Aperture, an application for digital photographers promo videos
Widgets: now over 1500 widgets for OS 10
New widgets: Google search bar, ski conditions, calendar, white pages, sports scores and news
New, free release of Mac OS–10.4.4–includes all the new widgets
iLife 06: “A giant release, propel us further ahead than anything else,” Jobs says.
iLife apps
iPhoto: up to 250,000 photos (up from 25,000), “scrolls like butter,” full screen editing, one-click effects, printing and book enhancement, calendar creation, card making. Also, photocasting–sharing albums with others by uploading photos to the .Mac service and people can subscribe to photocast, similar to FilmLoop. Can subscribe via RSS. Demos new features of iPhoto.
iMovie: Adding animated themes, real-time effects and titles, new audio tools, multiple open projects, export to iPod, create video podcast. Demos animated themes.
iDVD: Widescreen DVDs, magic iDVD (a wizard for making DVDs easily), new themes.
GarageBand: Added a tool for creating podcasts, including 200 royalty-free sound effects, 100 royalty-free jingles, automatic ducking effect, speech enhancer, use of iChat for remote interviews. Demos GarageBand podcast studio….his weekly podcsast—“super secret rumors…the 8-pound iPod with a 10-inch screen” (laugh). Also introduced new Jam Packs for GarageBand.
Introduces new iLife application, iWeb, which allows Mac users to share music, movies, photos and content created with iLife in a Web site. “In the iLife tradition of making something super easy to use to build beautiful Web sites so simply and so easily.” iWeb includes Apple-designed templates, including blogs and podcasts, one-click publishing to .Mac, drag and drop editing and RSS support. Jobs demos creating a Web page, blog page and podcast page. For example, you can put songs links on a page and it fires up iTunes to sample the songs. Pricing stays the same at $79, including iWeb. Also a $99 five-pack.
iWeb looks far easier to use that Web/blog publishing software and demonstrates the benefits of having an integrated set of applications. The blogger community will soon have comparisons of iWeb to WordPress, Moveable Type and other blog platforms and the issues around the walled garden of .Mac.
Pricing for iLife stays the same at $79, including iWeb.
.Mac: over a million subscribers to .Mac.
iWork: new version of Keynote and Pages. New features include 3D charts, advanced image editing, image reflections, free form shapes and mask, tables with calculations, new themes and templates. Also $79 and $99 five-pack.
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