One way to randomize order of an iPhoto slideshow

There are two ways to have a slideshow in iPhoto. From within an album, you can click the Play button and get a quick slideshow. With this method, you have the option to shuffle the order, and play music -- but you can't "fit" the duration of the slideshow to the music. The other way is to create a slideshow in the sidebar. Here you have the option of setting the duration of each slide to match that of the music (in my case, I had a 20 minute montage), but there is no way to randomize the order -- you have to drag by hand to set the manual order. My idea is to title the photos with a random number, then sort by title, thereby randomizing the images. Run this AppleScript in Script Editor to do just that: tell application "iPhoto" --tell album "photos" -- Note: change the album name above to reflect the album -- whose images you'd like to re-title, then remove the "--" -- at the beginning of the line. Note that if you leave it -- as "photos," th...

Launch iPhoto only on camera, not iPhone, connect

I have been continually annoyed with the way that iPhoto would start whenever I plugged my iPhone into my computer. The only pictures I take with my iPhone are to help me find my space in a parking lot, or so I can reassemble something I am taking apart. I do not want to archive these pictures. However, I do still want to use iPhoto to take the pictures off my digital camera. My previous solution was to set Image Capture to disable launching iPhoto in every case of camera attachment, and then manually launching iPhoto when necessary.Luckily, Sam Stephenson at 37signals provided me with a solution that will launch iPhoto when a camera is attached, but not when my iPhone is attached. Sam realized that within the preference pane of Image Capture, an arbitrary application can be set to launch whenever a camera is connected. This solution utilizes the shell command ...

Uploading full-size JPEGs from iPhoto ‘08

Sometimes you want to allow friends and family to download your full-size JPEGs for printing or creating iPhoto photo books. Web Gallery makes it easy. 1. Select the photos you want to publish in iPhoto ‘08 and click Web Gallery. 2. In the options window, select “Allow Downloading of photos or entire album.” 3. Click the Show Advanced button and choose Actual Size in the Download Quality drop-down menu. Click Publish and iPhoto ’08 will upload your full-size JPEGs instead of optimized images, so

O2 quarter boosted by iPhone; PayPal Safari warning; iPhoto 7.1.3

While its Irish division is just receiving the iPhone, O2 UK said on Thursday that the iPhone led its best-ever quarter at the end of 2007. Also, PayPal cautions users to avoid visiting its site with Safari, and Apple has issued an iPhoto fix. O2...

Digital Photo: Master your image library

Much of the attention for iPhoto ’08 has focused on the new Events pane, which organizes your photos based on when they were taken. But Apple’s newest photo manager has many more tricks up its sleeve.

iPhoto Photobooks come to Australia, New Zealand

Teach your students a foreign language Make a flip book Create killer gifts (grandparents especially go nuts for these) Demonstrate martial arts forms (Record with a video camera, export to frames with Quicktime Pro, import into iPhoto, make a flip book) There's more, of course. Now have fun.[Via APC Magazine]