What can I say?
Aperture: Merging Libraries confirms you ... can't merge Libraries.
You need to export project-by-project-by-project then import project-by-project-by ...
It's awe inspiring, really.
And now I own this sucker ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Safari 3.1 STILL doesn't work properly - pasting into rich text fields
Safari 3.1 is out, and it's no better with rich text fields than Safari 3.0 was.
When I copy rich text to the clipboard, and paste into a Blogger rich text edit area, it frequently appears outside of the bounds of the text area. If I repeat the operation, it appears repeatedly "out of bounds".
There's no fix but to switch to HTML mode and paste into that text box.
Firefox/Camino don't have this problem.
Very annoying. I think Apple is going for force me to fire up my free developers account and file a bug report. Next time it happens I'll attack a screenshot to this post ...
Monday, March 17, 2008
Vote for the Google Calendar features you want ...
You can "vote" for the Google Calendar features you most want.
Go to Calendar Help Center and click on the "send suggestions" radio button.
On the next screen you can click "Suggest it" for the features you most want.
The one I want, a no-alarm default for appts and a kb shortcut to add/remove alerts, isn't on the list today. Lots of other good things are.
Vote once. Vote often.
Go to Calendar Help Center and click on the "send suggestions" radio button.
On the next screen you can click "Suggest it" for the features you most want.
The one I want, a no-alarm default for appts and a kb shortcut to add/remove alerts, isn't on the list today. Lots of other good things are.
Vote once. Vote often.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Aperture is still slow
I've ordered Aperture 2.0, but my time with the trial version tells me Aperture is still slow.
It's not the old GPU/rendering story. That's not the problem.
The problem is that Aperture brings up the SBOD (spinning wheel) on very routine operations -- such as deleting images when in "P" (preview) mode. Thirty second timeouts are not uncommon.
These aren't operations that should push any machine. I assume they're related to threading issues with the underlying data storage mechanism.
There's still a lot of rework to be done on Aperture. The 1.0 code base must have been extremely problematic.
It's not the old GPU/rendering story. That's not the problem.
The problem is that Aperture brings up the SBOD (spinning wheel) on very routine operations -- such as deleting images when in "P" (preview) mode. Thirty second timeouts are not uncommon.
These aren't operations that should push any machine. I assume they're related to threading issues with the underlying data storage mechanism.
There's still a lot of rework to be done on Aperture. The 1.0 code base must have been extremely problematic.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Visible Body - Internet Explorer Only
The Visible Body | 3D Human Anatomy sounded interesting -- but it's XP and IE only.
What a shame.
That's quite odd these days. Once upon a time insisting on IE and XP worked quite well, but I'm not sure that's true now.
What a shame.
That's quite odd these days. Once upon a time insisting on IE and XP worked quite well, but I'm not sure that's true now.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Google Apps Calendar fix? Integrating identities.
Only last week I'd hit another snag in our family calendaring project:
I hope Google's fixed the bug(s), but I suspect the unexpected resolution is due to slow propagation and completion of certain changes to Calendar settings. For now, anyway, I seem to have a fix.
Now that I'm moving forward again, I'll recap. This might be useful to someone.
I've described our family calendaring project previously. Using Google Apps to create our eNom administered family domain was easy. That gave each of us email and calendars.
Emily's email has lived on the Google Apps account for months, with IMAP sync from two our Macs and access via Google's Java client for the Blackberry. Her Google Apps Calendar also synchronizes with her Blackberry using an other Google Java app.
That left me as a problem. I'm waiting for the iPhone to meet my minimal demands, so I'm on my second Palm Tungsten E2. That devices syncs with Outlook at home (work is more complex, I'll omit it). Now that Outlook can sync with a Google Apps Calendar my home Outlook is synchronizing with my Google Apps Calendar every hour or so.
Only one problem remained.
I have two primary (and several secondary) Google/Google App identities. One is in the family domain, the other is much older and has a plain gmail.com address. The older one is bound to years of email, Google search results, blogger*, etc. Google now lets me keep a single Google App identity and a single Gmail identity running simultaneously so I can work with both, but it's a pain to have two calendars. Two emails are fine, but two calendars is no good.
