Lovely Jubbly MacBook

My MacBook arrived yesterday and i must say being new to Mac its awesome, CTO wk25.
Turned it on when I got a t 9.3O in the morning and turned it off at just gone midnight, it ran no warmer than my windows laptop I'm moving from, no mooing sounds and I did open all I life apps and iwork apps at once, done a fresh install and cleared a nearly 5gb of rubish. Just sweet smooth running all the way
I've have it on this morning on battery to see what the battery life is like, it's been on for 1 hour now and it's still showing 4 hours left, thats with safari open, airport on, BT off and screen resolution low.
No issues with this one!
My only issue is why didn't I change over to Mac's sooner!?

Welcome to the world of Mac.......You won't regret your move. The reason you didn't change sooner is because like many of the multitude we were brain washed.
Now that your a Apple follower you'll spend a lot more money, why? I suppose I could say you'll see......but I won't. Now you'll want all your stuff to be Apple......why? Because it works!!!
Good luck...Good move!

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Sascha
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The Right Click Hack is unsuported, and more importantly, is precisely why you can't see the changes in iPhoto.
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- In iPhoto, I like to create an Album of photos I would like to edit or upload to my online development company, but iPhoto doesn't seem to save albums in any searchable fashion, so I have to manually move each one into a folder on my desktop. This creates 2 copies of the same photo, which will eventually use a lot of hard disk space.
Albums are virtual entities - there is no corresponding folder of images. So, create the album, do your edits as described above, then to upload, if you're development doesn't have an iPhoto export plug in, select the Pics and go File -> Export and export them to a folder on the desktop. iPhoto will create a copy of the pics incorporating your changes. Upload from there - and after your upload is finished, trash the copies on the desktop - your pics are safe in iPhoto.
Regards
TD

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