iLife Support provides system software components shared by all iLife ’08 applications. This update improves overall stability and addresses a number of other minor issues. It is recommended for all users for iLife ’08.

[Update] Update only available to iLife users on Mac OS X 10.4.11.

This update improves the printing quality of books, cards and calendars ordered via the iPhoto printing service.

Airport Extreme Update 2008-004 - 2MB

This update is recommended for all Intel-based Macintosh computers running Mac OS 10.5.5 and resolves some issues with AirPort connections when roaming in large Wi-Fi networks.

This update contains new holiday greeting card and postcard themes for use with Apple print products.

This update also addresses general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.

This update addresses general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.

iWeb 2.0.4 - 35MB

This update addresses general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.

iLife Support 8.3 - 10MB

iLife Support provides system software components shared by all iLife ‘08 applications.

This update improves overall stability and addresses a number of other minor issues. It is recommended for all users for iLife ‘08.

This update supports general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.

iMovie 7.1.2 - 17.9MB

This update addresses general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.

This update addresses compatibility with Mac OS X.

This update primarily addresses performance issues while playing or exporting presentations.

Pages 3.0.2 - 27.8MB

This update addresses compatibility with Mac OS X.

Numbers 1.0.2 - 26.2MB

This update addresses compatibility with Mac OS X.

This update supports compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.

This update supports system software components shared by all iLife ‘08 applications, improves overall stability, addresses a number of other minor issues, and supports general compatibility issues. It is recommended for all users of iLife ‘08.

iDVD 6.0.4 - 6.5MB

This update improves overall stability and supports compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5.

iMac MXM Update 1.0 - 403KB

The iMac MXM Update improves video compatibility with Boot Camp on certain 24″ iMac models.

In the advanced notes Apple writes:

Some iMac (Late 2006 24-inch) computers may display a black screen when booting from the Windows XP installer CD, instead of the standard blue installation screen. The computer will respond to the correct setup key presses and continue the installation even though the built-in display has no video.

The update describes various fixes including

• Improves performance and reliability of Intel Core 2 Duo Processors (iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro)
• Improves performance and reliability of Dual-Core Intel Xeon Procesors (Xserve)
• Fixes issues with Boot Camp (iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro)
• Fixes fan behavior (Mac Pro)

iPod touch V1.1.1

Apple has released an update for the iPod listing only “bug fixes” in the description.

It appears that some early reports point towards negative screen issues being corrected with this update.

Numbers 1.0.1 - 26.1MB

This update primarily addresses issues with tables and performance

Pages 3.0.1 - 27.8MB

This update primarily addresses issues with change tracking and performance.

Keynote 4.0.1 - 31.1MB

This update primarily addresses issues with builds and performance.

iWeb 2.0.2 - 17MB

This update to iWeb addresses issues with upgrading iWeb 1.x websites, and fixes some common publishing problems, and supports general compatibility issues.

This update supports system software components shared by all iLife ’08 applications, improves overall stability, addresses a number of other minor issues, and supports general compatibility issues. It is recommended for all users of iLife ’08.

iDVD 7.0.1 - 18.6MB

This update improves overall stability, supports general compatibility issues, and addresses a number of other minor issues.

iPhoto 7.1 - 59.3MB

This update addresses issues encountered when moving photos between Events, plus new greeting card themes, including holiday card designs. It also supports general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.

iMovie 7.1 - 44.6MB

This update addresses several areas including video and audio editing capabilities, and performance associated with opening and switching iMovie Events and Projects. This update also supports general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.

Show Current Playhead Time
Get duration or timing information at a glance as you skim through your Events or movie.

GarageBand 4.1 - 46.1MB

This update addresses isolated graphic display issues, compatibility with 3rd party audio software, fixes minor problems with Magic GarageBand, and supports general compatibility issues.

This update to iPhoto addresses issues associated with publishing to .Mac Web Gallery, rebuilding thumbnails, and editing books. It also addresses a number of other minor issues.

The move has been made as the new version of iMovie in iLife ‘08 lacks some backwards compatibility and many users seem to prefer the older version.

iMovie 6 HD is a 154.6MB download available to purchasers of iLife ‘08.

