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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!
January 11, 2009 at 10:46 am · Filed under Devotional, Sermon Summary, Spiritual Growth
We are in the midst of difficult times and difficult decisions. Every day we are hearing from the news reports and those we know personally that times are tough and the consensus seems to be that it will get worse before it gets better. The answer? It isn’t politics or government solutions. Even though I am frustrated with how much of our current economic problems are a direct result of our government’s meddling, the reality is that even if our economy was hummin’ along, we would not be free from problems and we would still have storms. Focusing on the current economic crisis is a distraction because the goal isn’t economic prosperity, it is spiritually prosperity.
There are four aspects of the Christian Life that we often focus on in our desire to be a better Christian: Faith, Humility, Love, and Holiness. In church this morning, the pastor speaking suggested that instead of trying to have more faith, be more humble or loving or holy, we instead ought to focus on living what he called a God-Centered Life. He defined it this way:
“A God-Centered Life is a life lived wholehearted for God without any consideration for our own needs.”
A life lived like that would, as a result, increase our faith, require humility, encourage a loving response to those who around us and produce holiness. These would become results of God rather than results of our striving and efforts. And it would produce a life that had the favor of God. Imagine that – a life with the favor of God?! Nothing could be better to gain in all of life. It fit well with my church’s theme verse:
For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strongly support those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9
Why do we find it so difficult to step out in faith and live a completely God-Centered Life? He suggests that FEAR is the culprit. We were challenged to consider five Basic Needs that we all seek, that are best described in a key question we ask, and that are motivated by a core fear. There are:
5 Basic Needs / Driving Question / Core Fear
1) Provision
Question: Will I have enough?
Core Fear: Scarcity
2) Protection
Question: Will I be safe?
Core Fear: Pain
3) Pleasure
Question: Will I be happy
Core Fear: Emptiness
4) Prestige
Question: Will I matter?
Core Fear: Worthlessness
5) Popularity
Question: Will I belong?
Core Fear: Loneliness
In reviewing each of those I hope I’m not the only one who sees the hidden motivators that interfere with my desire to follow God without hesitation. He made the point that in marriage counseling he often has couples start their first session by saying, “Well, we started out 50/50 but now….” and that is where he cuts them off saying, “Well, that’s the problem. Marriage isn’t 50/50, it is 100/100. If each of you are giving the other 100% effort, focusing entirely on what is best for the other, trusting that the other is doing the same, that is the secret of a healthy marriage.” Well, the same, he pointed out, is true with our walk with God!
We need to give 100% effort toward living a God-Centered Life trusting that God will also give us 100% at the same time and can meet each of those needs, answer each of those questions and calm each of those fears. I love when Truth hits me from several directions. Later today, I was reading the next chapter in The Shack, (blog post on that later after I recover from that book), the opening quote in chapter sixteen was:
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others. – A. W. Tozer
The Bible passage for the sermon was the story of Jesus walking on the water and inviting Peter out to join him. A familiar story, no doubt, and yet I appreciated a new thought along with the telling this morning. Before Jesus appeared, Peter was focused on the storm and surviving the storm. But after seeing Jesus walking on the water, he desired what Jesus had – power over the storm. We often focus on Peter sinking when he got his focus off of Jesus, as many of us have done, but that also means that for a time, he DID have his focus on Jesus, and while he did, the storm became irrelevant.
I grabbed my Bible and wrote in the front cover, “When in the storm, Jesus invites you out onto the water. Focus on Him and walk toward Him, and the storm will become irrelevant.”
That is my desire as I head into an uncertain 2009. That I would not be focused on the storm and including God in the process, but would be solely focused on God and allowing Him to deal with the storm. In the image above, you see the choice – GOD centered, storm small and off to the side, or STORM centered and God down and off to the side. The choice is ours, every day.
I have no idea what this year will bring, but TODAY I can focus on Jesus and living a God-Centered Life, and I’m aiming to do the same tomorrow as well. Join me in trying to shift my focus away from the storm and toward Jesus.
January 8, 2009 at 1:17 pm · Filed under CPC
Move over Chase Bank*, Hands On Originals is here!
“Can you do custom embroidery like I’m wearing?”
“Yes, we can.”
“Can you do hats?”
“Yes.”
