amazing, windows will finally be able to do something approaching iPhoto.. just in time for the next update of iPhoto!!! amazing these people, amazing!
@ecobore Yeah sorry. Talking about how great iPhoto is... not such a good idea. iMovie is damned impressive... but iPhoto is basically garbage. Want to sort your photos so that you see the newest ones first? Sorry, can't do that in iPhoto. Want to email photos using a web email account without the ridiculous requirement of setting it up in the horrible Apple Mail application? Nope, sorry, can't do that with iPhoto. Picasa for Mac owns iPhoto. The new stuff from MSFT doesn't even have to be great to be better than iPhoto.
@ecobore Yeah, as a Mac user, I hate iPhoto. It's so annoying to use.
If there's one thing I miss from Windows, it's that the apps automatically update when I add new content to folder in Windows Media Player, or Windows Live Photo Gallery.
I know they won't, but if Microsoft ported the Windows Live Suite to Mac, I'd totally use it.
@everyone People use iPhoto. Sure it isn't Aperture or Lightroom. But let's see how much better Microsoft's thing will be. iMovie is crap by any standard.
It doesn't have cutting edge features like iPhoto's ability to make an exact copy of your library on the same HDD! Some how Apple think that is useful and not just a huge waste of HDD space. I've used Macs for years and always end up using similar freeware apps to what I use on Windows, never had to be stuck with bundled crap on either platform. Open your eyes fanboys bundled crap is bundled crap no matter who supplies it.
@ajwoodhouse Um, except that I have thousands of photos in my library and never had any slowdowns... maybe you should actually get a mac before you spout your BS.
@enjourni I have actually owned 4 macs - ibook, mac mini, macbook pro and imac. I have also worked in companies with mac servers and desktops. All of them had problems - in fact, more problems on average than my PCs but that could just be my experience. Regarding iphoto though - it's just plain garbage. Sorry.
@blenderman345 right...so because I experienced more problems on mac than PC it's MY fault? Your logic, sir, is fundamentally flawed - I should have seen the same level of problem on both given your reasoning and my alleged incompetence. Except of course, you under the 'macs don't go wrong' illusion and so blinded to reason. And reality.
@aardWolf Heh, right. Until you restart iPhoto, and watch as it shows you your oldest photos again. The view settings don't stick between sessions. Not on my 20" iMac anyway, and you can't make them stick according to the folks at the Apple store.
Re: emailing with web accounts, try it with a gmail account. Without the iPhoto2Gmail plugin, that hasn't had a new version in a year. And wouldn't exist at all if you were correct.
@erac3rx O rly? You can't sort photo's by date, eh? Try going to View>Sort Events>By Date. Like the newest at the top or the bottom? Select Ascending or Descending. Tada! Have you ever used Mail? Mail rocks, certainly better than Entourage or the HORRID Outlook. Or Thunderbird. This is coming from someone who uses offline mail, on both OS'. Mail takes seconds to set-up. Enter your email, password - done. You want RSS? Enter the URL - done. Outlook? Enter your email, password, POP settings, primary DNS server, have a terrible time searching for which ports to use to align with your offline mail client AND Firewall etc. You were saying? The "new" software from MSFT is totally stolen from APPL. ( I don't know why you wrote Microsoft in their stock market name). The only features it has over iPhoto/iMovie are ones that people wouldn't want to use anyway. If people wanted to make a panoramic image, they'd use Photoshop or some other stitching software. If people wanted to do in-depth photo editing (face replacement, removing objects, etc.), they'd use Photoshop, Aperture, etc. You're sorely confused.
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amazing, windows will finally be able to do something approaching iPhoto.. just in time for the next update of iPhoto!!!
amazing these people, amazing!
@ecobore no...because iphoto is crap. It doesn't handle libraries with even a few hundred photos well at all.
@ecobore Yeah sorry. Talking about how great iPhoto is... not such a good idea. iMovie is damned impressive... but iPhoto is basically garbage. Want to sort your photos so that you see the newest ones first? Sorry, can't do that in iPhoto. Want to email photos using a web email account without the ridiculous requirement of setting it up in the horrible Apple Mail application? Nope, sorry, can't do that with iPhoto. Picasa for Mac owns iPhoto. The new stuff from MSFT doesn't even have to be great to be better than iPhoto.
