iLife'06 CONFIRMED!

[Diatribe]

the blurb that reads "cant open movie error when adding video to garageband"?

hmmm

Nice catch. Produce your own music videos, your own web pages and have a media center. All in iLife... pretty sweet and almost too good to be true.

 

[cubist]

Uh, am I the only person in the world who remembers Claris Homepage? I probably still have the CD around here somewhere. Certainly, with a facelift, it could be iWeb.

 

[jaxzin]

Google Cache of iWeb/iLife '06 reference

Looks like Google grabbed a copy before Apple fixed it: http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cach...support/garageband/podcasts/+iweb+apple&hl=en

 

[bdkennedy1]

I don't think this is a slip up. This happens EVERY year around this time.

 

[Piarco]

I hope to smeg its a web authoring program - anything that allows me to ditch FrontPage is great - but if its made with Apple intuitiveness I'm in!! I want a basic web program (hence FrontPage) and as I already use iPhoto to export my pics as a webpage it'll be brilliant to have a suite of programs that work well together...

Oh, and no more having to use VPC

 

[peharri]

iWeb - an HTML editor. Wow. I hear this "World Wide Web" thingie is really taking off, they reckon that by the end of the 1990s, almost everyone will have their own website.

More seriously, I'm having trouble with the idea. I tried to think of scenarios where it might work:

- What iDVD is to DVD authoring for the WWW, eg choose from prepicked themes, styles, and clip-art, and add your own text. Nice. Except those aren't the kinds of websites people seem to want to make.
- Blogging tools - yeah, but the name iWeb suggests something a little more generic than that.
- Website management tools - well, yeah, I guess, but it'd have to be tied to something like .Mac as anything less trivial than a bunch of HTML pages that refer to one another is generally "managed" by a variety of different means.

If I had to put money on it, the first seems likely, given the package name, maybe with a bit of the last mixed in (eg mirror your .Mac homepage, make edits, automatically update) but I can't figure out why this wouldn't be a part of .Mac rather than iLife.

I have a feeling the "Web" part is being misinterpreted, and they may mean a more general definition of Web rather than the World-Wide variety.

 

[Super Dave]

It's obviously going to be the any-idiots web designer, and will replace HomePage, meaning it will also be .mac only.

This doesn't excite me at all, I was only ever in the market for entry-level web designing for a few weeks, as if you actually need to create a site for anything, you advance pretty quickly.

If it were .Mac only then it wouldn't really be an iLife product would it? They can't bundle an app and charge $99/year to use it.

David

 

[alfismoney]

I sense an in house, apple version of the Rails engine here. A very simple, elegant, AJAX enabled, .mac only (it would need to run on Apple's servers if it were to be web based, the setup/support is WAY too complicated otherwise) website creator for people to publish their movies, photos, music, and everyting else online. It would probably offer very similar functionality to iDVD, with some nice templates and moderate customization that confines itself to the consumer, home user market.

Apple has a good chance to get in on this market as Microsoft and Google are currently focusing on feature wars rather than integration and user-experience. Of course some punk kid from MIT will proceed to reverse engineer Apple's product and start distributing a better version for free through Google who will promply buy him out for $57 million, but who's counting?

 

[Bregalad]

iWeb shouldn't be necessary

Apple already has an application that should be their website development tool: Pages. It only needs a few small additions and fixes to become what its name has always suggested, a tool for producing pages, both printed and electronic.

 

[whooleytoo]

It would be a $10,000-a-seat tool for big companies with big sites, and it would do just ONE job, but do it well: it would keep track of what pages are CURRENT on the site, vs. what pages are being worked on for the FUTURE.

This would revolutionize Apple's current method (Sharpie pen on the forearm) for keeping track of what info should go up on Apple.com and when.

Very good!

Yeah, I've no doubt many of these leaks are deliberate, either to test the water using us lemmings as guinea pigs (mixed metaphors?) or to drum up hype.

 

[crudsponge]

iWeb - 2002

I found this article from macosxrumors.com, 2002 archive.... interesting.

June the 5th 2002
iWeb: new hope for an Apple branded web browser?
Today, a french site (macosxtech.com) posted a really surprising article that talks about "iWeb", which could be an Apple branded web browser currently in development for Jaguar!?

I'm quite confused at the moment because, as I said in the last article posted on June the 1rst, all my sources tell me they had never heard about any project like this. So what does this mean? Was this a well kept secret by Apple, until today? Is Apple messing aroung with rumor sites again ? Before giving my opinion on this, I'm going to check one more time with my sources to see if they can comfirm the iWeb rumor, though this can take
some time.

Anyway, a new version of Internet Explorer is still expected to be released soon. It should be loaded with a lot of new features, big improvements on performance and better compatibility. The question now is: which browser will we use as standard one in Jaguar?

I'll post more info about iWeb soon if sources verify that this rumor is true. The more sources I have, the more certain I can be that my postings are valid, so if you have anything you would like to share with me, and macosXrumors.com visitors, please drop me a mail here.


http://www.macosxrumors.com/archives/2002-06.php

 

[woolfgang]

Well, on the official Apple website it says just that iTunes 4.9..this is no fake..

