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• iphoto: How to put iPhoto pictures on the Network - Web iPhoto Access
  
• iphoto: Book publishing site.... lulu.com
  
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MAC + Windows

• Video Conference Tutorial for iChat and AIM

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Cmd + M	minimize active window
Cmd + Shift + M	minimizes all open windows

If you Cmd-click on a Window's title bar a pop-up menu will appear displaying the file hierachy, which folders the files in your current window resides in.

New switchers to Mac from PC might feel a little at a loss without the need to hit the CTRL + ALT + DEL keys every so often but what if you want to monitor your Mac's processes or force quit an application or process that is not obviously available in Mac OS X's Command + Option + ESC force quit combo?

Make an alias to a file by drag and drop

Hold down the Option and Command (Apple) keys on the keyboard while dragging and dropping a file to make an alias to the file at the destination.

The on-screen cursor will change to include a bent arrow when you hold down the Option and Command keys while dragging and dropping.

View photo books on screen

Last holiday season, I used Apple’s iPhoto to create a printed book of images of my two daughters for both sets of their grandparents. The end results were stunning, but far from cheap. If you’re thinking of forgo-ing print and making an electronic photo book instead (by saving and distributing it as a PDF file), here are some tips for viewing it on screen.

To get the most book-like experience, set your PDF viewer to display the book two pages at a time. In Apple’s Preview, open the PDF, choose View: PDF Display: Facing Pages, and then enter slide-show mode (Command-shift-F or View: Slideshow). Click on the Fit To Screen button (second from the right in the controller at the bottom of the screen) to make the pages fill your monitor. If you’re using Adobe Reader instead, select View: Page Display: Two Up. Next select Adobe Reader: Preferences, click on Full Screen in the Categories column, and deselect the Fill Screen With One Page At A Time option. Click on OK. Now select View: Full Screen Mode (Command-L) and enjoy.

Scrolling Around in iPhoto

If your mouse or trackball has a scroll wheel, you can use it in iPhoto to scroll vertically within a zoomed photo, even in full-screen mode. To scroll horizontally, press Shift while moving the scroll wheel. On modern Mac laptops, you can scroll by dragging two fingers on the trackpad. Turn on two-fingered scrolling in the Trackpad view of the Keyboard & Mouse preferences pane in System Preferences.

iPhoto 8.0 Batch Keyword

If you want to keyword a group of photos (with a sunset keyword), first add "sunset" as a keyword in iPhoto ( CMD-K). Open the keyword pane (CMD-K) select the photos you want, and select keyword "sunset" in the keyword pane. The keyword will be applied to all selected photos at once.