For those that haven’t upgraded to iLife ’09 yet, here’s one of the reasons you might consider it. Places is a new feature that geo-tags your pictures with longitude/latitude coordinates and plots the points on a map. If you have a 3G iPhone, the built-in GPS function automatically does this. Also any GPS enabled digital camera will work. If either of those aren’t available, you can drop a pin on the map, type a name of a place, or enter an address to geo-tag the image.
Click on a map point to see all pictures taken at that location. You can create a Smart Album based on a location as well. Pretty neat. Now I just need to travel more and fill up that map.
[ iLife '09 ]
I played guitar in my early teens, and not realizing it was probably a bad idea to stop, I did. Now, 15 years later, I’m picking up the guitar again. The internet back then didn’t have all the great info it has now, so I had to purchase chord books and sheet music to learn chords and play my favorite songs (lots of Metallica & Pearl Jam at the time). Now, every song you ever wanted to learn is out there for free, and there’s a cool little app called GuitarToolkit for your iPhone and iPod Touch for $10.
It has a built-in tuner (worth the price of admission alone), a chord finder for every chord you can think of (or not think of), a metronome and a nifty scales section. It supports 6 and 12 string guitar, as well as 4 and 5 string bass. There’s a left handed mode for those that need it.
I’ve found myself spending hours learning chords and scales. I shoot for one new chord a day, this way I’ll build back my knowledge level slowly. I haven’t had any issues with the app so far, and if you’re trying to brush up on your skills, it’s a great investment.
[ GuitarToolkit ]
