iPhoto 6 pros and cons

Adam mentions that to subscribe to a Photocast you need to use
software other than iPhoto 6. Not so. To subscribe to a Flickr RSS
feed, for example, all you do in iPhoto is "Subscribe to
Photocast..." and paste in the RSS feed address. Volia! Now you have
a Photocast but not using .Mac or other software.


[I think you may have misunderstood. iPhoto 6 can subscribe to Flickr feeds, but without using one of the sites I mentioned in the article, you'll be limited to 10 items and to small thumbnails. The sites all fiddle things to give you 250 or 500 items and full-size images. -Adam]


Matt

From: martin cohen

One improvement in iPhoto 6 is, by itself, enough to make
me upgrade: It no longer takes 5 minutes to startup or
quit.

Explanation: There is a bug in iPhoto 5 that, for certain
cameras (including my Casio Z40 and Nikin D70) causes the
Library.iPhoto (or similar name) file to expand by about
30k with each picture added to iPhoto. After a while, this
file gets very large and takes a LONG time to load.

iPhoto 6 fixed this for me. YAY!

I'm happy to report that iPhoto 6 is /much/ speedier on my lowly
1.25Ghz Mac mini (512MB). Where launching iPhoto 5 bordered on a
"and now go get coffee" task, now it takes only a couple seconds.
(Hey, this is a mini we're talking about.) Saving changes to a photo
is much faster, and the full-screen editing works far better and
faster than I would have imagined.

Yay!

--
Andrew Laurence atlaurenes.nacs.uci.edu
Network & Academic Computing Svcs. http://www.nacs.uci.edu/~atlauren/
UC Irvine

It is true that iP6 works fast but not at all tasks. If you want to
attach a tag to more than three photo's (and I want to do that for a
lot more) than you have to be rather patient, cause you get a lot of
beachball time.

And another annoying thing happens with mine. Every now and then it
tells me to rebuild the thumbnailfiles. I really get pissed off
sometimes.

I never had those problems before.

I must add that I have a big collection of pictures, at this moment
6500 but thre is a lot more to come, and I work with an iMac G5/2Ghz/
1Gb DDR SDRAM and still 30 Gb of space



Op 14-mrt-2006, om 7:34 heeft Andrew Laurence het volgende geschreven:

> I'm happy to report that iPhoto 6 is /much/ speedier on my lowly
> 1.25Ghz Mac mini (512MB). Where launching iPhoto 5 bordered on a
> "and now go get coffee" task, now it takes only a couple seconds.
> (Hey, this is a mini we're talking about.) Saving changes to a photo
> is much faster, and the full-screen editing works far better and
> faster than I would have imagined.
>
> Yay!
>
> --
> Andrew Laurence atlaurenes.nacs.uci.edu
> Network & Academic Computing Svcs. http://www.nacs.uci.edu/
> ~atlauren/
> UC Irvine
>
>
>
> --
> If you want to unsubscribe or change your address, use this link:
>
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>

I am interested in knowing whether anyone has compared the print quality
of the photo books between iPhoto 5 and iPhoto 6. That is, has anyone
requested a new book that had been composed in iPhoto 5 after upgrading
to iPhoto 6.

I first used the photo book service last December. I purchased softcover
books in both medium and large sizes. When I received the books I was
pleased with the print quality, but not blown away with stunning HD
hardcopy. The novelty of seeing grandchildren in a bound book had the
expected WOW factor, but better prints would have taken it to another
level. Of course it might have been limited by my 3.2 MP camera.

Does anyone know whether the higher print quality from iPhoto 6 is
because the file is sent to a new printing service or perhaps to the same
service but using a higher-end printer? I am curious whether it is from a
higher-res file or higher-res hardware on the receiving end. My library
is not so large that launch times matter; I'm trying to decide if there
is a benefit to me upgrading from iPhoto 5, or should I just wait to get
it on my next Mac mini purchase.

Greg

I bought iLife 06 and got *very* disappointed.
It doesn't install on my G3 iBook!
iLife 06 is only supported on G4, G5 and Intel based Macs.
I admit that G3 is not part of the supporte platforms printed
in a small font on the box. I did check OS compatibility
but it didn't occure to me that Apple stops supporting
my 2.5 years old Mac model.

I will go back to Apple Store tomorrow and try to return
the product but they would probably refuse it since I
break the shrink wrap. I wonder if anybody was successful.
--
KUROSAKA ("Kuro") Teruhiko, San Francisco, California, USA

Just purchased a Mac Mini dual core to use essentially as a back-up hard drive for my laptop. Using iPhoto 06 and a Nikon D70, it seems to be much slower at importing photos than my iBook (loaded with iPHoto 5).

Has anyone else encountered similar problems? I'm talking about a 1 minute to import 1 photo...

Any suggestions or thoughts would be greatly appreciated...

[I'd look at the USB connections and see if the Nikon is connecting at a slower speed than previously. -Andrew]