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Jan 10, 2006, 01:57 PM
 
Jobs showed a new version of iLife for $79.

Updated:
iPhoto:
-fast support for up to 250,000 pictures
-"photocasting" for .Mac members
-improved book quality
-full-screen editing
-calendar making
-greeting card making
-effects chooser

iMovie:
-animated themes
-real-time effects
-audio editing
-"one click" export to iPod
-ability to open multiple projects

iDVD:
-widescreen DVD creation
-Magic iDVD
-expanded DVD burner support

GarageBand:
-Podcast studio
New:
-iWeb web page builder with iLife media browser
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Jan 10, 2006, 03:29 PM
 
from apple.com/pr/
Apple Announces iLife '06
Major Upgrade Features New Versions of iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD & GarageBand and Introduces iWeb

MACWORLD EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO—January 10, 2006—Apple® today announced iLife® '06, the most significant upgrade to Apple’s award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications ever. iLife '06 features iPhoto® 6 with blazing performance, new printed books, calendars and cards, and Apple’s innovative new Photocasting™ for sharing photos over the Internet; iMovie® HD 6 with new motion themes for adding spectacular production value to your movies; iDVD® 6 for authoring custom DVDs for today’s widescreen TVs; and GarageBand™ 3, now the complete solution for creating professional-quality Podcasts. iLife '06 also introduces iWeb™, a new iLife application that makes it super-easy to create amazing websites with photos, blogs and Podcasts and publish them on .Mac for viewing by anyone on the Internet with just a single click.

“This is the most exciting iLife upgrade ever,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Apple pioneered applications to serve our emerging digital lifestyle and then consolidated them into the iLife suite. With this major upgrade to iLife, we’re leaping even further ahead of anything available for the PC.”

iLife '06 introduces iWeb, the easiest way to create professional-looking web pages, online photo albums, blogs and Podcasts in minutes. Apple-designed templates help create stunning websites and the iLife media browser makes adding photos, movies, music or playlists as simple as drag and drop. Powerful editing tools make it easy to customize websites without having to know HTML. iWeb works seamlessly with other iLife '06 applications as a complete solution for creating photo albums, blogs and Podcasts that can be published to the Internet with one click using .Mac.

iPhoto 6 offers blazing performance, support for up to 250,000 photos and introduces Photocasting, an innovative new way to share photos directly from within iPhoto via .Mac to friends and family. Photocasting is like Podcasting for photos where anyone can subscribe to a published photo album and automatically receive full quality photos directly within iPhoto 6 or on a PC. Pictures automatically update when the owner adds, edits or deletes a photo within the published album. Photos can be viewed on Apple’s stunning displays with new full-screen edit and compare mode without menus or windows to distract from the image. Up to eight photos can be compared simultaneously and adjusted with a one-click image enhancements and effects panel. Professional-quality books, calendars and greeting cards are created easily by adding photos to Apple-designed themes.

iMovie HD 6 introduces revolutionary new Apple-designed motion themes that let users add Hollywood-style production value to their movies in minutes. Effects can be previewed without waiting with new real-time Core Video effects, while cinematic titling gives users flexibility to create incredible text effects. New audio enhancement tools and sound effects make movies sound as good as they look. Multiple projects can now be opened at once in iMovie HD 6 and clips can be moved among projects. iMovie HD is the easiest way to make a video Podcast which can be published with iWeb for the whole world to experience.

iDVD 6 allows users to take content shot with the latest HDV and widescreen DV cameras and author custom DVDs with widescreen menus, movies and high resolution slideshows that fill every inch of the newest widescreen TVs. iDVD 6 features 10 new Apple-designed menu themes in both widescreen (16:9) and standard (4:3) formats. iDVD 6 themes include new autofill drop zones to make customizing menus even easier. In addition, iDVD 6 can burn using compatible third-party DVD burners. iDVD 6 also includes new Magic iDVD, the easiest way ever to make a DVD. With just a few clicks, users select a theme and choose their movies and photos, Magic iDVD then automatically creates a complete DVD that’s ready to burn.

In addition to being the best way to make music on a computer, GarageBand 3 is now also a complete solution for creating professional quality Podcasts. Voices can easily be recorded using the built-in expertise of an audio engineer and Podcasts can be enhanced with radio-style sound effects and music jingles, chapter artwork and URL links. Talk show Podcasts are created easily by interviewing one or more guests simultaneously in iChat AV and recording directly into GarageBand 3. Podcasts can be posted for the world to enjoy on .Mac and submitted to iTunes® using iWeb. In addition, a new video track makes it easy to create music to score iMovie projects.

