Alexander's

Or: Why I just know that Aperture was programmed by a man

The new version of Aperture -- my photo organizing software -- is out for some time now and it brought a slew of new features such as facial recognition or geo-tagging.[^1]

The first time you start up the face recognition it takes ages to scan through all the photos, but after more than 10 hours all my faces on the photos were found and I just had to give them names.

The result was amazing and well worth the wait! Not only did it catch (most) of the persons in the photos, no it also managed to identify the important features and only highlight them.

This effect can be seen in the photo above.[^2] Give me the face of the girl on the left and I probably have a hard time remembering her name, but from the shot of the breast -- of course I know her!

Just to clarify the full photo actually contains the face of the girl as well, but Aperture thinks the most important part to recognize her are the breasts and therefore only highlights them.

This is why I love Apple products. They are not only innovative, no they go the extra mile to please the customers.[^3]

[^1]: Geo-tagging let's you assign a photo to the place where it was taken -- very nice for holiday snapshots in a foreign country [^2]: "Ohne Namen" just means "not named yet" [^3]: I have a MacBookPro and an iPhone and I hate their closed source approach, but sadly there is no Aperture for Linux. Otherwise I'd have switched back long ago.