Apple Updates iPhoto

hrbrmstr writes "Apple released an update to iPhoto, bringing it up to version 4.0.2. From the horse's mouth: 'iPhoto 4.0.2 addresses minor issues with Smart Albums and European books, and provides notification when new versions of iPhoto are available.' Get it from Software Update or from Apple support."

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An Apple update, hmm.

[Anonymous Coward]

What kind of DRM did they add?

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i understand news for nerds, stuff that matters...

[humuhumunukunukuapu']

but does a 4.0.x update to iPhoto deserve to be on the front page? I mean, it doesn't even seem like there were any major changes. [Disclaimer: I'm an Apple fan...use iTunes when I am in windows [although i -still- cannot get Rhythmbox to accept .m4a files in the linux world! aaargh!], use an ipod , girlfriend has a G4 that i like a lot]

This?

[Onan]

I'm an enthusiastic mac user. I read most of the stories in the apple.slashdot.org section.

I hate people who put up posts saying, "This isn't news! I'm a nerd and this doesn't matter to me! I want a refund!"

I usually find stories about updates to, say, the OS and major applications to be useful. It provides a forum for people to compare notes about the new version.

And yet, despite all this... Did this really merit an article? I'd think that if there's anyone in the world who'd be interested in this it'd be me, and I'm just not. I really don't think that every update, however minor, to every application, however minor, needs to have a piece here.

What the %&^$*?

[tm2b]

What's New in iPhoto 4.0.2
iPhoto 4.0.2 addresses minor issues with Smart Albums and European books, and provides notification when new versions of iPhoto are available.

Why in the hell do we need applications to check for new versions? We have Software Update for that, and it does a fine job! Come on Apple, you're smarter than this!

Re:Out of all the iapps

[Steve Cowan]

iPhoto isn't so much a photo manipulation tool as a way to store and organize your pictures. The iPhoto directory is in ~/Pictures. There is a command in iPhoto to reveal the pic you're looking at in the Finder, so that you can edit in Photoshop or other full-featured editor.

The default behaviour of iTunes is the same: double-click a music file, and iTunes will launch and copy the file into ~/Music/iTunes. I used to fight this, and now I kinda like it, because it automatically puts my music files into folders, by artist. The tough part was wrapping my head around the fact that once I have played my music in iTunes, I can trash the original file because iTunes now "owns" its own copy.

IMHO the rationale behind this is that tools like iTunes and iPhoto are better ways to organize media by its specific metadata than the all-purpose Finder can provide. The Finder is not geared to show us song lengths, or to create playlists, photo albumbs or music CDs.

I like Iphoto

[eadint]

But when you start to deal with allot of 6.3 MP photos it starts to get slow. that is one thing that ive noticed. i hope that this update might help that a little. it would be better to see posts like this update fixed this but didnt fix that instead of why is this post here.

Another paid upgrade

[beetle496]

I bought iLife at the beginning of last year, as I really wanted iDVD. At the time, iLife included iTunes 3, iPhoto 2, iMovie 3, and iDVD 3. I missed the free upgrade by a matter of weeks. Since then, I paid for the upgrade to Panther, and renewed my .mac account. With the exception of iTunes, all that software is now obsolete. I would like to have the current versions, but there is no upgrade path. I am not interested in Garage Band, so it just doesn't seem worth the money with everything else I paid Apple this past year. There is no upgrade path to the current versions, short of buying a new copy (at full price) of iLife '04. This is very frustrating to me. At the time, I understood having to pay for iLife just to get iDVD, as there are licensed codecs that cost Apple money (I already owned the rest). I can understand charging for Garage Band (it's new). iTunes is free. I paid for Jaguar and Panther without any regret. I know I am whining, but I really wish Apple was more generous with their upgrade paths for their consumer products. Really I am a MacFanBoi, but this is the second worse thing Apple has done in recent years (the first was charging for .mac -- after heavily advertising it a free feature of OS X).