“Apple has taken iLife ’08 to a new level that is years ahead of anything available for the PC,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think iLife ’08 gives Mac users even more reasons to love their Macs, and PC users even more reasons to switch.”

iPhoto ’08 automatically groups all photos into Events, each containing a day’s worth of photos represented by a single picture. Users can simply move their mouse over an Event to instantly “skim” through all its photos. Users can split a single day’s event into multiple events, such as a birthday party in the morning and a wedding in the evening, or merge events on multiple days into a single event, such as a weekend ski vacation. Users can hide photos they don’t want to see every day but don’t want to throw away, and a unified search allows users to instantly find all their photos across all Events by rating, date and keywords. Users can produce frame-worthy prints on a home printer with new Apple-designed photo themes, and order keepsake books with customizable dust jackets and professional quality hardcovers with elegant foil printing, new spiral-bound softcover books that can be laid flat for easy viewing, or new larger wall calendars.

With iMovie ’08, Apple’s movie-making software has been completely reinvented to let users rediscover and enjoy their video library, make movies in minutes instead of hours, and share their movies with family, friends or the entire world in a snap. iMovie ’08 can import video from the latest AVCHD, HDV and DV camcorders, as well as from digital cameras, and displays a user’s entire video library whether it’s stored on internal or external drives. Users can preview any of their video clips by simply moving their mouse over the clip to “skim” through it forward or backward at any speed, including faster than real time. Users can select video as easily as selecting text, make a movie by simply dragging the selected video into a project, then easily add a soundtrack from iTunes, voiceovers, and elegant effects and cinematic titles. iMovie ’08 makes it as easy as a few clicks to enjoy your movies on an iPod, iPhone or Apple TV, or share with the entire world on YouTube.

For .Mac members, Apple is also introducing the stunning .Mac Web Gallery. .Mac Web Gallery is fully integrated with iPhoto ’08 and iMovie ’08, letting users share their photos and movies on the web with just a few clicks. .Mac Web Gallery automatically builds a website containing photo galleries and movies that can be viewed on any modern computer or iPhone. Photos can be downloaded to print at sizes up to 16×20, and movies can be viewed at higher-than-DVD resolution.

iWeb ’08 offers new features to make websites more interactive by adding live web widgets such as Google Maps, targeted ads using Google AdSense and photos or movies from .Mac Web Galleries. Users can also add Internet video, news headlines, weather and more from any site that supports HTML snippets. A new “My Album” page template lets users easily organize photo albums and videos into one simple index web page. The new iWeb includes a range of beautiful new Apple-designed themes that users can change at any time to experiment with different web page designs, even after their site has been published. With a .Mac membership, users can also now host iWeb websites using their own personal domains.

GarageBand ’08 introduces Magic GarageBand, an easy and fun way for musicians and non-musicians alike to create a song. Users can pick from nine musical genres and interact with a band of “players” on a virtual stage by selecting an instrument and musical part for each player to create thousands of possible song combinations. Users can play along with a built-in software instrument or record their voice to sing along to their own music. The new GarageBand also offers powerful new features for more advanced musicians, including multi-take recording to capture the best performance, arrangements to cut, copy and paste intros, verses and choruses, and support for 24-bit audio interfaces.

“Pages and Keynote make it incredibly easy, and even fun, for anyone to create stylish documents and presentations very quickly,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Numbers rounds out the iWork suite, which is far more intuitive and easy to use than anything else out there.”

Numbers ’08 is a new approach to spreadsheets that allows people to organize their information, interact with their data and calculations and make their spreadsheets easy to understand and print. With multiple intelligent tables on a flexible graphics canvas, users can rearrange information, resize and add columns—all without breaking their spreadsheet. Each table is a full-blown spreadsheet with automatic header and footer rows, easy sorting and filtering, and automatic cell naming so creating, reading and maintaining formulas is easy. Common functions can be dragged to any cell, and a total of 150 functions are available spanning a wide range of calculations, including numeric, date and time, financial and statistical. Interactive checkboxes and sliders let users change cell values easily to explore different scenarios and see their results instantly. Users can create stunning 2D and 3D charts that are automatically updated as data changes, then complement them with rich graphics, photos and text labels. Interactive printing makes it easy to fit a document on a single page or rearrange and resize tables and objects across multiple pages.

Pages ’08 now has two distinct modes: streamlined word processing that makes it easy to create stunning documents in seconds; and flexible page layout, which gives users complete control over the position of objects on the page. Pages includes 140 Apple-designed templates that let users easily create letters, reports, newsletters and brochures. A new contextual format bar gives users the exact set of tools they need at their fingertips whether they’re editing text, creating a table or adjusting an image. Change tracking lets users collaborate with others on a document by displaying each person’s edits in different colors, then accept or reject each proposed change.

