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iPhone Photo Rotation - Part Two

Murphy already posted about issues with mailing vertically-oriented photos from your ios4 iPhone:  Chances are your recipient sees the photo rotated 90 degrees to the left.  Web browsers - Safari included - don’t know how to read the exif orientation tag included with the jpg file.
My previous solution was to use an alternate camera app. [...]

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Terminal Sleep Command

You want to schedule something really quickly, and you don’t have time to set up cron or other scheduling tools. In some cases, using the sleep command in Terminal might be all you need.
Here’s an example. My Mac was busy doing something, and I didn’t want Dropbox working on a big sync until [...]

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Random Filenames for Digital Photo Frame Images

Many of the digital photo frames on the market still don’t have the ability to shuffle images and display them in random order.   A couple people I know have frames and want to mix up the photo stream a little. The first time I ran into this issue I used a Windows utility [...]

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Reboot or Sleep a Mac from your iPhone

Sometimes Murphy is just a little too lazy to go upstairs and reboot a Mac that needs rebooting. With an iPhone or iPod touch you don’t need to leave the sofa.
Today, Murphy was watching tv on the iPhone via EyeTV’s iPhone app. It started to lock up so a reboot seemed like a [...]

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Direct Access to Screen Sharing

Murphy has a new favorite Snippet for TextExpander. Direct access to a Screen Sharing session with a couple of key strokes, from anywhere. Let’s back up and see Murphy’s awkward way first.
The Screen Sharing application is arguably tucked away, it’s not sitting in your Applications folder. Don’t know why. But you [...]

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