Social network sites are still driving me bananas…it was January when I first discussed my dilemma, Is it best to leverage social networks, unfortunately I still have not found the holy grail. Flickr is just too public for my taste…I’m afraid I would regret (down the road) putting hundreds of photos of our son the site regardless of how much easier that would make my life. Bill Pearson shares this concern as well as you can see in the comments of my last post. At the same time I still want to add metadata to my photo once and use as few online sites as possible AS WELL AS be able to draw in my content on other sites to this site, ebohling.com. Nat left a comment last time along the same lines and provided an excellent link to Tim Brown’s site. Tim has successfully pulled content from several sources…I think using Yahoo Pipes which I still need to explore more.
Today I am exploring Zenfolio a bit more than I have in the past. Seems to me a much better solution than Flickr; I can upload larger original file sizes AND have greater access control of my images. It just may fulfill my requirements, but I have yet to thoroughly test it. I can say though that Flickr and Zooomr are a bust for me…they may be easy to use and all, but just don’t have quite the control over my photos that I want to maintain.
Anyone have any comments or experience with Zenfolio they would like to share?
update: came across this excellent point of view, Zenfolio Online Photo Sharing Review. I may be up very, very late tonight.
I cannot possibly verbalize how wonderful and useful the Dictionary app on OS X is for me. And unlike Windows it is so well integrated into EVERY, SINGLE APPLICATION (including any web browser)...and it is EXTREMELY FAST too. Jim is spot on, Dictionary - The Quintessential Mac Application.
I continue to be blown away by Apple’s customer support. In a recent post I briefly mention how, on several occasions, I get brand new replacements for a funky iPhone or Airport Extreme. Or on another occasion was refunded nearly $300 on a purchase of 6 books (from Aperture) when I sent an email stating the cover had a slight red tint. I explicitly stated in the email that I was not looking for any compensation but wanted to know why the cover was not as color accurate as the rest of the book.
Anyway, today Apple has yet again demonstrated how superior customer service works. Today, Aperture 2 was released and I since I have been waiting for this day for months now I wanted to order it immediately. I also had a $100 store credit to use (iPhone rebate), but realized I didn’t have all the store credit info I needed to use it. A quick search on Google pointed me to Apple’s iPhone store credit page where I found an email address. Immediately after sending the email I received an automated response saying that they received my message and I would hear back from them in 48-72 hours. Lovely…the canned delay. However, I was pleasantly surprised when not even 30 minutes later I received a phone call (on my iPhone) from Apple who promptly gave me all the info I needed to use my store credit. Wow…awesome!