Keynote ’08, Apple’s industry-leading application for creating cinema-quality presentations, introduces new Smart Builds to make it easy for anyone to create spectacular animations by simply dropping graphics onto a slide. More advanced users can control every aspect of their animations with new A-to-B animations to define movement, rotation, scaling and opacity. Keynote’s new Instant Alpha feature makes it easy to remove unwanted backgrounds from photos and graphics without needing a graphics department. Users can record their presentations along with a voice-over, then deliver them to audiences in person or over the Internet via podcasting or YouTube. The new Keynote also includes a collection of new text effects, transitions and themes.

iWork ’08 can import Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and AppleWorks word processing, presentation and spreadsheet files, and can export documents in Microsoft Office file formats or PDFs for easy sharing.

• Steve is on stage.
• Jobs: The market share of the Mac is rising three times faster than the rest of the PC industry
• “Today’s focus is on the iMac”
• “iMacs have been very successful, and we’d like to make it even better,” he said. Apple is borrowing two elements from its pro products for this new generation of iMac — aluminum and silicon dioxide, better known as glass.
  
• “This is the new iMac design, and it’s just designing. This is the new iMac. Just gorgeous. You can see we have a full complement of I/O across the bottom. USB 2.0, Firewire 400, Fireiwre 800. Slot load superdrive. iSight camera and microphone. Can add memory with just one screw. New iMac will come in two sizes: 20-inch display, and 24-inch display. Both will be glossy. Customers say they love glossy displays.”
• New iMac. Also, new keyboard. You might have seen this on the web. Two USB ports. 0.33″, full complement of keys, including dedicated keys for screen dimmer and brighter, expose, media controls, volume controls, eject for optical drive. This is the new iMac with the new keyboard and mouse. Wireless? New wireless keyboard, beautiful, very compact. People love to hold them in their lap. Bluetooth 2.0, all these dedicated keys as well.”
• “What about the inside? Up to 2.4GHz Core 2 Extreme processor, up to 4GB of memory. ATI Radeon HD graphics card, up to 1TB of hard drive storage. 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.0 built-in. What models will we have? Up until now, 17-inch, 20-inch, and 24-inch. Well, today we’re replacing the 24-inch, lowering price by $200, 20-inch at same $1499. replacing 17-inch with $1199 model.”
• All models shipping Today.
• New advert to advertise the iMacs, shows iMacs rotating.
• Jobs shows picture of Mac lineup, Mac mini still there
• “Alright, next thing is applications that run on the Mac. Apple invented category of digital lifestyle applications. Computer is the hub of digital life. We’ve increased our lead over the PC industry. Introducing iLife ‘08. Totally new, biggest jump since we introduced it. iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb, iDVD and GarageBand. We’re replacing one of the apps with something that takes it to a new level.”
• “iPhoto. We’re adding “Events”. Digital cameras have made it so easy and inexpensive, photo libraries have grown, not unusual to find photo library with 5 or 6 thousand photos. It’s getting hard to find ‘em. We make albums, go to some event, take photos, and look what’s happened. We have tons of albums. They’re centered around events. Birthday party, family reunion. We label the albums. We have a computer, we could do this automatically. Automatically makes events out of your photos. Around 50 photos per avg per event. What that means is, instead of looking through 5K, you’re just looking through 100 events. Makes photos manageable again. What photos go in an event? When it automatically makes an event, what does it do? All photos taken in a day. All photos yesterday, put in an event. photos taken two days ago in an event, and so on. What happens if I go to a b-day party in the morning and wedding in the afternoon? Just pick first photo and splits automatically into two events. Multi-day events can be joined together into single event.”
• iPhoto also gains new editing tools, including the ability to copy and paste adjustments you’ve made on one photo to other photos where it makes sense. Books and calendars have been improved, theme based home printing is now available and more. Jobs demonstrated the new features and held up a book example, which can now be printed with foil lettering.
• “When you get your hands on this, you’ll think it’s great. We’re all familiar with .Mac. It’s our internet subscription service. We’re pleased to announce we have over 1.7M .Mac subscribers, we’re going to see it grow even faster after today. Marry .Mac and iPhoto. Announcing .Mac Web Gallery. Works hand in glove with iPhoto ‘08. What does it do? Has one button photo sharing. integrated into iPhoto ‘08. Makes web gallery, uploads automatically. Users get rich Web 2.0 experience. You can see photos in gallary, mosaic. can see in any browser you’d like. Now people that view photos, if you let them, can download print quality downloads. Users can contribute photos from anywhere. You publish on .Mac, someone is on a PC, there is special email address they can get from the web gallery, and they will appear on your web gallery. Photos will sync to your iPhoto library, too.
• we’ve added “Send to Web Gallery” on your iPhone. Pick one, emails to special address, that photo will show up on your web gallery. Can tell friends about it, View others’ web galleries right on your iPhone, great iPhone experience, fully integrated.”
