The IvanExpert Mac Blog

If you want to back up just your iPhoto images (your library) to an external source, such as a hard drive or CD/DVD, you need to know where to find them. Here’s what to do.

We’ve seen more than a few horror stories of people whose computer drives failed, and then they found out their Time Machine backups hadn’t been backing up in months! Time Machine is not infallible, it doesn’t work correctly 100% of the time. To prevent this from happening to you, check your Time Machine backup every [...]

My 2010 calendar, made in iPhoto with photos from my trips over the years, showed up about a week ago. It looks great. Most of the photos came out very sharp and colorful. My only comments are: 1. I’m glad I manually lightened and color-adjusted all the images. They would have been too dark otherwise. [...]

A number of our clients have moved to Snow Leopard, and for the most part they are finding the transition smooth except for one thing: PRINTING. The old printer drivers no longer work under Snow Leopard. Furthermore, they don’t know where to go to get new drivers, nor do they know how to download and [...]

It’s getting close to holiday time again–which means it’s time for me to start on the IvanExpert holiday cards. Each year, we send out holiday/New Year’s cards to our top clients, and the cards always feature a photo I’ve taken somewhere in NYC. So yesterday I used iPhoto’s amazing card printing service (yes, built right [...]

Walter Mossberg, the tech columnist at the Wall Street Journal, wrote an article today on the new Windows 7, which he says is a huge improvement over Vista. In fact he says Windows 7 may be as good as Mac OS X. Here are a few places where he says the Mac still beats Windows: [...]

Why 1Password is my favorite inexpensive application.

If you’re on the Mac, and using Apple Address Book for your contacts and Apple iCal for your calendar, how do you give your assistant/partner/spouse/best friend full access to this information, so he/she can add, change, and delete entries?   With MobileMe.com If you have a MobileMe.com account, it’s easy to do it via a [...]

I just worked with a client who wanted to inexpensively create a website and host it at a custom domain name. Of course I suggested he use iWeb to create the site, because it’s very easy to use, even for non-designers. iWeb does have some downsides, the biggest one being that the page designs aren’t [...]