“The new Faces and Places features in iPhoto ’09 are sure to be of interest to photography buffs, offering face detection, facial recognition, and geotagging for GPS-enabled cameras across Google-powered map and satellite views,” Lendino reports.
“Over the past several years, GarageBand has made it easier for musicians to create multitrack compositions without a four-year degree in audio engineering. But GarageBand ’09 takes it a step further with its Learn to Play feature, which employs prominent musicians like John Fogerty, Sarah McLaughlin, and Sting as instructors, in addition to a series of nine basic guitar and nine basic piano lessons,” Lendino reports. “The basic guitar and piano lessons are included with the app, while the artist lessons costs $4.99 each.”
“While GarageBand eschews the typical Pro Tools look for a friendlier design, iMovie ’09 more closely resembles a pro-level video editing app. For example, passing the mouse cursor over any video clip in the new Precision Editor automatically advances the preview window to the right spot. You can also skim the edges of clips to resize them with the mouse, and then pick up and move over to the main movie in a second motion. I found it easy to drop in new clips with a simple click-and-drag,” Lendino reports.
iWeb ’09 “has also received a few key updates, including the ability to FTP from any server (finally!), support for multiple Web sites, and a number of new templates and dynamic widgets for RSS feeds, YouTube videos, iSight photos, and others,” Lendino reports.
Lendino reports, “The iLife ’09 suite is slated for release in late January; it will be free on new Macs, $79 for an individual upgrade license, and $99 for a Family Pack of five licenses. Since iLife ’09 requires Leopard to run, Apple has announced the new Mac Box Set. For $169, it will include copies of iLife ’09, iWork ’09, and a full version of OS X 10.5 – that’s only $40 more than the cost of Leopard by itself.”
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