“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.”
Full article here.
But, but, but . . . won’t the brand new “Sound Smith” (or whatever its name is) from MicroSloth make it obsolete?
Once again, Redmond has fired up the copiers!
I just want to know if iWeb has support for multiple iWeb accounts or is it just multiple ftp accounts, one iWeb account, and multiple local directories.
Anyone know the answer?
@myself
The answer may be here:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2009/01/06/macworld-ars-first-impressions-of-the-forgotten-iweb-09
From the article:
“But clicking on a site’s heading reveals publish settings for that particular site, so you can publish two different sites to MobileMe and FTP, or even to two separate MobileMe accounts. This should drastically improve iWeb’s appeal to a broader range of users who need a simple WYSIWYG editor with lots of drag-and-drop integration, but don’t want a MobileMe account and aren’t willing to put up with the hassles of exporting to a folder.”
nope, iweb still isn’t useful to me… when iWeb is useful you’d see MDN the first to use it
I was a big GoLive user before Dreamweaver and Adobe squashed it.
It had pixel precision layout and that is what I want with iWeb…to drag and drop and move it exactly where I want it with the arrow keys. Golive did have a learning curve and was bogware.
Why can’t Apple make iWeb pro version where people can easilyt do more web stuff rather than have to fork out big bucks to learn Dreamweaver to really do anything decent?
iWeb is absolutely invaluable to me and my company.
Someone in Iran wants a PDF, upload to iWeb, password protect, email link, job done.
What more do you need?
You obviously want Homeland Security spying on you.
I know somebody who built their very first website in iWeb just over a year ago to promote her lecture and seminar business. The site is written in a language spoken by only 9 million people, but it gets over a thousand hits a month and she grossed well over $125,000 last year working part time.
Don’t try to tell me that you need something besides iWeb to do anything decent.
@Daner. Is it in Irish?
Garage Band != Pro Tools interface. Really…….it isn’t anything like it.
You need something else besides iWeb to do anything decent.
Sorry — that just screamed to be commented on
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MDN MW- High, As in “You must be high to not take iWeb seriously for atleast the casual user.”
I never use iLife, but the box with iWork, iLife & Leopard it’s a good deal.
I’ll wait for the boxed set with Snow Leopard.
@ ericdano
Look up eschews in a dictionary.
I definitley like the Mac Box set kit. If you don’t have OSX 10.5 yet, the family pack is a great deal.
Meanwhile Microsoft comes out with SongSmith. You guys need to see this video on youtube. lol
What makes anybody think that there will be a boxed set with Snow Leopard?
Does anybody notice that as more and more pundits review iLife 09 and iWork 09, the accolades become more abundant.
And this is for the most part, playing with the application on tied down Macs, reading the literature, or watching the videos, and in the case of iWork, downloading the trial version.
I can’t wait to get the new software and the review that will come with it.
So iLife 09 isn’t available yet? I can see how that might work for hardware, but why announce it if the software isn’t ready for purchase yet?
That’s exactly why Apple have abandoned MacWorld.
$169 for a box set. Sound really good, but how many users that are truly into iLife and iWork, enough to appreciate these new features, don’t already have Leopard? If you have iLife08 or iWork08 don’t you already need Leopard? The box set seems like a smooth move for Apple, but not much else. Now if it were bundled with their font sets, templates or clipart (currently sold separately), that would be interesting. Still the bundled idea involving these suites is encouraging.
@3rdKidney
To run iLife ’08, you need Tiger or later.