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mrgorth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 10:55 AM
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iLife 06 and iWork
I'm thinking of picking up this SW for my mac. Any thoughts? It says iLife needs 10gb of space. Are you kidding me? How do you like iWeb. I would like something for putting up simple websites.
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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 03:42 PM
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1. iLife has 5 programs in it.
all but iTunes are very extensive, and useful (I don't do Garage Band, but I do use the others.) 10g sounds about right for what you get. iDVD will break up music when it burns chapter cuts though. Annoying on playback, except for Panasonic players.

Pages is great. A nice word processer with some pagemaker shit thrown in for good measure. Keynote is just a powerpoint clone, but easier to use, both are compatible with and translate the MS equivilants. I hear iWork'07 will have a spreadsheet, which '06 is missing.
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politicat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 05:47 PM
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2. Love them, and yes, that's about right for the whole suite.
You don't necessarily have to install it all, though.

I adore Pages. When I have to lower IQ points around me, Keynote is a great tool for doing so. I don't use iWeb often, but I probably should. I don't have a .Mac account, because for $99, I can get a lot more webhosting elsewhere. (However, that said, I'm seriously considering .Mac for various other reasons.)
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LeftCoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-21-07 03:32 AM
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3. Keynote is awesome...much better than powerpoint
iWeb's not really ready for primetime unfortunately. I'm hoping it improves in the next version. As a photo manager, iPhoto is pretty good. I really like the ability to subscribe to photostreams. For all my serious photo processing work, I use Aperture though.

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n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-25-07 12:24 PM
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4. I use parts of both and like them
I happen to like keynote a lot, but having used powerpoint and gotten used to it, keynote has enough differences to make it hard to get used to. But it has beautiful on screen imaging.
Don't use pages much, but it looks useable.
I use iweb with my .mac account, it is very quick and easy to use if all one wants to do is throw up some images and text. If you already do that then it is not worth it.
iDVD and iMovie are great if you need to make DVD's. Really the stars of the package. But again if you need to do something professional not the programs one needs to use.
Haven't used Garageband
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