Windows Live Photo Gallery (beta)
The nastiest part of the whole Windows Live Wave 4 Beta experience so far has been concentrated on the installer - though not all Microsoft’s fault, I did have some dodgy settings in my Internet Options.
Today, I flicked open the new Windows Live Photo Gallery, and this is a really nice application.
THE GOOD
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Automatically detected iPhone and offer to import pictures

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Import offers to just grab everything, or group (and mass-tag) pictures based on the time they were taken. Aka “afternoon trip”, “evening dinner @ rocks”

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Default view sorted pictures by Month
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Automatically detected the picture orientation and rotated them around. Unlike… a certain other company’s software. /blog/2010/4/15/apple-iphone-drivers-are-pos.html


Long Zheng has a much better comparison -
Mass tagging, mass image adjustments
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Mass upload to Skydrive, Flickr or Facebook
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Extensible (this will make it even more awesome)
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