Apple Announces iLife '06

[Kent Pribbernow]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.apple.com/ilife/' target='_blank'>http://www.apple.com/ilife/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Apple® today announced iLife® '06, the most significant upgrade to Apple’s award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications ever. iLife '06 features iPhoto® 6 with blazing performance, new printed books, calendars and cards, and Apple’s innovative new Photocasting™ for sharing photos over the Internet; iMovie® HD 6 with new motion themes for adding spectacular production value to your movies; iDVD® 6 for authoring custom DVDs for today’s widescreen TVs; and GarageBand™ 3, now the complete solution for creating professional-quality Podcasts. iLife '06 also introduces iWeb™, a new iLife application that makes it super-easy to create amazing websites with photos, blogs and Podcasts and publish them on .Mac for viewing by anyone on the Internet with just a single click. “This is the most exciting iLife upgrade ever,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Apple pioneered applications to serve our emerging digital lifestyle and then consolidated them into the iLife suite. With this major upgrade to iLife, we’re leaping even further ahead of anything available for the PC.” "</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/productshot_il06_125_060110.jpg" /><br /><br />A new app joins the iLife suite; iWeb. This software is a major addition that ties the iLife suite into Apple's online consumer services called .Mac, enabling users to create blogs, publish photos, calendars, share audio, and everything in between. iPhoto also gets a major tuneup with new photo editing capabilities and improved book publishing. New tools (which integrate with iWeb and .Mac) allow Mac users to publish and share photo libraries on password protected online galleries. Cool stuff.<br /><br />But the biggest change comes in GarageBand which has now morphed into a full end-to-end Podcasting studio. With GarageBand you can record, edit, and publish your own podcasts. Apple has even included a number of royalty-free sound effects and jingles to create professional quality productions. Very clever. <br /><br />iLife '06 is available through the Apple online store for $79. *Note of warning. For some reason the iLife website crashes my browser. Be forewarned*

[Jason Dunn]

Augh! It crashes Firefox 1.5 as well - likely the embedded Quicktime video. Quicktime is SUCH crap when it's embedded in browsers, no end of problems...

[Kent Pribbernow]

Yes, it's definitely an issue related to QT. Why couldn't Apple just use Flash like any other product info website? Oh, that's right. They want to promote their own product. Well here's a little tip for you Apple; crashing browsers isn't going to impress creative professionals. Run away, children. Run far away from Quicktime. :wink:

[Mr. MacinTiger]

8) Already got my order in for iLife '06 - man oh man...It looks plenty sweet. Well worth the $$$ (I get the educational discount so it is only $60!) OH YES

Warning: I am not in an objective kind of mood right now. The Jobs Reality Distortion Field is in full effect. 8O

[ojlittle]

The iLife site works just fine for me. I'm using FireFox 1.5. Quicktime works at intended in this case.

[Jason Eaton]

No problem loading the page, though I will end up passing on the upgrade... just get it through a new computer upgrade instead later on.

[klinux]

Hmm, worked for me too using FF 1.5 on Windows. Maybe because I am using ffdshow?

[Darius Wey]

Warning: I am not in an objective kind of mood right now. The Jobs Reality Distortion Field is in full effect. 8O

Of course. There's no reason to be objective. You're not using a "dull little box, dutifully performing dull little tasks." (http://www.apple.com/intel/ads/) ;)