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We had a heavy snowfall here today, for the first time in a long time. Ok, so it’s not really that heavy, but it is for here, as we normally avoid most of the snow. Anyway, here’s a few pictures I grabbed during the day. I also put together a video using my D90 and edited using iMovie. I would normally use Final Cut, but I wanted to try out the new iMovie. It worked well, and the sharing is handy, but I think I’ll stick to FCP even for simple stuff. Some things are still really fiddly when you’re used to doing something a different way.

a while ago there was an update to iPhoto that said “improved the quality of cards and calendars”. They weren’t kidding. I made and ordered some calendars for Christmas presents and the quality is dramatically improved from the ones I had made last year. Kudos to Apple and their partners for the work. The results are every bit as good as one you’d buy in the shops. (a little more expensive – but every bit as good !)

Not wanting to get all political, but this is just hilarious…

(By Aden Renaki Via Boing Boing)

After *A LOT* of tinkering I have finally re-launched my Photogaphy web site. I had been trying to cobble together a site using a combination of hand coding, some open source php, flash galleries and Wordpress. It had been going no where fast for quite some time so I stopped for a re-think. After doing some experimenting and following on from my article last week about iWeb Pro, I decided to see If I could do it in iWeb. It worked pretty well.

I’ve played around with iWeb several times since it first came out, but I never really gave it much thought, as it always seemed pretty limited for what I wanted it to do. Recently however I was having a conversation with a friend who showed me some of the things they were doing with it and I was pretty impressed. So I decided to give it a second chance and have a good, deep exploration of the software’s capabilities. I have to say, I was really impressed with what I found. But this is not a review, because there are plenty of those around the internet already, instead I’d like to discuss what I think iWeb could be, because iWeb has, in my opinion huge potential. There is nothing really like it on any platform from what I can see, yet it is limited, partly for the audience it is aimed at. But with maybe 10 percent more functionality, iWeb could be 100 percent more useful. With that in mind, rather than cannibalize the iLife suite, I think Apple could really shake the web design market up if they came out with a professional version of iWeb.