iLife '09 hit Golden Master yesterday - Out for print today

Fri, 01/16/2009 - 6:08am — Cleve Nettles

Cupertino called in a lifeline today to tell us that iLife GM'd (Golden Master) yesterday and was sent to the DVD printers and should start shipping en mass on Monday. Faces and Places are very close to being on your computer.

Don't have a Camera with GPS capabilities (and not pleased with the 2 megapixel iPhone snappers)? Nikon's Coolpix P6000 13.5MP Digital Camera is the camera that Apple showed off during the iPhoto demonstration.

Update: Apple says ships "in January"

Links to Amazon Affiliate Store and prices below.

iLife '09 $79
iLife '09 Family Pack $99 (up to 5 licenses - screw you Brady Bunch!)

The Box Set - which includes iLife '09, iWork '09 and a Leopard license
Single License: $169
Family License: $229

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Comments

geotagging

Fri, 01/16/2009 - 6:31am — excited (not verified)

anyone know of a point and shoot gps capable geotagging camera to take advantage of places in iPhoto 09?

They seemed to be endorsing

Fri, 01/16/2009 - 6:36am — admin

They seemed to be endorsing the Nikon one at Macworld (oh, and the iPhone)

Well, if you don't want to

Fri, 01/16/2009 - 7:05am — Kev Orng (not verified)

Well, if you don't want to buy a new camera, the nice thing is that it seems like adding geo info to existing and non-tagged photos will be really easy in iPhoto. Click the "i", choose the add geo tag thingy, and point to it on a map. If you have an event or album or other group of pics all taken in roughly the same area, like in and around the cottage, you can set a wider area, as if to say "all these pics were taken within this circle"

If that's not good enough, get a GPS tracker that logs your positions, then use third party software to match your GPS log with pictures based on the time stamp.

So I'm not rushing out to buy a new camera just for geotagging, I'll see how well the built in feature works, and maybe the tracker, because I just bought a new dSLR after xmas, and I won't be able to convince my wife to upgrade for at least a year or two.

I saw this posted last year,

Sat, 01/17/2009 - 4:23pm — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

I saw this posted last year, but haven't heard anything about it since: http://blogs.computerworld.com/first_ever_gps_digital_camera_coming_in_june
I would love to see a small point and shoot like this maybe in the Canon lineup.

If they want to make a useful

Fri, 01/16/2009 - 7:08am — Kev Orng (not verified)

If they want to make a useful box set, they could give bundle iLife, iWork and MobileMe.

Or just iLife and iWork.

I'd be all over the box set if I didn't already have Leopard. I don't need a spare leopard license... unless I'm planing to build a hackintosh.

That box will be useful as

Fri, 01/16/2009 - 7:59am — respect (not verified)

That box will be useful as soon as Snow Leopard will be shipping. Maybe that is the way how Apple intends to make it cost only $10 as it is not expected to bring a lot of new front-end features. However until Snow Leopard ships some people will have bought iLife and/or iWork already.

Good point

Fri, 01/16/2009 - 10:43am — Kev Orng (not verified)

You're right. I'll hold off on iLife and iWork, I guess!

Screw You Brady Bunch??

Fri, 01/16/2009 - 9:47am — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

Huh? If you count the extra kid, Mike, Carol, Alice, and the dog thats 10. Exactly 2 family packs....No big, move along citizens, nothing to see here

But... but...

Fri, 01/16/2009 - 10:40am — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

But.. but.. wait! Mike and Carol got married! They're one family now not two creepy intermingled families living in sin together with their dog and maid! (ok, it is still creepy, I'll give you that) Don't discriminate against the loving blended family! The dog and Alice, on the other hand, well they're not exactly part of the family so they'd better give the EULA a close read.

Most of my pictures are taken

Fri, 01/16/2009 - 9:52am — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

Most of my pictures are taken indoors...GPS will be largely useless in that case, especially with the reportedly poor performance of GPS-enabled cameras.

Will snow leopard come with

Fri, 01/16/2009 - 10:31am — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

Will snow leopard come with ilife 09?

Nope. New Macs ship with

Fri, 01/16/2009 - 11:00am — Kev Orng (not verified)

Nope. New Macs ship with iLife, new copies of OSX do not

I bought the Mac mini 2GHz Core Duo 2 Sunday!

Fri, 01/16/2009 - 11:10am — LE Studios (not verified)

I order iLife '09 Up To Date for $9.95 plus Tax with FREE shipping! I say get it the upgrade is worth I also say buy the iWork '09 cause I bought that too. It's worth I really wanted to get to utilize the iWork.com that you will need have iWork '09 to get to to it. I'm impressed and really using it fully! Its benefit you can work on documents to do online collaborating to get ideas going. It's really beneficial!

I dont think that its true

Fri, 01/16/2009 - 12:10pm — Mac Genius (not verified)

I dont think that its true because today morning I spoke with one of the Apple Genius guy and he told me that it wont be released untill the end of this month.. and if it does then it will be great..

I was looking for this since few weeks..

How come none of the other

Fri, 01/16/2009 - 12:45pm — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

How come none of the other sites are picking up on this if its true? Id LOVE to think it is... but, I havent seen a change to my order status, nor have I seen ANY other site cover this. How are we supposed to think this is true???