I’ve been working on smart albums inside Apple Photos and I’ve found some interesting things. Let’s set up a problem to be solved. Let’s say the next iPhone is coming out and you’re trying to decide which model you might need. Perhaps you’ve always gone top-of-the-line because of the cameras, but this year you’re wondering […]
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NC #805 Name Photos on iOS/iPadOS, Soma Smart Blinds, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, October 11, 2020, and this is show number 805. I’m recording from San Diego this week, as Steve and I have been spending some quality time with Nolan […]
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Tiny Tip – How to Name Photos on iOS/iPadOS
View → Metadata to See Titles In September I talked to you about how I organize my photos (https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2020/09/scanned-photos-organization/) and how I apply this detailed and fastidious organization even when bringing in scanned photos. One thing I didn’t tell you is that I also name a lot of my photos. I do this because I […]
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Scanned Photo Organization for the Fastidious
My Actual Physical Photo Albums Back in the old days, I took a fair number of photos. Nothing like the number of photos we take today, of course, but more than most people,. I know you’ll be shocked to hear this but I very carefully organized my photos into photo albums labeled by date. I […]
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I’m in Love with Mimeo Photos for Apple Photos Projects
Every year for the last 25 or 30 years, I’ve created a photo calendar for my family. These monthly collages make us all very happy. I can tell they really like it because once or twice I’ve tried to opt people out to save money only to get huge protests and be forced to add […]
Continue readingNC #651 iPhone X Ordering, Sennheiser Headphones, Olympus & Monoprice Tracking, Security Bits
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 […]
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