“Can we give you items we’ve bought on our own to have embroidered instead of out of the catalog?”
“Sure.”
“Can you customize the text on the predesigns you offer?”
“Absolutely.”
“Can you file my income tax for me?”
“Um, I don’t think so.”
O.K., so they can’t do EVERYTHING, but it seems Hands On Originals can offer quite a bit to your ministry in the way of customized apparrel.
Get your hands on ‘em at:
www.handsonoriginals.com
* If you don’t have a Chase Bank in your area, “Yes, we can do that” is their slogan.
January 8, 2009 at 9:38 am · Filed under CPC
Mark Harper is one of my brothers in Christ (and CPC room mate last year!) who has developed some really wonderful curriculum for churches who share his Pentacostal background. He has developed a wide range of creative resources and curriculum for children’s church called Super Church.
This year he has just released some video shorts that will appeal to an even wider range of churches as they focus on the topics we all are trying to creatively teach our kids.
I’m looking forward to watching the samples he gave me. You can learn more about Mark and his resources at: www.superchurch.com
January 7, 2009 at 10:24 pm · Filed under CPC
Well, maybe not ‘Poof,’ but David and Teesha are excited about the new Laflin scheduled to join their family some time in April. (I took a picture of her tummy but she didn’t want me to post it)
But they DO have something new at CPC! A brand new magic training DVD called “ILLUSIONS You Can Make.” Soon to be available on Kidology with their other DVDs, but you can always visit www.davidandteesha.com for info on their resources, services and to subscribe their AWESOME newsletter which often has a complete illusion and lesson you can do yourself!
Besides providing wonderful performing resources, David and Teesha are available to bring a fantastic program to your church or event. We have featured them many times at Kidology University.
Congrats on Mini-Laflin coming soon!
January 7, 2009 at 8:15 pm · Filed under CPC
GO FISH! loaded me up with copies of ALL their CDs and DVD to give away to blog readers!
How do you win?? Simple comment on any CPC post (preferably something of substance about that articular post!) and every comment will be another entry! You may have as many entries as I make posts about CPC Nashville 2009.
Go Fish! is an AWESOME band that offers music that kids will love and that won’t drive parents crazy! My son LOVES them! Plus, I made a video of the song Little Buckaroo that I use almost every night to put him to sleep as we cuddle at bedtime. (watching it on my iPhone)
If you have not heard Go Fish! you are missing out!
If you like their music, you’ll LOVE their VBS that is based on their music and it focused on the Gospel message.
Check ‘em out at GoFishGuys.com or just comment to win! I’ll even pay the shipping!
January 7, 2009 at 3:43 pm · Filed under CPC
“Growing Kids into BIG Worshipers” is the goal of Worship for Kids.
Fun, upbeat music your kids are gonna love jumpin’ and singin’ to. Each of their three volumes come with cool kid-friendly music with an audio CD and DVD for presentation AND a dvd with the hand motions. The first two volumes also have lesson to go with each song. They are great! I have used them many times for filler weeks, summer break or special events.
Check ‘em out at www.worshipforkids.com
Tell ‘em Karl sent you!
January 7, 2009 at 3:03 pm · Filed under CPC
When you lie down you will not be afraid; when you lie down your sleep will be sweet. Proverbs 3:24
I stopped in my tracks when walked past this booth and saw the sad looking bed. (great booth technique btw) Learned it was an orphans bed from a far away land where a comfortable bed isn’t assumed for children.
Sweet Sleep hosts mission trips where volunteers remove old, ugly, unclean bed from orphanages and build new ones, even purchases the materials there to help the local economy. Often the orphans help. Then a local church continues the ministry to the children after Sweet Sleep’s role is completed.
If you are looking for a special missions project for children, perhaps for VBS, give Sweet Sleep a closer look at: www.sweetsleep.org
January 7, 2009 at 2:48 pm · Filed under CPC
Mention CPC SPECIAL and save 10% for 30 days after conference!
Even though you couldn’t be here, Doug is extended the conference price to you!
Whether you need HUGE entire wall murals or simple smaller posters to brighten your children’s rooms, Bible Story Murals has a wide variety of biblically based murals you can choose from.
For more info call 800-925-3084 or go to: www.biblestorymurals.com
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