macosxhints - Keyword Assistant -- iPhoto keywords made easy!

macosxhints - Keyword Assistant -- iPhoto keywords made easy!

If htis works, it will be tremendous. I'll test and update here.

NASA's earth observatory image collection: for when your desktop needs a makeover

EO Newsroom: New Images Index

macosxhints - Paste multiple bookmarks into Safari

macosxhints - Paste multiple bookmarks into Safari

If you paste a text block containing URLs into a Safari bookmark folder, it will create separate bookmarks for each url.

macosxhints - Queue songs into iTunes' Party Shuffle from the Library

macosxhints - Queue songs into iTunes' Party Shuffle from the Library: " If you are playing songs using iTunes' new Party Shuffle playlist, just control-click any song in your iTunes library and select 'Play Next in Party Shuffle'. The song will appear in Party Shuffle next to the song currently playing."

macosxhints - Delete photos from an iPhoto album and library

macosxhints - Delete photos from an iPhoto album and library: "If you want to remove a photo from a specific album and from the entire library at the same time, all you have to to is:

1. Select the photo
2. Hold down Command and Option, then press Delete."

Apple - Mac OS X - Supported Devices - Hardware Compatibility List

Apple - Mac OS X - Upgrade - Digital Devices

This page referencing supported devices with OS X is surprisingly hard (for me) to find.

Firewire 800 vs. 400 speeds: not as large a difference as one might expect

250GB FireWire 800 Drives

The test that showed the greatest difference between FireWire 800 and FireWire 400 involved simultaneously reading and writing a large file to the same drive, which is what happens during file duplication. When duplicating a 1GB file, the FireWire 800 drives completed the task 38 percent faster than the FireWire 400 drive. When duplicating a folder filled with 1GB of files and subfolders, the FireWire 800 drives were 23 percent faster. When copying a file from the internal boot drive to the external FireWire drive, the FireWire 800 drives were 30 percent faster than the FireWire 400 drive. Other tests didn't show as much of a difference. The FireWire 800 drives copied a 1GB folder of files to the internal boot drive 17 percent faster than the FireWire 400 drive. Backing up the same 1GB folder from the internal drive to the FireWire 800 drives with Retrospect was a bit more than 9 percent faster than with a FireWire 400 drive.

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For what I'd be doing it looks like an external Oxford bridged Firewire 800 device is really not significantly faster than Firewire 400 device -- even on Mac with Firewire 800 support.