Comments on: v6: This is your iLife… http://www.secretweaponlabs.com/2006/02/v6-this-is-your-ilife/ Revolutions started • Uprisings quelled • Governments run • Tigers tamed • Land • Whiskey • Print/Web/Software Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:30:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Denis http://www.secretweaponlabs.com/2006/02/v6-this-is-your-ilife/comment-page-1/#comment-965 Denis Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:45:03 +0000 http://www.secretweaponlabs.com/words/?p=222#comment-965 Glad you liked the review. "Disappointed" may be one way to put the reaction to the overall improvement to the suite, but I think that this may be relevant to myself more than anything else. GarageBand could be as great as holy water to Podcasters looking to polish their production quality. iWeb has been ripped to shreds by reviewers alike and I can concur somwhat. But iWeb does one thing well: it helps you make a decent-looking webpage and helps you publish it on .Mac fairly easily (One trick pony anyone?). I'm not expecting it to replace my copy of Dreamweaver or BBEdit or Wordpress for that matter and maybe that's the problem. It doesn't hold its own in the sea of applications that Apple is releasing and fine-tuning. It might help users e.g. HTML un-saavy students and teachers publish a site rather easily and even more so if you have .Mac, but the question may come back to how useful is .Mac? I haven't done much of anything with iWork, even as a trial, so I couldn't really help you on that note. I do think the marble-ized 3D graphs look incredibly tacky and hark back to the days of Windows 98 design boredom. I also didn't really watch the MW2006 KeyNote all the way through and may have missed some points that Jobs brought up during the presentation. Thanks for the kudos! <a href="http://filemakeraddict.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Your site is pretty nice too!</a> ;-) Glad you liked the review. “Disappointed” may be one way to put the reaction to the overall improvement to the suite, but I think that this may be relevant to myself more than anything else. GarageBand could be as great as holy water to Podcasters looking to polish their production quality. iWeb has been ripped to shreds by reviewers alike and I can concur somwhat. But iWeb does one thing well: it helps you make a decent-looking webpage and helps you publish it on .Mac fairly easily (One trick pony anyone?).

I’m not expecting it to replace my copy of Dreamweaver or BBEdit or WordPress for that matter and maybe that’s the problem. It doesn’t hold its own in the sea of applications that Apple is releasing and fine-tuning. It might help users e.g. HTML un-saavy students and teachers publish a site rather easily and even more so if you have .Mac, but the question may come back to how useful is .Mac?

I haven’t done much of anything with iWork, even as a trial, so I couldn’t really help you on that note. I do think the marble-ized 3D graphs look incredibly tacky and hark back to the days of Windows 98 design boredom. I also didn’t really watch the MW2006 KeyNote all the way through and may have missed some points that Jobs brought up during the presentation.

Thanks for the kudos! Your site is pretty nice too!
;-)

]]> By: Tim Dietrich http://www.secretweaponlabs.com/2006/02/v6-this-is-your-ilife/comment-page-1/#comment-963 Tim Dietrich Mon, 06 Feb 2006 22:51:08 +0000 http://www.secretweaponlabs.com/words/?p=222#comment-963 Thanks for the review! You saved me a lot of time that I would have spent doing the research myself (as well as the cost of the upgrade)! I don't know about you, but I'm generally disappointed in the iLife upgrade. Sure, the improvements to iPhoto are nice (and the speed improvements sound nice), but the changes to GarageBand seem very minimal. iDVD, iMovie, and the new iWeb aren't all that important to me (though I would like to hear your thoughts about iWeb when you get around to putting it through its paces). Did you also purchase the iWork upgrade? If so, I'd love to hear your thoughts on that. Keep up the excellent posts! -- Tim Thanks for the review! You saved me a lot of time that I would have spent doing the research myself (as well as the cost of the upgrade)!

I don’t know about you, but I’m generally disappointed in the iLife upgrade. Sure, the improvements to iPhoto are nice (and the speed improvements sound nice), but the changes to GarageBand seem very minimal. iDVD, iMovie, and the new iWeb aren’t all that important to me (though I would like to hear your thoughts about iWeb when you get around to putting it through its paces).

Did you also purchase the iWork upgrade? If so, I’d love to hear your thoughts on that.

Keep up the excellent posts!

– Tim

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