It could be a .mac homepage-maker.. the online version can be slow and unpractical to use...It could also be just a internet iSync app. that does different tasks automatically..

It would be great if it were a stand alone application from .mac, but if they combine it with .mac, then people have to pay twice.

 

[atari1356]

Apple already has an application that should be their website development tool: Pages. It only needs a few small additions and fixes to become what its name has always suggested, a tool for producing pages, both printed and electronic.

Creating web pages and creating print documents are two VERY different things...

Perhaps they could use some of the tools/interface elements from Pages in a web design app - but trying to make Pages do both tasks doesn't seem like a good idea.

Have you seen the HTML code that MS Word produces? Icky icky

 

[applemax]

I bet Apple are laughing their heads off at the moment that we've all fallen for this stuff. (This is probably just to lure us off)

 

[bowzer]

iLife '06 with new iBooks on Tuesday?
Yes I think so.

 

[TMA]

I bet Apple are laughing their heads off at the moment that we've all fallen for this stuff. (This is probably just to lure us off)

That's not really Apple's style. There have been several leaks on their web site before which have usually (always?) turned out to be true.

 

[kenaustus]

If it's a slip up there is someone slowly walking to the unemployment office in California - still trying to figure out what happened. It might also be a little rocket fired by Apple to take away a bit from Gates speech at CES.

I tend to think it's the latter, especially since Front Row is missing.

 

[atari1356]

I hope you don't mean Watson which of course came after Sherlock and was inspired by Sherlock, not the other way around.

I think you have that backwards... Watson was made by a 3rd party developer and was out probably a year or two before Apple released Sherlock.

 

[applemax]

Well i've updated the wikipedia page for ilife now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/iLife

 

[applemax]

That's not really Apple's style. There have been several leaks on their web site before which have usually (always?) turned out to be true.

Sorry for being a bit dim, but I didn't actually know that. What other products were leaked like that? Seriously, I'm not joking! I thought this was a first!

 

[B. Hunter]

iWeb over iWork?

SpaceMagic said:
"iWeb - I'm thinking a Freeway type app. One which really allows easy easy layout. Perhaps they were perfecting iWork (as its HTML output is awful) and thought.. hey! this would make a great app. So they've rolled out an iWork for Webpages rather than documents."

Interesting thought. But I just don't see Apple abandoning iWork like that. Pages has kind of taken a back seat to everything else that has been going on. I expect them to make substantial improvements in the next version, including improved HTML support.

B. Hunter
12" Powerbook DVI

 

[FoxyKaye]

iWeb - an HTML editor. Wow. I hear this "World Wide Web" thingie is really taking off, they reckon that by the end of the 1990s, almost everyone will have their own website...
I have a feeling the "Web" part is being misinterpreted, and they may mean a more general definition of Web rather than the World-Wide variety.

I tend to agree with you - HTML authoring tools are a crowded market already. If Apple were to go in this direction, it would have to come up with something really different and/or simple for folks to use. Also, the number of folks wanting to create their own Web site seems like a smaller market than an application called "iWeb" with a broader purpose.

That being said, I suppose we'll find out Tuesday for sure.

Also, to the person above running FrontPage on VPC: why? Is your site using FrontPage extensions (bad idea)? DreamWeaver (my favorite) and GoLive (which IMHO creates garbage code, but still works) are both available and better to use on Macs. OK, they do cost money, but IIRC, there's got to be at lease one shareware/freeware app for the Mac that will get you off of FrontPage.

 

[johnnyjibbs]

I think iWeb can be an application that creates web pages for beginners that ties in with all the iLife stuff. It won't directly replace .Mac's HomePage application, but it could be used instead of, if the user wants to. I don't see the problem with the .Mac connection. If a program allows the consumer to create web pages as part of iLife, they could put it on the web using Yahoo geocities if they wanted to or any other free (or non-free) provider. And you bet it would easily integrate with .Mac also (and lure people into that too). But in this scenario there wouble be no need for iLife to get the most out of .Mac. And there would be no need to get .Mac to get the most out of iLife. Therefore I don't see why there is any conflict.

Of course, iWeb could actually be something different entirely - maybe it refers to this whole video subscription thing... but I still think it's a web-making app. Lets face it: .Mac's HomePage sucks big time.

 

[Marx55]

It was great when Apple took on the Cassidy and Greene guys for iTunes.

Not really. SoundJam had features iTunes does not have (eg., resume playing on a long playlist sorted by names).

 

[Doctor Q]

If we are going to see a demo of iWeb next Tuesday, let's hope Steve doesn't overdemonstrate it as he did for that weather widget, where he couldn't resist showing us every single cool graphic it had to offer.

If iWeb is a a web design application, I don't want to see every last template it offers. Pretty please. I'll know if I want it or not from a quick demo of the main features.