Apple: iLife 08 is available
Apple iLife is from now on available, read our first impressions and find out what kind of software you can find inside this great Apple package.
Aug 11, 2007 12:56 PM
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The conference of yesterday evening made it possible Steve Jobs to reveal two new very awaited versions of its software continuations for the numerical life at the house and office automation. Let us start with iLife 08.
Apple started by harmonizing the whole of the interface towards a look cavity closer to than one will find out of standard in Leopard in October. One finds as usual iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb and iDVD.
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Automatically organize your library by events |
iPhoto has from now on a management of the events, the addition of a photograph in the photographic library being for example one of these events. One will also note new tools of edition, a unified research equipped with filters, new calendars and books, and the expert of course towards an account.
Small additional explanation on the events: it is about a new wanting to be process of organization nearer to the user. When one imports photographs in iPhoto, one can declare that the series comes from a single event. In addition, iPhoto is able to gather photographs seeming to be attached to the same event.
iMovie also benefits him from this management of the events. According to Apple, the principal innovation of the new vintage of its software of video edition is the almost complete rewriting of this one. In fact, the performances are announced like higher and this, with all the stages of the use, which one speaks about importation of video, treatment, recording or final improvement. iMovie 2008 has a function of export enabling him to create vidéos with the format of the iPod, iPhone, of Apple TV or bound for YouTube.
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iMovie has been completely redesigned |
GarageBand, the software of musical creation of the continuation, makes it possible from now on to create new projects based on a particular style. The new version simplifies the recording of the same passage under several versions (in order to select the best), adds the possibility of defining several points of edition so that effects and corrections are carried out in an automatic way, and makes it possible to define zones in a music (intro, verse, refrain, etc) for a simpler assembly. Lastly, the software manages the sound on 24 bits and adds a graphic equalizer.
iWeb integrates the Web widgets for its part, which adds in fact the possibility of depositing on its pages contents topicality coming from one or several sites, which can include for example a zone of publication or a video. The software manages inter alia the integration of Google Maps and Google Ads, the management of the photographs by albums, each one being able to contain 500 photographs, and the possibility of quickly changing the whole of the topic of the site.
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Show off all your photos in all new ways |
iDVD is, as its name indicates it, an application conceived to create DVD, than one speaks about films or photographs. The new version adds ten new topics animated for the reading of the DVD on platinum’s of living room for example. The performances of the software were improved; the interface slightly altered and of the tools was improved or added. For example, the tools of edition and creation of the interface were re-examined and others dedicated to the diaporamas of photographs made their appearance. Lastly, the options of compression were also packed. iLife 08 is available as of now to the tariff of 70 dollars. Introducing iLife ’08. The official home of your life’s events. Just $79. Free Shipping.
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