Apple has announced the availability of iLife ’09 which features major upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand, with new ways to organise and manage photos, create movies and learn to play music.
iPhoto ’09 builds on the ability to automatically organise photos into Events by adding Faces and Places as new ways to organise and manage your photos using face detection, face recognition and GPS geo-tagging technologies. iMovie ’09 expands on the super fast movie creation introduced in iMovie ’08 by adding the depth users want through easy-to-use new features such as the new Precision Editor, video stabilisation, advanced drag and drop, and animated travel maps. GarageBand ’09 introduces a whole new way to help you learn to play piano and guitar with 18 basic lessons and optional lessons from top artists such as Sara Bareilles, John Fogerty, Norah Jones and Sting.
iLife ’09 also includes iWeb ’09 for authoring custom websites and iDVD ’09 for creating DVDs. iWeb ’09 adds new iWeb Widgets, such as iSight video and photos, a countdown timer, YouTube video and RSS feeds. New integrated FTP publishing allows you to publish your website to virtually any hosting service and updates to your site can now be automatically added to your Facebook profile.
iLife ’09 is included with every new Mac and is available as a $79 upgrade for existing users through the Apple Store, Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers.
