Apple updates GarageBand, iBooks Author, iPhoto for Mac and iWorks, iLife, Find, Remote apps for iOS
GarageBand 6.0.5 adds compatibility for projects from its iOS counterpart, while fixing playback issues with Lesson previews and correcting issues with "some software instruments triggering incorrect or stuck notes."
iBooks Author 1.1 adds support for creating books that take advantage of the new iPad's Retina Display, while also adding performance and stability improvements.
iPhoto 9.2.2 now allows users to delete individual images from Photo Stream, "addresses compatibility with iCloud and iOS 5," and lets users navigate left and right with swipe gestures while in Magnify mode.
The new update also now displays previously imported photos in a separate section of the import window, enhances theme and card categories for books and calendars, fixes printing issues with some book pages, and saves slideshows and books properly when rebuilding a library.
Apple also updated a wide variety of its iOS apps, primarily to add Retina Display support for the new iPad, but also adding a variety of minor features and bug and performance fixes.
iBooks 2.1 adds finger highlighting and page numbering to match printed books along with performance tweaks. iTunes U 1.1 similarly adds Retina Display support and speed fixes.
Pages, Keynote and Numbers 1.6 add animated 3D charting, presentation builds and transitions and performance enhancements
iMovie 1.3 adds support for GarageBand song import, music and sound effect previews in the Audio Browser and support for creating Trailers on iPhone 4 or iPad 2 or newer devices
GarageBand 1.2 adds iCloud support, Track Merge, orchestral Smart Strings and a Note Editor for fine tuning a touch instrument recording. iPad users can connect over WiFi or Bluetooth to make music together using the new Jam Session. Songs can be shared to FaceBook, SoundCloud and YouTube.
Find My Friends 1.1 and Find My iPhone 1.4 both add bug fixes, stability enhancements and Retina Display support. Remote 2.3 adds iTunes Match support for the new Apple TV software along with Retina Display support.
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So does iPhoto for Mac support the new journal feature from iPhoto for iOS?
Warning before you try to update: these are (mostly) MUCH bigger apps now! I have several Apple apps, and all told I needed to find an extra 1GB of free space to install them.
iMovie and GarageBand probably now have new audio content included, and all of them have retina graphics. Still, that doesn?t fully explain to me the increase in Pages and Numbers. Quadrupling their UI image data still shouldn?t end up THAT big, I?d have thought!
iBooks, oddly, is now smaller...
Dan, your link for the new Apple TV software at the bottom/last paragrapgh is broken or on a loop if click from within the article (http error if from within here)
Warning before you try to update: these are (mostly) MUCH bigger apps now! I have several Apple apps, and all told I needed to find an extra 1GB of free space to install them.
iMovie and GarageBand probably now have new audio content included, and all of them have retina graphics. Still, that doesn?t fully explain to me the increase in Pages and Numbers. Quadrupling their UI image data still shouldn?t end up THAT big, I?d have thought!
iBooks, oddly, is now smaller...
GarageBand is on 801MB
On a side note, latest event is now available as a podcast i.e. can watch it on an HDTV with 1st gen. aTV instead on a computer (I can't AirPlay mine - no HW)
Another keynote passes without any mention of updates to the Mac versions of iWork and iLife. As a Mac user who's not all that bothered about the iOS stuff I'm starting to feel like a second class citizen. Every opportunity he gets Tim Cook blurts on about how iPhone/iPad is now 70% of Apple's business. What he doesn't say, but is clearly implied if you read between the lines, is that this is a justification for them to slowly slide the Mac and it's software further and further down the pecking order at Apple. I hope I?m wrong but we?ll see.