Mac 101: Keywords in iPhoto

I have always thought it was unfortunate [and somewhat short-sighted] that iPhoto couldn't embed keywords in IPTC or XMP metadata. Additionally, it would be so awesome if we could then search for those tags on our iPhone too. Having to manually find a single picture among thousands is kind of painful.

Sorry, here is the link: http://nedward.org/2007/12/11/two-essential-iphoto-plugins

@Kerry, I can’t recommend Bullstorm’s Keyword Manager enough – it fills a big hole in iPhoto’s functionality. More here »

It's neat to combine keywords with the smart albums.

For example, I have keywords "Link", "Kagome", and "Knox", for my cats. I also created a smart album called "Kittens" that pulls photos with those three keywords. I never have to manually keep up with updating my kitten album.

iPhoto/Aperture keywords exported as IPTC are found by Spotlight. That is, when the files are not in the iPhoto Library.

Is there a way to batch key word pics in the same event?

I use Keyword Manager (from Bullstorm) for iPhoto and find the add-in to be excellent. Events and keywords in iPhoto8 was a step in the right direction but Keyword Manager near perfection (if only it could also update IPTC data it would be perfect).

What I really want is something to sync spotlight comments to iPhoto or Aperture keywords and viceversa. With Apple's push for spotlight, it's amazing to me this isn't supported natively.

Gotta love the shout out to Scranton! It's even complete with pictures of the tree house in Nay Aug Park! Rock on tuaw, show your Scranton roots.

When I tag keywords using iPhoto or even Aperture, looking for those keywords using the Media Browser doesn't find them. It only finds pictures I've keyworded and embedded in the jpg a long time ago using other programs.

I think iPhoto and Aperture keep the keywords in their own internal database, and don't embed them directly in the picture files.

Or is there a way to tell iPhoto and Aperture to embed the keywords in the master files?