All those that I set to send directly to facebook are PNG.  They are also 720 x 540 (or 540 x 720) whereas the photos kept on the camera are 2048 x 1536 (and the ones I have with a special 7 Megapixel app are 3180 x 2385!  Wicked.

Lightroom doesn’t like the PNG files.  Why?  That’s another story.

So I just wrote a quick action in Photoshop that is a “Save As” JPG.

Then I threw all my PNGs into a folder called _PNG tank and ran a batch on that folder and voila – done.

Syncing Birthday Calendars with iPhone, Mobile Me & iCal

Concerning Birthday calendars, please note:
While a Birthday calendar may appear in the Subscriptions calendar of iCal, it is not a normal subscription calendar, and cannot be added to your iPhone/iPod touch.

This is the workaround I use:

1. Publish the Birthdays calendar in iCal to Mobile Me (right click and choose publish) and select ‘publish changes automatically’.
2. Email the calendar to yourself.
3. Open the email on your iPhone and subscribe to the calendar.
4. In Mobile Me, navigate to your calendar preferences and select ‘Show birthdays calendar’.

Now if you add a new contact on your Mac or iPhone with a birthday, it will automatically be added to your birthday calendars .

Extra Notes

Currently in iCal, there is no way of specifying which calendars you would like to sync, and as such, all your subscribed calendars will sync with your iPhone/iPod touch. Unfortunately, the only way to prevent this is to remove the calendar from iCal.

For more information, check out these support documents from Apple:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3634
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1213