OK, I’ll guess nearly everyone downloaded the iLife ‘06 update by now (including the 88.8MB iWeb update to 1.1). I wasn’t exactly sure what the updates included and went looking for more information. Here’s what I found…
The Apple Downloads page has brief descriptions of the iLife component upgrades. Here are the brief descriptions from that page.
- iDVD 6.0.2 update addresses issues with burning some 16:9 projects and improves overall stability.
- iMovie HD 6.0.2 Addresses issues with Ken Burns rendering performance, scrubber bar editing performance, theme image quality, PAL audio, and displaying iLife Sound Effects automatically in its iLife Media Browser.
- iMovie HD 6.0.2 Combo Addresses issues with Ken Burns rendering performance, scrubber bar editing performance, theme image quality, PAL audio, and displaying iLife Sound Effects automatically in its iLife Media Browser.
- iWeb 1.1 update adds two new features for .Mac subscribers and addresses a variety of usability and performance issues for all users.
- iPhoto 6.0.3 Addresses issues with Photocasting of Smart Albums, sharing iPhoto libraries, and creating calendars and books. It also addresses a number of other minor issues.
Apple also has a page devoted to describing the iWeb 1.1 enhancements on…
The five enhancements described are:
- Let users comment on your blog
- Let users search your site
- Add entire photo albums instantly
- Publishing & performance improvements
- Theme & template improvements
While I can't say that I had problems with the "regular" members of the iLife Suite, the additions to iWeb are greatly welcomed on account of their criminal lack of an appearance in v1.0. It will be interesting to see how much faster the online performance is but the ability to publish only the updates that you have made was highly necessary and I'm pleased by the addition of a blank template page for each theme, as well as some new themes themselves. It's still not an application that will impress the hardcore web developers but at least is shouldn't frustrate the casual publishers (like myself) as much. What I would like to see, however, is the task of making new themes made much simpler and a nice community of theme developers to provide some variety to the stock Apple ones.
The iMovie forums also suggest the update has cured iMovie 6's PAL "sound blip" bug with fades applied within iMovie. Haven't tested it myself yet. Fingers crossed.
I am up to movie 6.0.3 and iLife sound Effects still will not display. I have all of the required hardware. Any ideas why I can't get iLife Sound Effects?