Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 542 pages
- Published by: Visual November 5, 2004
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0764567969
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764567964
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Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 7.7 x 1.1 inches
- Weighs: 2.1 pounds
Product Description
Mac star Andy Ihnatko delivers a fun, informative, full-color guide that shows Mac users everywhere how to make the most of Apple's iLife digital media suite-iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD.
Drawing on the cooperation of Apple Computer, Inc., Ihnatko and Bove cover the key features of each application in the suite, including ripping songs and working with a playlist (iTunes), editing and saving digital photo files (iPhoto), assembling picture and video clips into a home movie (iMovie), creating and burning DVD slide shows and movies (iDVD), and more!
* An invaluable book on Apple's digital media suite by a well-known Mac guru
* Provides entertaining, real-world guidance and awesome tips in Andy Ihnatko's inimitable style, as well as the occasional oddball "Easter Egg" chapter and, of course, a concluding chapter that offers answers to "Questions Your Aunt Might Ask You"
* Lavishly illustrated throughout, The iLife Book was developed in cooperation with Apple Computer, Inc. and covers iLife '04
Back Cover Copy
You're gonna love the suite iLife. And who better than Andy Ihnatko and Tony Bove to show you how to get the most from every minute? Andy calls iLife "the glue that turns your computer into a universal appliance for media and data." Stick with him as he Walks you through setting up and fine-tuning iPhoto
TM, IDVD
TM, iTunes®, iMovie®, GarageBand
TM, and your iPod®. Then the fun really begins, as you discover all the incredible things you can do with suite. you're about to have the time of your iLife.
- Packed with useful screen shots and real-world Tips and tricks
- Features advice on using, protecting, and maximizing all five iLife applications
- Special iPod and GarageBand chapters
- Includes Andy's "Twenty Questions From My Aunt Estelle" and Much More!
"Ihnatko's writing combines perfect clarity with boundless good will. He is one of the funnies writers I know, one of the most engaging, and one of the most useful."
--From the forward by Roger Ebert
"You see, the thing is this
Whether you've just bought your first guitar or are learning to cook Thai food, there's a distressing lack of Diving Right in involved.
The good new with iLife is that setting up the
software and getting your hardware ready for your brand-new pushbutton world of the future is straightforward. In no time, you'll be creating embarrassing dewy-eyed montages of your wedding videos, complete with photographs accompanied by Lionel Richie's 'Say You, Say Me'."
--Andy Ihnatko