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2 of 12 customers found the following review helpful:
 pretty good program, 2006-06-21
iPhoto is an okay program. I wish it was more like Picasa for the PC which performs better, looks better, and is free.
iMovie seem to take a long time to convert an hour DV movie to mov on a PowerBook G4. I ended up stopping the conversion after 5 hours. It did a good job of inserting transitions.
iDVD does a nice job putting in chapters.
iWeb and Garageband, don't use it.
15 of 15 customers found the following review helpful:
 For photographers - iPhoto is the best, 2006-06-20
I purchased my Mac in Sept 2005 - having been a PC user for more than ten years. My main reason for buying a Mac was for my hobbies in photography and videography. I was using Roxio's Easy Media Creator video software for creating DVDs for my home videos and I wanted to move on to the next step. At first - I considered trying Adobe Premier Elements - but that was too complicated. I did a lot of research online and the one thing that struck me was that a lot of reviews were recommending Mac software.
Although I had iLife '05 - I still decided to buy iLife '06. The compelling reason was really due to the new features with iPhoto, including:
1. Ability to support more pictures in the library - up to 250,000 pictures
2. Ability to support linking of files to the library - instead of copying the files and taking up more space.
I had recently purchases a high-end digital SLR and for those of you with a digital camera know - you'll definitely have way more pictures owning a digital camera than a film camera. Whenever I take pictures - I can easily take 500 pictures at a time, and if I do that twice or three times a month, that's close to 2,000 pictures. Within a year - I would have maxed out the capabilities of iPhoto '05.
The other cool thing is that iPhoto '06 doesn't have to copy the files from my source to it's own iLife directory. So now - I maintain my own directory structure and when I 'import' to iLife '06 - it creates a reference - thereby saving me hard-drive space that can be used to store even more pictures! The additional benefit is that whenever I make changes to a picture file - iPhoto actually makes a copy and operates off of that copy - thereby perserving the integrity of the original. So if I want to 'revert to original' it's just a mouse click away.
15 of 15 customers found the following review helpful:
Everything Is Great... except iWeb, 2006-03-20
All of the favorites are there with great improvement in speed and use.
I love the fact that I can open up more than one project in iMovie and move scenes from one project to another.
GarageBand has improved tremendously as well.
iPhoto is about the same although the speed has increased tremendously. And iDvd still needs more templates.
The only part of the package that fell short is iWeb. Too few templates with too few options. It is easy to put together a very quick page (I put together a slide show page of our kids pics for Grandma) but that's about all it's good for.
I'm sure that, if given time, iWeb will mature as iMovie and the rest have. They should have done what they did with iMovie at the beginning. Make iWeb a free download, fix it, build on it, then make it an app that you just got to have.
If you are getting iLife because of iMovie or GarageBand then, I say, go for it.
If you want iLife because you want an easy web design program, go with RapidWeaver until at least iWeb 2.0
9 of 10 customers found the following review helpful:
Ease of Use With Professional Results, 2006-03-20
I recently helped my parents pick out a new computer. They had a Windows PC and it was giving them nothing but trouble. They asked me to help them choose a Mac because they noticed my iBook had been up and running since the day I bought it with absolutely no troubles. So, I agreed, and we picked a Mac Mini (G4). Now, I've been an Apple user for some time, but I've always used Adobe and Macromedia apps for my website and photo needs.
The first thing my parents commented on was how wonderful iLife '06 was. They were amazed by what they could do with it, and how easy it was to do it. These are not tech savvy parents in the least. Finally, they could truly take advantage of the camcorder they bought, all the features of their digital camera, and now my dad (who doesn't know a single line of HTML) has a cooler website than I do.
He told me yesterday they couldn't have dreamed of doing half of this stuff on a PC because it was all so complicated. Because of iLife alone, my parents love their new Mac mini.
I decided to toy around with it, and frankly, I'm very impressed. Apple makes building a website fun, simple, and widely compatible with prevailing web standards in iWeb. iPhoto is fairly basic, but still very useful and integrated into about every other program on the mac. iDVD is just plain simple, iMovie is absolutely amazing... I was so overly impressed with this suite that I put it on wish list right off the bat. Apple's got a winner in iLife '06.
5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
IWeb is the reason I bought it, Apple should have an upgrade price, 2006-03-17
I really only bought the upgrade for iWeb. I don't have a lot of room on my harddrive, I don't have a Superdrive and I don't use Garage Band so I only upgraded iTunes, iPhoto and installed iWeb (I may have upgraded iMovie too... I can't remember). The only program I can review out of the suite is iWeb. The others I haven't noticed any difference from the versions I already had. I'm enjoying iWeb a lot and find it fairly easy to use. I've created a few sites and I love that's it easy to do. My only irritation is that it's mostly geared towards people who want to do blogs. I think some of the templates could be a little better and less photo intensive. For example I may like a particular background (the color and style) but it's setup for photos and it can be difficult if not impossible to remove the frames so I have to pick another template. I have to say it's better than nothing, though I haven't ever used another program to design a website because basic attempts at HTML. It was easy to import the sites to my .Mac page. I think the program will only get better but I think iLife is worth the price just for iWeb. I think Apple should offer an upgrade price for those of us who have an earlier version.
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