Your iLife just got better

Apple just released a slew of point-updates for iLife ‘08, promoting hard-workers iMovie, GarageBand, and iPhoto to version .1. Now they each get their own cubicles and a full supply of ball-point pens. iDVD, which didn’t do so well on its last review, only made it to .0.1 — pens, but no cubicle. iWeb must’ve pissed off the boss or something because it gets nothing at all. Not even a stapler.

Here’s the full list of updates and links to their Apple support pages*:

• iDVD 7.0.1 (20.2MB)
• iMovie 7.1 (46.1MB) — not only an update, but also has a bunch of new features, including Multiple Clip Selection, Fine Tuning, Still Frame Creation, and several more (check the site for full details)
• GarageBand 4.1 (47.0MB)
• iPhoto 7.1 (61.8MB)
• iLife Support 8.1 (10.3MB) — which also seems to be available for iLife versions prior to ‘08

Using my ninja math skillz, I calculated that to 185.4MB total in iLife updates, which is a hefty chunk of fixes and improvements. You know what they say: “You can always tell the importance of an update by how large the download is.” I’m not certain that’s entirely accurate and I don’t know who “they” is, but I am certain it has been said by someone at some point or another — and that’s good enough for me.

Check Software Update for the pointy downloads and their stereotypically-vague descriptions. Oh, and be sure to congratulate the fellas on their spiffy new titles, mkay?

(*The standalone installers on Apple’s site seem to be smaller in size than the updates via Software Update. I don’t why, or if this is normal. Anyone know?)

Comments (2)

All this but NO update to iWeb '08! Ugh! Curse you Apple.

I continue to have problems (crashing and corruption) with my websites that I created with the previous edition of iWeb.

Eduardo

September 26, 2007

10:28 PM PT

I always patch but I never notice that they fix anything.

Khurt Williams

September 27, 2007

6:18 AM PT