Map This!

Ok, now I'm getting a little geeky. But I could not resist sharing this with a group of travelers. If you don't have a Mac, go out and get one! The new iLife '09 just came out and its upgrade of iPhoto is going to knock your socks off. ( iPhoto, for you PC users is Apple's software that catalogs and manages your photos after you download them from your camera.) In this new release there are 3 big features that I like: Faces, Places and Travel Maps. Faces is simply face recognition so you can tag and then find all your pictures of a specific person in your library of photographs and place them into one 'album'. Every future photograph of that person will also be placed in that album. Some random person in the shot? Hit the 'facebook' button and it searches all of facebook for that person - scary! Next, Places. Places works with a gps-enabled camera (like the iPhone) and will mark the location and time of the pictures you take, and places a red dot on a google map. You can click the red dot and see what pictures you took in that location. cool. So just think of all the dots you would have on just one long NOB trip. And finally Travel Maps. It creates a nice book of your travels with maps and pictures integrated. Ok.... if that doesn't excite a group of high-tech motorcycle riders ...not sure you have a pulse! Check out the website for more details on this release, http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto.