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Apple Mail To Do folder killed at last

Published by Bruce on January 22, 2009 in Quicklinks. 4 responses

Apple Mail in OS X 10.5 insists on adding 'Apple Mail To Do' folders to your IMAP accounts such as Gmail; delete them and they're back on the next sync. Finally someone has figured out a solution that works. Quit Mail and open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist in BBEdit or similar and search for LocalAccount (as AccountType). Copy the string under the uniqueId key. Now search for the NewNoteToDoAccount key and paste over the LocalAccountId string. You can now delete those pesky folders on the server so they won't show up again in Gmail (as Labels) or in Mail on your iPhone when you relaunch desktop Mail.

iPhoto '09 does geotagging

Published by Bruce on January 6, 2009 in Quicklinks. 0 responses

iPhoto '09 introduces Places, a feature that links geotagged images in your Library to an integrated Google Map (entire Events can be plotted too). Manual geotagging is supported by typing in a location name or dropping a pin on the map. Locations can be assigned a given radius to indicate a general area. Places will display photos taken within the portion of the zooming map currently in view. Alternatively browse in column view by country, state, city, or point-of-interest—with place names supplied effortlessly by means of reverse geocoding. Third party plug-ins are no longer required to upload directly to Flickr Map. Faces brings face recognition to iPhoto as well, adding the who to when and where.

New icons in GraphicConverter and iTrail

Published by Bruce on September 14, 2008 in Quicklinks. 2 responses

Thorsten Lemke's GraphicConverter is the Swiss Army Knife of image editors, and starting with v6.2 uses the Geotag Icon to clearly highlight geotag-related menu options for showing/ setting positions via Google Earth, editing GPS coordinate values, and geotagging photos via GPX files. iTrail, a track logging app for iPhone, now sports new tab bar and padlock icons I contributed to developer Justin Davis (preview). I was impressed by the extent to which the iPhone SDK manipulates white outline shapes with transparency that result in the inactive grey/ active blue icon states that you see.

Fire Eagle from Yahoo! aids location sharing

Published by Bruce on August 21, 2008 in Quicklinks. 0 responses

Fire Eagle is a free service from Yahoo! that provides a conduit for updating a centrally-stored current location, permitting delivery of location-aware services by means of an API allowing developers to resolve and share user location across various applications. Care has been taken to address privacy concerns by keeping choice in the hands of users, who can update their location manually or automatically from "anywhere". For example, Fire Updater on your MacBook might put you in a London hotel, while subsequent telemetry from SearchQuest GPS on iPhone tells your mates which pub to find you at; at least one WordPress plug-in is in development.

First track logger for iPhone released

Published by Bruce on August 2, 2008 in Quicklinks. 5 responses

Hot on the heels of the first geocaching tool for iPhone, iTrail by Justin Davis (£1.80) records your position and altitude over time to calculate speed and distance (horizontal and vertical) travelled during sports activities—a great addition to the growing list of fitness-related apps for the device. Tracks are stored locally for comparison, but GPX and KML export is planned (and should permit use for geotagging with a "real" camera). Meantime you can graphically plot distance vs. speed or altitude (preview) and view your tracks on a Google Map (preview) within this very cool app.

GiSTEQ loggers now Mac-compatible

Published by Bruce on July 29, 2008 in Quicklinks. 1 response

Richard notes the release of GiSTEQ Mac software (free or $US25—which still doesn't buy raw support), derived from the basic JetPhoto app (listed in my geotagging ABC here). I suggest the free version for log access (via GiSTEQ drivers) and using other Mac tools for geotagging. Compatibility includes the DPL700 PhotoTrackr Lite and the CD111. Alternative Mac-compatible loggers include the Holux M-241, the GlobalSat BT-335, and the AMOD AGL3080.