Apple’s elves have been busy in the handful of days before Christmas, with updates to both iPhoto and the iPhone Configuration Utility landing this week.
AppleInsider is reporting that Apple released a minor update to iPhoto ’11 this week in the form of a 9.1.1 update, adding new e-mail options as well as improving overall stability and other minor issues.
The most substantial aspect of iPhoto 9.1.1 is with e-mail sharing. While previous versions allowed you to send your pictures to the e-mail program of your choice, iPhoto ’11 essentially forces users to create HTML-formatted e-mails from within the application itself. While many users didn’t mind the change, some complained that they’d rather send them from Apple Mail or another e-mail program, and now Apple has added a preference to do just that.
For those of you sticking to creating e-mails within iPhoto ’11, the new update brings two new themes, Classic and Journal. Photos attached to an e-mail can also be resized to Small, Medium or Large as needed.
Among the bug fixes in iPhoto 9.1.1, reliability is improved when upgrading a library from an earlier version as well as correctly preserving the sort order of Events after an upgrade and Event title displayed in headers can now be edited in Photos view. Other squashed bugs include possible duplicate photos when sharing to a MobileMe album, sort by rating display issues and more. iPhoto 9.1.1 is available now via Software Update.
Apple also released iPhone Configuration Utility 3.2 this week, which is aimed at the company’s corporate users. The application allows companies to “create, maintain, encrypt and install configuration profiles, track and install provisioning profiles and authorized applications, and capture device information, including console logs.”
Apple maintains a section on its website for integrating iOS devices into an enterprise, including information on the latest update to iPhone Configuration Utility.
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