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Steve Jobs demo the new iLife software pack on his keynote at MacWorld. There is also a new software added in the iLife package, iWeb, making it easy to create beautiful website. Can wait to get my hand on that.

There was also a demo of iPhoto new feature, PhotoCasting. Its like Podcast but for photos, thats what I heard and saw from Steve Jobs’ keynote. You can create a special album with in iPhoto and put your photos on it. You photo then will be publish over to your .Mac account together with RSS feeds. Other people then, like your friends and family can subscribe to it and automatically there will be a special album in their iPhoto containing your uploaded photos. Any photo you add or remove from your photocasting album will be there on you friends or family’s iPhoto special album. It’s a really easy way to share photos. If your friends is not on a Mac, no problem, they could use any RSS reader and subscribe to your photo feeds.

That is what I understand how it works base on the keynote. I’ll sure try this out once I got my hands on iLife 06.

The first thing that this reminds me of is Flickr. Sharing photo is what Flickr do best. You have RSS feeds of your photo so other people could subscribe to it. There is also Photocastr, an Automator workflow that get photos from Flickr and put it right on your iPod.

You need to pay for a .Mac account and also Flickr pro account, but I think a free Flickr account is sufficient if you are not a heavy user. But then again Flickr has more of a community feel on it.

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