Best option for using iPhoto on holiday

I Practise a lot of photography and have a OCD about all my pictures being organised in iPhoto, with keywords, geotags, face recognition etc. I currently do this on my iMac to which my iPhoto library is stored on a Seagate external 2tb hard drive via FireWire. The problem I find it's a lot of work when I get back and I'm stuck in the office for days organising, the solution I'm looking for is some how doing this on the go.
THe first thing I thought is to get a Macbook pro or a MacBook Air, and just take my hard drive with with me, but I'm not sure if it will need to do a library rebuild every time I unplug from iMac to another device or is it just plug and play, or could there be an option to do some thing with a mini mac or mini mac server as these appear a cheaper option to buy. Must places I go have a HD TV so could connect the mini mac to a TV or I imagine there's and option these days of using your mini mac on a iPad screen.
Thanks in Advance, any advice appreciated
Dan

>> I'm not sure what the term "remote image" means exactly... I find the perfect image ... paste that photo into my post, would that be using a "remote image?"
Yes
3GB will go some way, so I'd upload your own, which avoids missing images when some other site changes. Layout/appearance should be the same for remote or uploaded.

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Sharon

sdsess wrote:
I am going to be visiting England for over 2 weeks.   what is the best option for me to be able to use my cell phone while I am there to call my family in the USA.   The International rate is way way toooooo expensive @ $ . 65 per minute.
Thanks,
Sharon
Is your phone the LG Cosmos, as it says by your profile?   This phone won't work as a phone in the UK (which is GSM, and the Cosmos is CDMA-only). Don't think is has Wifi either, so Skype is out.
So choices are to get a "loaner" phone from Verizon's Occasional Global traveller program, http://b2b.vzw.com/international/Global_Travel/index.html
or buy a cheap GSM phone in the UK.   There are some great deals, e.g. from CarphoneWarehouse, which are everywhere...
http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/choose-tariff/ALCATEL-OT-209/PPAY&clearance=false
This phone costs 3GBP, around $5, you need a 10 pound top up. And there are many others. Just make sure it is unlocked, and then it's easy to find SIMs which cost around 10c per min to the US.

HT1229 what is the best method for using a iphoto with an external hard drive for greater capacity?

what is the best method for using a iphoto with an external hard drive for greater capacity?

Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
LN

What's is the best way to use iPhoto? I need to understand.

What's is the best way to use iPhoto? I need to understand.
I guess the iPhoto is only for people with 5,000 of personal photos.
Or even 200,000, but they can't use this app everyday.
I'm not talk about working as a photographer. They use Aperture.
They may use iPhoto like a family album that you take a look sometimes.
And don't care about putting photos from the camera or from internet everyday.
I have tons of music and I love iTunes 8, works great. So I tried but I can't stand iPhoto anymore.
I have over 173,000 photos. My goal is organize, have total control, crop in Preview and delete them fast as I can.
The iPhoto is too slow. And is not only about performance, more RAM... but the whole concept.
Finder is much better/richer/flexible to organize than iPhoto.
I'm not talking about the photographer workflow.
And I'm not talking about editing and all these great photo features, the search, and all the iLife environment. They are amazing.
When I'm iPhoto, I feel like a prisioner.
I can't open an album/folder/event alone just to take a look, without do lanch the iPhoto app with the all thousand photos together. And it's slow.
I can't use Quick Look there.
So, I'll use Finder for manage/crop/etc. But what's the best way to use iPhoto in my case? Put the best/key ones there to use in iLife/MobileMe? To do a more serious editing? I like the features: keywords/ratings/hidden photos/events... It would be cool this features in Finder.
For example:
iMovie: Manage movies? NO. It's editng only.
iTunes: Manage music/small video/podcast...? OK. Editing the song? OK for tags/convert/artwork/equalizer... For music there's a GarageBand of course.
iPhoto: Manage photos? Yes and No.
I think Finder would kill iPhoto incoporating all the editing features in Preview and the rich manage in Finder.
Jobs said that no one care about iDVD anymore. They care about the web.
Using iMovie to export to MobileMe.
Maybe iPhoto become less important in a near future. With a better Finder+Preview Right?
Sorry for this long text with a short question.
Thanks.

