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Macworld San Francisco Keynote Coverage, iWork '09 Coming

FINALLY facial recognition in a desktop apps. I was excited for Picasa on Mac because they have a similar feature (think it's part of the web based service, though) and I was going to switch just for that feature. Glad I don't have to!

EDIT: Native Flickr support! Huzzah (as long as the facial recognition adds a tag to your uploaded photo and it supports Flickr Pro "native" resolution file uploads - can't see why either of these two would be a problem)! Could care less about FaceBook, personally, but the syncing of face tagging across online users is certainly something interesting.

GeoTagging will be awesome, only if Apple partners with a company to make a good geotagger that logs your location as you move around and then matches that up with your photos on import based on the timestamps. Other programs do this, but Apple could easily do it better.

Themes are interesting if the transitions really do automatically sync up to the beats of the music as the Giz liveblogger suggests. Plus, centering the people on the photo will be super handy for quick and dirty slideshows with Ken Burns on. As it is now it takes AGES to manually direct everything so it doesn't look "weird" if you use the KB effect.
 
Seems like hardly any members online. Maybe it hasn't updated, or MR is taking a hit?

Awesome, facebook and flikr support:)
 
9:15 am Based on Google Maps...can zoom in, satellite, street maps. Find a pin, and it'll take you to your photos from there.
9:14 am Tell it "Yosemite" and iPhoto adds a geotag to your entire set from there.
9:14 am What about photos that aren't geotagged? That's easy...you can enter an event location for photos.
9:13 am Gives latitude and longitude. iPhoto converts that into a plain English location.
9:13 am More and more cameras (including the iPhone) have built-in GPS. Automatically adds a location to your photos.
9:12 am Click on "Places" in iPhoto to see a map with pins for your photo locations.. Uses GPS geotagging.
9:11 am Third way to organize: Places.
9:11 am Face detection isn't perfect, but this is incredibly good.
9:11 am iPhoto finds the face, and you tell him it who it is. It will then find other photos that it thinks is the same person.
9:10 am Uses face detection to assist in tagging.
9:09 am Organize by people. Get a corkboard with people's snapshots.
9:09 am This year, we add a new organization system: Faces.
9:09 am Last year, we introduced Events. Can browse by events...very useful and popular.
9:08 am What's new? New iPhoto.
9:08 am All of the apps are so useful and fun. Nothing like it on any other computer platform.
9:07 am First, iLife '09.
9:07 am I assume you want to hear about new things. I have three of them for you.
9:07 am It's because of our product line. Hardware, software, etc.
9:07 am Last fiscal year...biggest in history. 9.7 million Macs. Growing twice as fast as the rest of the industry.
9:06 am Today, we are focusing on the Mac.
9:06 am People come because they want to try things out...iPhones, iPods, Macs.
9:06 am Apple Stores: 3.4 million visitors per week. That's 100 Macworlds per week.
9:05 am What other company can do something like this?
9:05 am Here's our Beijing store. Our Munich store. Our Sydney store.
9:04 am It's such an exciting time at Apple. You can feel it in so many ways, but especially the stores.
9:04 am Good morning! I'm so excited to be delivering the keynote.
9:03 am Phil Schiller on stage,
9:03 am Lights going down.
9:01 am More music...Coldplay.
8:59 am Welcome to Macworld! Please silence your cell phones.
8:56 am Music playing, people milling around getting their pre-keynote photos.
8:53 am We're live in the big room!
8:41 am Waiting in keynote line...
 
CANEHDN said:
It's torture not being able to see the feed.

I can't load it on my computer but I can see it on my iPhone. Yeah!!
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For others who are having problems......Here is what has been posted:

9:15 am We've also added support for Facebook and Flickr to iPhoto.
9:15 am Based on Google Maps...can zoom in, satellite, street maps. Find a pin, and it'll take you to your photos from there.
9:14 am Tell it "Yosemite" and iPhoto adds a geotag to your entire set from there.
9:14 am What about photos that aren't geotagged? That's easy...you can enter an event location for photos.
9:13 am Gives latitude and longitude. iPhoto converts that into a plain English location.
9:13 am More and more cameras (including the iPhone) have built-in GPS. Automatically adds a location to your photos.
9:12 am Click on "Places" in iPhoto to see a map with pins for your photo locations.. Uses GPS geotagging.
9:11 am Third way to organize: Places.
9:11 am Face detection isn't perfect, but this is incredibly good.
9:11 am iPhoto finds the face, and you tell him it who it is. It will then find other photos that it thinks is the same person.
9:10 am Uses face detection to assist in tagging.
9:09 am Organize by people. Get a corkboard with people's snapshots.
9:09 am This year, we add a new organization system: Faces.
9:09 am Last year, we introduced Events. Can browse by events...very useful and popular.
9:08 am What's new? New iPhoto.
9:08 am All of the apps are so useful and fun. Nothing like it on any other computer platform.
9:07 am First, iLife '09.
9:07 am I assume you want to hear about new things. I have three of them for you.
9:07 am It's because of our product line. Hardware, software, etc.
9:07 am Last fiscal year...biggest in history. 9.7 million Macs. Growing twice as fast as the rest of the industry.
9:06 am Today, we are focusing on the Mac.
9:06 am People come because they want to try things out...iPhones, iPods, Macs.
9:06 am Apple Stores: 3.4 million visitors per week. That's 100 Macworlds per week.
9:05 am What other company can do something like this?
9:05 am Here's our Beijing store. Our Munich store. Our Sydney store.
9:04 am It's such an exciting time at Apple. You can feel it in so many ways, but especially the stores.
9:04 am Good morning! I'm so excited to be delivering the keynote.
9:03 am Phil Schiller on stage,
9:03 am Lights going down.
9:01 am More music...Coldplay.
8:59 am Welcome to Macworld! Please silence your cell phones.
8:56 am Music playing, people milling around getting their pre-keynote photos.
8:53 am We're live in the big room!
8:41 am Waiting in keynote line...
 
I sure hope face recognition will make its way into Aperture sooner rather than later ! Seems like a solid iPhoto update though. Two-way syncing with FB is great, it would be even better if it would do it flickr for tags and captions for example...
 
Hmm. Those themes look interesting. I have a slideshow to put together by the end of the month, so I hope iLife is released today!

Slideshows can be saved to iTunes and synced to iPhone and iPod touch.
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Definitely need this now.
 
FrenchKheldar said:
I sure hope face recognition will make its way into Aperture sooner rather than later ! Seems like a solid iPhoto update though. Two-way syncing with FB is great, it would be even better if it would do it flickr for tags and captions for example...
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"We've added a lot more depth -- we have support for Facebook and Flickr, that's built right in." Finally! "If you have your Facebook account set up, it sends a photo to Facebook to share... your friends can tag people in photos, and it syncs to iPhoto." Big applause. "Flickr: there's a button built in -- Flickr also supports geotagging..."
 
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9:26 am Showing a "pumpkin patch" event with no geotag. Starts typing name, and iPhoto assists using its database of locations.
9:25 am Hovering over a pin at Aspen. Click an arrow and go straight to all Aspen photos, even across multiple events.
9:24 am STEVE JOBS JUST DIED :
9:24 am Now demoing Places.
 
Tallest Skil said:
Seems like iPhoto is all they care about anymore. I mean, it was the highlight of iLife '08, too...
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The features are nice for someone that would actually use them.

I'm more interested in Garageband and iMovie. Not to mention I don't plan on buying a new Mac until Snow Leopard and Nehalem mobile components. :rolleyes:
 
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