iLife

Apple Shows Off Sharper 4G iPad, Updates Apple TV

Ina Fried in Mobile on March 7 at 9:30 am PT

For those who want to relive Apple’s event moment-by-moment, here’s the transcript of AllThingsD’s live coverage.

A Tablet With a Keyboard

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on September 21, 2011 at 3:52 pm PT

Walt answers a reader’s question on the Asus Transformer, which has a keyboard add-on.

Video Editing Made Easier

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on October 26, 2010 at 3:18 pm PT

Katie tests Adobe’s Premiere Elements 9 video-editing software program.

Apple Still Selling Laptops, Refreshes MacBook Pro Line

Peter Kafka in Media on April 13, 2010 at 5:43 am PT

Perhaps the iPad and tablet computers will replace laptops one day. But for now, most people are still going to use conventional computers for day-to-day work.

iLife Gets Better; Just Don’t Ask It to Find a Face

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on January 28, 2009 at 6:08 pm PT

Walt reviews the new features of iPhoto, GarageBand and iMovie in Apple’s iLife ’09.

Mac Faithful to Get an iLife

John Paczkowski in News on January 26, 2009 at 11:40 am PT

iLife ’09–the latest iteration of Apple’s multimedia application suite (iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, iDVD)–arrives at market tomorrow with a groaning board of new features, among them facial-recognition in iPhoto, video stabilization in iMovie and a Learn to Play function and artist lessons in GarageBand.

Weekend Update 1.11.09

Beth Callaghan in News on January 11, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

There’s got to be a joke somewhere in the fact that Macworld, the Consumer Electronics Show and the AVN Awards (the “Pornies”) all happen during the same week. Maybe even one that hasn’t been played out 10 times over. All Things Digital was too busy covering two out of three this week to think of one.

Macworld ’09: iWork ’09, iWork.com

John Paczkowski in News on January 6, 2009 at 9:54 am PT

Number two on Phil Schiller’s list of three announcements: iWork ’09. The next iteration of Keynote, Apple’s presentation application, offers some new object transition features: object zoom, a swing transition (Schiller demos it with a Bush-to-Obama slide that gets a laugh from the audience). There are also some new text transitions and chart animations. Finally, Apple’s offering a Keynote Remote application. It’s an iPhone app, of course.

Macworld ’09: Garageband "Learn to Play," "Artist Lessons"

John Paczkowski in News on January 6, 2009 at 9:43 am PT

Phil Schiller returns to the stage to explain Garageband ’09. Our team was challenged to help people learn to play a musical instrument and they came through, says Schiller. Garageband now offers a feature called “Learn to Play” which offers not just nine basic lessons for guitar and piano, but “Artist Lessons” from the likes of John Fogerty, Norah Jones and Sting.

Macworld ’09: Garageband “Learn to Play,” “Artist Lessons”

John Paczkowski in News on January 6, 2009 at 9:43 am PT

Phil Schiller returns to the stage to explain Garageband ’09. Our team was challenged to help people learn to play a musical instrument and they came through, says Schiller. Garageband now offers a feature called “Learn to Play” which offers not just nine basic lessons for guitar and piano, but “Artist Lessons” from the likes of John Fogerty, Norah Jones and Sting.