Apple’s iPhoto is nice and simple to use program for managing your digital photos. It does however contain several design flaws that turn many users from happy customers to very frustrated users. While there is not much to be done against these important design flaws, there are a few simple things to be done in order to use iPhoto somewhat efficiently.
Before the current Photos app was released in 2015 (with OS X Yosemite 10.10.3), iPhoto was the standard image manager for every Mac. While iPhoto is now a legacy application, many users still have years of memories locked away in its proprietary ‘Library’ files. Because iPhoto (and its successor) makes it difficult to change your folder structure once you’ve started, moving your collection to a more flexible system requires a specific ‘jailbreak’ strategy. Here are five simple steps to finally free your pictures from iPhoto and reclaim control over your digital organization.
The Apple World Wide Developers Conference has come and gone. It was awesome! Lots of new and refreshed mobile products and laptops. In the midst of the presentation there were lots of things about updates to Mac OS including Photo Stream and iPhotos. Great things overall, but there is always one important assumption when using Apple software. Read on about the good, the bad and the ugly of Photo Stream and iPhotos.
