If I had a nickel for every photo in my iPhoto library, I’d have $501.85
I finally hit the 10,000 mark of photos in iPhoto. It’s taking about 15 seconds to load now, which I think is fairly reasonable. And what’s even better, the 5.0.2 upgrade Apple released a few days ago actually fixed a problem I had intermittently with importing photos from my Canon digital camera. (Well, it’s possible the OS X 10.3.9 upgrade actually contained the fix, as part of the Image Capture application, but whatever.)
Now if only it was speedier when moving between photos. And I’m really looking forward to the Spotlight integration in Tiger, so I can do fulltext searching against image comments, etc. That’ll rock.
While I’m on the subject of digital photos, I want to plug one of my favorite apps, JAlbum. It’s Java freeware, and creates kick-butt static HTML albums for uploading to any webspace. Super flexible, almost too good to be free. I donated to the author, so ya know it’s good. Although, I find myself doing that a few times lately, which is something strange for me considering my uber-pirate past. I guess now, my time really is worth enough that anything cool enough, or time-saving enough, is worthwhile me tossing a few bucks to the author. Not a bad trend.