iLife '11 — the all new iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand

Apple recently announced their latest upgrade to the iLife suite during the “Back to the Mac” event in October. iLife ’11 includes new releases of iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand. Apple did a great job in adding more advanced features while maintaining their trademark simplicity. The upgrade is priced at only $49 USD and is definitely worth the price.

The incredible new iPhoto has added support for Facebook/Flickr and sharing photos through email. The changes to the full-screen mode allow you to utilize every pixel of your display to its fullest. Apple has also improved the slideshows feature with new transitions and themes. Their book/card-printing service has been updated and now allows for more customization of photo albums and holiday cards. iPhoto continues to keep its “Faces” and “Places” features, as well as its great image retouching tools.

The album view in iPhoto's full-screen mode looks amazing.

iPhoto's face recognition automatically recognizes faces in your photos and allows you to tag then.

The biggest change in the suite is in iMovie. Apple has added a “movie trailers” feature that makes producing short teasers for your films a breeze. Choose a series of clips you would like to use, fill in the credits, and choose a theme and iMovie will automatically stitch together a professional-grade trailer for you next movie.

Apple has also included more advanced audio editing tools in iMovie ’11. Audio clips are now color-coded and provide options for adding fades and filters. Another new feature is what Apple calls “one-step effects”. With the dozens of new effects, such as “instant replay” and color correction, your iMovie project will definitely stand out from other home videos.

iMovie ’11 has also included more exporting options, including iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, QuickTime movies, and more. You can also publish your videos directly to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and even CNN’s iReport. You can also create a video podcast and send it directly to Podcast Producer.

iMovie '11 give you more control over your audio.

Making professional trailers has never been easier.

Making great music in GarageBand has never been simpler. The iLife ’11 upgrade introduced Flex Time, a function that fixes timing issues when something sounds a little off.  Flex Time allows you to manually move, stretch, or shorten individual notes without changing the rest of your recording.GarageBand ’11 adds more guitar amps the Apple’s library and allows you to reproduce the sound of foot pedals with new stompbox effects. Apple also included many new instrument lessons with the update.

Flex Time makes it easy to fix timing errors in your music. 

Apple's instrument lessons make learning the piano or guitar fun.

More lessons can be downloaded or purchased from the Lesson Store.

iLife ’11 allows you to do more with your photos, video, and music than ever before. In iPhoto, you can enjoy your photos in the new full-screen modes. You can turn your home videos into professional films with the latest iMovie and create the perfect soundtrack within GarageBand. iLife ’11 is included with every new Mac, but every existing user should consider the upgrade. If you enjoyed this post, please check out MacDesign, a blog centered around graphic design and video production on the Mac platform.

How to Upload your iWeb Website

This article was originally posted at http://mrmacandpc.com/Mr_Mac_and_PC/Tutorials/Entries... (It includes pictures)

Step One: Get your FTP user information (FTP, user name, and password). This is found at the website that’s hosting your website. It’s usually under the section hosting, and then FTP User Management. You may need to create a FTP account if one is not already set up.

Step Two: Click on the name of your site. Next, change “Publish to:” to: FTP Server. 

Step Three: Under FTP Server Settings, fill in Server Address, User name, and Password.

Step Four: Fill in the Directory/Path. This is usually a forward slash, and then your domain. Ex: /mrmacandpc.com

Step Five: Leave Protocol and Port the same unless you know your supposed to change them. 

Step Six: Under Website URL, enter your website URL.

Step Seven: Test the connection.

Step Eight: If the connection tested successfully, publish your site.

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iLife 10' Predictions

 It’s 2010! That means that sooner or later, Apple will release their newest version of their iLife suite, iLife 10’. Apple has yet to share a release date, but I wanted to know what your guy’s iLife 10’ predictions are. What do you hope to see, what do you want improved? I myself think we will see a complete iWeb overhaul. New themes and new tools. But what do want to see? Leave a comment letting me know what your iLife 10’ predictions are.

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Recreate apple.com iPhone page using iWeb

This is my second iWeb video demonstrating how I recreate apple.com iPhone page using iWeb, a free application comes with every new Mac. Here's the first one incase you haven't watched it. 

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Recreate apple.com homepage using iWeb

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