Jake Savin: Test

Tue, 21 May 2002 22:12:53 GMT

Eugene McCarthy. "It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember."

Tue, 21 May 2002 22:12:52 GMT

Theodore Roosevelt. "When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty.'"

Tue, 21 May 2002 22:12:51 GMT

Richard M. Nixon. "Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too."

Tue, 21 May 2002 22:12:50 GMT

Oscar Wilde. "I am not young enough to know everything."

Tue, 21 May 2002 22:12:37 GMT

Richard M. Nixon. "Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too." (Courtesy: Quotes of the Day)

Tue, 21 May 2002 22:12:36 GMT

Over at Jeff Cheney's other blog comes a story that is highly amusing and has me oh so slightly altering Monty Python - "Sit on my fleece, and tell me that you love me..."

Tue, 21 May 2002 22:12:35 GMT

OmniWeb hits 4.1 sneaky peek 86. OmniWeb 4.1sp87 (Updated 5/21/02) - The Omni Group offers an update to OmniWeb 4.1 sneaky peek 87 today, following quickly on the heels of 4.1sp85 which caused problems for longtime users who temporarily lost access to their bookmark files. The update still doesn't squash the table rendering bug that is one of the last hurdles remaining before OmniWeb hits a final 4.1 release...

Update: The Omni Group offered yet another update to OmniWeb late this afternoon. It looks like the push to reach the final release of OmniWeb 4.1 is underway...

Tue, 21 May 2002 22:12:34 GMT

Why I stopped using iPhoto. I made a big move today. After using iPhoto since its unveiling in January, I removed the program from my PowerBook today. Why? Because the combination of my having just 192 megabytes of RAM and a photo library for this year that is 800 shots and growing, combined with iPhoto 1.1.1 was dragging my laptop to its knees anytime I wanted to do anything with my photos.

The decision to dump iPhoto was really pretty easy to make. Ever since I started using it, iPhoto has been a serious compromise. It fails to render photos clearly in its slideshow feature - at least on my machine and with the large TIFF images I had stored in the database. It also takes up extraneous hard disk resources with all of the thumbnails and other features built into each day's photo database. In additional to iPhoto 1.1.1 being a 63 megabyte application, the database it created to hold my 800 photos took up another megabyte of space over and above the actual photo data.

Yes, I know that storage space is cheap, and I will buy new RAM soon to make this laptop more snappy with OS X in general, but in my use, iPhoto just doesn't offer as many pluses as minuses for this photographer.

I will take a look at other photo management options now, including iView MediaPro 1.5 and using my old system working with the excellent GraphicConverter program and its folder browsing capabilities. iView MediaPro offers higher-end features than iPhoto for its $65 cost, while GraphicConverter offers access to more file formats than you could imagine for its $35 cost.

I am not advocating that anyone else stop using iPhoto. Like Apple's Mail application, if the simple capabilities of iPhoto work for you then there is no reason to look for more advanced photo managment solutions. I was just tired of my Mac slowing down every time I wanted to scroll through my images in iPhoto. After all, iPhoto is little more than a shoebox to store your photos - especially if you do your photo editing in another application. The shoebox just doesn't fit me any more.

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Tue, 21 May 2002 22:12:33 GMT

Copyright office rejects Internet radio royalties deal. Internet News: "The United States Copyright Office on Tuesday rejected an arbitration panel ruling on Webcasting royalty rates, a decision that is sure to rankle the recording industry and bring smiles to the face of Internet radio executives nationwide." [Scripting News]

Tue, 21 May 2002 22:12:31 GMT

Constrictor 2.1 sounds like a useful screen shot utility. Constrictor v2.1. - Constrictor is a scriptable screenshot utility for OS X. It lets you position a frame and then snap the area inside, applying border effects and saving in a variety of formats. New in this version: Saving as PDF and EPS. Backdrop and full-alpha snapping. Copy to clipboard in all image formats. Generate thumbnail icons for snaps. Now includes sample AppleScripts. Keyboard control over frame position & size. Customizable size presets with command keys and names. Snap to preset sizes, with live snap guide display. New Italian localization. Bug fixes. [AppleScript Info]