“Unknown face” my ass!
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Awesomeness, Humor, Photos, iLife
I totally know that guy.
As much as I love this shot of iPhoto’s new “Faces” technology identifying a cookie dough blob as a face, it looks just a little too perfect for me. I mean, look at all the other dough balls… that chip placement is suspect, to say the least.
Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Jimmy Schapira for the tip!
iBleed for iLife
Obviously one of the most giving and noble things one can do is donate blood. After all, you are literally giving a piece of yourself to help your fellow man in his time of need. Of course, no one ever said I was noble. No, to get me to part with my precious O-Negative, I needed a little something extra to sweeten the deal, and that something came in the form of a $20 gift certificate to Best Buy.
Yes, thanks to the generosity of the folks inside the blood mobile (parked at the local Best Buy parking lot), I was able to enlist the help of Andrew Jackson in procuring iLife for $20 off. Next stop the sperm bank, so I can snag a copy of iWork.
iWork and iLife ‘09 to share the spotlight Tuesday?
Filed under: Rampant Speculation, Rumors, Software, iLife
Well, despite Apple’s invite making it very clear that the “focus would be on notebooks” at Tuesday’s special event, word is now trickling out that we may be seeing some token updates to both the iLife and iWork suites. Mac Soda, the same folks who brought us the nVidia graphics card in the new MacBooks rumors claims to have knowledge of a joint notebooks/iApps announcement set for Tuesday.
I’m not a big fan of joint special announcements outside of Macworld where Steve has time to really go over the changes to all the new goodies. To my mind a joint announcement means either the new notebooks will be somewhat underwhelming, or the iApps will be of the incremental and “big featureless” variety. Those of you pumped up about the new portables will be happy to know that based on the past two iWork/iLife updates, I am leaning towards their updates sucking, and the laptops being reasonably impressive. First, the invite specifically mentions the notebooks, which means Apple at least thinks they have something worth talking about. But more importantly, aside from ruining iMovie, the only changes to the iLife suite Apple has made since 2005 is more and more .Mac integration to the point where I expect iLife ‘09 to pretty much require you pay $99 for MobileMe in order to even boot iPhoto or listen to iTunes.
We happen to be close interweb friends with the Mac Soda crew, so we’re actually pulling for them on this one (and the nVidia thing). It would be nice to see another rumor source on the scene with some street cred. Of course, if they totally blow this, then they are dead to us. We’re extremely disloyal like that.
iPhoto books, calendars and cards are now available in Australia and New Zealand
Until now there has been very little photographic evidence that the mythical continent of Australia even exists, outside of this Energizer commercial featuring Jacko.
However all that changed today when Apple released iPhoto 7.1.2 . Faithful Macenstein reader Brian McKenzie alerts us that for the first time, iPhoto books, calendars and cards are now available in Australia and New Zealand.
iLife updates hint at new product offering?
Apple today released a slew of incremental updates for their iLife ’08 products. Aside from the usual bug fixes, we couldn’t help but notice the tantalizingly-named iLife Support. Is this the first hint that Apple Inc., recently freed from the bounds of its “Computer” nomenclature, is taking a step in the direction of continuing and end-of-life care? Would Apple really be so careless as to let slip an update for such a groundbreaking yet-to-be announced product?
While it would certainly be the fulfillment of a life-long dream for many an Apple fan-boy, let’s just hope they do a better job with quality assurance than we’ve seen of late rolling out iLife Support in our local ER. Might be worth using extra care around falling debris and sharp objects until they roll out Rev. 2.
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