Filed under: iLife, Cool tools, Productivity
Keyword Assistant for iPhoto goes Universal
Keyword Assistant is a stellar iPhoto plugin that dramatically simplifies the chore of adding keywords to images. In fact, one could go so far as to say Keyword Assistant brings tagging to iPhoto, but we'll let you judge for yourself. As you can see, it adds a menu item to iPhoto, as well as a simple, smart popup window that allows for comma-separated tags. We call this keyword entry utility 'smart' because it can auto-fill
This can't-iPhoto-without-it plugin just went Universal, and it is still provided as freeware from Ken Ferry's .Mac homepage. KA requires 4.0.3 or 4.0.4 and Mac OS X 10.4.7, and is localized for English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Lewis said 3:27PM on 9-11-2006
Yes, it is finally here!! Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Leo the 3rd said 3:43PM on 9-11-2006
This is great - just installed and tagged a bunch of photos with ease!! Thanks. This should have been in iPhoto from the get-go!
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John said 3:49PM on 9-11-2006
That's awesome. Not a true "controlled vocabulary" but still better than nothing. Does anybody know if there's anything out there like this for iTunes?
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James Huston said 4:52PM on 9-11-2006
I'd say keywords brings tagging to iPhoto, since that's exactly what tags are.
As for iTunes. Use the comments field or the grouping field. I'm sure you could easily make an AppleScript that acts like this for iTunes.
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Jason Brennan said 7:05PM on 9-11-2006
does anyone know if there is someway to do this for tags on an iPhoto Library on a networked machine? Or if iPhotoLibraryManager can "mout" networked iphoto lbs? Cause that would save a boatload of time.
My Mac mini may have all of my photos on it, but it takes years to load. My mbp does not.
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Ingo said 8:35PM on 9-11-2006
This thing is so awesome! Why does it not come built-in to iPhoto???
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Mike said 9:41PM on 9-11-2006
Not alphabetizing keywords has always struck me as one of the most un-apple features in the iLife suite. It has always amazed me that it hasn't been there upgrade after upgrade.
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Ed said 9:29AM on 9-12-2006
Is there a way to see the keywords under the images like that? I can't find it...
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