Your post demonstrates exactly why I keep saying that iPhoto is not the application for you.
It would be better an iPhoto organizing photos by words like when iTunes browse his music.
Why on earth would anyone want to organise photos by words? A list mode is entirely pointless in a Photo application. That's like having an old photo album organised with the photos facing inwards so you can read the back of the picture.
Again, this is a characteristic of a File browser. You don't want a Photo organiser, you want a file organiser.
And, in iPhoto, you can search by tags, effortlessly in either the search box or by using a Smart Album.
iPhoto always loads all that events and all the thumbs library to scroll, and I think it's overkill.
So, how is iPhoto to know which ones you want to work with today? Open a library, get the Library.
Would be better a Cover Flow option to browsing in Events.
You've obviously never tried scrubbing along the Event icon.
Imagine iTunes using Cover Flow mode all the time. It won't be too useful.
Many, many people do, including myself on a library of 20k tracks totalling more that 100 gigs, and find it very useful. Same with the Finder.
And if when iTunes Store starts to sell photos?
Why on earth would the iTunes store start to sell photos?
My photos are not junk,
I didn't say there were. Read my post again.
When I said Finder to crop photos I mean Preview. But I feel in Finder. Because what's in Preview? A photo opened with a Preview's menubar and some cocoa APIs like adjustments. Not?
Oh, so you don't count Preview as an application. Fine. It is an application but you don't feel it. As you wish.
My point to you is very simple: Because of the way you want to organise your pics - using lists views and so on - iPhoto is not the application for you. Don't use it. But you keep writing things about the application that are untrue, and I'm aware that other folks search these forums and I don't want them to have inaccurate information about iPhoto.
Regards
TD

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5. Do I need to use LCDS if I am using AMF only on client side? Basically I mean if I am sending an object in form of xml from a servlet. Can some technology in Flash (probably AMF) in client side map it an Action script object?
6. What are the primary advantages of using LCDS in a system? Is there any alternate solutions? Can I use some standard solutions for data push technologies?
I would like that my server side implementation can be used by multiple types of clients e.g. RIA browser based, mobile based, third party software (any technology) etc.
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Jalal

Hi Jalal,
Let me see if I can help with some of your questions
1. Yes, you can use LCDS for simple forms processing. Any time you want to
move data between the Flex client and the server, LCDS (or its free Open
source cousin BlazeDS) is going to help. I would expect you would use the
mx:RemoteObject MXML tag to invoke server side code, passing it the form
data input by the application user.
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which can scale quite nicely. You can then use the mx:Consumer MXML tag to
subscribe the clients to the messages, which can come from almost anywhere,
include JMS topics or queues.
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thousands of users and the LCDS servers can be clustered to proved better
scaling.
4. The AMF3 protocol used over the RTMP channels performs much faster than
simple XML over HTTP. See this blog posting for some tests:
http://www.jamesward.org/census/.
5. If you are sending a Flex application XML, then I would recommend using
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work with XML. If you want Actionscript objects (and probably better
performance), then using AMF serialization to Actionscript objects is the
way to go.
6. Primary advantages? There are many, but mainly you can avoid thinking
about the plumbing and concentrate on solving your application and business
logic problems.
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Hi there! I'm traveling to Croatia next week (live in the U.S.), and I'm hoping to find the best option to use Skype over wifi to stay connected while I'm there. What are your thoughts on the lowest cost option?

a-seifert wrote:
Hi there! I'm traveling to Croatia next week (live in the U.S.), and I'm hoping to find the best option to use Skype over wifi to stay connected while I'm there. What are your thoughts on the lowest cost option?
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