Pricing & Availability
iLife ’06 is now available for a suggested retail price of $79 (US) through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. The iLife ’06 suite of applications will be included with all new Macs. iTunes version 6.0.2 is currently available as a free download at www.apple.com. .Mac is available as a subscription-based service for $99.95 (US) per year for individuals and $179.95 (US) for a Family Pack which includes one master account and five sub accounts. Anyone can sign up for a free, 60-day .Mac trial from www.mac.com.

iLife '06 requires Mac OS X version 10.3.9 or version 10.4.3 or later (Mac OS X version 10.4.4 recommended), a Macintosh® computer with a PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, or Intel® Core™ processor (733 MHz or faster for iDVD), 256MB of RAM (512MB recommended), iTunes 6.0.2 and QuickTime® 7.0.4 (included), a DVD drive for installation, and 10GB of available disk space. HD video requires a 1 GHz G4 or faster processor and 512MB of RAM. Burning DVDs requires an Apple SuperDrive™ or compatible third-party DVD burner. iPhoto print services are available in the US, Canada, Japan, and select European countries. A .Mac account is required for iPhoto Photocast publishing and recommended for iWeb. Mac OS X version 10.4.4 is required for iMovie themes, iPhoto Photocasts, and iChat AV recording in GarageBand.
     
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Jan 10, 2006, 04:03 PM
 
New version of itunes is up for download. Now you can drag & drop in any quicktime movie without fiddling about converting it. Perfect for those live8 Floyd tracks!
     
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Jan 10, 2006, 04:12 PM
 
i have a question. i am interested in iweb. do you need to have .mac to publish a website?
     
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Jan 10, 2006, 04:25 PM
 
great features, not worth the price for those of us who both paid for iLife 05 about six months ago and ALSO purchased a new system less than one month ago.

as mentioned in a closed thread (i humbly apologize for mis-posting, the site is slow today and i clicked on the wrong link as i was impatient), i think it's a strategic and unfriendly policy to not offer upgrades. IMHO

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Jan 10, 2006, 04:28 PM
 
.mac is "recommended", but not needed. However the Photocasting in iPhoto does need .mac
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Jan 10, 2006, 04:34 PM
 
Originally Posted by zl9600
great features, not worth the price for those of us who both paid for iLife 05 about six months ago and ALSO purchased a new system less than one month ago.

as mentioned in a closed thread (i humbly apologize for mis-posting, the site is slow today and i clicked on the wrong link as i was impatient), i think it's a strategic and unfriendly policy to not offer upgrades. IMHO

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...6&goto=newpost
You can choose not to upgrade. I will be upgrading from iLife '04 to '06. I skipped '05 because the changes weren't that compelling.
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Jan 10, 2006, 04:42 PM
 
While VERY excited about the cool updates, iWeb, iPhoto speed updates, etc. etc but... $79 for iLife, $79 for iWork (and potentially $99 for .Mac which I'm sure is required for a number of the new features to work)

$158 - $257

That's a sizable chunk of change. I know they aren't forcing me to upgrade, I'm just saying...
     
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Jan 10, 2006, 04:42 PM
 
Originally Posted by nbnz
.mac is "recommended", but not needed. However the Photocasting in iPhoto does need .mac
hmmm, ok. do you know if you there is some place on the web that would have more info on using something other than .mac

also do you know if you to install the entire suite if you buy the ilife suite? i would be wanting to upgrade iphoto and iweb only.
     
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Jan 10, 2006, 04:58 PM
 
Quote from Apple.com
*iWeb publishing requires Internet and webserver access (.Mac recommended). The .Mac service is available to persons age 13 and older. Annual membership fee and Internet access required. Terms and conditions apply.
"webserver" I assume means any websever/host. I can't see anywhere about direct FTP publishing though.
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Jan 10, 2006, 04:59 PM
 
And, in the past, you have been able to choose what apps from iLife to install seperately. I don't have Garageband installed. I assume this will stay the same with '06.
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Jan 10, 2006, 05:02 PM
 
iWeb looks really nice.
     
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Jan 10, 2006, 05:09 PM
 
I ordered. I can't wait for the podcasting features in Garageband. I think my podcasting life just got a lot easier!
     
