Three New Things!

New iLife '09!
New version of iPhoto. New 'Faces' way of organising your photos...on cork! Miraculously uses face detection and recognition. Wow! (Looks like I'll be buying this NOW). GPS geotagging can now organise your photos into 'Places'. Faces & Places. Nice. It helps if your camera has geotagging - like the iPhone. You can also manually tag your untagged photos too. iPhoto used Google maps for this so that automatically makes it better than Flickr for placing your photos -they use Yahoo maps. Facebook and Flickr buttons are built in too - so now more having to use 3rd-party plug-ins. Slideshows get themes and use face detection to centre faces in the shots (but what about the rule of thirds?) Slideshows work on iPhone/touch. New printed book themes.
New iMovie '09. Basically they've given it an advanced mode which makes it more like iMovie '06. i.e. before they over-simplified it. Edits with more precision. Advanced drag & drop. Dynamic themes. Animated travel maps. Video stabilisation.
GarageBand '09The main new feature is Learn to Play - instrument tutorials. That guitar I bought three years ago will be dusted and retuned soon...and that USB keyboard. Artist Lessons from John Fogerty, Colbie Colbalt, Fall Out Boy bloke and Sting! Phil Schiller is very excited and that's just for the guitar. There's Sarah McLachlan, Ryan from One Republic, and the lovely Norah Jones for budding keyboard players. More will be added. Looks like the similar 'Now Play It' will be going the same way as Woolies.
iLIfe '09 is $79 to upgrade and is available late Jan.
New Keynote '09. Includes Magic Move. Object transitions. Text transitions. Chart animations. New Themes. iPhone Remote.
Pages '09. Full Screen View. Dynamic outlines. Mail merge with numbers. Math type and Endnote. 40 new Templates.
Numbers '09. Table Categories. Easy formula writing. New chart options. Linked charts.
iWork is $99 or $49 with a new Mac.
Mac Box Set. iLife, MAc OS X and iWork in one box. $169. Available late Jan.
iWork.com (beta) Mobile Me for iWork.
17" MacBook Pro. 0.98 inches thin. 6.6 pounds. Best display ever in a notebook. Comes in glossy or $50 Matte finish (good but you don't get a black border around your display). Up to 2.9 GHz Dual Core. GeForce 9400M and 9600M GT. 8GB DDR 3 RAM 320 GB HD or 256GB SSD. Up to 8 hours battery life. $2799 is the standard set up price. Available late Jan.
One Last Thing...
iTunes. New prices. Starting April. $99, $69 and $1.29. 8 million tracks are iTunes + (DRM Free) today and all by the end of the quarter (about time too!). Complete iTunes Store is available on iPhone and iPod touch.
Tony Bennett sings us a song at the end.
There you go. Where was the new Mac Mini?