Comments on: Interview: Learning New Technology http://www.productivity501.com/learning-new-technology/3988/ Pieces of the productivity puzzle. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:55:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ricky Buchananhttp://www.productivity501.com/learning-new-technology/3988/comment-page-1/#comment-117734 Ricky Buchanan Wed, 20 May 2009 03:46:23 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/?p=3988#comment-117734 I was surprised more people didn't have reading the manual or other "hints and tips" resources for their technology at one stage in their process. I usually start out by experimenting and playing with things too, but eventually I'll read the manual and check out some relevant websites. I usually find at least one really useful piece of information that I wouldn't have discovered just by playing around - often it's on an informational website rather than in the manual but I guess I'm just in the habit of reading manuals at some point! Here's an example of useful information I would be unlikely to discover just by playing around; this one's for iPhoto '09 with the recent upgrades applied. When you go into the Faces library and then select a specific face it gives you an array of other faces which "might be" the same person and asks you to confirm that they are or are not the same person. If, at this point, you right click on the photo you can select to tell iPhoto who the picture actually is! So instead of just saying "Not Ricky Buchanan" by clicking twice, you can right click and select "name" and fill in that the photo is actually of "Mark Shead". This tip is a big time-saver for me - I'm my family's "designated archivist" and have over 13,000 scanned negatives/slides/photos in iPhoto now and I'm trying to label as many as possible with accurate dates/names/locations. I was surprised more people didn’t have reading the manual or other “hints and tips” resources for their technology at one stage in their process. I usually start out by experimenting and playing with things too, but eventually I’ll read the manual and check out some relevant websites.

I usually find at least one really useful piece of information that I wouldn’t have discovered just by playing around – often it’s on an informational website rather than in the manual but I guess I’m just in the habit of reading manuals at some point!

Here’s an example of useful information I would be unlikely to discover just by playing around; this one’s for iPhoto ’09 with the recent upgrades applied. When you go into the Faces library and then select a specific face it gives you an array of other faces which “might be” the same person and asks you to confirm that they are or are not the same person. If, at this point, you right click on the photo you can select to tell iPhoto who the picture actually is! So instead of just saying “Not Ricky Buchanan” by clicking twice, you can right click and select “name” and fill in that the photo is actually of “Mark Shead”.

This tip is a big time-saver for me – I’m my family’s “designated archivist” and have over 13,000 scanned negatives/slides/photos in iPhoto now and I’m trying to label as many as possible with accurate dates/names/locations.

]]> By: Mark Sheadhttp://www.productivity501.com/learning-new-technology/3988/comment-page-1/#comment-117559 Mark Shead Mon, 18 May 2009 05:44:52 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/?p=3988#comment-117559 @Joel - I guess if you are doing everything remotely that might work. Otherwise you probably wouldn't be around to take the missing countries off the map. :) @Joel – I guess if you are doing everything remotely that might work. Otherwise you probably wouldn’t be around to take the missing countries off the map. :)

]]> By: Joel Falconerhttp://www.productivity501.com/learning-new-technology/3988/comment-page-1/#comment-117558 Joel Falconer Mon, 18 May 2009 05:43:18 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/?p=3988#comment-117558 My principle does in fact work great for learning nuclear reactors, as long as you're okay with removing a few countries from the map afterwards. :) Thanks for publishing, Mark. My principle does in fact work great for learning nuclear reactors, as long as you’re okay with removing a few countries from the map afterwards. :) Thanks for publishing, Mark.

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