Archive for the ‘Misc Tech’ Category
Copying Photos from your iPhone in OS X
Man I do hate to have to use iPhoto to manage my iPhone pics. I just want to copy them to a folder as files, should be simple enough, right? Could not figure out how to do it via iTunes without iPhoto.
Googled it up for a while before I found 2 simple solutions:
- The app “Image Capture” does exactly what I want. Allows me to export some or all of the photos on my iPhone to a selected folder.
- Interesting alternative: in Preview, go to the File->Import Image menu option, and you can import a photo (with preview) from your iPhone.
The iPhone Really is Magic! 1 Week on a Single Charge!
This is off topic for me, but I think it’s worh a minor blog entry: to my surprise, the iPhone really is pretty damn good.
Now, I am not an early adopter by any means. After my antique cell phone finally fell apart, I broke down and got myself an iPhone like all the other kids already have.
I’d heard a lot about how crappy the phones were in terms of battery life, but was mightily impressed: I got my phone last Thursday, charged it up, and it still had a bit of charge left a full week later! Really though, I’m not a typical user; the first thing I did when I powered it on was to turn off 3G, WiFi and Location Services. I turned it off at night, and during subway trips, but otherwise used it normally (as a phone). Plus did a bit of web browsing and checking out the App Store, turning on WiFi when I needed to use it.
But, it’s a great basic phone (with lots of optional dazzling features that you are free to ignore). The call quality is much better than my previous (admittedly crap) phones, as is reception. Plus the interface does justify the hype. And excellent battery life if you mainly use it as a phone, who knew?
These Apple folks might be on to something…