Category: iLife

Take Control Ebooks is having a sale on my friend Jeff Tolbert’s ebooks about GarageBand through the end of July. Buy both Take Control of Recording with GarageBand and Take Control of Making Music with GarageBand and take 30% off your entire order. I edited the Recording title, and think it’s a rock-solid book covering ...

I’m still downloading the following updates, so I haven’t had a chance to test them out. But they look promising. iPhoto 5.0.2 (a 5.5 MB download) gains stability and improved performance, especially on PowerPC G3-based Macs. It also allows resizeable thumbnails in book layout mode and improves slideshow performance. iMovie HD 5.0.2 (a 2.7 MB ...

[Update 14-Apr-05: <a href="iMovie HD 5.0.2 makes this post moot, as it adds the DRM restriction noted below to iMovie HD.] Via BoingBoing, I see that someone at MacFixIt is bitching that Apple’s iTunes DRM (digital rights management) is, well, ruining his life. Or something. “When you purchase a song from the iTunes Music Store ...

Jeff Tolbert’s two ebooks about GarageBand have been updated for GarageBand 2.0. I think we’re the first ones to release GB2 books, which is exciting! Check them out: Take Control of Making Music with GarageBand 2.0 Take Control of Recording with GarageBand 2.0 Want to record music with GarageBand 2.0? This ebook explains how to ...

My Macworld reviews of iMovie HD and iDVD 5 are now available on the Web.

The last of my iLife ’05 First Looks is now online: First Look: iPhoto 5. Yes, the middle picture is a photo looking down into a coffee cup. I was running out of time and needed to import some new pictures, fast!

Apple today released iMovie HD 5.0.1 as a 2.4 MB download via Software Update. The update fixes unspecified audio and video synchronization issues. According to Apple, you should apply the patch if your iMovie HD projects include “DV Widescreen assets [16:9 footage], titles, transitions, or video effects” …which entails pretty much any iMovie project. Update: ...

My second iLife ’05 First Look article, on iMovie HD, is now up at MacCentral.com: First Look: iMovie HD. Here’s the kicker: The addition of HD import and editing is a very cool thing, if you’re wealthy enough to afford an HD camera or if you’re looking to the future (HD prices are bound to ...

I’m writing a series of First Look articles about iLife ’05 for MacCentral.com, the first of which went online today. Check it out: MacCentral: First Look: GarageBand 2. (Big thanks to my colleague Jeff Tolbert, who’s more adept at GarageBand than I am.)

I’m back from Macworld Expo, my head swimming from the announcements at the show and the work I now have coming up. As we wait for iLife ’05 to be released on January 22, I wanted to jot down some notes on what’s new in iMovie HD and iDVD 5 that are worth mentioning. iMovie ...