iLife ‘09Preparing 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 ApplicationsApple 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 www.apple.com/mobileme/.

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

Obtaining and Configuring a MobileMe Account5)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 ContentMuch 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 Content1)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

Backing Up iLife Content6)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 ContentTime 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