• “Now I want to show how easy it is for other people to contribute to my .Mac web gallery. Phil Schiller has his iPhone, has snapped a photo, gonna send to my gallery right from his iPhone. Went right into my .Mac web gallery. Will auto download to my iPhone as well. Going back to my gallery. So that is .Mac Web Gallery.”
• “Next up: iMovie. This is really interesting. Let me tell you the story. One of our video engineers went to the Cayman Islands, shot a lot of underwater HD, wanted to make a video for his buddies in half an hour. We found out he couldn’t do it. Engineer got out Final Cut Pro. Couldn’t do it. Couldn’t do great movie in 30 minutes. So he created an app that could do it. We were so blown away that we decided to use it. We’re still calling it iMovie, but we’re giving a new icon so we can show it’s a whole new app. One library for all your video.”
• Support for AVCHD
• Like iPhoto, iMovie utilizes the “skimming” concept — you can use your mouse to skim through video, and don’t have to actually “play” clips to see what they contain. You can scrub, for example. “This allows you to have superfast movie creation,”
• Can view and share almost anywhere. You can go to share menu, make version for iTunes. Watch on computer, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV. Put on .Mac Web Gallery.”
• Also built-in YouTube sharing
• [Phone rings in audience! Jobs: “You might want to answer that”]
• Demoing iMovie, making a video real quick, looks good
• “We’re slinging around HD video we’ve taken. You can imagine making a movie in 20 minutes. It’s very well thought through. Can share it, pick resolutions that I want. One of things I want to show you is .Mac Web Gallery. put a few movies on there. You can see, it’s higher res than a DVD, anyone can see this. This is the movie our video engineered made. You can make it in 20 minutes and put it on the web. This is a much better and much faster way to do it. There’s a mobile resolution for watching on your iPhone. If you want, people can download to their own computer as well.”
• “So now I’d like to talk about iWeb. Enhanced version of iWeb, make even better websites. Live web widgets. Add GoogleMaps, we’ve made it so you can put it right in. You can add any web snippet, paste it into your website. Live web widgets. Another thing you can add is Google AdSense. Register with Google, type in registration, decide what format, Google will put ads in there that are appropriate. Media index page. A lot of us have sites with photos on them, we’d like index page. We’ve added that, you can create index page, add your content in. Page with all the photos. Taking up just one position in the navigation. Put pointers to .Mac page as well. Personal domain support. If you have a personal domain, that’s now supported. Themes, you can change theme now if you like. We’ve shipped some great themes. This is iWeb in iLife ‘08″
• iDVD’08 includes pro encoding codes, and 10 new themes
• “GarageBand, multi-take recording. Magic GarageBand, way to experiment, best way to communicate is just to show you. Let me show you.” Demo time! “Magic GarageBand gives me genres to play with: blues, rock, jazz, country, reggae, funk, latin, another rock style, and slow blues. I’m going to audition latin. Gives me little jazz club with my instruments.” Looks like you can switch instruments playing each part of the preloaded track. Changing violin to trumpet, removing the drums. “When I’ve got something I like, can add my own voice and instruments, loops, change around however I want to. Way for musicians and non-musicians alike to get into GarageBand. That’s GarageBand.
• That’s iLife ‘08, shipping today for $79 and free with all news Macs
• .Mac now with 10GB of storage as well as web galleries, new data transfer limit of 100GB
• iWork: Keynote and Pages. I’m very pleased to announce we’ve sold 1.8M copies to date. New iWork ‘08. New Keynote, new text effects, new transitions, Instant Alpha. Instant Alpha, get a photo, lets us take out the background, just keep part of photo you want. Smart Builds, lets anyone make very high production value animations. Go to Media Viewer, drag photos in, anything you want. Keynote generates animations for you. A to B animations, you can create your own animations. Easily build slides that mere mortals can figure out to use. Great new themes that are really beautiful. Of course you can add animations to these. These are so easy, so easy to make slides that look this good. So, these are just some of the features as part of Keynote ‘08.”
• Pages now has two modes, one designed for word processing and the other for page layout
• 140 built-in Apple designed templates
• New spreadsheet application called Numbers
• A spreadsheet “done in the style of Keynote and Pages”
• Numbers touts features like “intelligent tables,” which enable you to sort and filter by clicking on headers; “flexible canvas,” which lets you put multiple sheets on a canvas, tied together in formulas but not tied together by formatting. And it has the requisite set of features like chart creation, image management, text labels, the ability to add photos and diagrams, and so on.
• Ability to import and export almost any Excel document
• That iWork ‘08, costs $79. All application work in Tiger and will work in Leopard
• Starting a question and answer session
• Apple COO, Tim Cook now on stage as well as Phil Schiller
• “How well will you market this ecosystem to consumers, and show how seamlessly all this stuff works together?”

