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.

Answer:
Remove photos from iPhone using Image Capture
/Applications/Image Capture.app

HOW TO:

Within Image Capture:

• Select, “Delete after import”
• Select a target folder that makes sense to you – for me I made a folder called _iPhone pics to go inside my Pictures folder  /Users/<username>/Pictures/_iPhone pics
• In iTunes set to include in its sync the contents of this folder back to the iPhone  (I set to sync the “Pictures folder and click the tick box for this _iPhone pics folder (and a few others)).

image capture settings

So the result is that you can manage the photos on your computer and don’t have to be messing around so badly on the iPhone with individual deletes, etc.
Keep the photos on the iPhone that you want.  If you don’t want it to sync back, of course, remove the picture from the folder you set to sync and put it elsewhere.

I could stop there, but here is MY next step:

I import the photos into Lightroom using copy.  I send them to another folder called iPhone pics – but this one in with my REAL photos.  Now I have an archival copy – because unlike other cell phone pics, iPhone pics are quite good! So the photos that remain in the  originally mentioned iPhone pics folder become the fun/sync-with-iPhone photos and the the others are the real deal keep / process, etc.

Of course, this is a Mac solution, not PC.

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I am new to the iPhone – yes, delayed gratification – I have waited almost the full 2 years for my previous cell phone contract to expire and then waited a bit more for the right time, the right deal.  Anyway, I have arrived and now it’s all “new” to me.  LOL

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