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Making life easier

A batch of photos has lived for months on my hard drive. I had meant to turn them into a photo essay, about my commute to Richmond by bicycle each day for my contract last summer. They were already scanned and ready to go, but the labour of getting them ready for the Web made me procrastinate about putting them online.

Today, Apple Computer released a bunch of new stuff, including a spiffy new iMac and a bigger iBook.

But the best thing was a free piece of software, called iPhoto, which made it simple for me to sort, organize, and export those photos into a Web page. And now, here is my photo essay.

The page is nothing spectacular, but I only downloaded the software about three hours ago, and whipped the page together in between making lunch for my kids, putting the youngest one down for a nap, and doing laundry. My life just got easier. Thanks, Apple.

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