iLife 11

iPhoto makes managing your photos as easy as taking them. It helps you organize your photos so you can find them fast. Edit them so they look their best. And share them with your friends and family. Maybe you want to throw together a few video clips. Maybe you have more time and want to fine-tune every edit. Or maybe you just want to flip through clips the way you flip through album covers in iTunes. iMovie lets you do it all — then share it all. Welcome to the school of rock. A Mac-sized practice space. Your own record studio. If you want to learn to play an instrument, write music, or record a song, GarageBand can help — whether you’ re a rookie or a rock star. Designing a web may seem difficult, but with iWeb, it’ s easily within your reach. Create your site using themes. Customize it with photos, movies, text, and widgets. Then publish to MobileMe or any other hosting service. iWeb even notifies Facebook when your site changes and adds a link to your profile so your friends stay up to date. Create your own DVD in less time than it takes to watch one. With iDVD, you can premiere your movies and photo slideshow on a professional-quality DVD with animated menus, buttons, scene selection, and more. All customizable to suit whatever you’ re sharing.
There are a few pretty interesting details to consider about this rumor. First, the release date. Though a couple rumored releases dates for iLife by Apple Inc `10 have come and gone, this one, November 2010 for iLife 11 `11, actually makes sense. If the rumor of iOS compatibility is true, we could see a coinciding release of iLife [ilife11.exe] `11 with the iOS 4. 2 update, officially scheduled for sometime in November.
Apple has already made iMovie for iPhone as well as iWork for iPad, so it is conceivable it would be working on a complementary set of iOS applications for the other iLife - 9.77MB products (iPhoto, iWeb, and GarageBand). Adding direct integration between the iOS versions of these applications and the Mac versions would add yet another layer of compatibility between Apple`s devices and their desktop hardware, strengthening their ecosystem.
Next is the information that iWeb has been completely rewritten. As an avid iWeb user since the original version included in the iLife 11 `06 suite, I am probably most excited at this news. The WYSIWYG Web page creation tool has some amazing features, but suffers from being heavy, underfeatured, and a bit outdated at this point. A fresh approach, presumably with HTML5 features, better social-networking integration, and more-powerful Web-editing functionality for slightly advanced users would be a welcomed upgrade.
The demise of iDVD has been a widely regarded inevitability in the evolution of Apple`s game plan with iLife. Though DVD authoring is still used by some, the preferred method of distribution seems to be online. Replacing iDVD is a still mystical " new application" that has been widely rumored, despite no real details being available as to what it may be.
The other detail included in this product description is, of course, 64-bit compatibility. This comes as no surprise considering the across-the-board upgrade of most important applications running on Macs into 64-bit versions. Any moderate to heavy user of the iLife suite will certainly enjoy the speed increases that will undoubtedly accompany this spec (check the difference between Adobe Creative Suite 5 and CS3 or CS4).