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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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GNAA president and A/V wizard timecop immediately turned to the opensource commmunity, the first place anyone would look for high-quality, well-supported software. A few Google searches later, he stumbled across the Matroska container format, and it was love at first sight.
"I've alyways supported open standards, and I was really excited once I found them. [Matroska] It's basically another competing media container format, like AVI, an envelope in which there can be many audio, video and subtitles streams, allowing the user to store a complete movie in one single file. This ensures that the audio and video can be played in most media players. As long as they manage to download the libraries and DirectShow filters needed, compile them, and then you're good to go." said timecop. "Of course, you can't demux all the streams in a .mkv, so it's less than worthless, but I mean, this is a
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Upon finding that the sole distribution site for the sources he needed was down, timecop delightedly added "welcome ot openfuckingsource." Upon discovering that the latest version of the source wouldn't work properly under Windows, he congradulated the developers on sticking it to "The Man" [Bill Gates], adding "I assumed people around here had enough sense to give up on dead alternative OS's [Windows] around the time BeOS took a trip down the shitter."
GNAA member godspeed added "ROFL. Matroska is developed by Gay Niggers, how can we, the GNAA, not support it? We've been searching for a container format that has the feature that once you put something into it, you can never ever take it back out except for playback, so Matroska meets our needs perfectly. FRIST POST!!!!1one"
Matroska developers were busy writing a multimedia framework for BeOS and not available for comment.
About Matroska
Matroska aims to become THE Standard of Multimedia Container Formats. It was derived from a project called MCF, but differentiates from it significantly because it is based on GBML (Gay Binary Meta Language), a binary derivative of XML. GBML contains all the useless features of XML in a obscure and overengineered binary format, impossible to parse without obfuscated binary parser libs, and definitely not "human readable". GBML enables the Matroska Development Team to gain significant advantages in terms of future format extensibility without breaking file support in old parsers and allows them to push the limits of the gay video frontier. Some of the notable video codecs which have been used with Matroska include "RealVideo9" and "XVID".
Stated goals include creating and documenting a modern, flexible, cross-platform compatible Audio/Video container format, in combination with an open codec API, to form a free and open media framework, as well as establishing Matroska as the opensource alternative to existing containers such as AVI, ASF, MOV, RM, MP4, and MPG, however due to limited developer time, all current efforts are focused on getting Matroska running under BeOS. "Who needs to use a format everyone can already use, which is well supported by ALL modern OSes? Our opensource shitfest will soon replace the well-established, useful container formats."
About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
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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]
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I admit I'm not trying that hard.
What's that? Sounds like a kind of bet, like a European call option.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
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.
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
girlfriend has a G4 that i like a lot
so... you like the girlfriend, or the G4 ?
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just kidding. no doubt you like the G4.
for a minute there, i lost myself...
Out of all the iapps apple has put out, I really find iphoto to be the worst program apple has came out with, let alone the worst graphics app I have ever used! Wow, I can enlarge, crop and change from color to black and white!
Also what is with the photo duplication? every time you import a photo it makes a new version of it in its own iphoto directory, so if you change something you have to hunt down the new file in the iphoto directory.. So cruddy..
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Tell me again zealots how this sort of news is of interest to the general /. readership and makes the front page yet the last round of security vulnerabilities were strictly on apple.slashdot.org only?
It's just that, when I questioned it, I was told that the vulnerabilities "would not be of any interest" to the general readership, yet somehow a point release iPhoto is?
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.
I find the pictures VERY easy to find when I want to edit them in photoshop. Here is what I do, I have iPhoto open, I open up photoshop go File->Open then I *drag* the photo I want from iPhoto to the Open File dialoge. As far as duplicates go, when importing photos it says something to the effect of "hey! there is a duplicate photo here do you want to re-import it anyway?". Which *should* help solve your duplicates problem when using iPhoto ;-)
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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).
I paid the going retail price for a Windows screen reader and got a free Unix computer!
I am somewhat confused about the commotion about knowing what the file struture is. The reason I use Iphoto is so I don't have to know the file structure. You import you pictures and then by using albums, keywords, ect you can organize. Great stuff.
To use an external editor I right click and choose open in external editor. I can even open multiple pictures by selecting more than one. I make my edits in Photoshop Elements and save them. The data is saved and refresed in iphoto. If I dont like it I can ALWAYS revert back to the original import version (under photos revert to original).
I can backup my library by exporting what I want. So simple.
I get the feeling they may have yanked this update. 8/3/04 9:37PM EST and Software Update does not show the update (I have 4.0.1). Also, the link on the iPhoto support page is bad.
Software update will not recognize the new version nor are any Apple support links working. I tried this at 10:00pm central time.
I wonder why Apple pulled it???
The Apple discussion boards are talking that it's been pulled due to some issues.
If you don't have an iTools login you can still view most everything in the Apple Discussion area.
New version -- 4.0.3 -- added back to Software Update as of Aug 6.