to organize my photos on disk. I talk about how I made [...]

iPhone Review

Eric — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 04:09:29 +0000

So there’s a new iPhone in the house. Not surprising, given that I’m somewhat of an Apple fanboy and gadget freak in general. What is surprising is that it’s not mine; it’s Tara’s. Tara is anything but a gadget freak. She has little patience for the often obtuse interfaces that most electronic gadgets offer. So [...]

September Update: Hiking in California, Getting Sick, Getting Injured, Getting Shipped

Eric — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 05:37:00 +0000

I’ve been a bit quiet here on this blog for the last few weeks, so here’s a bit of a retrospective on what’s been happening lately…

I was barely home a week from Alaska when I shipped off again, this time to California for a few days of work on Lightroom. Over the Labor Day [...]

It Just Works: Perforce As a Personal Backup Strategy

Eric — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:13:33 +0000

I’ve been working with computers for over thirty years now, and one thing I’ve learned from painful experience is never, ever trust your hard drive. It will let you down; the only question is when.

Whenever I create new data on a computer from e-mail to new photographs to web content, I always think about [...]

Persistence Pays Off: Treo and Mac Get Along — Mostly

Eric — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:57:02 +0000

Update from “Using a Treo 700p with a Mac: It’s Rough.”

It’s still not totally wonderful, but I have a new Treo 700p (now on Verizon instead of Sprint) and it’s mostly working now.

Things that have helped:

Being on Verizon instead of Sprint. I still drop connections occasionally, but it’s far less frequent [...]

Cisco VPN, Bluetooth Internet Phones, and Intel Macs Don’t Mix

Eric — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 06:49:29 +0000

Just a quick note: I’ve discovered that the Cisco 3000 VPN software (version 4.9.00.0050) will not work on an Intel-based Mac when connected to the Internet via a Bluetooth-enabled phone. When you click on the “Connect” button, it stalls in the “connecting to server…” stage and never presents the password dialog.

I’ve tried this on [...]

Using a Treo 700p with a Mac: It’s Rough

Eric — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:19:09 +0000

Update: See “Persistence Pays Off: Treo and Mac Get Along — Mostly.”

Talk about life on the bleeding edge. I recently got a new MacBook Pro laptop for work, which kind of triggered a chain reaction of other purchases.

I have a two-year old Samsung Palm phone hosted by Sprint , which [...]