There were lots of new things introduce this year at macworld
This neat device is about the size of a stick of doublemint gum. It only holds 512 megs, or 1 gig, but that will still be about 10 CD's worth or 20 CD's worth of music! Note that you can only have 1 playlist, or play songs in a random order, hence the "shuffle". But there are no moving parts, so it should take a bit more abuse than the older hard disk Ipods.
The new Ilife updates many of the programs with new features
Iwork will eventually replace Appleworks as it's main bundled software, but for now it has keynote and a word processor.
Robert demonstrated operating Iphoto.
Iphoto has 4 working "modes" : Import Organize Edit Book
When you first plug your camera in, it will automatically run Iphoto, and switch to import.
The important thing is to decide wheter to delete the camera's photos after the Import. Note that if your leave them on the Camera Iphoto will prompt you where to download the pictures a second time or to just download the new one the next time your import your photos.
This is the browsing mode of Iphoto. It lets your look at the pictures in different ways. I find it most helpfull to go to the view menu and click "film rolls". This groups the pictuers by when you downloaded them to your computer, and lets you "close" the rolls which greatly speeds up Iphoto if only the one or two rolls your interested in are open. One more way to speed up Iphoto in this view is to make the Thumbnails really Small
This will let you remove red eye or crop the photo. It is rumored that Iphoto5 will greatly expand your tools
You can make books that apple will print and send to you in the mail.
The folder that images are stored in iphoto is located at:
Home>Pictures>Iphoto Library>Year picture was taken>Month>Day
If you would like to edit your photos in your favorite editor like Photoshop, just go to Preferences, and Select Application... Pick your favorite editor and then when you right click or Control click on a picture, it will let you 'edit in external editor' . Iphoto will then fire up your editor and open the photo. When you are done, just save the picture and it will save the photo back in the library.
Note that if you want to do a lot of little edits this way, your picture will lose quality each time you save (in JPG format). It is better to use TIFF or PNG, because those two formats do not lose quality when you save multiple times.