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Our Blogs Core Dump Apple's iLife revamped for '09
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Wednesday, 07 January 2009 | |
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One of the Mac's selling points has for several years been the iLife software suite that comes with each computer. iLife includes photo management and editing, movie editing, DVD creation, web page creation and music making. One rumour doing the rounds in the lead up to this week's Macworld Expo was that iMovie '09 would move into the cloud, but that didn't materialise. But there are some useful improvement to the suite. iPhoto - Apple's photo management and editing application - is probably the most widely used component of the iLife suite. The latest version extends the idea of automatically grouping photos by events (when they were shot) by pulling a similar trick for grouping by people (using face recognition) and places (using GPS co-ordinates or manually entered locations). Using face recognition on photo collections is nothing new, but as far as I know iPhoto is the first major desktop photo manager to include this feature. Other implementations have been web based (eg, Picasa Web Albums), which raises privacy issues. (If I've overlooked a desktop application, please mention it in a comment.) The idea is that you select a face, give it a name, and then in theory the application can find the same face in other photos. How well iPhoto's face recognition works in practice remains to be seen. It would be unrealistic to expect 100 percent accuracy, but it does need to be quite good if it is to be useful. What does the Faces feature do for you? Please read on. |
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