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Inside Mac - November 20th 2004

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Greg Scallon - iPhoto Sr Product Manager - Apple Computer

Greg started his Apple career in 1995 in the Newton group before becoming, in 1998, the first product manager for Apple's new online store (store.apple.com). Greg then left for a few years to follow the sirens of the start-up world, where he focused on Web-based photo sharing, helping build one of the earliest auto-upload-to-Web photo services. Greg returned to Apple in 2002 to manage the groundbreaking consumer digital photography software, iPhoto and has been happily doing so ever since.

iPhoto For The Holidays

It seems that film cameras and bulky VHS video cameras have gone the way of the dinosaur with everyone today owning the latest digital camera or digital video camera. However people's digital photos or video tapes never find their way off their cameras or computers. Apple's Greg Scallion offers up some some advice for those who want make the most virtual memories and even offers some suggestions on how digital photography and video can be used to make great holiday gifts.

Whether you have twenty or twenty thousand digital photos, iPhoto 4 keeps track of them all, automatically organizing them so you can find them fast. Lightning fast. Easy to use, iPhoto puts you in charge of your photographs -- helping you import them, organize them into albums, enhance their appearance, as well as, share them in print, via email, over the web and in stunning coffee-table books.

25,000 Photos. Zero Waiting.

There's fast. Like a sports car speeding down the Interstate. There's faster. Like a jet flying at supersonic speed. Then there's iPhoto. The all-in-one application for importing, organizing, editing and sharing your digital photos now lets you zoom through photos like never before.

Got 250 images in your iPhoto library? 2,500 images? 25,000? Regardless of the number of digital photos you've collected, iPhoto blazes. In fact, from the instant you launch the new iPhoto, you'll witness dramatic performance improvements.

Find Photos Fast

Take scrolling, for example. Browsing through thousands of photos to find the precise one you wanted used to be, let us say, a poky affair. No more. When you drag the scroll button down the scroll bar now, you'll scream through your photos. No waiting. No delays. If you're looking for that photo of your grandfather landing the salmon on the Sun River in Montana last summer, you'll find it in seconds. Instant gratification -- almost as much as gramps enjoyed that day.

You'll experience this amazing speed everywhere. When you resize images. And when you delete them. It's faster to switch between albums and faster to switch between modes -- from Import to Organize to Edit to Book. In short, everything from launching to quitting is faster in iPhoto.

Now That's Smart

In iPhoto, you can find your favorite photos even more easily when you take advantage of a new feature borrowed from everyone's favorite digital jukebox. Just as you can create Smart Playlists in iTunes, now you can create Smart Albums in iPhoto.

Say you'd like to take a look at all the photos you've taken at your daughter's birthday parties over the years. By creating a Smart Album, you can let iPhoto find them all for you. Simply add criteria, such as all of your five-star photos or photos from a specific date to create a new album. In a flash, you'll have a new Smart Album filled with photos. What's more, iPhoto will automatically add new images to the album that meet the criteria you've indicated. From now on you can let iPhoto do all the heavy lifting.

New Ways to Share

Wait, there's more. You can share your creations with the whole family. Now they can all sample your handiwork without even leaving their rooms. As soon as you create that new Smart Album, everyone in the house can see it on their own Macs. That's because iPhoto now offers Rendezvous photo sharing. It's the same technology that allows you to share songs and playlists in iTunes. But instead of music, you can share photos with everyone on the same network.

Speaking of music, you're going to be giving those songs and playlists more of a workout now because in iPhoto, you can play more than one song per slideshow. We listened to your feedback and heard, loud and clear, that many of your slideshows lasted longer than a typical song. So now when you access your iTunes music library from iPhoto, you'll be able to select an entire playlist to accompany your slideshows. That, of course, includes all the music you create yourself with GarageBand. More musical selections and stunning new transitions put your slideshows in a class by themselves.

Make a Book

Preserving your photographs between the covers of a beautifully bound coffee-table book is easy. iPhoto automatically places your photos in a book design or theme and ordering is one-click away.

Tom Negrino

Tom Negrino is a book author and a longtime contributor to Macworld magazine. His latest books are Creating a Presentation in PowerPoint: Visual QuickProject Guide, Managing Your Personal Finances with Quicken: Visual QuickProject Guide, Macromedia Contribute 3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Mac OS X Unwired (with Dori Smith), and Keynote for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide. He is also the author of the award-winning Microsoft Office v. X Inside Out.

Dori Smith

Dori Smith is author of "Java 2 for the World Wide Web: Visual Quickstart Guide," co-author (with Tom Negrino) of "JavaScript for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide, 5th edition" and "Mac OS X Unwired," and numerous print and online magazine articles. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and is Publisher and ListMom for the Wise-Women's Web Community. Dori is also a member of the Web Standards Project Steering Committee and maintains the Backup Brain weblog.

Scott Sheppard - Executive Producer / Host

Scott Sheppard is the founder and editor of the popular Macintosh Web Site, http://www.OSXFAQ.com He is also a monthly Contributing Editor to Macworld UK magazine and produces a daily audio broadcast of Mac news and information Inside Mac Radio.

Scott Sheppard previously hosted the Inside Mac Show broadcast by CNET radio.

Scott has been using Apple computers for more than 25 years, as well as spending many years as a Wintel user, giving him the unique perspective of having spent a lot of time on both sides of the computer fence.

Ken Ray - UTN Director Of Engineering

Ken Ray has worked both sides of the radio mic for over ten years. He has written and produced comedy bits for an alternative station in Boston, anchored two and half hours of news daily on TechTV Radio, was morning drive personality on an FM country station in the middle of nowhere, was operations director for an AM in Boston, was operations director for an AM in San Francisco, and has logged countless hours in production studios, tearing out everything from down and dirty :30 spots that need to hit the air yesterday to agency spots to long-form infomercials and even longer-form CD projects. Writing news, spots, promos and interstitials also fits somewhere in his repertoire. And he runs a mean radio board for in studio as well as remote broadcasts.

Outside of radio, Ken wrote for the magazine Global Technology Business.

He also makes a darn good bread pudding.

Greg Douglas - UTN Director of Network Operations

Gregory Douglas has fifteen years of experience in the radio, television and computer- related areas. He was the Director of Network Operations for Personal Achievement Radio, which included responsibilities for the production, operation and distribution of the "PAR" format. As the primary individual in charge of the on-air sound for "PAR", Mr. Douglas interacted with the motivational authors, Nightingale-Conant, ABC Radio Networks, PAR O & O's and affiliates and the broadcast talent. He pioneered the transition to digital for the flagship PAR studios. In addition, Mr. Douglas was M.I.S. Manager for Douglas Broadcasting Inc. where he was responsible for the traffic and business computer functions as well as the computer networking of DBI/PAR radio outlets.

Previously, he was the General Manager of DBI's Seattle operation and Station Manager at WBPS-AM in Boston. Also, Mr. Douglas has been involved in almost all areas of broadcasting, including traffic, business, engineering, production and sales.