iLife '06
iPhoto:- Paid a lot of attention to performance -- Steve says it is much faster.
- Up to 250,000 photos
- full screen editing (looks very nice). Can do compares, editing tools hide/show
- One-click effects (like Photo Booth)
- New cards, calendars, and dramatically better books (higher quality printing). Can make own calendars. And cards (including postcards).
- Photocasting - podcasting for photos. !??!?! Publish/subscribe for photo albums over the Internet? Done through .Mac -- when you photocast an album, it will automatically be uploaded to .Mac in the background. Any changes will automatically be sync'd to .Mac. When you subscribe to photocast, you get a special album in your source list. This source is automatically updated. "Just like magic". Looks pretty cool, but only for all-Mac people. whoa! They use RSS to subscribe -- it is the industry standard. So you only need mac + iPhoto + .Mac to publish, but anyone can subscribe.
- Steve is doing the demo now -- it looks nice and snappy, on what appears to be a 20" iMac.
- iPhoto 6 looks a lot like the new iTunes -- no borders on sides, brushed metal borders on top/bottom.
- Calendar facility has integration with iCal -- so you can make a calendar that already has your events on it.
- Adding animated themes - themes with a designated area to drop photos or movies. Looks like distilled version of motion?
- more than one open project at once
- export to iPod with one command
- create video podcasts
- Widescreen menus (for widescreen TVs)
- magic iDVD - for doing it fast, when you don't have time to play with it. Can pick a theme, and drop in movies, photos, or whole photo albums, create project, burn DVD. Looks pretty good.
- Vastly improved slideshows
- enhanced map view
- support 3rd party burners
- added podcast studio - best tool in world to create podcasts
- royalty free sound effects and jingles
- automatic ducking - soundtrack lowers when you talk, and volume comes back up when you stop
- speech enhancer to fix sound quality of on-computer mic
- can grab iChat audio sessions, for interviews conducted over iChat, to automatically become a podcast (hot).
- new Jam Pack - World Music
- for sharing music, podcasts, blogs, movies, photos with people over the Internet, by making a web page
- super-easy to use, lets you build beautiful websites
- Apple-designed templates
- access to all iLife media
- photo albums
- blogs and podcasts
- one-click publishing to .Mac
- Photo viewer has some AJAX technology (works in IE, Safari, and Firefox). The AJAX UI is sick. It looks really amazing.
- Automatically-generate RSS for blogs and podcasts
- Looks kindof like Pages, but for the web
- Drop an iTunes playlist in there, and it will automatically make links to all of the songs on iTMS.
So, how much does it cost? Same price: $79. Available today! $99 family pack. Free on all new macs.
-Andy.