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Jan 10, 2006, 05:26 PM
 
cool thank you nbnz.

now here is the other question, are they in stores or should i order.
     
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Jan 10, 2006, 06:29 PM
 
iWeb looked cool. Then I realized that there's probably no way to publish blog posts via the web...probably only in iWeb. So, if I'm at work and on a Windows machine, probably no chance of being able to blog. Ruins the entire concept of blogging, no?
     
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Jan 10, 2006, 07:33 PM
 
I can't find the System Requirements for iLife 06.
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Jan 10, 2006, 08:23 PM
 
Originally Posted by Mac Write
I can't find the System Requirements for iLife 06.
What’s in the Box

DVD containing iLife ’06
Printed and electronic documentation
System Requirements

Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G4, G5 or Intel Core Duo processor; 733MHZ or faster required for iDVD
256MB of RAM; 512MB recommended
Mac OS X v10.3.9 or Mac OS X v10.4.3 or later; Mac OS X v10.4.4 recommended
iTunes 6.0.2 and QuickTime 7.0.4 (included)
DVD drive for installation
10GB of disk space to install iLife ’06 applications
Notes:

High-definition video requires 1GHz PowerPC G4 or faster or Intel Core Duo processor; and 512MB of RAM
Burning DVDs requires an Apple SuperDrive or compatible third-party DVD burner
iPhoto print services are available in the U.S., Canada, Japan and select European countries. They requires Internet access; fees and terms apply
.Mac account required for iPhoto photocast publishing and recommended for iWeb
Mac OS X v10.4.4 required for iMovie HD themes, iPhoto photocasts, and iChat recording in GarageBand
     
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Jan 10, 2006, 08:36 PM
 
I like iWeb too, the .mac integration is a big plus and so is not needing .mac for it to be useful. hopefully this will make using .mac groups alot easier. i've never been a fan of .mac homepages because they are not too easy to use; hopefully this makes it easier.

The idvd changes look pretty good too.

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Jan 10, 2006, 08:39 PM
 
I really like the new look of iPhoto. A little Aperturesque.

The dates popping up on the screen as you scroll through the library is a nice touch as well. We use iPhoto the most so more speed, photocasting and better editing will be much appreciated.

Also looking forward to iWeb. I ordered iLife and iWork.
     
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Jan 10, 2006, 09:28 PM
 
iLife '06 looks like a winner.

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Anyone noticed the new UIs for all the iApps? Swish.
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Jan 10, 2006, 09:52 PM
 
Cool beans.
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Jan 10, 2006, 11:14 PM
 
Anyone at MacWorld play around with iPhoto yet? Does it handle RAW photos any better than '05? Like, if you open one in your external editor, does it open the RAW or the iPhoto-generated jpeg? Can you adjust any of the exposure/white-balance parameters from within iPhoto?

That'd be cool.

Tooki, don't you think it'd be okay to have separate threads for the individual Apps in iLife '06? They're all pretty substantial and can probably each spawn lotsa discussion..
     
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iPhoto 6 screenshot:

     
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Jan 11, 2006, 01:26 AM
 
For some reason, I like the interface better in the first shot.

Kidding aside, will I be able to import my current .mac webpage into iWeb? I'd hate to have to rebuild the entire thing. Not that it would be too difficult.
     
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Calendars; those are going to make great gifts for parents-in-laws, etc.
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Jan 11, 2006, 04:50 AM
 
As a webdeveloper I must say that iWeb looks really promising. Looks a hell of a lot better than those MSN spaces or mySpaces or whatever spaced out templates some blog-software includes these days.

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I wonder if you can publish normal websites (limited rich media) on other hosts apart from .Mac using iWeb.
     
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does iWeb support PHP coding (or rather hand coding) or is it just GUI/drag and drop/wysiwig coding? I dont plan on ever again owning a .mac account, and paying $100/year just so I can host a personal site doesn't cut it for me when I can do it free from home.
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Jan 11, 2006, 02:56 PM
 
i don't think iWeb will do php since, i am pretty sure, .mac doesn't support php.

I ordered iLife and iWork online with overnight delivery yesterday right after the keynote. It says it will ship on or before tomorrow. I ordered online because of the educational discount and how you can't get educational in store.
My local apple store has them both in stock now.

