Time-Saving Tips: Get creative with iLife

Working with photos and editing video can be fun, but that doesn’t mean you want to spend all your free time in front of the computer. Here are 18 simple iLife tricks that'll speed you through the boring parts.

Changing iMovie '08 movie dates

You have movies shot years ago that you've recently digitized. How do you make iMovie sort them by the date they were originally shot rather than when you imported them to your Mac? Like so.

iWork and iLife ‘09 to share the spotlight Tuesday?

Well, despite Apple’s invite making it very clear that the “focus would be on notebooks” at Tuesday’s special event, word is now trickling out that we may be seeing some token updates to both the iLife and iWork suites. Mac Soda, the same folks who brought us the nVidia graphics card in the new MacBooks [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "iWork and iLife ‘09 to share the spotlight Tuesday?", url: "http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1724" });

HyperStudio returns, supports iLife, webcams, video

Software MacKiev and Roger Wagner have reintroduced HyperStudio as HyperStudio 5, the first new edition of the software in over a decade. The software is used to organize information (stacks) into a structure that supports storytelling, commonly used in education. The new version includes iLife support and includes webcams. It now has live object support, allowing editing of any action, even brush...

iLife and iWork '09 announcements on 10/14?

A TUAW tipster pointed us to a unsubstantiated, but intriguing post on Mac Soda noting that iLife and iWork '09 could be announced at the October 14th notebook event. The current versions of iLife and iWork were announced on August 7, 2007 at the same event where the aluminum iMacs debuted, and previous iLife/iWork introductions have also been touted as "one more thing" at hardware-oriented product announcements.The post doesn't provide any details of enhancements for the applications. In terms of speculating about what could change, iMovie could use some major enhancements to usability after last year's complete rewrite, and iWeb could benefit from better capabilities for publishing to non-MobileMe servers and iPhone-specific templates. The Numbers spreadsheet package could use a lot of new functionality, including macros, while Pages needs new templates.TUAW readers -- what would you like to see in an iLife or iWork update? Leave a comment.Thanks to Johannes for the linkRead | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Briefly: iPhone ads, iPhone Firmware, iLife, Airport updates

Apple has posted three new iPhone ads on its web site as well as updates for the iPhone software (+SDK) and iLife updates read more