Image Capture lets you a pick an app (or no app) to open when a device or Memory Card is attached to your Mac.
- In Terminal enter: defaults -currentHost write com.apple.ImageCapture disableHotPlug -bool YES
For some reason lightroom keeps forgetting the settings on the import dialog boxes. I set the options I want, but they are forgotten when I go back and do another Import (sort order and organize into one folder are always unselected). In order to fix this create a new preset with the sort order and organizing to one folder selected and save the preset.
The next time you use the import dialogue the import settings on the screen will default to none however the sort order and the organize into one folder is retained from one session to the next.
As my aging eyes require a bit of help focusing (especially for nature shots) – I have found that the preset auto focus settings are NOT always reliable as released by the manufacturer for each camera body and lens.
To save me time, I put the following information together from several sources, the first section from: http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/cameras/1ds3_af_micoadjustment.html and the second section from Spyder Lenscal.
Both Canon Micro Auto Focus and Nikon AF Fine Tune allow micro focus adjustments to calibrate a camera body to a specific set of lenses.
Here is my technique:
Firstly you can test your lens to see if it is properly calibrated already and does not need any further adjustment.
How to Calibrate the Auto Focus
Copied from
http://www.appleworld.today/blog/2015/8/6/how-to-set-up-mac-os-x-messages-to-send-sms-texts
Recently I noted that, for whatever reason, Messages on my Mac quit offering the option to send folks messages in any format but its native iMessage format. Since some of my friends, relatives and business associates are still heathens and don’t have Macs or iPhones, I had to rejigger things so I could send simple text messages.
If you’re facing the same problem, here’s how you send SMS texts from OS X Messages (You’ll need both your Mac and iPhone handy):
Make sure your Mac’s running OS X Yosemite (10.10 or higher) and your iPhone is running iOS 8.x.
Click on the Messages app in your Mac to open it.
Go to your iPhone. Tap Settings > Messages.
Tap Text Message Forwarding.
You’ll see a list of all your devices linked to your Apple ID. Choose the one you want to send and receive messages and select On.
You’ll see a six-digit code pop up in Messages on your Mac. An alert window will appear marked Text Message Forwarding will show up on the iPhone.
Enter the six digit code displayed in Messages on the Mac into the alert window on the iPhone and tap Allow.
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Voila! You’re ready. When someone sends a text message to your iPhone, it will appear inside Messages in Yosemite. And you can now reply with a text message from your Mac — or start a new text message. To start a new message:
In the Messages window, click the Compose button to start a new message.
Enter a name, an email address, or a phone number in the To field.
Enter message text in the field at the bottom of the window. You can also drag files, such as a photo, to the field at the bottom of the window.
Press Return on your keyboard to send the message.
I like to get rid of the crud that Adobe clogs up the Publish services with. To do that:
Click one of the servers, in this example Bechance – Setup. At the bottom of the screen click:Plug-n Manager …
“Show in Finder” is displayed for each service by clicking on the service name. Click the Show in Finder button. Remove the Bechance.lrplugin file. (repeat for all undesired services).
Shutdown and restart LR.
Bechance and any other of the deleted services have now been removed.
For customized services, ensure they are not installed from a portable drive – as they tend to stop working if LR is started without the portable drive being mounted. This “not working” seems to persist in other sessions.
I use “Lightroom Local Setup – don’t delete” as a folder on my boot drive to save the plugins.