Has anyone played with iPhoto? is it actually that much faster? I buy them both every year but i use iPhoto almost daily. well worth the price in my opinion. The new iMovie themes look great.
     
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Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -
As a webdeveloper I must say that iWeb looks really promising. Looks a hell of a lot better than those MSN spaces or mySpaces or whatever spaced out templates some blog-software includes these days.
There is NOOO comparison between iWeb and MySpace. For starters, MySpace is entirely web based, so I can log on at school, work, home, friend's house, etc. and make changes or blog. Second, MySpace is so much fun because everyone is on it. Its the "cool" thing for people my age to have one, so my friends are on it in addition to their friends, and their friends friends, and that cute girl in physics class, etc.

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Originally Posted by mdc
I ordered online because of the educational discount and how you can't get educational in store.

I use my educational discount at the AppleStore all the time. Just show them your student ID or your CTA card.

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Originally Posted by mpancha
does iWeb support PHP coding (or rather hand coding) or is it just GUI/drag and drop/wysiwig coding? I dont plan on ever again owning a .mac account, and paying $100/year just so I can host a personal site doesn't cut it for me when I can do it free from home.
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Originally Posted by Miniryu
I use my educational discount at the AppleStore all the time. Just show them your student ID or your CTA card.
Me too, but for hardware and accessories. Software they tell you that you have to order it online to receive the educational discount.
     
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Jan 11, 2006, 04:43 PM
 
You know what? I don't mind spending $79 per year to get the latest iLife, but I had only just purchased iLife 05 last December 2005, and had no inkling that 06 was less than a month away (my bad????).

I purchased iLife 05 on December 15, 2005, expecting to get the most UP TO DATE iLife suite. Yet less than a month after I recieve the product, Apple announces iLife 06. Guess what, they won't let me exchange or upgrade my product. I have to purchase the complete product iLife 06. I feel like I was baited and switched. There was no warning that a new iLife was coming out (Apple advertises it as a must-have upgrade). If I had known it was coming out I would have waited. Don't tell me I should have expected it. Would you buy a 2005 model car at full price now that a 2006 model is out?

If you purchased iLife 05 in December 2005, feel upset about the recent upgrade, I recommend you call Apple to let them know how stiffed you feel.
     
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Jan 11, 2006, 05:43 PM
 
Originally Posted by adamskwersky
I had only just purchased iLife 05 last December 2005, and had no inkling that 06 was less than a month away (my bad????)
iLife 05 was announced in January of 2005 and the number hints at a yearly version, so it would have been fair to assume a 2006 version would be in the works.

But yeah, Apple's secrecy can be a bit too cruel in cases like this, a fair warning would have been nice.

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Jan 11, 2006, 05:44 PM
 
Originally Posted by adamskwersky
You know what? I don't mind spending $79 per year to get the latest iLife, but I had only just purchased iLife 05 last December 2005, and had no inkling that 06 was less than a month away (my bad????).
Yes, iLife is updated in January every year.
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Just picked up iLife at my local Apple store. Gotta say, I love the new iPhoto. At least a little bit faster on my computer, I have 4k pictures, and the full-screen view is really nice. Haven't had a chance to play around too much with iMovie (I prefer FCP...) or iDVD (No DVD burner, no point) or GarageBand. iWeb, well.... http://www.eggdropper.com/iwebtest

That's a pretty much default site, I edited one page. I'm gonna keep playing around with it, but I'll end up deleting it because it takes a lot of space (all the apps do-iPhoto's books and calendars, etc make it 500 mb...thinking about deleting them from the package....) and I don't have much interest.

Also, iWeb can only publish to .mac or a folder on your local disk, so updating blog entries will NOT be fun if you don't have .mac. But props to Apple for fully CSS, table-less output! At least with this template...

I like that the iLife apps have a fairly consistent look and feel now. I also like that iLife '06 has iPhoto 6, iMovie 6, iDVD 6, and iTunes 6 (that's gotta be why they released iTunes 6 that was nearly identical to iTunes 5). Cute, Apple.

If you have any questions about iPhoto or iWeb, go ahead.
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Jan 11, 2006, 06:17 PM
 
i have a question about iphoto.
when you scroll it shows that little black rectangle telling you where you are. in the keynote it showed the date. is it possible to change what that tells you and if so to what?
     
