iLife '09 Expert Reviews

There are few certainties in life. Until recently, the list was: death, taxes and the predictability of a Shortland Street storyline. Now you can add the yearly update by Apple of its iLife suite of applications

iPhoto '09 introduces two major new features in Faces and Places, and a few nice-to-haves

The latest version of iLife 09 doesn't have any new applications, and two of its existing components, iDVD and iWeb have been virtually untouched. But the improvements to iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand mean that there's plenty to get excited about

Overall, then, despite the apparent stagnation of iWeb and iDVD, the updates to GarageBand, iMovie and iPhoto make iLife 09 a very worthwhile upgrade indeed

ilife '09 review: Apple iLife '09 is a great application suite for simple media organising and editing, and the addition of features like face recognition, geotagging and music lessons makes it worth the update.

iPhoto now has face recognition, geotagging and social network integration, iMovie regains advanced tools lost in iMovie '08, GarageBand now has music lessons, iPhoto's face detection isn't perfect, Social network integration needs some work, iMovie ...

iPhoto's face detection isn't perfect, Social network integration needs some work, iMovie is lacking for advanced users

Apple iLife '09 is a great application suite for simple media organising and editing, and the addition of features like face recognition, geotagging and music lessons makes it worth the update.

iPhoto now has face recognition, geotagging and social network integration ; iMovie regains advanced tools lost in iMovie '08 ; GarageBand now has music lessons

iPhoto's face detection isn't perfect ; Social network integration needs some work ; iMovie is lacking for advanced users

Also, now it's possible to transfer your iWeb files directly to any host that supports FTP, so you don't need a MobileMe account to use iWeb. You could do this before, but FTP is now built right into the iWeb interface. There have been reports that ...

La actualización de la suite de software multimedia de Apple incluye interesantes características que lo convierten

acaba de poner a la venta una actualización de su clásica suite de software multimedia, con mejoras destacables en iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb y GarageBand

At the opening of MacWorld 2009, Phil Schiller apresenta'09 versions of the software suite of iLife productivitépersonnelle. Here iPhoto'09 detail.