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<h6>Removing Photos from iPhoto</h6>
<p><p>Despite iPhoto's long history, many people continue to be confused about exactly what happens when you delete a photo. There are three possibilities.</p><p>If you delete a photo from an album, book, card, calendar, or saved slideshow, the photo is merely removed from that item and remains generally available in your iPhoto library.</p><p>If, however, you delete a photo while in Events or Photos view, that act moves the photo to iPhoto's Trash. It's still available, but...</p><p>If you then empty iPhoto's Trash, all photos in it will be deleted from the iPhoto library and from your hard disk.</p></p>
<a href="/article/10425"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10425', 'show')">TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 27-Jul-09</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10425" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10425">Notable software releases this week include Final Cut Pro Studio Update, iPhoto2Twitter 1.5, and Sandvox 1.6.3.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10413"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10413', 'show')">Top Ten Apple T-Shirts </a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10413" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10413">Looking for a way to display your love for Apple in the hot summer sun? Doug McLean takes a look at his top ten favorite Apple t-shirts.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> | 21 Jul 2009 | <a href="/article/10413#comments">10 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10415" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10415">Macworld reports on Universal Studios Home Video's forthcoming Blu-ray release of "Fast & Furious" that will enable users to control a special disc feature via an iPhone app, marking the first integration of Blu-ray and the iPhone. While the feature isn't mind-blowing - controlling 360-degree views of cars and viewing their specs - Universal plans in the future to enable users to control playback, access film information, and even chat about the movie via Twitter and Facebook.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10375"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10375', 'show')">Microsoft Releases Office 2008 Service Pack 2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10375" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10375">Microsoft has released Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2 (12.2.0), adding speed enhancements, customer-requested features, and stability improvements, along with a new collaboration application.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10410" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10410">PC World reports on a critical security bug discovered within the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine used in Firefox 3.5. The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to hijack a machine, though users must first visit a malicious Web site that contains the exploit code. Older versions of Firefox, including version 3.0, are not thought to be at risk.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10411" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10411">Apple has announced that the iTunes App Store has topped 1.5 billion downloads in its first year of business. Given that the 1 billionth download came on 24-Apr-09, 9 months after the store's launch, the store is clearly picking up steam, with over 500 million downloads in the past three months. The number of available apps also continues to grow (now over 65,000), as does the number of participating developers (now over 100,000). Quantity is good, but here's hoping the App Store does a better job of helping users discern quality in the future.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10409" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10409">Microsoft has released Silverlight 3, a major update to its cross-platform multimedia software. The latest version, used for streaming video for Netflix's Watch Instantly service among much else, supports higher quality video and audio, adds loads of developer tools, and enables content to work on your desktop as opposed to only within your Web browser.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10405" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10405">Intuit has announced that the release date for the Mac-compatible version of their flagship product, Quicken Financial Life, has been pushed back to February 2010. The company had originally announced plans for an updated Mac version at Macworld Expo in January 2008. While customers are bound to be disappointed by the lengthy wait, Intuit says the delay results from efforts to better satisfy Mac users after receiving substantial feedback from beta testing.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10395" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10395">It's been just one year since Apple launched the phenomenally successful iTunes App Store, and the company is celebrating. Within the iTunes Store, Apple has created a page highlighting some of the company's favorite apps, choosing from the over-50,000 apps currently available. (Link opens in iTunes.)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10391" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10391">Macworld is reporting on China's recently passed law requiring all PCs sold in the country to be equipped with the filtering program Green Dam Youth Escort, controversial for its capability to block "sensitive political material." Yet, for the time being, Macs are exempt from the Web filtering as there is no Mac version of the software - an unusual advantage to being a minority platform. </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10393" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10393">Ars Technica is reporting on Apple's deal with Maine's Learning Technology Initiative to provide every middle- and high-schooler in the state with a MacBook. The arrangement is rooted in the success of an earlier initiative that gave every 7th and 8th grader in Maine with an iBook. Apple will provide 64,000 MacBooks (adding to the 37,000 already in circulation), educational software, professional development for educators, and tech support for $100 million over four years.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10383" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10383">What's a touring band to do when they've got a new song, but nowhere to record it? Use the iPhone! The Loop is reporting on pop band The 88 using an iPhone to record a new track while touring with the B-52s. The 88 mainly relied on Four Track, a $9.99 app that emulates a four track recorder with impressive results. The song, "Love is the Thing," is <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=321285228&s=143441">available on iTunes</a>.
<a href="/article/10386"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10386', 'show')">Garmin Issues Software Update for Widespread Problem</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10386" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10386">GPS maker Garmin has released a free, mandatory, software update to fix a widespread bug that can render the nuvi 7x5 series, nuvi 800 series, nuvi 8x5 series, zumo 660, GPSMAP 620, and GPSMAP 640 units useless or inoperable.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=6" class="category">Tech News</a> | by <a href="/author/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> | 30 Jun 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10384" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10384">Next time you're about to buy an iTunes gift card on eBay or Craigslist you may want to think twice. There's a chance the card was purchased with a stolen credit card or hacked, and, as Macworld reports, Apple is cracking down on these fraudulent gift cards by permanently disabling user accounts that redeem them.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/10373"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10373', 'show')">TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 29-Jun-09</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10373" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10373">Notable software releases this week include Tinderbox 4.7.0, Airfoil 3.3.1, Apple TV 2.4, Missing Sync for iPhone 2.0.2, Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.4.2, Final Cut Pro 6.0.6, Camino 1.6.8, BBEdit 9.2.1 and the MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=6" class="category">Tech News</a> | by <a href="/author/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> | 23 Jun 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10369"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10369', 'show')">iPhone 3GS Sells One Million Units in Its First Weekend</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10369" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10369">In a mad three-day dash, Apple sold one million units of the iPhone 3GS. An impressive feat, but how does it compare to the previous generations of the iPhone?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> | 22 Jun 2009</div></div>
