![]() Open Calendar View, and you can find all of the images you shot in a particular month and year. Similar to iTunes, a smart search box lets you search by any bit of information you've attached to the image, such as captions. You can quickly assign keywords to groups of images, create new albums and folders to hold multiple albums, and add ratings to each image. Organization and search features are much improved. iPhoto 5.0, however, ups the ante on everything. ![]() Previous versions of iPhoto had little to be desired it was just an image organization program (and not a powerful one at that), with light editing tools. ILife integrates five multimedia apps into one economical package: iTunes 4.7, GarageBand 2.0, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD.įor our money, iPhoto is the most improved application in the suite. For greater control over optical disc creation, you'll have to go with third-party software, such as Roxio Toast with Jam. In iPhoto, for example, there is no way to burn images to a CD and no way to turn slide shows into a VCD or SVCD. Not good enough? A lot of basic functions are drag and drop, too.Īlso, while there's a lot of support for DVD burning, there is little for CD creation. You can access almost all operations more than one way-via a drop-down menu, a keyboard shortcut, or icon-based buttons. Those already familiar with Apple Mac OS X or iTunes will find the application interfaces familiar. Icons for each program appear on your dock during the installation routine-unless they were there already, in which case they are just updated to launch the new versions. Even on a relatively fast system, expect to spend about 40 minutes installing the whole package. The installation procedure is fairly mindless, but it's not brief if you choose to load everything. Consequently, you'll need at least a DVD drive, at best a SuperDrive, to install the entire suite. The iLife '05 package includes a CD to install iTunes, iPhoto, and iMovie only (a total of 250MB) and a 4.3GB DVD that has GarageBand, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD. Outside of a few minor complaints and some strict hardware requirements, there's no good reason not to add this update to your Mac today. In fact, three of the apps-iPhoto 5.0, GarageBand 2.0, and iMovie HD-could easily be sold separately, but they're not. ![]() ![]() Bursting with organizational, editing, and creation tools for music, digital video, and photos, iLife '05 is well worth its sub-$100 price tag. Included on all new Apple desktops and notebooks and available as a package for current Mac users, iLife '05 is one of the best digital media management suites around, certainly the best for Apple users. ![]()
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