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First Look: Watermark your iPhoto pictures with Impression

by Steven Sande (Aug 21st, 2009)

Blue Crowbar Software is a small Belgian Mac development firm that is quickly making a name for itself for its innovative iPhoto and Aperture plugins. We've previously covered iPhoto2Twitter here on TUAW, and now Blue Crowbar has announced a new ...

Apple updates iPhoto to 8.1

by Joachim Bean (Aug 18th, 2009)

Along with the many software updates released lately, Apple today released an update for iPhoto. The new version, 8.1, adds several new printing options for the iPhoto print service. According to the update notes, these include: Hardcover ...

GarageBand updated to 5.1

by Joachim Bean (Aug 3rd, 2009)

On what seemed like a somewhat slow Monday, Apple has updated GarageBand '09 to version 5.1. This update adds a few new features, improves compatibility and stability, and also fixes a security issue. The changes include: GarageBand track ...

iLife 101: Switch from Picasa to iPhoto

by Dave Caolo (Jul 24th, 2009)

If you've ever thought about giving up Google for your photo management, David Alison has good tips on moving from Picasa to iPhoto. For the unfamiliar, Picasa is the big G's photo-management software, originally available only on Windows and now ...

iPhoto2Twitter 1.5 adds movie and Mobypicture support

by Steven Sande (Jul 23rd, 2009)

Back in June, TUAW reported on iPhoto2Twitter, an iPhoto plugin that provides an easy way to send photos from your iPhoto library to Twitter via TwitPic. Now the developer, Blue Crowbar Software, is back with an update that adds support for sending ...

Apple posts iMovie 8.0.4 update

by Joachim Bean (Jul 16th, 2009)

Apple has just released an update for iMovie '09. The new version, 8.0.4, improves overall stability and fixes a number of other minor issues. According to Apple, these issues include: • Fixing a problem with incorrect rotation when working ...

iPhoto update to 8.0.4 released

by David Winograd (Jun 30th, 2009)

Constant reader Joachim Bean alerted us that the an update to iPhoto '09. Version 8.0.4 is ready and available via Software Update. Apple states that 'this update addresses a rarely encountered issue involving photos imported into a previous ...

iDVD - black sheep of the iLife suite

by Chris Rawson (Jun 26th, 2009)

For me, iDVD has always been the redheaded stepchild of the iLife suite. While I've used Garageband to make songs, iPhoto to manage photos (until I got Aperture), iWeb to make websites, and iMovie to make movies, until recently I'd never once tried ...

iPhoto 8.0.3 updater bug bites many

by David Winograd (Jun 13th, 2009)

Yesterday I tried to open up iPhoto '09, and was greeted with a screen telling me that my iPhoto library needed to be updated. This was sort of odd, since I had run the program many times since the software update of June 4th bringing the program to ...

iLife '09 gets the Software Update treatment

by Christina Warren (Jun 4th, 2009)

Apple just released some updates for iLife '09 via Software Update. In a very un-Apple fashion, the release notes are actually sort of descriptive! Here's the breakdown: iLife Support -- this is for iLife '09, iWork '09 and Aperture 2 users and ...

Mac 101: Geodata copying in iPhoto

by Aron Trimble (May 16th, 2009)

The most recent update of iPhoto to version 8.0.2 included a couple of new features around the Faces functionality for identifying people in photos. Apple, however, was kind enough to throw in another feature; one which I was hoping would show up ...

Take Control of iWeb '09 with exclusive TUAW discount

by Michael Rose (May 14th, 2009)

With the introduction of iWeb '09, Apple pumped up the volume on its entry-level website authoring tool, making it more functional and flexible for novice users while adding enough power -- multi-site publishing options, FTP upload to unlock users ...

Sting, Sarah McLachlan are hiding in your Garage(band)

by Mike Schramm (Apr 29th, 2009)

Apple has added new "Learn to Play" lessons to the latest version of GarageBand, including two lessons by Sting and the first one by Sarah McLachlan. Gordon Sumner (a.k.a. Sting, so named by his friends when he wore a shirt with black and yellow ...

Aperture, iMovie, Server Admin Tools updates available

by Dave Caolo (Apr 15th, 2009)

Yesterday Apple pushed out three updates via Software Update. According to Apple, iMovie 8.0.2 "...fixes an issue with projects having a size of 0 KB." That's a problem all right. Aperture 2.1.3 is also available now and "...addresses minor issues in ...

Apple announces end of .Mac HomePage

by Dave Caolo (Apr 9th, 2009)

Apple has begun sending an email to MobileMe customers about a pending service change. Specifically, .Mac HomePage will be discontinued on July 7, 2009. While existing pages will remain live at their current addresses for MobileMe users, they'll no ...

What's new in iPhoto 8.0.2

by Dave Caolo (Mar 30th, 2009)

Last week, Apple released iLife updates with typically terse descriptions. Dissatisfied with "...overall application stability improvements," I explored iPhoto 8.0.2 for obvious changes. Here's what I found. First, Faces offers Address Book contacts ...