Preparing iLife ‘09

iLife ‘09 iLife is an amazing suite of applications that enables us to do all sorts of amazing things. The suite consists of:  iPhoto, for working with digital photos and images;  iMovie, for creating amazing movies;  iWeb, which we can use to create and publish our own Web sites;  iDVD, for building our own DVDs, complete with sophisticated menus and effects;  GarageBand, with which we can create and manage music and other audio.

1) Installing iLife ‘09 If we’ve purchased a Mac after January 2009, it already has iLife 09 installed, so we can move ahead to the next section. If we got your Mac before that, we need to install iLife 09 on our computer. 1) Insert the iLife Installation disc into our Mac’s drive. 2) Double-click the iLife ’09 installer. 3) Click Continue. 4)Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation.

Installing iLife ‘09

2) Updating iLife Applications Apple routinely updates the iLife applications to fix bugs or to introduce new capabilities. We should ensure that our iLife applications are current, and configure our Mac to keep them current automatically. 1) Choose Apple menu, System Preferences. 2) Click the Software Update icon. 3) Click Check Now. If you are notified that updates are available, download and install them. 4) Enable the Check for Updates check box. 5) On the pop-up menu, choose Weekly or Daily.

Updating iLife Applications

3)Obtaining and Configuring a MobileMe Account MobileMe is a great partner for iLife because when we have a MobileMe account, we can easily share the results of our iLife work on the Web. To prepare our MobileMe account, obtain it online and then configure its information in Mac OS X.

Obtaining and Configuring a MobileMe Account 1)Use a Web browser to move to 2) Click the Free Trial button. 3)Fill out the top part of the first page of the online form. 4) Complete the bottom part of the form and click Continue.

Obtaining and Configuring a MobileMe Account

5)Complete the second page of the form. 6)Click Sign Up. Our account is created. We see our member name on the confirmation page. 7)Choose Apple menu, System Preferences. 8)Click the MobileMe icon. 9)Enter the member name and password, and then click Sign In.

Obtaining and Configuring a MobileMe Account

4) Backing Up iLife Content Much of the content we create or use with iLife applications is literally irreplaceable at any price. This includes our photos in iPhoto, movies we’ve created in iMovie, and so on. We should make sure we have an effective backup system in place to protect this content. One of the best ways to do this is through Mac OS X’s Time Machine feature. To use Time Machine, weneed to connect an external hard drive to your Mac, and then configure Time Machine to back up to it.

Backing Up iLife Content 1)Connect a USB hard drive to your Mac. 2)Choose Apple menu, System Preferences. 3)Click the Time Machine icon. 4)Click On. 5)Click Change Disk.

Backing Up iLife Content

6)Select our backup disk. 7)Click Use for Backup. 8)Enable the Show Time Machine Status in the Menu Bar check box. 9)Choose System Preferences, Quit. Time Machine backs up our files onto the backup disk.

Backing Up iLife Content

Restoring iPhoto Photos 1)Open iPhoto and then click Time Machine from the Dock. 2)Click the windows “back in time” or click the timeline on the right side of the screen until we see the missing photos in our iPhoto library. 3)Select the photos we want to restore. 4)Click Restore. The photos are restored to their previous locations.

Restoring iPhoto Photos

Restoring Other iLife Content Time Machine backs up your files, even those that aren’t in iPhoto. So, if we find some content we’ve created, such as a movie, missing from our desktop, we can recover the missing files by going back in time to a point where the missing files still existed.

Restoring Other iLife Content