iLife Update
So we're loving iLife. (I agree, Angela, Macs definately Rule! I'm so jealous you're getting an iBook!!please give me a link to your blog, BTW)I haven't played with each program, so I'll just comment on the ones I've used.
iPhoto: the new features are nice, especially the full screen edit, but nothing added was so new that it was ground shaking. We're still sorting all the old photos, and a few are still on the old drive, so we still have those bugs to work out. Keywords are awesome! But, and this is I believe an issue with iPhoto overall, anytime I've moved photos from one place to another, keywords are lost, as well as individual batches, and they all got mixed up in order. So lots of sorting to sort out.
iWeb: Great new program. I've been playing with it some (not enough to share the link quite yet) and it makes putting the whole website thing together very smooth and easy. Of course, not so many choices of themes as one might like, but it's the first edition. One thing I don't especially like, is when you publish, you publish everything. What I mean is, you can make as many different sites as you want to, but when you go to publish one site, you have to publish them all. I don't care for this, just because I tend to like to play around with things for a few days, sometimes, and save them in 'draft' form. I can't save my site in draft, if anyone else publishes.
And side note: don't forget to save. Save early, save often. The almost-15-year-old made a great site with 2-3 pages, complete with Ramones pictures, and "mom, what's my favorite book?", and then he went to upload a short pod cast on the updated Garage Band (which I haven't played with yet) and something went funky, and iWeb closed. And he hadn't saved. I will attest to the fact that it was a cool site. But he'll have to start over now.
Oh, I also don't love the long, strange URL when you use the .mac with the iWeb. But that's something I will just have to get used to.
One of our favorite new programs, didn't come with the iLife, but getting the new iLife kinda inspired us to get, is Comic Life, which I call iComic, but I'll have to talk about that later...
