The Macintosh iLife 08 by Jim Heid
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Book Reviews of The Macintosh iLife 08
Book Review: The Macintosh iLife '08
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was in excellent shape, exactly as advertised. Shipping was prompt with no delay.
Les Jensen
Book Review: Working with the Mac iLife '08 Book
Summary: 4 Stars
This visual guidebook grabbed and held my interest with the book's color photos and graphics. The table of contents gives you insight into iLife, iTunes and iPhoto,iMovies, iDVD, Garageband and iWeb.
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Pages viii-xx. Read me first includes how the book works and the website www.maclife.com for video tutorial links. The author,Jim Heid developed the videos at www.apple.com/life.
Pages 2-3. Computers get personal with a spreadsheet of audio, imaging, video and storage information. Period covered is from 1960s to 2007.
Page 10. iLife keeps you connected. Audio and video podcasts, YouTube and blogs. Also, mentioned are RSS feeds in Safari and net newswire.
Pages 12-13. This has a good illustration of iMac G5 and how to use the iMac G5's rear connections.
Page 22. Audio formats explained. The different encoder options: aac, mp3, Apple Lossless, wav and aiff. Note: The iTunes store delivers music tracks in Apple's aac format and becomes distorted when changed to mp3 and aiff and burned to a CD.
Page 66. Coverflow and Art matter. Using advanced tab to get Album Artwork when using Leopard (Mac OS 10.5) in screensaver with the iTunes visualizer.
Pages 74-75. Learn how you can import old tapes and albums' audio tracks using Griffin Technology's iMic and Final Vinyl. Also, you can use Roxio's CD Spin Doctor.
Note: the new Quicktime 7 Pro allows you to import audio. Impressed with information on Griffin Technology's iMic, I purchased an iMic. I attached an external microphone in the iMic's audio port for voiceovers in both the iMovie HD and Final Vinyl programs. The iMic works quite well on my Mac G4 and iMac G5's 20 inch screen.
Pages 80-81. Excellent tips on using cross fading songs, sounds enhancer and how to crop songs in iTunes.
Page 90. Included are iTunes, applescripts, visualizer plugins and iTunes videos.
Pages 96-97. Give you information on the full-sized iPods: first to second generations. Also, detailed Information on first to fifth generation full-sized iPods.
Pages 290-291. iDVD at a glance with illustrations showing the icons and their various uses.
Pages 296-297. Learn how you can add movies to your DVD using Jim Heid's step-by-step procedures. Also, learn tips for DVD Movies with encoder settings: The very best to the fastest.
Pages 301-302. Refining a slide show with icons fully explained. Also, slide show tips with TV-Safe area so you can avoid cutting off the outer edges of your photos.
Pages 314-315. Burning DVD tips. Learn how to create a disc image to your DVD and how to use Roxio's Toast software.
Pro Reaction
This is a wonderful book for beginners and intermediate iLife users. There are excellent teaching graphics and photos throughout the book. Also included are sidebars and glossaries to help you learn how to use iLife programs. The book has two-page spreads with concise illustrations. This is an excellent way to quickly learn The Mac iLife `08 programs.
Con Reaction
Missing in the index are keyboard commands for the iLife programs. The index print size is small and major sections are not boldfaced. My wish is for a separate iMovie HD and iDVD book by author Jim Heid.
Final Reaction I highly recommend Jim Heid's Mac iLife `08 Book. This is a very good book for learning how to use iLife `08 programs.
Book Review: Very Good Intro to iLife08
Summary: 4 Stars
Jim Heid's "The Macintosh iLife '08" is a very good introduction to the new Apple software.
It's a difficult task, since there are so many pieces to iLife, but Jim handles it well. In particular the extensive use of annotated illustrations makes the book and thus its subject quite accessible.
I'd recommend Heid's iLife book to anyone seeking to get familar with iLife's many features as quickly as possible. This book doesn't go into great depth, but has something helpful on most every feature.
Disclosure: Jim helped organize or spoke at conferences on Web design that my former company ran. He is extremely knowledgable and respected in the industry.
Book Review: Good, but not real comprehensive
Summary: 4 Stars
The book is quite good and easy to read. It would be nice if it were more comprehensive.Book Review: What is the use?
Summary: 3 Stars
Now there is Life' 09 and according to everyone is much better than Life' 08 and I feel I should have waited. Doesn't it always go like this? You got the goods one year and next you are lacking. The book is helpful, written in a friendly style and even though I detected minor limitations it does give an educated view and grasp of Life' 08 which like I said is not as good al Life' 09. Man, I am getting tired of the consumer in me frantic desire to have almost everything up to date. I realize it can not be done unless the dough is plentiful and the addiction to shopping is way out of control. 3 Stars since the new 09 is probably the one that deserves 4.