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 ...

Mac Automation: Burn a backup disc of recent iPhotos

digg_url = 'http://www.tuaw.com/2008/06/17/mac-automation-burn-a-backup-disc-of-recent-iphotos/'; Time Machine is great way to backup your entire Mac, but what if you want to make a single backup of your recently imported photos in iPhoto? Well, Automator for Leopard is here to help with this task. In this how-to, I will show you how to find photos taken in the last 2 months and burn the resulting photos to a disc for safe keeping. Continue reading to learn how to create this Automator workflow.Continue reading Mac Automation: Burn a backup disc of recent iPhotosRead | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Ask TUAW: iChat problems, keyboard control, SRS iWOW bugs, iPhoto desktops, and more

In this exciting round of Ask TUAW we'll be looking at questions about using the keyboard to control dialog boxes, getting iTunes to play when a Mac wakes from sleep, using selective iPhoto sources for an automatically changing desktop, port forwarding for iChat, using one Mac to control another Mac running Front Row, and more.As always your suggestions are most welcome, and questions for next week should be left in the comments. When asking a question please include which machine you're running and which version of OS X, as certain answers will vary between different Macs and Tiger vs. Leopard, etc. (we'll assume you're running Leopard if you don't specify). And now, on to the questions!Continue reading Ask TUAW: iChat problems, keyboard control, SRS iWOW bugs, iPhoto desktops, and moreRead | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Aperture plug-in developer releases beta iPhoto plug-ins

Professional Aperture plug-in developer Ubermind has released four new beta plug-ins for iPhoto that allow you to build galleries and upload photos.

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