On Friday I posted a small set of free AppleScripts for manipulating dates in iPhoto: Joe’s iPhoto AppleScripts. These scripts provide workaround solutions to several outstanding iPhoto issues

Foremost, iPhoto Time Shifter allows batch shifting of dates in iPhoto 4 and 5. This allows for time zone corrections, multi-camera synchronization and other specific adjustments of iPhoto dates. iPhoto’s dates are normally read-only, these work around that using Apple’s GUI Scripting.

Also included are iPhoto Date Reset and Reveal in Finder. Date Reset can be used to fix the iPhoto 5 movie import bug where movies are assigned the date of import instead of their actual creation date. Reveal in Finder does exactly what it says, with the additional choice of revealing the true original or the currently active file with applied changes.

There’s much more detail on the Joe’s iPhoto AppleScripts page. The scripts are free, unlocked and annotated, I’ve also documented the AppleScript subroutines used in the scripts on the Scripting Dates in iPhoto page.

I tested them quite a bit, but I’m calling them a beta until I get more outside feedback.

• dropload Great way to send large files to people with AOL or free email accounts
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• Common threads: Sed by example A very clear three part introduction to using Sed (UNIX’s Stream EDitor)
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• Fametracker :: The Fame Audit :: William Shatner “Shatner is so damned awesome, so abundantly unexpected, so f**king necessary, he’s practically Biblical.”
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• Lynx Viewer View websites as text-only. Useful for pagerank tailoring and accessibility testing
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“Flowers remind us that sometimes
the most beautiful things
only last a short time.

They help us to recognize beauty
and enjoy it before it’s gone.

Don’t be sad for your flowers,
remember how they brightened
these last days of winter,
and how their smell
filled our apartment
with a hint of the coming spring.

Remember the man at the market,
and how your smile
brightened his day.

And in the morning, after breakfast
we’ll go out across Fourteenth Street
and buy another.”

That is what I wish I’d said
when my young daughter asked me,
“Daddy, where did my rose go?”

• rAndom international – Pixel Roller video Very cool video of a painting device that seems like something from a dream.
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• The Apple Motion Sensor As A Human Interface Device More on this, now with demo movies showing a gravity-sim game controlled by physically tilting the PowerBook. Whenever I get a ‘book with a motion sensor, this will be one of the first things installed. Just to show off, of course.
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• MAKE: Blog I just keep ending up here.
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• Victrola Coffee The place where all those art-lattes are coming from
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• Girl with Refrigerator Just a terrific picture.
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I’ve been on the fence about Creative Commons licenses. They often seem like the pipe-dream of a group rapidly falling out of power, too utopian and shortsightedly idealistic. Also, I don’t recall hearing about any case where a CC licence has been faced a real legal test.

Despite all of that, I’ve decided to try an experiment with something I’ve been working on recently. Part of freelancing is tailoring your own licenses and contracts, in many ways the CC licenses are simply pre-made contracts which benefit from the pooled knowledge of a large community and lots of free legal advice. With most things I do, I want them to live beyond me and hopefully become the seeds with which someone else makes something new. I was planning on giving this project away for free anyway and this is a perfect opportunity to experiment a little.

So my next little project will be released under a Creative Commons Attribution, Noncommercial, Share Alike license. Here’s hoping for the best.