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I Found Something Good

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

While I was looking around for a possible alternative to iPhoto, I found this blog post:
http://www.martinpaling.com/2006/05/26/picture-arena-iphoto-alternative/
I quickly downloaded Picture Arena, particularly after seeing the awesome icon (a good icon is always a positive sign), and was thoroghly impressed.
I think I’ll try usig this a while and see how it goes, but it seems ot be […]

Mac Photo Management

Monday, February 26th, 2007

I’ve given up on iPhoto. Don’t get me wrong—I like iPhoto for the most part. It’s easy to use, fairly intuitive, and really useful… assuming you don’t have too many pictures to manage.
We take a lot of pictures. Thousands. It’s simply too much for iPhoto to handle reasonably, particularly on my relatively low-powered little Mac […]

Olathe is Beautiful

Monday, February 26th, 2007

I learned something new this past weekend. The word “olathe” is the Shawnee Indian word for “beautiful”. I should have known, because there is evidence of the Shawnee everywhere around here. There’s a town named Chillicothe, which was the name for a specific clan of Shawnee from which the chief always originated. There is even […]

Corvair

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

One thing I’ve struggled with since we moved is the lack of community I’ve experienced here in Olathe. I have to admit that the city does try, but there are almost too many people to have any appreciable sense of community. Even after 6 months, and one block party at the end of the summer, […]

Mac Browsers

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Every now and then, I have a browser crisis. I don’t know what comes over me, but I go on this crusade to yet again find the “perfect” browser for the Mac.
I never have this problem on the PC, because the choices for Windows are pretty limited. You have IE (or some other 3rd-party browser […]