  Steve: “We’ve got a phenomenal customer base, they show their friends and their friends get jealous.”

  “Why are you not participating in Intel Inside program and not putting stickers on your Macs?”

  Steve: “What can I say? We like our own stickers better. Don’t get me wrong, we love Intel, combined with our OS, we’ve really tuned them well together. Everyone knows we use Intel processors, we’d rather tell them about the product inside the box.”

  Phil: “Too much stuff on PC box, stickers on laptop, trialware, You don’t have to peel stuff off.”

  “How thin are the iMacs?”

  Steve: “Really thin. You’ll get your hands on it in a minute, but they’re appreciably thinner.”

  “Two thirds of your products on mobile side, where do things go on the Mac side.”

  Steve: “Desktops still an important part. Don’t require miniaturization of notebook, can offer bigger keyboards, screens, lower cost. Some consumers will want to own both. We think iMac has bright future ahead of it.”

  “Didn’t mention Mac mini today, how is it doing?”

  Tim: “We’re refreshing the Mac mini today.”

  “Mentioned AdSense, what’s the relationship between Apple and Google?”

  Steve: “We are working closer with Google, they offer back end services we want to tie into our offerings. Google likes our products, too.”

  Looking at what you’ve done with the iPhone, there’s volatility in the stock. How satisfied that the product is on track?”

  Steve: “We think the iPhone is a pretty strong success, we think most of the world sees it that way too. We’re really happy with how it’s going.”

  “How is Apple TV today? How does it fit into Mac?”

  Steve: “We’re here to talk about Mac, we’ll have some news for the Apple TV soon, but nothing to talk about today.”

  “What about AMD chips?”

  Steve: “We use Intel chips”

  “What about the iMac in business?”

  Tim: “We’re seeing a lot of growth in business use. Mac is growing and a lot of that is business.”

  Steve: “A lot of other apps that run on the Mac, MSFT Office. But don’t discount that more and more of business is communication, so lots of people have to sell internally, and they’re excited about the tools we’re offering. We see the iMac having some traction in business.”

  “With someone editing movies and going to publish, why not support HD uploads?”

  Steve: “We do. Turns out that HD camcorders don’t have sensors that are full HD, so they produce images that are slightly lower than HD, but are still stellar. We use that res, which is close, but not quite HD. Best you can do under $10k

  “Introduced multitouch on iPhone, what about for the Mac?”

  Steve: “Makes sense for the iPhone, not sure it makes sense in the Mac. Classify that as a research project.”

  “There has been a suggestion that Apple appeals to smaller elite than mass customer base. Is it your goal to overtake PC in marketshare?”

  Steve: “Goal is to make the best PC in the world, and make something we can recommend to family in friends. There is some stuff in our industry we wouldn’t be proud to ship. We can’t ship junk. Thresholds we just can’t cross. But we want to make the best personal computers in the industry. Our products are usually not premium priced. Price our competitors’ computers, and add in all the extras, we’re competitive. We don’t offer stripped down products. We compare favorably. Thank you very much for coming today.”

• All done.

The site reports that unlike past events in which Apple sent out email invitations, this time the company just phoned around inviting select members of the media.

AppleInsider writes that the event will be strictly Mac based with Apple personnel ensuring members of the media that no iPod or iPhone announcement will take place.

The event will begin at 10.00am PST and will take place in the Apple Town Hall on the Cupertino campus.

AppleInsider pinpoints next Tuesday as the launch date for the long rumoured iMac refreshes as well as the release of the new Apple keyboard.

The site also mentions that Steve Jobs who is reportedly presenting, will show off the next revisions of iLife and iWork.

Keynote ‘08 reference appears on Apple start page

Unless the mistake was simply a typo then it may suggest that Apple intends to skip the iWork and iLife ‘07 generation and opt for ‘08 branded products.

Of note, remote control functionality is present in the current iWork ‘06 version of Keynote which is commonly referred to as Keynote 3.

In particular the job listing ask for the following specific skills:

• A passion for user interface and pride in attention to detail
• Strong object-oriented programming and design skills
• A track record of shipping products
• Creative, professional, proactive, interested in new technologies
• Familiarity with Unix
• openGL and other 3D technologies