iLife

When you connect your iPhone or camera to your Mac, iPhoto automatically launches (if you have iLife). Several iPhone users have emailed me to ask how to stop iPhoto from launching. It's pretty easy to do, but the answer may not be where you think it is.

Let's get to it:

1. Open 'Applications' and launch 'Image Capture'.

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If you have played around with Garage Band, but never dug deep into it, you may not know about the musical notation view.

It's a view that shows traditional musical notation. You need to add a software or midi instrument to use it. Software instruments are the easiest. I simply like to put a few of the pre-defined music loops together and then play with it there.

Let's get to it:

1. Open Garage Band and create a new song.
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Descriptive keywords can help you organize your iPhoto library better. They only take a second to do, and they will save you lots of time when you want to search for a photo.

Here is how to do it:

Open iPhoto.

Then from the iPhoto menu, choose 'Preferences'.

Next, choose 'Keywords'. Now you can add your own descriptive keywords. Just hit the '+' to add a keyword, or '-' to remove one. The more descriptive you are, the easier it will be to find a particular photo. You can use combos too -- add a keyword for 'Vacation', and perhaps one for 'Washington'.. then you can tag the photo with 'Vacation' and 'Washington', which will be separate from your vacation in 'London'. Or you could simply search for 'Vacation' and it will bring all of your pictures with that tag.

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