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I posted a screenshot the other day on Flickr of my iPhoto6 layout and received some comments regarding the use of smart albums. When you import photographs into iPhoto you are also importing “MetaData”, or information about the photograph you took. Most cameras include information such as the date, time, shutter speed, aperture, ISO and whether or not the flash fired. In iPhoto6 you can now query against that meta data and build a smart album with the result. My library is composed of all smart albums (I primarily use keywords), and whenever I import images the albums are updated.

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My desk at 11:11PM on a Monday…

I was playing around with Aperture tonight and grabbed a few shots of my desk… Aperture seems to run much smoother since I upgraded my video card to an ATI9800 Mac SE.

Now I just need to learn how to use the app

Flickr PhotoStreams to iPhoto PhotoCasts

Continuing on with my iPhoto6 screenshots….
I realized last night that by adding a Flickr photostream RSS feed as a photocast in the new iPhoto6 works!
It seems you can add any Flickr RSS feed and download the images directly into iPhoto… another great feature.

It’s been about a month since my last update to the FlickrSavr application and since I last posted. I’ve been working on cosmetic changes to Aloi.Org (including an upgrade to WP-2.0) and also changing hosting providers (due to speed). If you notice Aloi.Org is redirecting to ChrisAloi.com - It’s only temporary, once the DNS changes propagate all will be normal again. I’ve also started playing with Apple’s new iLife suite - iPhoto has really come along way, we now have the ability to subscribe to a “PhotoCast” or “Stream” - the PhotoCast allows subscriptons to Flickr streams which is really nice.

I’ve noticed some development in Flickr apps for the Mac OS as well - “Tickr” is a great Flickr Ticker that streams photos along your desktop.

I hope to have more updates to FlickrSavr in the near future, thanks again for all the support.