Holy cow! My wish was granted and I got The Flip for Christmas! Thanks, Dave! Of course, I captured the Christmas joy right away. I had one issue though – for the love of all things holy why the freak did this thing always want to launch and import into iPhoto?

(sigh) I mean come on.

On a PC, you just plug the device into your USB thing and it launches the Flip Share application, which allows easy start and stop editing and YouTube uploading. On a Mac, The Flip launches iPhoto. WTF? Worse, once it imports your Flip footage, it converts it to a file format that Flip Share doesn’t recognize. Quality.

I was freaking out and so hubby figured out how/where to turn this auto destruction launch function off. Sweet man.

Attention Mac-loving Flip-users, the preference setting for this is not where you think it is. Here’s how to stop your Flip from auto-launching iPhoto and cramping your style:

1. Plug in your Flip
2. From Applications, open Image Capture
3. Select Preferences, then change open “iPhoto” to open “No Application”

Like this:

Ah! Doesn’t that feel better? Now you can go on with your Flip-tastic self.  And if you found this by Googling it, congrats! All I found when I Googled this issue was some dude on Amazon.com saying you could stop it in iPhoto preferences. LIAR!

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Newscoma got me thinking about Weird Al Yankovic. I love him. Just ask my hubby who last night witnessed me watch White and Nerdy with tears streaming down my cheeks. It is the funniest video EVER MADE. Hubby thinks I’ve lost my mind.

I wish I could embed it here for you, but alas, all of Weird Al’s videos say “embedding disabled by request.” So you’ll just have to follow this little orange link to YouTube instead (sigh). It really takes all the fun out of blogging about it, huh?

I love this commercial. Oh, and if you aren’t following Shaq on Twitter you are seriously missing out.

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