Apple release iLife ’ 06 at Macworld Expo on Tuesday . The package includes major update to iPhoto , iMovie , iDVD , GarageBand , as well as a major addition to the iLife package dubbed iWeb .
“ This is the most exciting iLife advance ever , ” Apple CEO Steve Jobs told the audience during his keynote .
iWeb is a Web - publishing covering designed to to easily make professional - look WWW pages populated with online picture album , blogs and Podcasts . iWeb users can contrive and issue these Web Sir Frederick Handley Page without having to roll in the hay HTML . An integrated iLife media web internet browser ply direct access to content make do by other iLife applications programme .
iWeb support one - penetrate publication to .Mac business relationship , and sport a variety of work up - in template plan by Apple as well as living for RSS provender . A theme - found motif lets users make a uniform internet site and update it without break the site in the cognitive process . A new slideshow viewer practice theAJAXtechnology , reach slideshows viewable on any computer running a mod web web browser .
iPhoto 6 features system execution sweetening as well as several novel features . The novel maximum limit for the numeral of photos in a user ’s subroutine library has been upped to 250,000 . Apple also added full - screen exposure editing , a compare function that lets you make side - by - side compare to as many as eight photo at once , and other photo editing enhancements .
iPhoto 6 also has a raw salutation - card creation feature and the ability to make calendar using iPhoto images . raw photobook choice were announce as well .
The update reading of iMovie features the ability to open more than one project at a fourth dimension . It also adds animise themes , veridical - time effects and title , and novel audio instrument . iMovie also sports tangible - time titling burden .
iMovie HD 6 introduces Apple - designed motion themes that let users add Hollywood - panache production value to their movies . Trickling down from Apple ’s pro video applications , effects can be previewed without hold back thanks to actual - time Core Video effects , while cinematic titling gives users flexibility to make text gist . New audio enhancement tools are also include , and iMovie HD 6 users can open multiple projects at once , act clips among projects . Also , iMovie now supports the power to export to iPod and make video translation of podcasts .
iDVD 6 provide users to take contentedness shot with the modish HDV and widescreen DV television camera and create custom DVDs with widescreen menus , movies and in high spirits firmness slideshows that fill up every inch of the newest widescreen TVs . The late rendering also features 10 unexampled Apple - design menu themes in both widescreen ( 16:9 ) and standard ( 4:3 ) formats . These stem include new autofill drop zones to make customizing menus easier .
Another new feature of speech , Magic iDVD , let substance abuser quickly gather a DVD by choosing a theme and dragging - and - dropping in pic and movie cartridge holder instead of manually assembling a task . iDVD also added reinforcement for third - party videodisc burners .
The major gain to GarageBand 3 is a podcasting studio feature . The music - composition software includes podcast - ready art and more than 200 different royalty - spare effects and 100 jingles built - in . you’re able to also heighten podcasts with chapter artwork and uniform resource locator links . you’re able to use iChat to record interview for podcasts assembled in GarageBand . The computer software also adds podcasting audio frequency feature article such as reflex ducking and oral communication enhancer . Podcasts created in GarageBand 3 can be post to .Mac and submitted to iTunes using iWeb .
iLife ’ 06 is available now for $ 79 ; a $ 99 family pack permit you deploy the suite on up to five Macs . The novel reading of iLife also will be bundled on all new Macs , include the Duo Core iMac and MacBook Pro .
Updated at 3:40 ET to let in more data on software update .
