In testing iPhoto for a full review (coming soon), I’ve plowed through more than 30,000 photos using over 40 identified faces, mostly human. Here’s how iPhoto’s face detection and recognition works—and doesn’t work:
According to some readers, the $US79 iLife ’09 is now shipping. For metadata fanatic loons like me, it’s worthy just for iPhoto alone and its new face tagging and localisation features.
newVideoPlayer("/iphoto_09_edited_giz.flv", 506, 305,"");Here are a few best features of iPhoto ’09, including Faces and Places, which recognises people in your albums and the locations you took those photos in.
If Wired, TUAW and Macrumors are independently reporting a Mac Mini is on its way, we know it exists. Evidently, we’re just not going to see it at Macworld. So what about other rumours?
Today at Macworld 2009 in San Francisco, Apple showed off a new iPhoto with true facial recognition, a better iMovie and other iLife updates—$US79 solo, $US99 for family, available late January.
The staff of Mac|Life has a neat thinkfeature imagining future packaging for Apple software. They’ve got three concepts, all of which are eye-catching, attractive and Apple-esque, but they don’t feel quite right. The first, by Mac|Life’s own art director, for instance, might be eco-friendly with recycled packaging, but it still uses more material than is necessary, bucking Apple’s trend toward absolutely minimal packaging.
newVideoPlayer("imackeyboard_gawker.flv", 475, 376); Here’s a video I took in Cupertino today of the new Apple keyboards, iMacs, and what I consider the best features of iPhoto and iMovie: skimming and…skimming. As for the rest of the day, here are the highlights:
We’ve seen a few issues with local pricing of late, where the weakness of the US dollar seems to have no impact on what we have to pay for our new gear. So it’s nice to see Apple taking a far better approach than most. The iMac pricing isn’t TOO bad on the conversion differential, but the new software lines hit the sweet spot.
US price, $79 single / $99 5-pack. AU price, $99 single / $129 5-pack. Go grab it here.
Kudos to Apple on that one. I’ve often felt the iLife package has been a killer feature for Apple, and most who use it agree. The addition of Numbers to the iWork pack should see it take a much more serious seat at the table now for most Apple users too. $129 for a 5-user licensed productivity suite? Could this help extend Apple into more small offices? -Seamus Byrne
iLife gets its long-rumored refresh in iLife ’08, with iPhoto adding a new feature called “Events.” It takes photo albums and organizes them as “events” automatically. “Instead of looking through 5,000 photos, you’re just looking through 100 events,” said Steve Jobs at the Apple event today.
iLife ’07 went golden master (final), which means it will probably ship soon. [MacScoop]
