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iPhoto 2. (Get an i-Life).

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iPhoto 2 may turn out to be the most welcome of the iLife upgrades, since iPhoto 1.1--though it was functional--had frustratingly poor performance, no proper integration with the other i-apps, and clumsy keyword features. Although iPhoto 2 has some stability problems, many of the flaws in iPhoto 1 have been fixed, and a few new features make version 2 a must-have for current iPhoto users.

Better, Faster Organization

The most visible change to iPhoto is the new Keywords window, which makes this version's interface much easier to use. It also allowed Apple to move the sharing tools into the Organize tab and eliminate the Share tab entirely. But we would have liked a programwide search tool similar to the one in iTunes.

Also new is a Trash album that holds snapshots deleted from your Photo Library. You can restore mistakenly trashed photos by dragging them back to the Photo Library album or by choosing Restore To Photo Library. An Empty Trash command deletes photos for good.

iPhoto retains its chronological approach to storing photos in the iPhoto Library folder in your Pictures folder. Although you can now select multiple albums at once, there's still no way to have hierarchical albums in which you could, for instance, keep all your vacation photo albums together. But iPhoto 2's new archiving capabilities for backing up photos to CDs or DVDs should help you organize your permanent collection and minimize the worry that photos controlled by iPhoto could become inaccessible. (Users hoping that iPhoto 2 would...

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