More mac usability woes

[bluesmoon]

So I plugged my camera into the Mac with the intent of uploading to flickr the last 6 photos that I'd just taken. As soon as I plug it in, iPhoto opens up, and offers to import my photos. All 1937 of them. No option to select which ones I want to upload

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[thaths]

I never use iPhoto. It simply sucks. I use Lightroom (for processing photos from my DSLR) or Image Capture (for processing photos from my camera phone). In the case of the DSLR (a Nikon D200), the OS mounts it as a USB drive automagically and also opens Lightroom in parallel to prompt me to import.

[bluesmoon]

I just have whatever came pre-installed on the MBP.

[nithya]

do u have a licensed copy of lightroom??? i really love using it except that i am just using the trial version of it..

[thaths]

Yes. Lightroom is pretty much the only commercial software I use. I bought version 1.x more than a year ago and upgraded to 2.x when it came out recently. Well worth the money for me. Adobe gives out pretty good student discounts. So see if you can buy a cheaper license through a student friend.

[redobsession]

ermm... you need to disable the option that lets iPhoto open up and import every time you plug in you camera.
other than that, you just close the window lah. it imports nothing. then you manually go and select copy-paste-drag-whatever. TADA!

[bluesmoon]

no such option on Tiger.

[redobsession]

AH. get Leopard?

[bluesmoon]

why would I knowingly pay money to a company that has just proven to me that they cannot write software that works for me?

[sunson]

Looks like you're on Tiger? Yeah, Tiger's iPhoto is a PITA.

Try upgrading to Leopard, a lot of the painful things from Tiger are fixed. I'm okayishly happy on Leopard now.

[toast0]

Apple isn't about giving people choices. If you want to do what they want to do, great. If not.... well there's the command line, and the two or three competing ports systems. Fry's has a 2000 in one memory card reader for $8 through thursday... at which point they will probably have a different brand of the same thing for a similar price. :D

[bluesmoon]

the last time I tried a port-install, it said that I needed some libraries that I didn't have, and I haven't tried it since then.

[teemus]

Tweak it a bit. Make it work. Be a geek. ;)

[bluesmoon]

There are no configuration options and there's no source code. Apple doesn't want its users to be geeks. It wants them to be droids.