A new hard drive... and now what?

Recently I followed some instructions on line and I upgraded my MacBook Pro hard drive. I had an old 120 GB that can fill up only by the Apps. So in order to upgrade I needed to open the MacBook Pro, replace the hard drive close it up (without any screws left behind), format and install. I run however in so many problems which most of them were unique. Before we continue, please read the section I had in the previous on Disk Formatting.

Attempt 1: Open the hard drive, rebooting and installing the MacOS 10.5.6. Well there we go to the first problem. The DVD that I had was not working. And now what? Open again put back the old hard drive until we have a working DVD drive.

Attempt 2: My next door neighbor had a spare DVD drive from a MacBook that he spilled coke on. The DVD (hopefully works). So second attempt opening the Macbook and the MacBook Pro and this time transplanting the DVD from one computer to the other. Plus installing the Hard Drive. This time the drive was working and the operation was success. Now I just needed to install the OS. The first thing that I was asked was to format the Hard Drive to host the MacOSX. I selected the MacOS Journaled (case sensitive).

And that brings us to the next and final attempt... Yes I needed one more attempt. Why? Well first of all I just needed to install the the OS. The reason? Apple is fully supporting the case sensitive format, but not all other companies. So after the time that it took to install the OS and recover the data from the old hard drive, I had to do that all over again.

So the moral of the day. Do not use the case sensitive. Even time machine drive is not working with that format. You will need a new time machine, that is also case sensitive format.

iPhoto 09 reputation reinstalled

Okay so before I speak again about anything I will do a depth analysis or investigation. I stated in the first review of the iPhoto that it does not convert the places to the GPS EXIF data. Well it doesn't or at least it doesn 't directly. Meaning that it will keep the location in the database but will not imprinted it in the picture. So in case that you want to export the pictures and sent them to a friend the location is not there. So if you select the images and drag them to the Desktop and open the image, then the exif info do not include location.

Well... Think again! There is this option and almost in every export option. So for example let 's take the case where you export the pictures. So select File>Export and select the first option.

You will see this screen. Select the JPEG option and there is there the option of saving the "location inormation". A nice feature is the image renaiming. You can either save them with the title or even better with a prefix and an increasing number.

In this option we have the sequential image with the name "IMAGE_". And the fun does not stop there either. In the preferences at the Web publishing tab there is an option there to include the location information for published photos.
So after all the iPhoto 09 has a great incorporation of the Places. It still an issue that after the first instalation the Photos are not imported with their location.

iPhoto setting the record straight

In the previous post, I stated that the new iPhoto is amazing with the facebook, but there is no point in doing so since the names are not clickable on facebook. Well, it turns out that, this was not true. The names are clickable and behave as normal facebook links. The key there is to add the email that corresponds to the name and have the name (full name) just as it appears on facebook (not super sure about this last one).

So at the info tab for all the faces, just click the "i" button and just add the name there. And guess what the name can be anything that you want. Most of my life in Greece my friends were calling me Webby, so I pick this as a nickname, I add my full name as is on facebook, and I add the email I use for facebook. That 's it, now! The picture will be uploaded to the facebook and the name is clickable. See the example below with the very fashionable hair and helmet.

The nickname appears, the name is correct and the facebook is clickable.