Apple announced iLife ’09 at its final Macworld Expo in January 2009, demonstrating flashy, fun new features ranging from face recognition in photos to image stabilization in movies to music lessons.
What new in Apple iLife 09?
Keynote
Here’s where the biggest changes for 2009′s software update are. Previously watching a Keynote presentation would feel similar to watching beige paint dry, but now your slides can be animated rather than just plain dissolves.
Magic Move basically animates them from one slide to another. If the item on one slide is the same as the one before, but in a different position, Magic Move will recognize this and make it seemingly dance over to its new spot. Updates are done in real time, so the preview window is always up to date.
Another change is to the object transitions, it’s now a more straight-forward zoom. With this you can apply a sparkle effect as the object, or word changes from one to another on the next slide. Alternatively you can animate the common letters in a sentence from one slide to the next with text transition. Again, the program knows which items are the same and moves them from one position to the next.
Bar Charts can now rotate as they grow from zero. You can fill them in with some new textures like concrete or etched metal and make them cylinders rather than blocks. Even end of financial year reports manage to look pretty.
Pie Charts meanwhile get subtly beveled edges and you can now animate the appearance of the slices. You can also add annotations that look like chalk lines on a blackboard. These appear in all of the iWork apps.
Shapes is a new animation tool that can make images move around the edge of whatever shape you drawer.
iPhone and iPod Touch owners have another real bonus. For 59p you can buy the Keynote ‘09 app from the iTunes store and use your mobile to control your presentation wirelessly – a fantastic app that has made us all the more proud of our iPhone.
Numbers
Numbers gets dozens of new features to make it much more flexible than Excel spreadsheets. Grouping data for example is as simple as dragging and dropping and pop-up windows help you calculate totals and currency conversions.
Another nifty feature that makes working out this month’s shopping budget much easier is the new calculations window. Click and choose the calculations function you would like to use, and the onboard Carol Voderman will get it done.
Pages
The word processing and page layout application now works in full screen with either one, or side-by-side page views. This makes it easy to blow up onto a display to show a group of people rather than printing out dozens of copies.
You can now save it as a Word or PDF doc for example, or choose to email your doc as soon as you’ve finished. The recipient, incidentally, gets to choose to download the Word, PDF or iWork formatted document. Apple seems to want to share the workload…
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