I bought iLife 04 in my local applecentre today , I haven't installed the new Garageband yet but i have installed iPhoto and iMovie and they seem to be pretty smashing. iPhoto has been improved tremendously. It took a while for it to upgrade my photo library but once it had upgraded and loaded then it was miles faster. It still takes a while to load the library but once it has loaded….. it's like lightning (compared to what it was)… very pleased with it I am. iMovie seems to be quicker too but then again I never really used it before. So.. First impressions suggest that iLife was well worth the $79 I spent…. Go and get a copy now :).

It's not often I fork out money for software, but today I ordered iLife 04 in my local AppleCenter. It cose $80 AU which is about 45 Euro. For that you get iPhoto 4(supposedly much much faster than iPhoto 2 – the main reason for buying th iLife suite), iMovie 4 (I definitely want to start doing some small movies in this), iDVD (for when I get a DVD burner) and the new GarageBand for all your sound studio needs. For the price it is absolutely amazing and hopefully well worth the investment. I should have it by thursday next week so I'll post a review then.

As I said the main reason for getting iLife 04 is for iPhoto. I have iPhoto 2 installed and have 1800 photos in my library but it is excrutiatingly slow, I installed iView Media Pro 2.0 which is alot quicked but it is not as usable as iPhoto. iView seems to be an App for storing and organising all media types, not only photos. As all I need it for is Photos, it's alot of overkill. The speed increase in iPhoto might all be hype though 🙁 .

Since installing PHPWiki on the iBook I have grown to really like it. It is really neat and the theory behind has proven itself. I'll be making a Philroche theme soon, and then having a Philroche.net wiki…while I do that i am going to remove my IRC app as it never gets used and looks a bit shit to be honest.