I was in Paris in October 2008 for a few days stopping over from Germany and will head over to Scotland from here. The following photograph of the iconic Eiffel Tower was taken on a Sunday morning around 10am at Rue Saint-Dominique street, just outside of my hotel entrance. More of my thoughts of Paris and other nice photographs follows. Saint-Dominique street is located at the 7th Arrondissement in Paris. Apparently, Paris is segregated to 20 Arrondissements, or area. A 20-minutes walk along this street will lead you to Champ-de-Mars, the large park where Eiffel Tower is located. Being close to the heart of Paris, this area gives me a sense of class, as the shops seems to be catering for upper class residents (at least, that's what I think).
The streets here is quite narrow, with a one-way lane, and a parallel parking space. On both sides of the street are shops, restaurants and cafes, while at the back of the shops hides apartments and hotels. It was rather quiet at that time, which I imagine most residents are still at home, or have gone to Church.
Turning to the smaller street off Saint-dominique, we have streets that have less people, and the road are laid using rocks instead of the usual tarmac. And yess, equally narrow. I don't see any shops here, mostly are residential homes. Still, these streets are still equally charming.
The MyPhotoBooks program supplied by www.photobook.com.my is a great application for designing beautiful photo album for printing. However, I was frustrated over the limited (or nil) configuration and technical capability of the program. For example, when you add a photo located in your hard drive, MyPhotoBooks program does not copy the file, but only make a reference to it. Therefore, if you're working on an album half way and need to change the location of your source photo files, there's no settings which allow an update of the location of the photo files. Does that mean you have to re-add all those photos again from the new location?
Fortunately, there's a workaround. All albums created using MyPhotoBooks are saved as [album name].phb file in C:\Documents and Settings\[User]\.PhotoBook\books\. These phb files are in XML format, and contains all the layout design done from the MyPhotoBooks program, including the full file path of each photo you've added into your album. Therefore, you can use notepad to open the phb file, and perform a mass string replace, e.g. replace c:\temp\oldpicturefolder\ with c:\temp\newpicturefolder\.
I did this on my own risk, so do you. Therefore remember to backup the phb file prior performing the mass string replace. Also ensure that you did not start the MyPhotoBooks program when you do so.
Updates: Since MyPhotoBook application is powered by DigiLabs, this solution might apply to DigiLab's photo book application as well. Do check out DigiLabs discussion forum as well.
If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note via the feedback form below. I will get back to you as soon as I can.
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