Apple iLife and Christmas Memories

A great way to capture all your holiday memories is with Apple iLife ‘08. It offers the most exciting ways to showcase exceptional photo albums, slideshows, and movies. Create a Web Gallery of your most important photographs and videos. Or you can develop a website complete with sound, movies, blogs and photos.

iPhoto
It’s now even easier to organize, enhance or share your photos. Create a photobook, a calendar or a personal Web Gallery. The new features include an “Event” feature which allows for easier and more intuitive photo organization. Photos can be “hidden” without being deleted to clear away clutter. The new unified search allows for quick locating of photos. Advanced new editing tools make your photos look even better. Create new photo books, cards and calendars, or showcase your photo in a .Mac Web Gallery where others can view and download your images.

iMovie
It’s easier than ever before to shoot, edit and polish professional-looking movies, and then to share them with the whole world. It’s now possible to store all of your video, organized by Events, into one central library. iMovie allows for importing from popular video devices, included AVCHD. After creating your movie, you can view it on your Apple TV, iPod or iPhone; or, you can publish it directly to YouTube or your .Mac Web Gallery.

GarageBand ‘08
Using Magic GarageBand, you can play with your own virtual band to create and record music, or make podcasts. With Arrangements, you can organize sections of your songs. Multiple-take recording allows you to capture the most perfect performance. Graphically shape your sound with Visual EQ. 24-bit audio support allows you to create high-fidelity recordings. And it’s also possible to print sheet music with simple notation printing!

iWeb
Stunning websites are easily and quickly created, complete with movies, photos and live web widgets. Live web content can be added to your website, an interactive Google Map can now be placed on your site. With a “My Album” index page, you can organize your videos and photos. Eight new themes have been added to the design possibilities. Publish your personal domain name using .Mac. And finally, put Google AdSense ads on your site to earn some extra credit for each visitor’s click.

iDVD
Now your home movies and slideshows will look like professional grade DVDs; you can even choose pro-level encoding for higher-quality DVDs. It’s possible to author and preview your project with even faster performance than before.

Other new features include new menu customization tools which offer more design control. There are 10 new Apple-designed themes. Slideshows allows you to mix photo and videos.

So the new iLife ‘08 is a wonderful gift to give yourself and your family this holiday season, since it offers so many ways to capture these holidays forever.