Yes, indeed, time to check Software Update all you iLife '07 early adopters!
iPhoto 7.0.1:
And I must say I am so far only slightly impressed by iPhoto '08. Some features are incredible new additions, others are annoying oversights. I've been using iPhoto with my library hosted on a networked drive (AirPort Disk, to be precise,) and it is (rather obviously) slower than a direct-connect drive, but usable. iPhoto '08 doesn't even want to admit that it can open network-connected libraries. (It wouldn't let me select it until I tried to directly double click on the library, then it still wouldn't open it directly, but would let me pick it from the "Choose Library" screen when it wouldn't before trying to directly double click it.) In iPhoto 6, it took about 10-20 seconds to open my library after clicking iPhoto in the dock (I have over 10,000 pictures,) in iPhoto 7, it took 10 minutes the first open over the 'net, and a good 30 seconds now. Photocasts are now a thing of the past, in favor of Web Galleries. Your old Photocasts are still active, and can be updated, but you can't create new ones; and once you "unpublish" a Photocast, it's gone. So while iPhoto '08 is the biggest upgrade since version 1, it's also the most frustrating. (Aside from the iPhoto '05 update that killed my library, but that was a data corruption issue, not an inherent design issue.)
iTunes still doesn't really recognize an iPhoto library that is anywhere other than ~/Pictures (I didn't expect iLife '08 to fix that, but it would have been nice.)
iMovie requires a 1.9+ GHz G5!! Even a dual 1.8 Power Mac G5 won't cut it, you need a 1.9 GHz iMac G5 or a dual 2.0 GHz Power Mac G5. (Really, is 100 MHz less, but dual cores, that much of a deal breaker?) And iMovie's new 'browser' functionality is incredible, although it won't index existing iMovie projects in-place, it only gives you the option of importing them. (Meaning you would double up on the data until it's done importing, in which case you can delete the original iMovie project. Not too useful for me when I have 60 GB of iMovie projects on a hard drive with only 50 GB free; no room to duplicate them.) Another gripe I've had for some time is iLife's (really the underlying QuickTime,) inability to do anything with MPEG-1 multiplexed video, such as that produced by Sony digital still cameras in video mode. (Most digicams use Motion JPEG, or some newer ones do MPEG-4, but even Sony's newest still cams produce MPEG-1 that is uneditable, even though it SHOULD be transcodeable.)
Haven't really played with GarageBand, as I didn't really do anything with it before, either. (I am completely non-music-producing, in spite of everyone else in my family being an excellent musician. But I do have a good ear for listening to music.)
iWeb is the least touched. Minor, but good updates. I just wish .Mac Domain Hosting supported email in addition to web. The Web Widgets are a nice addition, but not something absolutely amazing. The big new nice thing is that individual blog entries now have readable URLs, instead of long strings of seemingly random letters and numbers.
(P.S. You can read this post on my .Mac "Web Journal" (I refuse to use the word 'blog' to refer to anything I do,) too.)
iPhoto 7.0.1:
iPhoto Update said:
And I must say I am so far only slightly impressed by iPhoto '08. Some features are incredible new additions, others are annoying oversights. I've been using iPhoto with my library hosted on a networked drive (AirPort Disk, to be precise,) and it is (rather obviously) slower than a direct-connect drive, but usable. iPhoto '08 doesn't even want to admit that it can open network-connected libraries. (It wouldn't let me select it until I tried to directly double click on the library, then it still wouldn't open it directly, but would let me pick it from the "Choose Library" screen when it wouldn't before trying to directly double click it.) In iPhoto 6, it took about 10-20 seconds to open my library after clicking iPhoto in the dock (I have over 10,000 pictures,) in iPhoto 7, it took 10 minutes the first open over the 'net, and a good 30 seconds now. Photocasts are now a thing of the past, in favor of Web Galleries. Your old Photocasts are still active, and can be updated, but you can't create new ones; and once you "unpublish" a Photocast, it's gone. So while iPhoto '08 is the biggest upgrade since version 1, it's also the most frustrating. (Aside from the iPhoto '05 update that killed my library, but that was a data corruption issue, not an inherent design issue.)
iTunes still doesn't really recognize an iPhoto library that is anywhere other than ~/Pictures (I didn't expect iLife '08 to fix that, but it would have been nice.)
iMovie requires a 1.9+ GHz G5!! Even a dual 1.8 Power Mac G5 won't cut it, you need a 1.9 GHz iMac G5 or a dual 2.0 GHz Power Mac G5. (Really, is 100 MHz less, but dual cores, that much of a deal breaker?) And iMovie's new 'browser' functionality is incredible, although it won't index existing iMovie projects in-place, it only gives you the option of importing them. (Meaning you would double up on the data until it's done importing, in which case you can delete the original iMovie project. Not too useful for me when I have 60 GB of iMovie projects on a hard drive with only 50 GB free; no room to duplicate them.) Another gripe I've had for some time is iLife's (really the underlying QuickTime,) inability to do anything with MPEG-1 multiplexed video, such as that produced by Sony digital still cameras in video mode. (Most digicams use Motion JPEG, or some newer ones do MPEG-4, but even Sony's newest still cams produce MPEG-1 that is uneditable, even though it SHOULD be transcodeable.)
Haven't really played with GarageBand, as I didn't really do anything with it before, either. (I am completely non-music-producing, in spite of everyone else in my family being an excellent musician. But I do have a good ear for listening to music.)
iWeb is the least touched. Minor, but good updates. I just wish .Mac Domain Hosting supported email in addition to web. The Web Widgets are a nice addition, but not something absolutely amazing. The big new nice thing is that individual blog entries now have readable URLs, instead of long strings of seemingly random letters and numbers.
(P.S. You can read this post on my .Mac "Web Journal" (I refuse to use the word 'blog' to refer to anything I do,) too.)
