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I'm guessing it will be January 25, when they become avilable

iDVD is the only thing that is not free....read below.

http://www.apple.com/ilife/

I don't even have a Superdrive Mac so iDVD3 is pointless for me. The Only app that I would use is iPhoto2.

I can hardly wait for iphoto2 it has some pretty cool features that my pictures need like the one click enhance feature is way to cool

iDVD has never been free and never will be, because of licensing issues.  The other 3 iLife apps will remain as free downloads ...

iPhoto 2 the freedownload may not necessarily be iPhoto 2 the iLife version.   iP2iLife could be enhanced with licensing stuff such as "EXPORT to *.gif".   

I've got iPhoto 2.  Anyone want to know anything about it?

How and where? Not telling.

Anyway, it's pretty similar to iPhoto 1, apart from a few key differences.

There's no "share" tab, instead it's integrated into the organize tab.  There are also new "burn" and ".Mac slides" buttons.

You can remove the drop shadows and borders from the Organize view, making it a heckuva lot faster.

There's a Trash in the albums part of the window, and all the icons there are redesigned slightly.

The 1-Click Enhance really does work - on most images.  If the image is deliberately cast towards one particular color, it messes the whole image up.  Badly.

The retouch brush also works rather well, although it takes a lot of scrubbing around with the TINY (like 5 pixels) little brush size.  I'll stick with Photoshop for that one.

Best New Feature?: When you do a slideshow, a little window pops up showing your entire iTunes library.  You can select a song, or choose from the pop-up between all your playlists.  You can sort the list, or even search, similar to the iTunes version.  However, there isn't zooming in the slideshow yet.  I wanted it to be more like the screensaver.

The book tab has been streamlined a bit.

And the whole app is a *lot* faster.  Really, you can notice the difference big-time.

However, there isn't zooming in the slideshow yet.  I wanted it to be more like the screensaver.

go to your OS X drive and then the main library/image capture/scripts and use the Build Slide Show app to do that!! What a little gem that hardly anyone knows about.

Drop a folder of photos on it and let it run.. only thing is it won't do music and can't be saved 

I haven't even used iPhoto 1...is there a way to have you images folder on a different hard drive or partition?

I seem to remember someone saying this was a problem...

And, don't mess with the contents inside the "iPhoto Library" folder.  Just move it all together and it will stay happy.   

What do you mean by that? How is the folder organized?

Also, can you have sub-folders in the album listings? I like to have a folder for Family, School, Concerts, Raves, Misc, People, etc...is that possible?

Thats lame.

a) iPhoto should have folders for albums
b) it should not be so sensitive to changes made in the folder...it wouldn't be so hard to have the iPhoto database automatically updated to reflect those changes, would it?

Also, can you import photos from your hard drive? I have a couple gigs of photos already on my computer. There has to be a way to get them into iPhoto, right?

Also, can you import photos from your hard drive? I have a couple gigs of photos already on my computer. There has to be a way to get them into iPhoto, right?

I'm sure you have tried Import?  It should let you go to the folder that the pictures are in.

Actually, it's even easier than that... just drag the photo files onto the iPhoto window. That will import them all.

-KW