iLife ‘06 Demo at Macworld Keynote
1.12.2006 – 9:31 am | by paul
Late last night I finally got a chance to watch the Macworld Keynote. I knew that iLife had some nice enhancements, but until I actually watched the demos in the keynote, I didn’t know how cool iLife ‘06 actually is.
The photocasting and full-screen editing features in iPhoto, the Podcast studio in Garageband, and the motion titles in iMovie are all awesome! But what really grabbed my attention is iWeb. It’s amazing! As a web professional, I don’t actually need iWeb, but it’s incredible to see just how easy it is to build a nice wedsite or blog with iWeb.
I highly recommend checking out the Keynote, and watching the demos of the software. It’s really incredible the power Apple is giving people with just $79 worth of software.
If you haven’t already run out to your local Apple Store to buy iLife ‘06, you can save a few bucks by buying it at Amazon
January 14th, 2006 at 9:25 am
The iLife package is very interesting to me, and I am attracted to its blogging function. BUT — nowhere have I been able to find any information as to whether this blogging app allows for others to input comments on blogs created with iLife. Anyone know??
January 14th, 2006 at 10:31 am
Hi Mellie,
I’ve just started playing with iWeb, so I can’t tell you too much about it yet. But, I can tell you there is no commenting system incorporated into iWeb blogs. It’s unfortunate, but I can undertand why Apple did it this way. Once you have comments, you have comment spam. Appple will need to build a way to combat comment spam. Since iWeb is only in version 1, it is really meant as an entry level blog / site creator for people who have never done this before. I’m betting with future versions of iWeb, and .Mac they will be implimenting a commenting system.
I’ll be testing iWeb thouroughly and posting my review (hopefully this weekend), but so far I think it’s a very nice product for beginners, and a solid 1.0 release.
January 15th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
I really like the look of the new refinements of iphoto and i really love the simplicity of iweb…if only it gave you the option to upload to other servers.
I recently bought a mac mini, and just gotten used to workin with ilife 05, but i hope to be uprading to ilife 06 soon.
January 15th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
iWeb won’t publish to servers other than .Mac directly, but it will publish to a folder on your drive, and you could in turn upload it to the server of your choice.
I’ve tested this a little and it seems to work fine. The only thing I don’t think will work is the built in RSS functionality… that needs .Mac.
January 16th, 2006 at 6:09 am
Have you seen Abraham’s recent post on publishing your domain on .mac server?
http://abraham.dizandat.com/2006/01/your-domain-on-mac-server.html