Jimmy’s Awesome Stuff

Remember way back to yesterday with Picasa for Mac was released, and I was very happy over it, even though iPhoto ‘08 did an excellent job already. Well.. iPhoto ‘09 was just announced… and it’s GLORIOUS (sounding)

Here are some great things you can look forward to in iPhoto 2009:

• Two more “events” for photo storage
  • Faces
  • Yes, this is facial recognition!
  • It can totally guess people in photos, and then it asks you to confirm its guesses
  • and Facial tagging ripped right off of Facebook
• And the #2 event
  • Wait for it
  • GEOTAGGING – yeah take that Geotag free Picasa for the mac!
  • Apple appears to use google maps to assist you in geotagging your own photos… so I guess google still wins a little here
  • iPhoto geotagging syncs with Flickr’s geotagging
  • and they have added increased facebook support
  • The face detection is used for slideshows, so that faces are centered
• Also, Travel books, I suppose this is just another event group to show off a trip

All in all, good stuff from Macworld 2009!

Stay tuned for more!

Excuses Excuses Excuses: A distraction from Greatness

It seems that some people always have an excuse. “I haven’t had a chance to sleep” “It’s too cold out” “The economy sucks right now” “Life is just too hard” etc… The New York Times is calling this phenomenon “Self Handicapping”. These excuses and beliefs can drag a person down significantly! I know we’re all guilty of this stuff from time to time, and it’s very easy to fall into the excuse trap, but it is just a trap.

• Check out this New York Times Article, or the Lifehacker Article referencing it.
• Also, check out this blog from oranization place on some good examples of excuses to you use you choose to ignore the above advice.