I just pop out the memory card and use a card reader rather than hooking up the camera.

I actually just used by gift certificates to mostly purchase a tiny, cheap digital camera for when the Canon Rebel XT is just too bulky to carry around.

The new little camera is a Fujifilm A345. It feels a little cheap, but then it is a cheap camera. I don't have a feel for how good the pictures are yet, I took a picture out my window [link] but with the light, the lack of care of holding steady, and the window reflections I can't really say much about picture quality. It is tiny though.

The Canon takes fantastic pictures, but it's definitely not what you're looking for.

This is also a good review site.

The photo transfer software let me categorise pictures in a bunch of different ways--like flickr's tagging, basically. I have a categorisation jones (or a retrieval jones--I love to pull all holiday pics, or all bruise pics, or whatever) and they played into that.

Does iPhoto do that?

The version I have is very, very stripped down. I don't categorize much.

Thanks guys! I will have to spend some time reviewing those sites.

I got a chortle seeing the pic of Steve Jobs accompanying this article: [link]

Just the image: [link]

t still chuckling

I've started using Digikam (www.digikam.org) to organize photos and I like it quite a bit so far. It organizes into albums as well as doing tagging.

Does iPhoto do that?

Not well. You can create albums similar to iTunes-esque playlists, but they're not folders you can access outside of iPhoto.

I really like my Panasonic camera, the DMC-FX9 is the updated version of mine. Sadly, the pink version isn't sold in the US.

tina, I don't think you made the wrong decision. Let the rich and pioneer users deal with the kinks in the first generation of Intel MacBooks. You'll have your cool compact PowerBook to keep you company while Apple gets the kinks out and more developers switch their code to run natively on Intel.

Apple is still selling PowerPC-based iMacs and PowerBooks along side the new Intel versions, which sort of implies that even Apple is admitting that the Intel boxes aren't for everyone.