iLife '11
>> November 15, 2010
It's pretty clear that Apple's focus has shifted away from Mac OS X and iLife and on to the greener pastures of iOS: the iPad and iPhone. In fact, from now on we'll likely see features come first to their consumer devices, and then later to their desktop computers. I'm afraid the days of getting truly major updates to iLife every two years is a thing of the past.For less than $50 you get a world class digital music studio, one of the best photo organizing programs, and a remarkably adequate to video editing package. (Oh, and passable web editing and DVD authoring programs, but nobody cares much about those, least of all Apple.) Easily five stars.
However, if I judge this as an upgrade from iLife '09, it's extremely weak. Here's what you get of any substance: the ability to better edit audio in iMovie, slightly better full screen modes in iPhoto, really impressive time warping facilities in Garage Band to fix timing, and some very nice guitar and piano lessons which actually show you where you making mistakes. All great features, to be certain. But are these worth $50 if you have '09? Probably not.
The frustrating thing is that the most major feature in this upgrade is just plain silly: they added the ability to make cutesy little fake "trailers" in iMovie. This is apparently their big innovation. You can now replace your boring home movies with one of eight or so two minute jokes that I guarantee you will get old very quickly. Very quickly. They also added a fake news program theme, and a fake sports theme. All very gaudy and over-the-top, even for iMovie standards. And not at all useful beyond just playing with them once.
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Installation: Once you run the installer, the program is ready to function in about a minute truly fast just like 2010 version. 
LIKE-- using Intellisync as a conduit, I can sync to my Palm Treo 650. Don't like-- it takes longer (this is largely Palm's problem for not supporting this product in the first place, and not providing sufficient memory. LIKE-- the Day Planner screen is great, versatile, and easy to use. DON'T LIKE-- the printing of Tasks in different formats is very difficult to use. LIKE-- easy to schedule repeating tasks. No downside to this. The address book is easy and clear to read and copy. The Weekly Planner is great and clear. I like the ability to use "penciled in" appointments. I have never gotten any of the billing items to work and I use separate billing software (Billquick) for this. Like some of the other reviewers, I have been using this product for a while (five years). And like the others, I would not trade it for anything. I have used other Organizers/Contact Managers, and they don't have the same functionality or ease of use. Things I like: creating phone lists for the day is AUTOMATIC-- type first name and last name and phone number show up-- or type last name. DON'T LIKE that you have to organize your contact's mobile phone separately to call up a different phone number to call. 
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I am a recent switcher to the Macintosh platform, I, like many of the reviewers, have used Microsoft and various other OS. I have used MS OS since DOS. I must say that Jaguar is a beautiful OS, and to add to the beauty is the UNIX core that lies underneath. However it is a bit sluggish even on G4 machines, when compared to Apples previous OS9. I have an 800 MHz Titanium PowerBook with 512MB of RAM. The CPU get eaten up by intense applications, moreso than it did when using OS9 with those same applications. For everyday users this is not a concern, but for people working on grpahics and computer media, sluggish performance is unbearable. I do however love the fact that it is almost fully customizable. 
I don't know the circumstances behind Zeev Kirshenboim's (the January 3, 2007 review) comment, but I've used the France, Western Europe, and USA TomTom SD cards interchangably, without issues, though I did start with the France card. The only problem I've encountered is with the TomTom device shutting down when it gets overheated (from being exposed to direct sun, not from use)
First, start of with SmartRipper, in the "backup" mode, then use Instant Copy. Viola!! Flawless BACKUP copies!!! 
Here it is -- I inserted the Win7 disc, it let me know where I might run into trouble, upon their recommendation I uninstalled a couple of programs and reboot, et voila, no DVD drive. Gone. Panicked. How can I install a program by DVD if the system doesn't recognize that there is a DVD? A quick search on the internet revealed an easy resolution through the "registry edit," whereupon the drive magically reappeared. 
One word of caution when you are installing. My MS Office install is a bit of a collection. I'm using stand alone versions of Outlook and Publisher (both 2007) and Access (2003). I had decided to leave these as is. Upon installing 2010 I was presented with two buttons: "Upgrade" and "Customize". I picked curtain 1 (upgrade). My bad! The install then proceeded to remove Outlook, Publisher and Access. Since the program I was installing did not include these products I think it's pretty bogus for the install process to remove them. I don't know if the "Customize" button would have allowed them to stay. I reinstalled the 3 programs and everything was fine, but I should not have had to waste time doing this. This is a worthwhile upgrade for me. I debated whether to do it or not and what version to get. I finally decided on the Home and Student version. I was pleased to see the price actually drop upon shipping. For me the main deal was OneNote 2010 which allows me to print directly into OneNote. In December I bought a new laptop and it has Win7 Pro 64bit. I was very disappointed to find that OneNote 2007 did not include a driver to print directly into it. While MS did provide a work around this much better. 
Very, very good introduction to databases. I'm mostly self-taught in the DB field, and felt that although I knew and understood most concepts at a reasonable level, there were a few bits and pieces missing. I bought this book in the hope that it would help me find those bits and pieces, and wasn't disappointed. This book would be excellent value if it cost more; at it's current price it's mindbogglingly good value. 
