It comes from the camera, i.e phone.
EXIF tags: https://exiftool.org/TagNames/EXIF.html
Use exiftool to solve your problems:
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2009/04/derotating-jpegs-with-exiftool/
Or iView MediaPro on OS9 or 10.13. It is THE tool for all sorts of (batch) processing, including rotating, re-sizing and so on. Very decent algorithm. No need to go to PS, if you're not using layers, plug-ins and all that stuff.

P.S. You can also use exiftool to delete all metadata (EXIF) from your images and then rotate them with the software of your choice.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66192531/exiftool-how-to-remove-all-metadata-from-all-files-possible-inside-a-folder-an
The only problem with this approach is that it also deletes all ICC color profiles, but there's always a ColorSync script 'Embed.app' to add them back. It works in batch mode too, if dragged and dropped.

I had been having Cloudflare errors for a while. Since later yesterday OS9Lives has been loading. The site renders a rather mess in Safari on Tahoe. It actually loads just about the same as it loads in Cyberdog on OS 9. It does load and look quite normal on Classilla using OS 9. The forms do render normal on Cyberdog, Classilla, and Safari. So just the main page seems a bit wonky depending on the browser being used.

The Cloudflare error I was getting was from Chicago and specifically involved an SSL handshake error, reporting that "Host is not responding."

thanks, will look into it.

highly impractical this stuff.

or did i miss a relevant feature in PS which can do it?

Yes, been running into SSL Cloudflare errors for about a week now (on Safari 26.3) when accessing the main MacOS9Lives.com website.

Maybe somebody is fiddling with knobs? 

I get 'host is down' from time to time, but I'm writing this on Firefox 78.15.0esr right now.

Okay… CAN access forum with Safari 13.1.2 and Waterfox 2022.11 on this iMac and Safari on iPhone 7. CAN’T access with Firefox 115.33.0 esr on this iMac OR via iPhone SE (also Safari).

Something has been changed, somewhere?

Firefox worked fine this morning @ 5:30 a.m. - but not since or afterwards… AND still not now. (Have not tried iPad.)

It's time to bump this old thread! 

I've had my old 1 Ghz 17" iMac G4 at work for... well, years. Was time to bring it home but it was dead.

Luckily a quick recap of the PSU sorted it!

... tried the MacOS9Lives for unsupported G4 and I could boot it and install it super smooth, no fancy tricks needed.

I hardly even remember getting as far as I did 10+ years ago but massive and great work everyone involved!

However there are some obvious caveats I haven't been able to figure out yet if there are solutions. So sorry if I missed anything in the conversation.

But sound only works through the 3.5mm jack. Internal sound does not work, pro speakers don't work (the eyeballs)

Resolution is stuck at the LCD native resolution and color is stuck at millions of colors.

Now external audio is something I can live with but not being able to set it to 256 colors makes the machine less suitable for Mac OS classic gaming as most games will nag you about it.

I'm fully aware this might just be me not having read up properly and there might be steps I need to do to increase features, or is this the current state?

I'd be quite happy to test stuff on my machine to help move this even further along if possible.

You probably should partition the drive using the System 7 utility, to make sure it creates something it can understand, and most importantly installs the drivers. 

I used it and made two (hfs) ones, installed System 7.6, then booted into Tiger and reformatted the second partition hfs+ and restored tiger on it, so I can dual boot.  It defaults to 7, and I hold down option to get to Tiger.

Quote from: Trekintosh on February 27, 2026, 05:41:49 PM

I mean, hey, since we're casting pennies into the wishing well, it would be awful nice if there were even rudimentary hardware accelerated drivers for a PCI GeForce 6200 for OS 9. It's the earliest and crummiest GPU with CoreImage support for dual-booting heathens.

That truly is the wishing well. That card came out like 5 years after classic Mac OS right? So since there are no similar drivers to hack on I don't think that's going to happen.

I'm well aware, haha. But hey, a guy can dream, right?

I mean, hey, since we're casting pennies into the wishing well, it would be awful nice if there were even rudimentary hardware accelerated drivers for a PCI GeForce 6200 for OS 9. It's the earliest and crummiest GPU with CoreImage support for dual-booting heathens.

That truly is the wishing well. That card came out like 5 years after classic Mac OS right? So since there are no similar drivers to hack on I don't think that's going to happen.