Dianne Straley at The Charlotte Observer:
Apple has quietly begun work on a solar farm that apparently could help power its sprawling data center in southern Catawba County.
Permits issued by Catawba County show that the Cupertino, Calif., company has been approved to reshape the slope of some of the 171 acres of vacant land it owns on Startown Road, opposite the data center, in preparation of building a solar farm.
Good for Apple. I hope others follow its lead.
via Mac Rumors
Episode five of the best podcast in the world is up and ready for a listen.
Ouch.
So, as it turns out, iPhoto does import images from Photo Stream automatically:
Keeping a complete set of your photos on your Mac is as simple as turning on Photo Stream in iPhoto or Aperture. Every new photo you take appears in a Photo Stream album just as it does on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. But since your Mac has more storage than your iOS device, it automatically imports every picture from your Photo Stream into your photo library so you can edit, delete, and share the ones you want.
Thanks to everyone who emailed me about this. I try not to make such glaring errors in my writing — please consider this my apology.
Dave Caolo chimed in on Photo Stream.
Don’t worry — ABC is ready to go and ruin the Steve Jobs biography for you!
Chuck Skoda get his list right, but he left out a few things, in my opinion. All in all, I like Photo Stream — mainly as a way to quickly see photos I’ve already sorted into albums that might not be on my iPhone. That said, I think the system needs some clarification:
In iPhoto (and I assume Aperture), the Photo Stream is one endless set of photos. It is impossible to tell what’s been imported to iPhoto’s local library already. I would love for iPhoto to offer to delete images from the stream once they’ve been imported — just like it does when I import straight from my iPhone.
iPhoto doesn’t make it clear that the Photo Stream is a temporary storage location. iCloud will only keep 30 days worth of photos (or 1,000 images). After that, they’re gone. Even though they looked like they were in iPhoto. I imagine some people will lose some images before they figure this out.
Thirdly, there’s no way to view these images online. Why is there not a simple photo app at icloud.com?
Update: Go read this. Sorry!
Ben Brooks makes lots of good points in this article.
I’ve never seen the value in systems like this.
The original iPod set the stage for a decade’s worth of Apple devices, and although we don’t expect the modern replica of the iPod (the iPod classic) to stay around forever, Apple will undoubtedly continue to use the iPod as an influence when creating newer, even more popular gadgets.
Oh, and if you still have one of these original ones lying around, find a FireWire cable and plug it in. You might be surprised at how well it still works.