Creating iPhoto calendars in other languages

If you want to publish a calendar from iPhoto '11 in a language other than your OS X configured language, there is a way to do it. The trick is that the calendar will switch to the OS X configured language whenever you make an edit to the calendar.

Follow these steps:

1. Create a new calendar.
   
   Don't worry that the created calendar has months, days and days of the week in your current configured language; that will get fixed in the last step.
2. Select and arrange your photos to your liking. If you input text, enter it in the language with which you want to publish your calendar. That won't change no matter what your language setting.
3. Save one last picture to add or remove from your calendar. That's the trick--you have to perform an edit to have the calendar change to the newly configured language.
4. Configure both the Language and Formats to the language you want to use to publish your calendar.
   
   
   In my example, I'm changing the language to Chinese:
   
   
   
   And the Formats from United States to China:
   
   
5. Quit iPhoto.
6. Open iPhoto.
7. Make one last edit to your calendar.
   The calendar should now be displayed in the newly configured language.
   
   
   
   And as long as you don't make any edits, it should stick, even after you change back to your original configured language.
8. Purchase calendar. Note: I'm leaving OS X in the target language when purchasing the calendar, to make sure that purchasing doesn't cause a change back to the original language. I'll update this blog when I receive my calendar in Chinese...

Update: Success! My calendar was delivered, and the dates are in Chinese. Note that when I purchased the calendar, I left the OS X language configuration in Chinese, so I didn't take any chances. I believe that once you see the calendar uploaded, and it's still in your target language, you're all set.

Amazon Software Downloader spins forever

I just bought some Mac software from Amazon.com to download; but the downloader doesn't appear to work; it just spins indefinitely.

When you download the software, what you get is a disk image with the downloader, not the actual software.

When I open the disk image, it looks like this:

It looks like there's no executable here to run, but there is. I suspect there is something wrong with Lion, and if I reboot all will be well. In the meantime, I can do this in Terminal:

open /Volumes/Amazon\ Software\ Downloader/Amazon\ Software\ Downloader.app

This will execute the Downloader.

Once the Downloader is done downloading the software, and you click on "Install," it will then bring up another window where the files aren't visible. Like I said, I think there's something wrong with my Finder, and it needs a reboot... But still, you can cp/mv the app to your Applications folder.

Update: A better solution: since Finder is confused, Relaunch it:

That solves it...