Photos Tip
20:26 Monday, 11 May 2015
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I made a print of an image from Photos the other day. It's a large one, 16"x20", but I'm happy the way it turned out.
In Photos, print orders are stored in Projects, at the bottom of the left side "sources" column.
After I received the print, which took about a week from ordering to delivery, I wanted to check something on the image exif data. Since it's one of several thousand images in my new Photos library, I figured I'd just do a "get info" on the image in the Project. Unfortunately, that doesn't work. Nor is there a "Show in Library" menu item. Basically, you can just modify the order from the contextual menu.
If you double-click the image, however, you get a floating window:
(What's interesting to me is that there is no corresponding Menu item that I was able to find that replicated the double-click. Normally, double-clicking is a shortcut for a Menu item, usually "Open.")
Click on the Edit Photo button and it takes you into the basic Photos edit screen. From there you can either use the Window=>Info menu item, or right-click on the image and do a Get Info from the contextual menu.
I submitted a feedback report asking to be able to get basic exif data from the Project page.
YouTube Tutorials
10:11 Saturday, 11 May 2024
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I enjoy watching YouTube tutorials and I learn a lot from many of them. I also enjoy seeing new creators and their approach to making their videos.
This one for creating a day overview using iOS Shortcuts was enjoyable. I like how he goes through step by step, encountering unexpected difficulties, going back and making changes. I find this more accessible, in some ways, than the very smooth presentations where everything was thought out and scripted in advance. I think the "relative roughness" makes it somehow more memorable, aiding in recall or retention? And it reveals a glimpse of a problem-solving approach, I think, that may be helpful.
I also loved the idea of having it run after an alarm stops. Didn't even know that was possible and it gives me some ideas.
I've subscribed to the channel, because he doesn't come up very high in the search results.
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10:20 Saturday, 11 May 2024
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Horrible movie. The trailer was better than the movie.
On a more hopeful note, heading out shortly to join my son and grandsons to see the latest Planet of the Apes installment.
I can't say I'm really excited about the prospect. The first three films in the reboot were very good. I suspect they're just milking it as a franchise now. Similar to how the original movies evolved. I do enjoy seeing the boys though, that's the main reason I'm going.
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09:44 Monday, 11 May 2026
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David French is clutching his pearls over Graham Platner. (Gift link.)
Comments were closed by the time I got to it, so here's what I would have written:
Platner is a symptom, not the disease. And as symptoms go, I think he's mild.
French ignores the larger problem: Why don't people of unimpeachable character and integrity run for office?
Sure, politics today is a cesspool. Who wants to beg for money, endure the scrutiny, the attacks, assemble a team, track the paperwork and the endless hours campaigning? Evidently, not the people of character French would prefer. Sure, Mills didn't have the baggage, but her age was not an asset. And surely it isn't the case that the only people with character and integrity are over 60?
I'm fine with Platner. At least he has the courage to step into the ring and endure the process.
But the real problem is the lack of engagement by broad swathes of American society from whom we might expect to draw more attractive candidates.
The rot runs deep.
Very deep.
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