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http://www.eggdropper.com/iwebtest/Site/Blog/Blog.html

When I try to loas this page, I get a parse error :O

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /homepages/33/d94756404/htdocs/eggdropper/iwebtest/Site/Blog/Blog.html on line 1

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Jan 11, 2006, 06:26 PM
 
adamskwersky,

Sorry, I don't normally address posters like this, but I've been reading SO many people complaining that they just got a new iMac or iLife 05 that I just have to say this and then move on. As it's your first post, forgive me for assuming that you're new to MacNN. Welcome. And I'm sorry.

I bought a new iMac last month. I certainly don't feel like Apple owed me a warning that a new one was coming out? When I bought it, I evaluted my needs, the product offerings, and the price. I opted to buy the iMac I did with the opinion that it was worth the price I paid.

YOU purchased iLife because, at the time, you felt the price was fair. I'm not sure why you think Apple owes 1: advance warning of new products or b: it in any way applies to car sales. The car sales analogy seems particularly inept, as unless you bought iLife YESTERDAY, after the keynote(which you didn't), the analogy doesn't even work from a timeline perspective, much less as a sales model comparison.

However, you put in your post you bought iLife '05 on 12/15/05 expecting to get the latest version. Aside from any free updates via software update, you got exactly what you expected. Bravo. I'm not sure what else you want.

That being said, would an upgrade path be respectful of those customers who bought iLife in the last month or two? Sure. But c'mon, we're talking a price of like $16 per program (not including iTunes) for 4 full version upgrades and a brand new piece of software. If what you got last month works for you, don't upgrade. It's not required. If you like the new features, then pony up the cash. If iLife '06 came out 6 months from now, with the exact same feature set, you'd pay for the new version without complaining (maybe), so go ahead and wait until then to get it. Problem solved.

However, i think anyone thinking they got shafted by a computer hardware or software company because they dared update their product without giving advance notice to the current customer base is naive. Just assume there is ALWAYS a new product on the way, and it's probably just around the corner, and no matter when you buy, you'll have the latest and greatest for the time it takes you to get back to the store. If that.
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Jan 11, 2006, 06:39 PM
 
I can't believe nobody else bought it... lol

I just bought ilife at the Apple Store, Los Angeles Grove.. They also have iwork but I can't afford both. iWeb lets you drag elements anywhere on the page, moving them around on the grid. nice.

http://www.courtkizer.com/iwebscreen.png
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Originally Posted by mdc
i have a question about iphoto.
when you scroll it shows that little black rectangle telling you where you are. in the keynote it showed the date. is it possible to change what that tells you and if so to what?
Nope. Off and on is all you get.
     
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Jan 11, 2006, 07:16 PM
 
Originally Posted by inkhead
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Uh, prepared to get Tookified
     
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Jan 11, 2006, 07:32 PM
 
I know this is obvious, but since you don't buy an update you don't have to keep the previous version. So you can sell that on eBay (if you do so now you will find enough stupid people who don't know yet that a new version is out, and even if not many will be content with iLife 05 for a reduced price). So you get your "upgrade pricing" as well.
     
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Jan 11, 2006, 08:18 PM
 
Why the hell is that pic zoomed in? Seems like you resized it to be bigger, not smaller.
     
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Tried stopping by the Apple Store in Soho, NYC and they didn't have it yet. Looking at mrwilly123 example, and could they have implemented the CSS a little cleaner?

Code:
<div style="height: 667px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 47px; width: 700px; " id="body_layer"><img src="Images/pinstripe_welcome_cover-min3.jpg" alt="" style="border: none; height: 21px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 383px; width: 700px; z-index: 1; " /><div style="background: transparent url(Images/pinstripe_bk_tile3-51.jpg) repeat scroll top left; border: 3px #ffffff none; float: left; margin: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 6px; margin-top: 6px; height: 387px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: -2px; width: 700px; z-index: 1; " id="id7"> </div>
That's gonna be a mess for anyone but iWeb to figure out. They should have it referencing to their external CSS file. I mean they have one linked, so iWeb respects that, but this code is messy!
     
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i checked the whole of today on apple's site to see if my order of iLife and iWork had shipped and it kept saying "not shipped yet. on or before 12th."

I got home today and there was a FedEx "we're sorry we missed you" thing on my door. For some reason the package was waiting for me at a different FedEx to the one it normally is at. The one it was at is about 5 minutes from my work (where i had just come from). So i did the 20 minute drive again and got my iLife and iWork.

I just installed them now and am about to play.
     
 
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