Failure to order two iPhone X’s but at least Steve is getting one. Helma from the Netherlands reviews the Sennheiser PXC 550 Wireless Headphones. Both Olympus and Monoprice are forcing third-party cookie tracking on you when you’re buying from them. Bart Busschots brings us another edition of Security Bits where he talks about insecure child […]
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Dumb Question Corner – Apple Photos vs Google Photos
Eric in Durham, NC sent in our Dumb Question this week, and it’s a really interesting one: Hey Allison, here is a dumb question for you. I finally got rid of my Android phone and got an iPhone 😀. With that in mind, should I switch to Apple Photos app instead of using the Google […]
Continue readingResetting People Album in the new Apple Photos – Rick from Baltimore
Special Guest Post by Rick from Baltimore You probably know that the Photos app on Mac and IOS has a feature where we can name people(s) in individual photos and then those people will be grouped together and added to the default People Album in the app. Sort of like keywording, but using the person’s […]
Continue readingNC #635 Conversation of Things, Photo Albums People Want to See, Subscription Models for Software, Security Bits
I was on the inaugural episode of the Conversations of Things podcast with Joe Dugandzic. I’ll explain how to make photo albums with Apple Photos that people actually want to see (spoiler, it’s about keywords). I’ll challenge some assumptions Bart Busschots made in his Let’s Talk Photography podcast about subscription models for software. And Bart […]
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Make Apple Photo Albums People Actually Want to See
Apple Photos is a lot more capable than many people realize. I’m sure I still don’t use a great deal of the functionality myself, because I keep discovering new things it can do and new ways to use the capabilities that I already knew about. I just discovered a couple of cool uses of keywords […]
Continue readingiCloud Photo Sharing to Non-Apple Users
Problem to be solved: You have people with whom you’d like to share photos but they don’t have Apple devices so iCloud Photo Sharing doesn’t work for them. Solution: Create a shared album and generate a URL through which they can view the images in a web browser Note – I’m pretty sure this only […]
Continue readingHow iCloud Photo Library Adapts for Optimized Images
On iOS Today on the TWiT network hosts Leo Laporte & Megan Morrone were talking about iCloud Photo Library and the impact on your iOS devices. Leo expressed concern that the small storage of iOS devices wouldn’t be able to handle a big library. In this video I demonstrate how a 300GB+ library on the […]
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