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iPhoto – Faces and Places
Filed Under (Apple, Software) by tech989 on 16-01-2009
Apple’s iLife ‘09 is on the streets and jam packed with delicious annual improvements and eye candy. Literally.
First up is iPhoto which has a bunch of new features, but two that will make your iPhoto life interesting and frustrating at the same time.
Tops on everyone’s list of eye candy for iPhoto is Faces—the built-in face recognition technology. iPhoto will scan your Mac’s photos, scan the faces, stick all of what it finds in a database, then prompt you to identify faces.
Except for the occasional ugly neighbor, face recognition works surprisingly well.
Also included in iPhoto is Places—location-based technology so you can categorize and sort your photos by where they were taken. If you have an iPhone or GPS enabled digital camera, of course.
The integration with Google Maps is very cool and leaves you with a highly graphic and attractive array of slide shows collected by location, including the ability in iPhoto to crop photos to match themes.
