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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action None of this is available now, but a resource screen found in iPhoto ’09 shows some interesting possible-future technology that may let you geotag your photos even if the camera didn’t have a GPS module.
If you couldn’t tell from yesterday’s facial recognition special, I’ve been immersed in iPhoto ’09—just me and 30,000 photos. Here’s my full rundown of the app, plus tips to make it work better and faster.
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:
Apple recently showed off their new iPhoto’s facial recognition feature, but said it only can recognise human faces, not animals. MacLife tested it out and proved Apple wrong: iPhoto can tell kitties apart. [MacLife]
According to some readers, the $US79 iLife ’09 is now shipping. For metadata fanatic loons like me, it’s worthy just for iPhoto alone and its new face tagging and localisation features.
newVideoPlayer("/iphoto_09_edited_giz.flv", 506, 305,"");Here are a few best features of iPhoto ’09, including Faces and Places, which recognises people in your albums and the locations you took those photos in.
Today at Macworld 2009 in San Francisco, Apple showed off a new iPhoto with true facial recognition, a better iMovie and other iLife updates—$US79 solo, $US99 for family, available late January.
iPhoto hasn’t had a great free competitor and in my opinion, Google’s photo management is just, well, better. That’s why Picasa for Mac is awesome news.
I’m getting married in about 5 1/2 weeks time, and one of the most stressful parts of planning the wedding was choosing a photographer. Why? Because not only do you have to be happy with their photos, but you have to be happy with the way that they present their photos to you as well. And when you’re paying anything upwards of $1500, you want to get the best you can.
Or, now, you can use iPhoto to create a wedding album yourself. Or any type of photo book, calendar, cards or just plain prints, for that matter. Sure, it’s been available in the US for ages now, but Apple Australia have just announced the Australian launch of the service.
Other services have been available in Australia that offer a similar thing, but having it integrated straight into iPhoto makes it a lot easier than some of the other software solutions available. The price is also right – $39.99 gets you a hardcover, 10 page, double-sided 8.5 x 11 inch album, with additional double sided pages costing $1.29 each. Extra one-sided pages go for $1.99 each. There are also softcover and wire bound options for even less.
If calendars are more your thing, $27 gets you a 12 month calendar of your own design. And if you’re just after prints, a standard 6×4 will cost you 29c, with sizes going up to 20 x 30 inch posters for $40.
There was no information on where or who actually prints your photos, and I’m waiting on Apple to get back to me with that information. But one thing’s for sure – when I do get all my wedding photos back, I’ll almost certainly be creating some albums of my own…
iPhoto + .Mac + iPhone = pretty cool syncing of photos to and from your handset and desktop. Couple of things not addressed in the video: a) images sent from the iPhone are actually sent using the mail program, to your gallery’s specific email address, and so images are 640 by 480. When you sync them from .mac to iPhoto, they’re this size, and when you sync images by docking, it’ll dupe your images instead of replacing the smaller copy. But I am astounded by how fast the system works.
