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Archive for January 14, 2009
January 14, 2009 at 10:26 pm · Filed under Awesome Products, CPC, Children's Ministry, Conferences
If you missed CPC Nashville, it’s not too late to WIN SOME FREE GO FISH STUFF FROM ME!
Also, I did SIXTEEN POSTS featuring some of the best resources at CPC, in case you missed any, here they are again:
TimbukDUDES
The F.U.N. Group
Teaching Kids the Truth
The Harvest in Plentiful
The Art of Being Creative
Have a Bible Blast!
MY FAVORITE DISCOVERY:I’m a D6 Dad
Let’s Go to Children’s Church
Footsteps – Tools for Learning
Bible Story Murals!
A Bed in Need is a Bed Indeed
BIG God, BIG Worshippers!
WIN FREE GO FISH STUFF!
POOF! A New Laflin!
Super Church!
YES! We can do that!
It’s not too late to join me in San Diego at the second CPC of 2009:
Discount Deadline for CPC San Diego – January 21, 2009
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San Diego Hotel Discount Deadline – January 19, 2009
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January 14, 2009 at 9:04 pm · Filed under Computers, Mac, Photography
I have often been asked to blog about Mac Tips (since I know a LOT of Mac secrets!) Well, tonight I responded to a fellow Twitterer with some help with iPhoto and after sending the e-mail, thought I’d post it here just in case it helps someone else.
QUESTION: How to you combine multiple iPhoto Libraries onto one drive and access each of them?
I recently combined all my iPhoto libraries onto one external drive because I had multiple iPhoto Libraries and it was getting a little crazy:
Macbook Pro (2003-2006, and 2006-2008, i had started over when it got too big)
macbook air (used when I travel)
mac mini (family photos)
mac G4 (scanning old family photos)
But I got to where I had to keep switching between machines or remember which machine had which photos. I finally wanted to get them ALL onto my Mac Mini since it has the massive monitor and a double decker external drive for back up.
While there is no easy way I know of to combine them all into one library, I actually don’t think you want to, every time I hit 10,000+ photos in a library it gets slow, because, as Apple won’t tell you, when you open iPhoto is loads EVERY thumbnail in your library upon opening, and it kills your memory and makes your machine start to drag. I wish upon opening it would open only the most recent import folder. (Duh) But I’m not on their payroll and I doubt they read my blog!
ANYWAY! The solution is actually rather easy!
Copy all the iPhoto Libraries you have to the external drive, and rename them each to a name that makes sense to you. Renaming iPhoto libraries does not effect the files inside, but DO NOT rename anything inside or iPhoto will fail to open them!
For example, my libraries are named:
iPhoto 2003-2006
iPhoto 2006-2008
iPhoto 2008 (just started this January)
iPhoto Yosemite (I made a new library on my Air when i went to Yosemite Summit)
iPhoto Family Archive (i am scanning family photo archives from my parents, want to keep separate)
iPhoto Temp (for when I am just doing a project and using iPhoto as a tool rather than a place to save photos long term.)
HERE’S THE GREAT TIP: When when you open iPhoto, HOLD DOWN OPTION while clicking the iPhoto icon and it will bring up a window offering 3 choices: Quit, Create Library, and Choose Library
Note: occasionally it opens under other windows, so if you are waiting too long while holding option, let go of the option and touchpad/mouse button and use expose’ to see all windows and you’ll see it.
Quit: Duh
Create Library: you can make a new one here, and you can navigate anywhere to make it, even an external drive. No need to be limited to your Pictures folder.
Choose Library: Navigate to where ever your iPhoto Libraries are, even on an external drive and pick the library you want to view/use.
NOTE: If you just open iPhoto without holding Option, it will just open the last library you used, so you can have a default one if you want, just always open it once when you are done using another, or remember to Option choose the one you want when you open iPhoto.
SHOULD ALSO NOTE: If you are putting all your iPhoto libraries onto one drive, be sure you mirror it once in a while to another drive, or you’ll be crying the day that drive fails and you lose all your photos. (Yes, even Macs can have a hard drive fail, that is life, and when Jesus promised in this world you will have tribulation, he may have been thinking about PCs, but Macs can fail too.) I don’t think Time Machine will back up an external drive!
I also use this to give my wife access to one of my libraries as a “read only” – she knows any edits I won’t get, but having access to a backup of my library saves her needing to ask me for a picture she needs.
I hope this helps those with multiple iPhoto libraries or who would like to be able to better organize and manage their photos with separate libraries.
January 14, 2009 at 8:30 pm · Filed under Leadership
Reprinted from Leadingthewayforward.org
Based on global research, eight core values are essential for effective Christian leadership.
1 ) Intimacy with God
God looks for consecrated men and women who lead from an intimate relationship with God.
Biblical Foundation: Romans 8:15
For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, Abba, Father.”
2 ) Passion for the Harvest
God looks for men and women who share a passion for those without Christ. Jesus came to “seek and to save that which was lost.” God desires that everyone be reached with the life transforming power of the Gospel.
Biblical Foundation: Matthew 9:35-38
And Jesus was going about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the Gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness. And seeing the multitudes, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast like sheep without a shepherd. Then He said, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the Harvest that He may send laborers into His harvest.
3 ) Visionary Leadership
God looks for men and women, who are biblically committed to cast vision, set goals, mobilize the Body of Christ, and overcome obstacles in order to reach the nations for Christ.
Biblical Foundation – Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
4 ) Culturally Relevant Evangelism
God looks for men and women who live and teach the Gospel with cultural relevance, sensitivity and power, so that the eternal truth of the Gospel will be understood and received in every culture of the world.
Biblical Foundation: 1 Corinthians 9:19-27
I have become all things to all people that I may by all possible means save some.
5 ) Multiplication of Leaders
God looks for men and women who disciple, coach, and mentor other leaders, who in turn become leaders of leaders that effectively train others.
Biblical Foundation: 2 Timothy 2:2
What you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, these entrust to faithful men and women who will be able to train others also.
6 ) Family Priority
God looks for men and women who are convinced that the family is God’s building block for society and make their family a priority in developing leaders.
Biblical Foundations: Ephesians 5.22-6.9
Let each individual among you also love his own wife even as himself, and let the wife see to it that she respect her husband.
7 ) Stewardship
God looks for men and women who are faithful stewards of finances, time, and spiritual gifts in their personal lives and ministries, with the result that people are reached with the Gospel.
Biblical Foundation: Matthew 25:14-30
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things, enter into the joy of your master.
8 ) Integrity
God looks for men and women of integrity who live holy lives that are accountable to God and to the Body of Christ. Integrity glorifies God, protects leaders from stumbling, and encourages growth.
Biblical Foundation: 2 Timothy 4.1-7
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.
I thought this was a great list for personal reflection and so posted here to save it. It is always good to reflect on things like this. We can never to strong in all of them at the same time (at least I can’t!) so it is good to ask, “Which of these can I improve on right now?” Good stuff!
