Can I get a moment of silence for my Control Panel?
Thank you.
I decided to launch another offensive on my Powershot problem. Apparently I’ve still got Canon drivers installed somewhere, so I wanted to try again to completely remove them. When I plugged in the camera and tried to open the Control Panel so I could get to Scanners and Cameras to remove it, explorer.exe crashed on me. After a reboot (and repeating this process 2 or 3 times), I decided all is lost. I have no idea what’s wrong with it - there was an error message the first time it happened (some missing DLL, maybe), but who the hell reads those? Looks like I’ll be re-installing XP AGAIN.
Either way, I found that Picasa does a pretty good job of importing photos from a camera, so I’m just going to use that from now on. I’ve been mounting a share on my desktop from my iBook and copying photos through the Mac, but it’s just a pain in the ass. I import everything into Picasa anyway, so it makes more sense to just start there.
Now, I just wish Google had bought Flickr so I could upload photos from Picasa. Stupid Yahoo.
Also, my two free Pro accounts have been claimed by Jym Bob and Sarah, respectively.
Tags: canon, control+panel, flickr, picasa, powershot, windows
Maybe you should you use iPhoto to get your photos and be done with the PC? You know because mac’s are better then everything and all.
I’ve considered the option, but I have a few good reasons to keep my photos on my desktop. For one thing, I keep my music on the laptop, because I like using the iPod with the Mac. As such, I don’t have a lot of free space on the hard drive. Also, it’s more secure. A laptop is a lot easier to lose or drop - if I lose the music, no big deal. Replacing hundreds of pictures isn’t so easy. And finally, I’ve only got 256 MB of RAM in it, so iPhoto chugs like a beast. It’s just not usable right now.