Now that's fixed. Here's what I did:
The only minor glitch is that my Gmail defaults to using my legacy Gmail Calendar for event creation, but it's not hard to switch target calendars in the drop down box. The name for my old calendar, "Don't Use", reminds me to switch.
So far, not too bad.
* Google Apps accounts can't join a Blogger blog btw.
Gordon's Tech: Calendar sharing bugs and limitations in Google Apps vs Google StandardToday the problems have resolved, and my Google Apps Calendar now shows the both a standard and a Public calendar address.
.... I'm running into design limitations and bugs with Google Calendar and Google Apps Calendars. At the moment they include:
- A Google Calendar has both a "Private Address" and a "Calendar Address". The Private Address enables sharing with a single individual. A Google Apps Calendar has a "Google App Domain Address" and a "Calendar Address". It's likely that Google re-purposed the "Private Address" function to enable "Domain sharing", but that means you can't privately share a Google Apps Calendar outside of a Google App domain.
- There's an bug in Google Apps Calendar. Under certain operations it gets stuck in a mode where it will only share busy/free information -- even if you enable public sharing at both the domain and calendar level....
I hope Google's fixed the bug(s), but I suspect the unexpected resolution is due to slow propagation and completion of certain changes to Calendar settings. For now, anyway, I seem to have a fix.
Now that I'm moving forward again, I'll recap. This might be useful to someone.
I've described our family calendaring project previously. Using Google Apps to create our eNom administered family domain was easy. That gave each of us email and calendars.
Emily's email has lived on the Google Apps account for months, with IMAP sync from two our Macs and access via Google's Java client for the Blackberry. Her Google Apps Calendar also synchronizes with her Blackberry using an other Google Java app.
That left me as a problem. I'm waiting for the iPhone to meet my minimal demands, so I'm on my second Palm Tungsten E2. That devices syncs with Outlook at home (work is more complex, I'll omit it). Now that Outlook can sync with a Google Apps Calendar my home Outlook is synchronizing with my Google Apps Calendar every hour or so.
Only one problem remained.
I have two primary (and several secondary) Google/Google App identities. One is in the family domain, the other is much older and has a plain gmail.com address. The older one is bound to years of email, Google search results, blogger*, etc. Google now lets me keep a single Google App identity and a single Gmail identity running simultaneously so I can work with both, but it's a pain to have two calendars. Two emails are fine, but two calendars is no good.
Now that's fixed. Here's what I did:
- Google Apps: In Domain Management set the limit on extra-domain sharing with authenticated users to maximally permissive.
- In my Google Apps Calendar added my Gmail account with maximal control (this didn't used to work).
- Set my Google Apps email to forward to my Gmail account -- so I get email reminders.
- In my Gmail account cleaned out my Gmail Calendar and renamed it "Don't Use!"
The only minor glitch is that my Gmail defaults to using my legacy Gmail Calendar for event creation, but it's not hard to switch target calendars in the drop down box. The name for my old calendar, "Don't Use", reminds me to switch.
So far, not too bad.
* Google Apps accounts can't join a Blogger blog btw.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Travel tool: Mini Surge Protector with USB Charger
I carry one USB charger and a simple extension cord in my bag. This Belkin product is a sure thing for my carry-on bag:
Belkin Mini Surge Protector with USB Charger - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
....stylish surge protector power strip looks like it would be right at home in any mobile Mac user's bag. It includes two powered USB ports for charging iPhones, iPods, and the like, as well as three AC outlets...
...The Belkin Mini Surge Protector is "coming soon" for $24.99.
The Belkin site mentions a "360-degree rotating plug with 4 locking positions". I assume the plug fully retracts.
This is a great boon when fighting for an airport outlet; most travelers will gladly relinquish an outlet in favor of the protector. My only change is that I'd like to see it ship with a 6 inch extension cord, I'll look for one that would fit.
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