Gordon's Tech

Try this experiment. 1. Import a camera produced JPEG into Photos.app. Check the size. Let’s say it’s 6.8MB. 2. Don’t edit the image. Expo...

After the iOS 10 update I lost bluetooth connectivity to my Pioneer DEC-X6800BT car stereo. I tried the usual remedies . I think the real f...

I recently migrated my daughter to Photos.app and iCloud Photo Library. I ran into some minor issues and one significant bug , but I liked i...

(Original 6/24/2015, updated 64/28/2019 when ported last number to AT&T) When I last wrote about H2O Wireless, our kids dirt cheap mobi...

For some time I've noticed some of the older Facebook albums I'd created from either iPhoto or Aperture showed with generic icons wh...

I haven't used iPhoto on our white MacBook running Lion for years. I did so recently and I discovered I was afflicted by the  Photo turn...

My first post on merging iPhoto Libraries was published on January 17th, 2004. Gordon's Tech: Apple - Discussions - iPhoto 4: Consolidat...

E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is m...

I decided to try the open source  Aperture to Picasa export plugin . It worked for about 100 images, then died. I couldn't get it to upl...

After years of false claims of iPhoto to Aperture migration support , and four months after  I realized iPhoto was going down the wrong road...

Apple's Aperture photo management software  was a mistake. I don't know what they were thinking, or where it came from . Obviously i...

In the final stage of my iPhoto 8 to Aperture 3.23 migration I imported my a 62 GB iPhoto Library of about 18,629 "Photos", of w...

I'm migrating my image and video libraries from iPhoto to Aperture. This is a long and tedious process since the fully automated importe...

I learned one photo lesson during a family trip to DC - set all cameras to local time. Aperture has some time zone support, but it's inc...

Apple promotes Aperture's seamless import of iPhoto content . I've been skeptical, but I gave it a try on a plane flight. I added 2...

Every time I logged into my Lion machine, Aperture started up. I checked the Login items option on my user account. Nothing there. Then I ...

I've started migrating family accounts to iCloud. This explanation from Apple Discussions is helpful ... With a Family Pack, the master...

There can't be more than one person in a million who cares about this. This post is for you. Please comment so I know I'm not alone...

I recently enjoyed this 2010 article on  using OS X PDF services to send websites and docs to iBooks (Mac OS X Hints) . All Mac geeks should...

I suspect there aren't many of us stuck in Apple's photo management Limbo. Maybe a few hundred geeks. Perhaps we should develop a se...