Yesterday’s Feature Presentation took a look at the new Front Row in Leopard, which provides a simple, media-center like way to view your music, your TV shows, your movies, your podcasts, your photo slideshows, and your DVDs, things that you could already do just fine with already built-in apps on your computer like iTunes, iPhoto, and DVD Player. Although I did lavish praise yesterday on the new Front Row for being a lot better than the old Front Row, the mere fact that these applications already exist and already work with the Apple Remote really means that the Front Row’s simpler interface and mind-boggling graphics are the only thing keeping it from fading into non-importance. Indeed, in the case of DVDs, Leopard’s DVD Player includes numerous new features that probably help to rank it among the most advanced DVD players out there.
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Tags: chapters, DVD Player, entertainment, features, full screen, Leopard Feature Presentation, Mac OS X Leopard, movies, review

Delicious Library is one of those Mac OS X applications that you wouldn’t expect to find yourself using, however its wonderful combination of interface, ease-of-use, and its delectable Mac OS X integration make it a rather fun application to play around with. All the power behind it makes it by far the premier application for managing your library of books, movies, music, games, and more.
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Tags: Apple, Apple Design Award, barcode, books, catalog, games, iSight, library, Mac, movies, music, review, scanner, Software

No, I’m not talking about the next season of new cars. For one thing, I wouldn’t call 95% of the cars out there “worth it”, mostly because their gas mileage would make any non-American laugh with their fingers pointing, and for another thing, I really don’t care about cars anyway. Nevertheless, yesterday, Apple released iLife and iWork ‘08 (along with some other new stuff, which aren’t the focus of this article), which Steve Jobs claims to be their biggest updates ever to both releases. But after spending a couple of hours today following the announcements through Engadget’s live coverage, rubbing my eyes all over the Apple.com website, watching demo videos and tutorials, and all that stuff, I’m ready to judge for myself if iLife and iWork ‘08 are really that substantial, and if they’re each worth their respective $80 upgrade price.
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Tags: 2008, announcements, Apple, documents, GarageBand, hardware, iDVD, iLife, iMac, iMovie, iPhoto, iWeb, iWork, Keynote, Mac, Microsoft Office, movies, Numbers, Pages, photos, podcasting, presentations, PreviewCast, Software, Special Event, spreadsheets, Steve Jobs, web design