@ecobore
Yeah, as a Mac user, I hate iPhoto. It's so annoying to use.
If there's one thing I miss from Windows, it's that the apps automatically update when I add new content to folder in Windows Media Player, or Windows Live Photo Gallery.
I know they won't, but if Microsoft ported the Windows Live Suite to Mac, I'd totally use it.
@everyone People use iPhoto. Sure it isn't Aperture or Lightroom. But let's see how much better Microsoft's thing will be.
iMovie is crap by any standard.
@ecobore
It doesn't have cutting edge features like iPhoto's ability to make an exact copy of your library on the same HDD!
Some how Apple think that is useful and not just a huge waste of HDD space.
I've used Macs for years and always end up using similar freeware apps to what I use on Windows, never had to be stuck with bundled crap on either platform. Open your eyes fanboys bundled crap is bundled crap no matter who supplies it.
@ajwoodhouse Um, except that I have thousands of photos in my library and never had any slowdowns... maybe you should actually get a mac before you spout your BS.
@Peter Moore Both iPhoto and iTunes will do this on the Mac. You can use the "automatically add to iTunes" folder http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3832
iPhoto has a similar but more obscure folder:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/masterclass/index.cfm?articleid=379&pagtype=samecat
I just set this up over the weekend to work with EyeFi and it's great.
@ecobore I hope the next update of iPhoto betters iPhoto '09. Competition is good.
@erac3rx
BS...
1. View -> Sort Photos -> By Date -> Descending
2. iPhoto -> Email Photos Using: -> Entourage? Thunderbird? Your Mom?
@enjourni I have actually owned 4 macs - ibook, mac mini, macbook pro and imac. I have also worked in companies with mac servers and desktops. All of them had problems - in fact, more problems on average than my PCs but that could just be my experience. Regarding iphoto though - it's just plain garbage. Sorry.
@ajwoodhouse : if that's how Macs work for you, you must either be an idiot, or not know how to use a computer.
@blenderman345 right...so because I experienced more problems on mac than PC it's MY fault? Your logic, sir, is fundamentally flawed - I should have seen the same level of problem on both given your reasoning and my alleged incompetence. Except of course, you under the 'macs don't go wrong' illusion and so blinded to reason. And reality.
@aardWolf Heh, right. Until you restart iPhoto, and watch as it shows you your oldest photos again. The view settings don't stick between sessions. Not on my 20" iMac anyway, and you can't make them stick according to the folks at the Apple store.
Re: emailing with web accounts, try it with a gmail account. Without the iPhoto2Gmail plugin, that hasn't had a new version in a year. And wouldn't exist at all if you were correct.
@ajwoodhouse Sure.
@erac3rx
O rly?
You can't sort photo's by date, eh? Try going to View>Sort Events>By Date. Like the newest at the top or the bottom? Select Ascending or Descending. Tada!
Have you ever used Mail? Mail rocks, certainly better than Entourage or the HORRID Outlook. Or Thunderbird. This is coming from someone who uses offline mail, on both OS'. Mail takes seconds to set-up. Enter your email, password - done. You want RSS? Enter the URL - done. Outlook? Enter your email, password, POP settings, primary DNS server, have a terrible time searching for which ports to use to align with your offline mail client AND Firewall etc.
You were saying?
The "new" software from MSFT is totally stolen from APPL. ( I don't know why you wrote Microsoft in their stock market name). The only features it has over iPhoto/iMovie are ones that people wouldn't want to use anyway. If people wanted to make a panoramic image, they'd use Photoshop or some other stitching software. If people wanted to do in-depth photo editing (face replacement, removing objects, etc.), they'd use Photoshop, Aperture, etc.
You're sorely confused.
@enjourni I have an old iMac and a new Macbook, never mentioned "slow down"
I said WASTE OF HDD SPACE !