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Ross Kodner Gets Taken to Task for Anti-Mac Article
The Mac Lawyer — ... User groups, Macs In Law Offices or MacLaw, and ask the users what they are using as a replacement for a particular program.  There are also plenty of blogs out there by Mac-using attorneys who may have ideas for you. Hardware Costs.  Assuming that the premise is correct (that people buy lower-spec'd Windows computers), he's right.  Macs may be more expensive and the built-in iLife apps are not as useful for businesses (although I have used iPhoto and iMovie in my law practice).  However, when comparing similarly spec'd ...

Macworld Buying Guides: Point-and-shoot cameras
Macworld — ... Secure Digital (SD card). Cards that are bundled with cameras have a small capacity, so you might want to buy a card with a larger capacity. Software bundles : Almost all point-and-shoot cameras work with Apple’s iPhoto software for importing pictures from the camera. You can also access the memory card using a card reader, and use the card like you would any other storage device. All cameras come with software, but the included Mac software is often outdated. You’re better off using iPhoto to manage your pictures and to make minor adjustments. Video : Most point-and-shoots ...

Hands-on with Picasa for the Mac
CNET News - Apple — ... . One of the things I was looking forward to with the computer was the vaunted easy photo management I kept hearing about. But I found the Mac's free photo management app, iPhoto, frustrating to use, compared to the product ... ...

iPhoto '09 Video Tour [Macworld 2009]
Gizmodo — ... done, you have a corkboard full of Polaroids of the people you know. Geolocation is great for travelers, and if you go to a lot of different countries, your "Places" section will have a rich map made up of all the pins you've been to. You can fill in location data yourself, or if you have an iPhone or other GPS-enabled camera, it's automatically filled in for you. Other cool stuff is Facebook and Flickr integration (includes tagging as well), plus themed slideshows. [iPhoto] ...

iPhoto '09 Adds Faces and Places
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us — ... As our photo collections grow into the tens of thousands of photos, Apple is working on ways to make it easier to find particular photos, adding face recognition and geotagging support to iPhoto '09. ...

Hardware that supports iPhoto '09's geotagging
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... 3G iPhone will tag photos with GPS information, but it isn't the greatest camera in the world. You can also add this information by hand, but who wants to do that? Instead, there's good news: iPhoto geotagging needn't be your forbidden salami. TUAWHardware that supports iPhoto '09's geotagging originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ...

Macworld.Ars: Macworld Best of Show 2009 awards
Infinite Loop — ... 's SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone, which lets users control their DVRs from the iPhone and also watch TV remotely. Additionally, Slingbox also announced the Slingbox ProHD, which now supports HD streaming on the Mac. Finally, the Sling.com service offers TV shows and movies that are now compatible with the Mac as long as you have a Slingbox ProHD. Apple's iPhoto '09 , which was "too cool to be jaded about and not get an award." The new capabilities that tag Places and Faces have made organizing photos easier and more pleasant, which the Macworld crew (and Ars) apparently love. ...

TUAW Review: iPhoto '09 is a pretty picture
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... When you start up iPhoto for the first time it updates your libraries and starts an immediate search for faces in your photos. That search goes on in the background, so you can do other things with iPhoto at the same time. ...

What To Know About iPhoto '09 Face Detection and Recognition [Apple]
Gizmodo — ... in the meantime, I will leave you with this: After heavy testing for half a day, iPhoto became shockingly good at identifying my face. I can only imagine that, given more calibration and identified content, it will be better and better. My biggest fear is how many photos aren't clearing the first hurdle—face detection—and are therefore left completely out of the system. Who would have thought that the recognition would be easier to nail than the detection? Not me. [iPhoto '09] ...

iPhoto '09: The Definitive Review and Tip Sheet [Review]
Gizmodo — ... and I don't think there's a lot of dead weight either. I'd be happy to answer any questions, but hopefully most answers are already in the text above, as thorough as I aimed for it to be. Bottom line: All this, plus the improved iMovie '09 and the not-as-obviously-useful GarageBand and iWeb upgrades are all available in the same box, now, for $79. It would be nice if you could just download an iPhoto-only license for $29 or something, but the whole iLife '09 kit ain't bad. [iPhoto '09] ...

iLife ‘09: iPhoto and iWeb Reach Tipping Point
The Mac Observer — ... inspection may reveal that Apple has imposed its own way of doing things, flexibility is restricted, and other tools or methods remain useful, indeed hardly replaced by Apple. In my study of iPhoto '09 and iWeb '09, I have reached that tipping point. Of course, it would be possible to go into a dry recitation of features, but Apple does a really good job of describing the new features, both in Phil Schiller's Macworld 2009 keynote address and Apple's Web pages dedicated to iPhoto and iWeb . Instead, I'm going to describe my reaction to the product. I used ...

iPhoto 8.0.2 Update Improves Recognition, Geotagging; Still Sees Faces in Cookie Dough [Apple]
Gizmodo — ... update doesn't solve two of my problems: One, which may never go away, is sluggishness when managing Faces. I have a ton of photos, and the function itself requires a lot of background processing, so entering that feature really does slow things down a lot. The other, which will hopefully get fixed, is the automatic tagging of the wrong faces. I visit my Faces catalog only to find the wrong people coming up. It is a concern hopefully grave enough to be addressed in the near future. [iPhoto] ...

iLife 101: Switch from Picasa to iPhoto
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: iLife, SoftwareIf you've ever thought about giving up Google for your photo management, David Alison has good tips on moving from Picasa to iPhoto. For the unfamiliar, Picasa is the big G's photo-management software, originally available only on Windows and now made for Mac (since the beginning of 2009). When my sister the Windows user came to me for an equivalent to iPhoto, I set her up with Picasa and she's been happy since. Combined with Google's free Picasa Web Albums option, the app makes it easy to get your photos online ...

Is Apple Building iSocial? Sounds Good to Me.
Technologizer — ... time I use hotel broadband, I’m startled anew by the fact that iTunes’ library-sharing feature lets me see the music of random fellow guests. And the iPhone has become an extremely social beast thanks to third-party apps like the official Facebook one and the surging sea of Twitter clients. But I can’t think of any examples of an Apple product including built-in support for someone else’s social network except for the Facebook uploading that the company added to iPhoto ‘09. ...