Face recognition and location mapping are cool new features.Ĭons: Free alternatives offer similar functionality.īottom Line: iPhoto is still a terrific photo-management and output program, but a major new (and free) competitor matches it as a standalone program. Pros: Creates gorgeous slideshows, books, prints, and Web galleries.
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But as a full suite for managing your media and creating beautiful products that others will enjoy, this is our Editors' Choice.- Next: iPhoto '09 If you need a product that's strong in just one area-DVD burning, say, or photo organization-look elsewhere. That's the point of iLife: It's not just a bunch of loosely associated components, it's a tightly integrated lifestyle. Not so with iLife-it acts more like one program with five heads. Most other suites either focus on one major feature, and tack on other, somewhat vestigial components, or provide several elements that rather loosely trade standardized data. The suite's weak spot is iDVD, which basically hasn't been upgraded in two years and now trails Roxio's Toast for flexible DVD burning, but iDVD has one-click integration with iMovie.Īpple has always understood integration better than its competitors have. And though, like iWeb, Google Sites creates template-based Web sites, iWeb lets you drag and drop all of your media into your sites effortlessly. Likewise, the open-source Audacity is decent for recording podcasts, but GarageBand plugs right into iMovie to create soundtracks for your film projects.
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So, while Google Picasa 3 matches iPhoto almost feature-for-feature, iPhoto plus iMovie gives you a far more powerful slideshow and presentation tool than you get with Picasa's simple slideshow creator. In the last year, a few free competitors have risen to challenge iLife's components, but no single product (or combination) can equal the suite's tools when they're used together.
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With iLife '09, Apple has unyoked the software a bit from the $99-a-year MobileMe online service, giving you more options to put your photos, videos, and Web sites online with Flickr, YouTube, and other hosting services-a welcome and much-needed move. iWeb and iDVD exist mostly to let you publish material you collected or created in iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, and iTunes. The free download, iTunes, is pretty much the sixth part and is necessary if you want to take advantage of the suite's integration.
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