iLife ’09

July 26, 2010 | By In Software |

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5 Comments so far

  1. Alice J. Hornbaker on July 26th, 2010

    I bought what I thought was the real product but used. When I received was a copy of the software product, which to me was deception.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  2. David W. Morton on July 26th, 2010

    I have iLife 05 on my 1.5 GHz Powerbook G4. I knew that some parts of iLife 09 would not work on my machine when I purchased it. However, I had read elsewhere that one could download previous versions that would upgrade my 05 version to the latest version that would run on my ‘antique’ machine.

    Well, you can’t.

    iPhoto, iDVD, iTunes work. iMovie will not install and I am not interested in Garageband.

    So it is rather expensive for a limited upgrade. Apple Support suggest I could purchase iLife 08 or upgrade my machine (one cannot upgrade Powerbooks)

    Looks like Apple is taking a page out of Microsoft’s book.

    Sign of the times I guess.
    Rating: 2 / 5

  3. Kendall L. Vaughan on July 26th, 2010

    iPhoto has a long ways to go before becoming a great organizer. Events seemed like a great idea when they were released in iPhoto 08 but the trouble with them is that you can’t put events inside of other events. The reason this is such a problem is that after you load so many thousands of photographs there becomes to many events and it becomes cumbersome to sludge through them all.

    Their solution to this problem in 08 was the add the ability to merge events together. When this happens everything becomes one large event, it doesn’t maintain the groups of the events you merge together. I guess I can forgive them not totally thinking this feature though in iPhoto 08 but nearly a year and a half later they should have got this right by now. Adding events inside of events is a lot more important than even features like faces and places.

    Doing a search is also limiting from the search box. You can’t set multiple search criteria at a time like in the Finder or Adobe Bridge. In other words I can’t say show me the files with these keywords that were taken during this time period and have this rating. I can only do one at a time. Yes I can do this with a smart folder but I would like to have option not to since I don’t always want to come back to the search later.

    Posting to Facebook and Flickr only gives you access to some of the features on those sites. You can’t enter in all the information about the pictures from directly with in iPhoto (captions for photos, who can see the pictures, what should be the key photograph for an album etc.) Also iPhoto doesn’t pull the previous albums you created back in to iPhoto so you can only view some of your albums not all of them.

    If you ever have to move your information to a new hard drive down the road all the work you did to put together slide shows won’t come across with the rest of the photos. I found this out the hard way as a spent a lot of time setting up manual Ken Burns effects so that they would pan from one particular area of a photograph to another. Now the only way a can access them is to boot back and forth between my old hard drive. It is a good thing I happen to have two drives in my machine or I would have to recreate them. I imagine this is what you would have to do if you had a laptop.

    The recent area on the sidebar only shows the last event you look at. This is ok but I would like to see a history of the last several events I viewed. The last 12 months area doesn’t organize those photos by events so you just gets this massive number of photos which isn’t very convenient.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  4. Shan Van Norman on July 26th, 2010

    I have just started using iLife 09 and really like the new improvements. I especially like the new iMovie and iWeb ([...]). If you liked the old version you will like this one.
    Rating: 4 / 5

  5. Roman Pennington on July 26th, 2010

    Here’s the skinny on the iLife software: It works if you give all your money to Apple and their associate companies. If you don’t, the software appears to be specifically engineered to *not function properly* using third-party services.

    I have a client who purchased iWeb and created a simple one-page web site. He was using my company for hosting. He was unable to publish his pages to the server so he brought his macbook over to the offices and we analyzed the iWeb software and the ftp session it was creating to see what the problem was.

    First off, the latest version of iWeb (3.0) has bugs in it. In some cases it will rename a file reference within a web page, but it will be different from the file reference on disk. I verified this. If you name your page something like “index.html” which is common for web pages, iWeb will call it “index.html.html” in one place and “index.html” in another and make the site break. Second, iWeb creates a web page layout that is unnecessarily complicated and problematic. Rather than push your web site to the server in a straightforward manner, it moves the entire web site into a subdirectory and then creates an empty landing page with a meta refresh to your actual site. This can result in your entire web site not being indexed by some search engines. It’s ridiculous and stupid.

    Third and most important, iWeb does not appear to work properly with third-party hosting. We watched as I published a ONE PAGE web site with three images and some text and it repeatedly failed. And when it failed, all iweb said was, “There was an error communicating with the ftp site.”

    I watched the ftp logs on my server and there were NO ERRORS. iWeb started putting files to the server and then, for no reason whatsoever, just stopped and reported an ambiguous error message.

    I called up a friend of mine who is a major developer partner with Adobe and he laughed and said, “iWeb basically only works with Apple’s web hosting.” Nowhere is this mentioned.

    If you think about it, it’s a brilliant, yet unethical scheme. If you have a hosting company you’re happy with, you use iWeb, and suddenly things don’t work and iWeb says “there’s a problem with your hosting company..” You call Apple and they upsell you on their web hosting. Their program appears to INTENTIONALLY MISLEAD CUSTOMERS into thinking there’s something wrong with a non-Apple service provider, when in reality, there is no problem. The iWeb software lies.

    I have been advising customers to move to more ethical and reliable software such as Freeway.

    Rating: 1 / 5

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