Exploring Iphoto '09

One of the greatest resources that we area afforded being apart of the Winona State University laptop program is the wide array of software we're able to access. I've particularly been impressed with the fact that Tech Support decided to add the latest version of Apple's Ilife suite.

The new elements in Iphoto '09 are well worked into this little program. I'd like to show you the three newest tools you can use to organize you're photo library.

One of the first new features its a little something called "Faces". This little piece of software automatically tries to recognize facial feature and complies these results into personalized albums of just this specific person! It can be fun to play around with "Faces" to see which of your friends Apple thinks resembles one another.

 If you haven't heard this before, its not hard to see why this could become a standard in the future. The technology behind virtual image searches is just starting to take off. Soon we'll be able to search for the image on a snake for example instead of having to type it in. 

The way faces works as you can see above gives you the ability to view just that certain friend and every photo that they are in. I think its sort of a neat way to organize your friends verus having albums of randomness. 

 You can see here how it's a pretty simple step to adding someone and if there is a photo that isn't being recognized you can manually add them yourself. You simple couple click and say that, "Yes this is the person in the photo and the program continues to search through its records creating new results searching for my friend Jennifer. 

It's pretty simple and as I said before can be really funny to see who you do, or don't match up with. 

Another new feature that has been added in Iphoto'09 is the ability to tag and organize your photos by location. What happens is a google maps hybrid shows up and you can type in places by keywords. If this doesn't get the job done you may also drag and drop a little red pin to mark with even greater detail where you've been on your travels. 

This is a new introdution which in future years, no doubt will begin to really take off. This is due to increased production of GPS enabled portable point and shoot cameras which are starting to become a standard. Eventually every picture you take will have the exact meta data it needs to help you never forget were you've been. 

On the right side this is a picture of Machu Picchu, outside of Cuzco, Peru. This example helps to highlight the views and custom modifications that you can employee you to enjoy your photos more all while becoming more tech savvy with what is available on campus.

A little intro

My name is Brent Dornfeld and I’ve been attending WSU for 5 years now, majoring in Spanish and Broadcasting. This summer I took an opportunity and studied abroad in South America for two months. We traveled through four countries and one of the highlights of my trip was traveling through Machu Picchu in June.

In school I’ve started another semester of the Broadcasting major and am taking the last two courses required for my Spanish major. I’m really excited that WSU has upgraded their video equipment and studio this year. Social media has been a phenomenon I’ve been caught up for a while in the web. I used to sell things on Ebay when I was in middle school from things I downloaded from Napster. I think its pretty cool to say that I was using Napster right when it came out and can also remember the first I got a letter from the RIAA in the mail asking questions about Million Dollar Baby… must have been a mix up haha…


Other than that I’m excited to see how the year shapes up, a lot of things have changed in my life within the last few months. Hopefully this blog can be a tool to highlight what I do in my daily life and what I’m passionate about. There are tons of things I do on the daily basis that I’d be thrilled if someone else was interested in.

Technology on campus.

I'd like to incorporate this blog to reflect on the technology we use everyday around campus. I'd also like to make this an opportunity to weigh in with some of my personal picks. Included in this would be types of things I use on a daily basis to get me through the day.

I've been thinking about writing some sort of Ipod App's reviews.

I follow the Mac world pretty religiously and would maybe like to see what I can do there.  

The first etchings

This is the first post of my newly created blog and I hope there are many more to follow as the semester continues. I'm not exactly sure what I'll be gearing this blog towards, although something to do with technology is for sure to come.

I'd really like to share one of my favorite songs, I've spent more time with this album in the past week than I'd care to admit...  not bad in 7 days right?

Anyways check out this music video if you happen to have some free time I think its gorgeous. 

Just jack- The Day I died

 Another place to check out additional thoughts and happening in my life can be found here at...

My twitter page!

For now this is all its a rather gloomy friday afternoon and my classes are finished for the day and I don't have to work. 

Until later, Chau!