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Comment on iPhoto ‘09: Force iPhoto to rebuild all Faces data by Jørgen Tietze

Jørgen Tietze — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:11:36 +0000

You do not have to delete your faces database. You can just select all your photos, right click and select “Detect Missing Faces”

Comment on iPhoto ‘09: Force iPhoto to rebuild all Faces data by Chris Milne

Chris Milne — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:32:17 +0000

Thanks for the advice, in my case I had tagged too many images to reset the database. I did find a way to recreate the images, though it is time consuming. When I browser the library in Faces some of the thumbnails were there, others were missing. I selected the missing ones, right-clicked and selected “Detect Missing Faces” and it recreated the thumbnails.

Comment on Apple Mail won’t add attachments. by Jason Webster

Jason Webster — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:29:12 +0000

This started causing problems for me in early 90, seemed to be introduced by a security update or possibly iLife Media Browser Update (just a hunch). Images couldn’t be pasted or dragndropped into a Mail message, and it was annoying to me that the default became “Insert Attachments at End of Message”.

I opened up the com.apple.mail.plist and changed the “AttachAtEnd” entry from “1″ to “0″ fixed both issues.

Hope that helps someone, even though this thread is a bit old!

Comment on iPhoto ‘09: What is Faces doing behind the scenes by Darryl

Darryl — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:13:40 +0000

OS X includes the sqlite3 database client that lets you poke around in those *.db files (which are sqlite databases). Here’s some useful queries:

echo ’select image_key from detected_face, face_name where detected_face.face_key=face_name.face_key and name=”Luke”;’ | sqlite3 face.db

echo ’select relativePath from SqFileInfo, SqFileImage where SqFileImage.photokey=1288 and imageType=6 and SqFileImage.primaryKey=SqFileInfo.primaryKey ;’ | sqlite3 iPhotoMain.db

The first query dumps a list of all of the photokeys (unique identifiers for every photo in your iPhoto library) for the tag “Luke”.

The second query lets you find the location of the original photo that matches photoKey 1288 (one of the “Luke” photos listed in the previous query.

If and when I ever get my 200GB+ of photos sufficiently face-tagged, I plan to use those queries in conjunction with Perl and a library called exiftool to embed tags into the photos themselves as IPTC Keywords. (Meaning they will follow me whereever I take my photos, be it Aperture, Lightroom, Flickr, SmugMug, whatever.)

I’ll get around to publishing the Perl scripts when I finish writing ‘em.

Comment on WHDH-TV News goes HD….and switches to Mac by KB

KB — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:41:58 +0000

Wow….took them long enough to add them. Guess they didn’t want to give Apple any free advertising!

Comment on WHDH-TV News goes HD….and switches to Mac by mike

mike — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:33:22 +0000

those laptops now have 7 logos on them

Comment on Apple Mail won’t add attachments. by Doug

Doug — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:21:17 +0000

It is worse than you think, unfortunately. We have seen a repeatable bug with Apple Mail where if you drop an attachment mid-way through the body of you message, when sent it occasionally deletes all body text below where the message was dropped. This doesn’t happen all the time, but is repeatable when it does happen between a particular sender and recipient.

Comment on Apple Mail won’t add attachments. by Neil

Neil — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:06:41 +0000

I spent an hour debugging this.

Comment on Disable the Genre column in the iTunes 8 browser by Luke

Luke — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:24:12 +0000

Apple why did you change this, plus a lot of other options like in preference:

-Show genre when browsing
-Group compilations when browsing
-Show links to the iTunes Store
-Show content ratings in library
-Automatically download missing album artwork
-Remember view setting for each source

Comment on Apple Mac OS X 10.6 – Snow Leopard by Jody Rusnak

Jody Rusnak — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:39:02 +0000

I think the future of adding the GPU to the supercomputer equation lies in OpenCL. If Apple is implementing it you know it is going to be a great solution. I think this alone will completely eclipse anything Windows will be able to offer in raw computational horsepower.

Since ATI has decided to implement OpenCL I think this will be the main threat to Intel’s Larrabee conecpt. GPU’s are far too advanced for raw number crunching power compared to anything Intel will ever be able to produce using a complex instruction set instead of the stream processor. CPU for the main application. GPU for accelerating programs processing realtime HD 1080p imagery and video through OpenCL.