Thursday, November 1, 2007

iPhoto PhotoBook

My grandma's birthday was this month - so I thought I'd try out the photobook feature from iPhoto.

Click here for some unboxing pron of the book and a page by page tour.

I will note that the pictures used for this book were scans of 35mm slides that are over 30 years old, dusty and been stored in a garage for the last 10 years The quality of the pictures isn't the greatest, but overall I was very impressed with the product.

Leopard!

Around noon on release day the FedEx truck pulled up, delivering the little brown box that contained Leopard.

I had spent earlier that morning running the Apple Backup - backing up all my data 2 and 3 times, not to mention I have the original 120 gb hdd loaded with Tiger still sitting in the corner. So one way or another I was backed up and ready to go.

The upgrade went well and painless - no issues. The only annoyance I had was at the beginning when I thought it was upgrading only to realize after 20 mins it was still verifying my DVD. But that is my only complaint - so really everything else went smooth.

I have to say I like leopard - as an IT person though I have to say, it's not that huge of an improvement. It's not like jumping from windows 98 to XP, there aren't that many core changes. But the OS is beautiful, responsive and so far - stable.

You can't really blame Apple, Microsoft or anyone else at this point - we are beyond the basic needs of an operating system. Now it really is about add ons and eye candy.