iLife
Upgrade to iLife ’09 and get the most out of the photos, movies, and music on your Mac with the latest versions of iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, and iDVD. Organise and search your photos by faces and places. Make a movie in minutes or edit with precision. Learn to play piano and guitar or record your own music. Create a stunning website and publish it anywhere.
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Overview
iPhoto ’09
Organize and search your photos in new ways.
- Easily find photos of the people in your life using Faces.
- Explore your library based on where you took each photo using Places.
- Instantly create stunning slideshows with animated titles and multiphoto layouts.
- Publish photos directly to Facebook and Flickr™ with a click.
- Create travel-themed photo books complete with custom maps.
iMovie ’09
Create a movie in minutes or edit your masterpiece.
- Fine-tune your movies with the new Precision Editor.
- Use enhanced drag-and-drop to easily edit your projects in just a few clicks.
- Smooth shaky clips with automatic video stabilization.
- Apply themes to an entire project with matching titles and transitions.
- Add eye-catching animated maps to your travel videos with a few clicks.
- Choose animated titles, new transitions, and cinema-quality video effects.
GarageBand ’09
Learn to play. Start a jam session. Record and mix your own songs.
- Learn to play piano or guitar at your own pace, with interactive lessons that combine video instruction with animated notation and instrument views.
- Let leading artists - including Sting, Fall Out Boy, and Colbie Caillat - teach you how to play their hit songs, then practice along with the band.²
- Play and record with new guitar amps and stompbox effects.
- Jam with virtual instruments in Magic GarageBand using a new full-screen view that lets you mix, play along, and record.
iWeb ’09
Design, publish, and update your own websites - no HTML required.
- Easily add YouTube videos, RSS feeds, iSight videos, and other dynamic content to your web pages.
- Link your iWeb site to your Facebook account and automatically notify friends when you update your site.
- Use built-in FTP publishing with virtually any web-hosting service.
- Easily manage multiple websites and publish one site at a time using MobileMe or FTP.
iDVD
Turn your home movies and slideshows into gorgeous Hollywood-style DVDs.
- Get started quickly with Apple-designed themes featuring animated menus.
- Author customized DVDs with a range of options for customizing menu screens.
- Combine video and photos for stunning, high-quality slideshows.
Most Useful Reviews
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Some great new features but iweb fails
Written by RK from Penrith
Feb 4, 2009
iphoto 09- The big hitter is faces which is great fun. A superb idea which works very well occasionally producing some funny results. An excellent upgrade.
imovie 09- Works just like imovie 08 but contains all the features that you wished you had in 08 but were missing. Speed up, slow down, reverse, more transitions and fancy text. I've easily jazzed up a few of my old movies and I'm looking forward to trying the green screen. Another excellent upgrade.
iweb09- Beware iweb 08 users. After installing iweb 09 my much loved and worked on 08 web site went caput. Something which I have not been able to recover from yet. All comments were lost, archives wont work, movies wont upload. If you have an iweb 08 site which is up and running smoothly in my experience, avoid iweb 09 until glitches have been fixed or avoid installing this part of the prog. If you are planning on starting a new site from scratch it may be OK. A huge regret that I upgraded iweb and the reason for the low star count.
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Very impressive, indeed exciting
Written by PK from Ashtead
Feb 5, 2009
iLife '08's major advance was the very nice Final Cut-like editing capability in iMovie. For me, the most impressive enhancements for iLife '09 are with iPhoto. The face recognition feature proved to be a very effective way of grouping images, and is a step on a very exciting journey from searching databases with tags or keywords, to image-based search of multi-media databases. It worked very well for me, with only a small amount of training needed to pull out all the photos of a given person in my library.
The Places feature also works well. The only problem here is that I will need to add in locations for most of the photos I already have. I probably wont have the time to do that, but all new images are going in with locations.
One warning - you will need one of the more up to date machines to benefit, as iMovie especially is very demanding of processing power and memory. …More172 of 193 people found this useful
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It just gets better and better
Written by PC from Northampton
Feb 5, 2009
If you were happy with 08 then 09 will continue to please !! Faces and Places are just amazing. Faces has become a family spectacle. Even visitors are amazed at the facial recognition technology and the speed of the product.
Well done Apple. …More172 of 197 people found this useful
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Most Recent Reviews
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Faultless.
Written by CS from Newton Aycliffe
Aug 26, 2009
Having had my iMac since January this year, I did have some fear that moving from a Windows based PC would be problematic. This has not been the case.
iLife '09 has been simple to pick up so much so, I could never imagine getting a Windows based PC again.
The iPhoto and iMovie applications are worth the upgrade money alone! …More35 of 42 people found this useful
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Comming from PC to iMac
Written by KC from Glumsø
Apr 22, 2009
What an experience to just buy a computer (20" iMac) to a fair price and find that it has what it takes to do what we want for private use right out of the box.
The pro-applications I use for work on a PC mostly run on the Mac as well so I haven't looked at problems this far. …More65 of 83 people found this useful
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Great product
Written by AR from London
Apr 15, 2009
I've just upgraded on a G5 1.9Ghz with 512Mb RAM and it works OK... but I have also just ordered a RAM upgrade in order to speed it up.
would definitely recommend. …More62 of 83 people found this useful
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