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Save/ShareThe latest iPhoto software from Apple, iLife '09, allows you to organize your digital photos by faces and places.
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The technology isn't perfect. During my recent one-on-one tutorial at an Apple showroom, I saw the computer failed to correctly identify photos of two nearly-identical siblings. (Less extreme examples also pose problems for the software, such as when a person isn't facing the camera in a photo.) But I learned how mistakes can be manually corrected pretty quickly. I also found that you can speed up your photo tagging by highlighting entire rows of photos at a time and approving all of the tags at once.
The most impressive feature, at least to me, is a handy one-click button that not only automatically logs you into Facebook or Flickr but also directly uploads your images to those sites—and preserves all of the tagged information so you don't have to waste time duplicating your efforts. If a Facebook friend tags one of your photos, the new name is synced to iPhoto. Genius! To post a picture to myBudgetTravel or other photo-sharing site (like Shutterfly), drag it to your desktop and upload it from there.
The new iPhoto software also organizes your snapshots by places, letting you type in geographical keywords, such as Hawaii, to help simplify your searches. If you have an iPhone or a newer digital camera like the Nikon Coolpix P6000 that automatically records GPS data for you, the program can also map your photos based on location. The "geotags," or the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates of where the photo was taken, are saved on a Google world map. Just clicking on the map can bring up all the photos that were taken in that spot.
The 2009 edition of iLife (which includes the updated iPhoto software) is in stores and comes with every new Mac computer. Upgrade packs cost $79.
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Wow, between this technology, which seems to be growing in popularity (only a matter of time before there's a Windows version) and the cool new technology of geotagging photos, it's almost impossible to remain anonymous anymore. I look forward to seeing this facial recognition software in action.
Posted By Irv on February 12, 2009, 6:28 PM
Thanks for reviewing Mac software. So many folks are unaware of the well integrated, east-to-use, and very cool iLife software applications from Apple. Informed people can then decide whether they want to check out these features for themselves.
Posted By Roger Owens on February 13, 2009, 1:19 PM
And all this time I thought I used Macs because PCs (or, more correctly, Windows versions) were so buggy and inferior.
Posted By James Michalek on February 13, 2009, 5:11 PM
Considering how many things Windows can do that Mac's can't this is one feature I don't mind waiting for to come to pc considering all the things I can do with my low cost & faster pc that Mac users can't with their overpriced hardware.
Posted By Chaz on April 19, 2009, 6:25 AM
in response to Chaz....
Epic Win
Posted By Kev on April 30, 2009, 11:45 PM
Es ist fantastisch! Ich frage mich, ob ich ein paar Dinge schreiben wollte, würde ich, wie man weiß.
Posted By wypadek podczas pracy on March 6, 2012, 8:38 AM