This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.

The definitive iLife reference, completely updated and revised!

The Macintosh iLife ’08  is a lavishly illustrated handbook packed with easy-to-follow instructions, essential technical background, and tips for iLife users of all levels. Now in its sixth edition, it’s the world’s top-selling iLife book.

• Shop ’til you drop at the iTunes Store—and wirelessly with the iPhone and iPod touch
• Create a digital media center with Apple TV and your widescreen TV set
• Improve your photography and video-shooting techniques
• Produce spectacular slide shows, photo books, calendars, and greeting cards
• Refine your photos to perfection with iPhoto’s new editing tools
• Share photos via email, .Mac Web Gallery, DVD slide shows, and more
• Assemble a video library with the all-new iMovie—and share your creations on YouTube
• Record and arrange your own music with GarageBand
• Create and publish your own Web sites, blogs, and podcasts
• Preserve the past: digitize old records, photos, and movies

The book: Each two-page spread is a self-contained tutorial or set of tips. Everything you need is at your fingertips, and every page is updated for iLife ’08, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, the iPhone, and latest iPods.

The Web site: Get updates, tips, and much more at this book’s companion Web site, www.macilife.com.

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 21 Ratings

Avoid iWeb - it should be called iLie - 2009-03-18
Reviewer Rating:
Here's the skinny on the iLife software: It works if you give all your money to Apple and their associate companies. If you don't, the software appears to be specifically engineered to *not function properly* using third-party services.

I have a client who purchased iWeb and created a simple one-page web site. He was using my company for hosting. He was unable to publish his pages to the server so he brought his macbook over to the offices and we analyzed the iWeb software and the ftp session it was creating to see what the problem was.

First off, the latest version of iWeb (3.0) has bugs in it. In some cases it will rename a file reference within a web page, but it will be different from the file reference on disk. I verified this. If you name your page something like "index.html" which is common for web pages, iWeb will call it "index.html.html" in one place and "index.html" in another and make the site break. Second, iWeb creates a web page layout that is unnecessarily complicated and problematic. Rather than push your web site to the server in a straightforward manner, it moves the entire web site into a subdirectory and then creates an empty landing page with a meta refresh to your actual site. This can result in your entire web site not being indexed by some search engines. It's ridiculous and stupid.

Third and most important, iWeb does not appear to work properly with third-party hosting. We watched as I published a ONE PAGE web site with three images and some text and it repeatedly failed. And when it failed, all iweb said was, "There was an error communicating with the ftp site."

I watched the ftp logs on my server and there were NO ERRORS. iWeb started putting files to the server and then, for no reason whatsoever, just stopped and reported an ambiguous error message.

I called up a friend of mine who is a major developer partner with Adobe and he laughed and said, "iWeb basically only works with Apple's web hosting." Nowhere is this mentioned.

If you think about it, it's a brilliant, yet unethical scheme. If you have a hosting company you're happy with, you use iWeb, and suddenly things don't work and iWeb says "there's a problem with your hosting company.." You call Apple and they upsell you on their web hosting. Their program appears to INTENTIONALLY MISLEAD CUSTOMERS into thinking there's something wrong with a non-Apple service provider, when in reality, there is no problem. The iWeb software lies.

I have been advising customers to move to more ethical and reliable software such as Freeway.

The Macintosh iLife '08 - 2009-06-15
Reviewer Rating:
This book was in excellent shape, exactly as advertised. Shipping was prompt with no delay.

Les Jensen

What is the use? - 2009-02-19
Reviewer Rating:
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.

iLife - 2009-02-12
Reviewer Rating:
A 3 star as I just upped to iLife 09.... plus did not see this in a review line... great product and now even better in 09 since Movie was "fixed" I hated that in 08... used older version.. which you can do BTW. Dont bother with 8.. get 09
iPhoto tools rock.

Good, but not real comprehensive - 2008-11-02
Reviewer Rating:
The book is quite good and easy to read. It would be nice if it were more comprehensive.

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