iPhone Hint

Delete multiple photos from the iPhone's Camera Roll

Fri, Sep 19 2008 at 7:30AM PDT

Submitted by pfernandes

I kept building up my photo collection on the iPhone's Camera Roll. There is no obvious way to delete a bunch of them -- short of deleting all of them -- from iPhoto (or even iTunes). You can, howver, use the Image Capture in OS X to do it.

Launch Image Capture and hit the Download Some button, and you are then free to roam the camera roll, selecting and deleting multiple images. My camera roll had over 1,000 photos in it, and taking pictures got very sluggish. You can erase them from the camera roll and sync them though iTunes. Browsing is much faster on synced rolls than on the standard Camera Roll.

[robg adds: Obviously, you could use iPhoto to import all, then say yes when asked if you want to delete the images after the import is done. If, for some reason, you wanted to keep some images in the Camera Roll, then this hint would work. The use of Image Capture was noted in the comments to this hint, but I felt it worth sharing as a separate hint.]

Comic Capers at NBN Announcement on 6 April 2009.

Mr Tanner (Finance Minister), PM Rudd, Senator Conroy (Broadband Minister) and Mr Swan (Treasurer).

Announcement of the Public/Private Partnership of $43Billion to build the National Broadband Network over possibly 13 years. 5 years planning and 8 years implimentation. Mr Tanner is in charge of the Government "Razor Gang" trying to find cost savings for the annual budget.

Jools & Kev737 in Melbourne - April 2009

Mr Rudd had been out of Australia for two weeks. Julia Gillard, the Deputy PM, was Acting Prime Minister during that time.

Front pages on Tuesday, 6 April 2009

Townsville Bulletin has local stories only.


Cairns Post has local stories only. Victorian Bushfire victims are being hosted.




Darwin's Nthn Crocitorian News thinks 14 bashings per day is GOOD NEWS! It was 15 bashings per day or 5,508 in 2007 compared to 5,285 in 2008. The NT population is estimated at 221,000.

Nick D'Arcy will need help from Swimming Australia.

It's may be within Swimming Australia rules to cut Nick D'Arcy from the team for World Championships in Rome.

I feel that they will be negligent if they do not give the "dropped" swimmer phycological support, for at least the next year. It is part of their duty to Nick D'Arcy.

They appear not to have given any indications that the penalty imposed by the Australian Olympic Federation (Exclusion from the 2008 Olympic Team) would be sufficient to extinguish his criminal behaviour of GBH on an ex-swimmer. He was encouraged to qualify for the 2009 World Swimming Championships. He trained and qualified for the Australian team.

Yesterday, the bombshell was dropped that D'Arcy has been excluded from the team. Of course there will be a fallout from this on the swimmer's mental health. Swimming Australia owe a "Duty of Care" to help D'Arcy in his darkest hour.

Washington Times Editorial 7 Apr 09: Barack takes a bow - The president shows fealty to a Muslim king

In a shocking display of fealty to a foreign potentate, President Obama bowed to Saudi King Abdullah at the Group of 20 summit in London last week.

Mr. Obama later said in Strasbourg, France, "We have to change our behavior in showing the Muslim world greater respect." Symbolism is important in world affairs. By bending over to show greater respect to Islam, the U.S. president belittled the power and independence of the United States.

The bow was an extraordinary protocol violation. Such an act is a traditional obeisance befitting a king's subjects, not his peer. There is no precedent for U.S. presidents bowing to Saudi or any other royals. Former President Franklin D. Roosevelt shook hands with Saudi King Abdulaziz in February 1945. Granted, Mr. Roosevelt was wheelchair-bound, but former President Dwight D. Eisenhower shook hands when he first met King Saud in January 1957. Mr. Obama's bow to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques does not help his image with those who believe he is secretly a Muslim, and why he chose to bow only to the Saudi King and not to any other royals remains unexplained.

No Americans of any station are required to bow to royalty. It is one of the pillars of American exceptionalism that our country rejected traditional caste divisions. Article I Section 9 of the Constitution forbids titles of nobility and stipulates that no officeholder or government employee may "accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state" without the consent of Congress. Judith Martin wrote in her Miss Manners column in 2001 that bowing "is not an ordinary bit of foreign etiquette one might adopt out of courtesy when traveling. ... Americans do not properly bow to any royalty. We show respect for other countries' leaders the same way we do to our own."

Press outlets have been conspicuously silent on Mr. Obama's bow. Compare this to the New York Times' reaction when former President Bill Clinton inclined a bit too far when meeting Japanese Emperor Akihito in 1994. According to the Gray Lady, "The image on the South Lawn was indelible: an obsequent president, and the Emperor of Japan." Former President George W. Bush received thorough press attention after being photographed holding hands with then-Crown Prince Abdullah in 2005. "It clearly strikes a nerve," CBS News reported, while David Letterman satirized Mr. Bush as "officially the gayest president since Lincoln." These two cases were tame compared to Mr. Obama's full-out genuflection, which makes us wonder why it is not worthy of comment.

Mr. Obama is proving that one can be elected president without knowing how to behave presidentially. His servile gesture was fully fitting with the tone of his humility tour of Europe. In his eagerness to be loved personally, the president has lost sight of the fact that the leader of the free world also must be respected.

Copyright 2009 The Washington Times, LLC

iTunes V8.1.1 Update. 68Mb download

iTunes 8.1 is now faster and more responsive. You will enjoy noticeable improvements when working with large libraries, browsing the iTunes Store, preparing to sync with iPod or iPhone, and optimizing photos for syncing.

In addition, iTunes 8.1 provides many other improvements and bug fixes, including:

• Supports syncing with iPod shuffle (3rd generation).
• Allows friends to request songs for iTunes DJ.
• Adds Genius sidebar for your Movies and TV Shows.
• Improves performance when downloading iTunes Plus songs.
• Provides AutoFill for manually managed iPods.
• Allows CDs to be imported at the same sound quality as iTunes Plus.
• Includes many accessibility improvements.
• Allows iTunes U and the iTunes Store to be disabled separately using Parental Controls.

iTunes 8.1.1 adds support for renting HD movies and provides a number of bug fixes, including addressing issues with VoiceOver and syncing with iPhone or iPod touch.