http://www.appleology.com Apple News, Opinions, Reviews, and Tips for every Mac user Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:09:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en iMovie has always made it impossible to produce advanced slideshows, especially when setting custom Ken Burns start-and-end frames. The problem used to lie with iMovie's sluggish importing and encoding functions, however the problem seems to have been fixed with iMovie '08, thanks to Apple's decision to completely rewrite the application. ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/08/08/imovie-08-makes-custom-slideshow-production-easy/ Apple has published a twenty minute guided tour of the new iLife '08 application suite, highlighting the key features and demonstrating the user interface. The guided tour is available for viewing on Apple's website. The user interface on these new applications are stunning and fresh, and it truly does seem to ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/08/07/ilife-08-guided-tour-highlights/ Last week, selected members of the press were invited to a "Mac Product Event" scheduled for Tuesday, August 7. Speculation and rumor websites are predicting an assortment of updates to the Mac product line. The most significant is a rumored update to the iMac, featuring a new brushed aluminum finish ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/08/06/apple-notifies-mac-subscribers-of-scheduled-update-tomorrow/ 6. Apple TV 2.0 and iTunes Movie Downloads The Apple TV is a great example of the typical first generation Apple product. At first it seems to lack features that make it worth the high price Apple is asking for. Just like the iPod and many other Apple products, the Apple ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/04/10/six-things-apple-needs-to-fix-by-2008/ At Macworld 2007 we all were left wondering why there were no announcements concerning the much-expected iLife and iWork 2007 suites. It was quite surprising to find Steve Jobs admitting that there would be no more Mac-related announcements after only ten minutes into the Keynote. Especially since, if I recall, ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/02/03/ilife-and-iwork-07-to-be-bundled-with-leopard/ iLife has always been the number one reason why I love the Mac so much, it was pretty much the reason why I switched to using Macs. There are many ways to go about making an iPhoto slideshow in iDVD, but you don't get the same result with each different ... http://www.appleology.com/2006/09/01/how-to-make-the-perfect-dvd-slideshow-in-ilife/