Prior to 2007, Apple was releasing iLife updates annually at Macworld, but they seem to have pushed that back to every year and a half since then. That means it’s about time to cue those iLife ’11 rumors, which could be available in less than two weeks.

French website Mac4ever is claiming that Apple will unveil the next iLife ’11 software suite on August 7. A quick look at the calendar makes this a dubious rumor, since August 7 falls on a Saturday, which is not historically an Apple product launch day, but we’ll go with it for now and forge ahead with the rest of this tasty rumor.

On deck for iLife ’11 is 64-bit applications across the board (yay!), improvements to iPhoto Faces and Places (no word on what they are exactly), improved “integration of social networks” (read: Facebook and Twitter, probably), a completely revamped iWeb, the removal of iDVD (nooooo!), a new beta for the web-based MobileMe Gallery which adds Faces and Places and last but not least, a new “mystery” application.

So what could the mystery app be? 9to5Mac falls back on rumors from last December claiming that iDVD would gain new superpowers which allow it to create iTunes LP and iTunes Extras packages, “giving consumers a way to share detailed digital albums featuring all manner of multimedia assets.”

It sounds more likely that Apple plans to kill iDVD completely as it marches toward a future where optical media is considered antique, and replace the app with this new content creation tool, although it would likely make more sense to merge the two into one in some way. In any event, iDVD has been largely ignored over the last couple iLife versions except for updates to the app’s templates, so it doesn’t look good.

We don’t know what Mac4Ever’s rumor track record is, but we’d place bets on at least one of their rumors as fact -- the $79 price tag for iLife ’11, which is the same as it ever was.

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