Photocast Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Subtle new feature in iPhoto 7.1.2: "Actual Size" for gallery downloads

by Michael Rose (Feb 6th, 2008)

In the transition from iLife '06 to '08, one of the shifts in iPhoto functionality was the deprecation of photocasts in favor of .Mac web galleries. Sure, your friends and family can still subscribe to an RSS feed of your pictures (and what kind of loving grandparent doesn't want a newsfeed full ...

.Mac's dramatic resurrection

by Dave Caolo (Aug 24th, 2006)

Yesterday, we outlined just a few of the reasons we've become disenchanted with .Mac, focusing on mail, storage space, calendaring and synchronization. Today, we're going to look at what could be .Mac's dramatic resurrection. Like a Phoenix from the ashes, we all know that .Mac will rise again, ...

Make your own photocast announcement

by Scott McNulty (Feb 20th, 2006)

You've just got your first Photocast all ready in iPhoto, and you want to email a bunch of your friends and let them know all about it. However, you vaguely remember that some RSS readers don't support photocasts and you want to warn people in the email announcement, but the built in email text ...

PictoGrab 1.1 supports photocasting

by Dave Caolo (Feb 6th, 2006)

So you want to take part of the photocasting fun but you don't have a copy of iPhoto installed? Then check out RadicalBreeze's PictoGrab. It lets you subscribe to photocasts published with iPhoto '06. Just identify the feed you're interested in, designate a folder to hold the contained images ...

Poking around with Photocasting

by Dave Caolo (Jan 24th, 2006)

I've been playing around with the new photocasting feature of iPhoto '06 recently. Sadly, no one in my family has a copy of iLife '06, so I'm unable to take part of the fun. Not wanting to be left out, I've grabbed the RSS feeds of some of my Flickr contacts to add to iPhoto. It worked...kind of. ...

Refresher tip for subscribing to photocasts in Firefox

by David Chartier (Jan 23rd, 2006)

MacOSXHints has published a simple refresher tip for subscribing to photocasts with Firefox. If you've already tried it, you've been met with a .Mac error page, telling you that your browser isn't compatible with photocasts URLs, and it offers an alternate URL that begins with ...

iPhoto 6 can handle non-.Mac photocasts

by David Chartier (Jan 20th, 2006)

While Apple might have coined the term "photocast" (at least I never heard it until Macworld this year), an RSS feed containing images is certainly nothing new. Fortunately, iPhoto 6 knows this, and you can easily subscribe to non-.Mac photocasts simply by using File > Subscribe to ...

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