Make Your Own Music, Movies and More!
By Scholastic Kid Reporter Aaron Broder
At today’s MacWorld keynote address, Philip Schiller, a senior vice president at Apple, announced a new version of the popular creative tools for Mac computers, iLife.
iLife is made up of a number of different programs.iMovie, Garageband, and iPhoto, got major upgrades for 2009.
iMovie ’09 keeps the moviemaking process simple: all you have to do is take the videos you want and drag them into the window in order. There are also some really cool effects that you can add to your movie, like making it move in slow motion, or maps that show you as you travel from one place to another.
Garageband is Apple’s audio editing software. It has a great new feature called “Learn to Play,” where an on-screen instructor can teach you how to play guitar and keyboard.
Once you’ve mastered the basics of the guitar or keyboard, you can then move on to learning actual songs, with stars like Fall Out Boy, John Fogerty, and Sting teaching you some of their songs. You can get the Artist Lessons through Garageband for $4.99 each, and they will feature the song itself, the story behind the song, and a lot more.
iPhoto, meanwhile, offers two whole new ways to organize your photos, by the faces of the people, and by the places they were taken.
In iPhoto's Places, when you assign a picture a location, it will appear as a pin on a map of the world, and you can see the distribution of all your pictures. In Faces, iPhoto will automatically recognize where in a picture the face appears, and then you can assign it a name. iPhoto will then try its best to find that person in any of the pictures in your library.
The new iLife ’09 suite will be released later this month for $79, or $99 for a family pack of five licenses. You can read more about it on the Apple website at http://www.apple.com/ilife/.
Scholastic Kid Reporter Aaron Broder is bringing you the latest on digital music and movies, television, electronics, and even robots from the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and MacWorld this week.
You know what? Everything has I on it! The I-dog, I-cat, I-pod mini/touch/regular, and even this! If i made an invention I would start it with a Y.
Posted by: Hernan | January 20, 2009 at 03:13 PM