| OverviewiLife '04: The Missing Manual gives you
everything you need to unleash your creative genius with
iLife '04, a suite of five programs (available at the Apple
store and preinstalled on all new Macs) that is
revolutionizing the way we work--and play.
Everybody's talking about Apple's unparalleled software
package for digital music, photography, video, and DVD
creation:
iTunes 4.6 is digital
jukebox software for Mac (and even Windows!) that rips
songs from your music CDs onto your hard drive, organizes
and plays your music collection, lets you buy songs from the
iTunes Music Store, and syncs all your music with your
iPod. iPhoto 4 pulls photos from your digital
camera and then helps you organize and present them--as a
slideshow, Desktop picture, screen saver, email attachment,
Web page, DVD, printout, or hardbound photo
book. iMovie 4 turns those old, seemingly endless
home movies that bore everyone to tears into short, fun,
tightly edited highlight reels that friends and family
actually beg to watch. iDVD 4 transforms your iMovie productions
and digital slideshows into Hollywood-style DVDs that play
on everyday DVD players. GarageBand is the all-new program that turns
your Mac into a digital music-recording
studio.
David Pogue, computer columnist for the New York Times and
creator of our Missing Manual series (you know, those
indispensable books that should have been in the box), wants
to make sure there's nothing standing between you and
professional-caliber music, photos, movies, and more.
His authoritative, witty, all-inclusive iLife '04:
The Missing Manual gives you the essentials of
every program in the iLife '04 suite. Pogue highlights the
newest features and improvements, covers the capabilities
and limitations of each program, and delivers, in one
volume, countless goodies you won't find anywhere else:
undocumented tips, tricks, and secrets for getting the very
best performance out of each and all of these life-changing
new applications.
iLife '04: The Missing Manual: it's
your guide to livin the iLife! Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptioniLife '04: The Missing Manual gives you everything you need to unleash your creative genius with iLife '04, a suite of five programs (available at the Apple store and preinstalled on all new Macs) that is revolutionizing the way we work--and play. Everybody's talking about Apple's unparalleled software package for digital music, photography, video, and DVD creation: - iTunes 4.6 is digital jukebox software for Mac (and even Windows!) that rips songs from your music CDs onto your hard drive, organizes and plays your music collection, lets you buy songs from the iTunes Music Store, and syncs all your music with your iPod.
- iPhoto 4 pulls photos from your digital camera and then helps you organize and present them--as a slideshow, Desktop picture, screen saver, email attachment, Web page, DVD, printout, or hardbound photo book.
- iMovie 4 turns those old, seemingly endless home movies that bore everyone to tears into short, fun, tightly edited highlight reels that friends and family actually beg to watch.
- iDVD 4 transforms your iMovie productions and digital slideshows into Hollywood-style DVDs that play on everyday DVD players.
- GarageBand is the all-new program that turns your Mac into a digital music-recording studio.
David Pogue, computer columnist for the New York Times and creator of our Missing Manual series (you know, those indispensable books that should have been in the box), wants to make sure there's nothing standing between you and professional-caliber music, photos, movies, and more. His authoritative, witty, all-inclusive iLife '04: The Missing Manual gives you the essentials of every program in the iLife '04 suite. Pogue highlights the newest features and improvements, covers the capabilities and limitations of each program, and delivers, in one volume, countless goodies you won't find anywhere else: undocumented tips, tricks, and secrets for getting the very best performance out of each and all of these life-changing new applications. iLife '04: The Missing Manual: it's your guide to livin the iLife! |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 4 reviews. iLife '04, 2007-11-15 Reviewer rating: Although I have iLife '06, this edition on '04, which I found second-hand at a bargain price, is good enough for the moment in guiding me around the various components of the software (I am new to Macs and iLife). The recommendation is naturally to find a copy on the version of iLife you've got, but I like David Pogue's book on OS X Tiger, and when I found this book I snatched it up without hesitation. | The book that should have been in the box., 2004-11-22 Reviewer rating: Under the general name of iLife, Apple includes five software packages that are oriented to your creative expression and entertainment. While the programs are nifty, the documentation that comes with them is somewhat less than outstanding. David Pogue, has created a series of books called "The Missing Manual." In this manual, he provides what is missing for the iLife software, the missing manuals.
The five software packages included in iLife include: iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, and GarageBand. Mr. Pogue highlights the newest features and improvements of iLife '04, covers the capabilities and limitations of each program within the suite, and delivers countless goodies not found anywhere else: undocumented tips, tricks, and secrets for getting the best performance out of every one of iLife's life-changing new applications. | First figure should be more prominent, 2004-09-26 Reviewer rating: I have trouble believing the basic premise of the book. That Apple bundled together 5 very useful programs (iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, iDVD and GarageBand) into something it calls iLife, and then released it with no hardcopy instructions! Granted, Apple is generally considered to be a very innovative company. Its products like these here are typically the most intuitive in the computer industry. But surely it is arrogant to omit a manual. If nothing else, it voluntarily cedes revenue that passes to the author of this book. An Apple shareholder might reasonably be upset.
You can read the book as a very natural continuation of Pogue's other successful books on the Mac. He shows how Apple put together a very coherent group of programs. Pogue demonstrates a higher level synergism, aptly summarised by the first figure in the book. It shows the 5 programs as vertices on a circle. Directed arcs are drawn between these vertices if data can be transferred in that direction between them.
This figure is so compelling and succinct that it should have gone on the cover. Or at least reproduced on the inside cover, so that you can easily and often refer to it, whilst going through the text. [Think of a chemistry book, with the periodic table on the inside cover.] It neatly encapsulates the entire reason for the book. Think about it. Without discussing the ability to transfer data between the programs, we really have 5 separate programs. The book would then cleave into 5 nonintersecting portions, each of which would be outweighed by other more comprehensive books devoted to each program. The figure and its elucidation give meaning and value to the book.
| Reasonably deep, meant for intermediates, 2004-09-17 Reviewer rating: The book has reasonably in-depth coverage of the five iLife applications in iLife '04: GarageBand, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD. The content is not step-by-step for beginners but rather for people that understand the basics of Macintosh applications and have some experience with the applications. The text is well written and illustrations are used effectively. All of the applications, save iDVD, are covered thoroughly. But that's ok since IDVD gets short shrift in every manual.
For true beginners I would recommend buying the O'Reilly manual for the application that you are likely to use the most. For example, I think photographers will get a lot out of iPhoto 4: The Missing Manual. What's the difference? There is more exposition, which eases the learning curve, and there are more tips and tricks. But if you are a Macintosh user with a reasonable amount of experience who is looking for a book that covers all of the applications at a reasonable level, then this book should appeal to you.
For genuine beginners I would also recommend looking at Peachpit Press' "The Macintosh iLife '04". |
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