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Importing Canon camera images

September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Canon’s are quite different from Nikon. Nikons just appear as hard drives on your computer, but Canon doesn’t allow it. Instead, you have to either install their shovelware to import or get a card reader for their CF cards.
If you have a Mac, then iPhoto knows how to read them too, so you can [...]

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Slideshows on the Mac

July 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Slideshows on the Mac are confusing because iPhoto, iDVD and iMovie can all make them, so what should use when. Here’s a guide:
iPhoto ‘08 for quick and dirty on the screen slideshows
First this is confusingly actually iPhoto ‘08 , version 7.0 (why couldn’t they just bump the version to match the date?). This is the [...]

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