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What our customer's say!

"A very Informative, And helpful Book", A few months ago when my brother presented me with a Mac G4 as a birthday present, he told me the best Mac book writers he'd come across were Robin Williams and David Poath (with which I now heartily concur).
Now I can add Jim Heid to that list.I found his book and dvd very helpful, and I can't thank him enough for taking the time to write such an informative and easy to follow book.
I look forward to the next one Mr Heid, as I'm about to purchase a Classic ipod.....
The book is well illustrated, and thorough in detail - I'd recommend it to anyone.

"iLife for controlling your Mac activities ", In reviewing iLife '05, I must say I've never seen a more thorough presentation. I would recommend this book to any Mac user. The included 90 minute CD is reason enough to purchase this great CD. What you read is supplemented by pictures to further explain each topic. A valuable investment.

"Excellent Info for the Mac User", I am a new Mac user and this book is a great introduction and tutorial to the iLife 05 programs. The book is well written, easy to read and has lots of helpful photos and graphics. THe DVD is a great supplement as well. I would recommend this book to anyone new to Mac or iLife 05.

"Very Helpful", This book is incredibly helpful for people just beginning on the Mac. It sets up each program seperately and also shows you how to get the best use of all of them together. The DVD is also a wonderful suppliment to the book, they follow along with each other.

"A must have for ilfe 05", Very user friendly, covering all the basics and some advanced technics.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Apple should bundle this book with its iLife suite. Plain and simple.", From now on, as long as Apple continues to make improvements and enhancements to its suite of applications known as iLife, I will continue to get an updated version of Jim Heid's book. Due to some error in mailing, I never actually got my Jim Heid book for the iLife '04 suite. I muddled through using another book and a site on the Web. When this new version was published, I grabbed one of the first copies and kept my fingers crossed. I was delighted when it got here without delay or problem!

At my home, we are an iLife family. I only have one copy of the suite, but it suits us well in our two-Mac home because while I like using the cutting edge version of iMovie and Garageband, I have little need or use for iPhoto. My wife, on the other hand, loves and uses iPhoto extensively. Of course, iTunes is a free application, but the other iLife apps are not free. It is therefore nice that Apple makes it easy to install single applications from the iLife suite, and so we have each updated our Macs accordingly.

We both, however, share Jim Heid's book whenever we have a question about our respective iLife applications. Even without the accompanying DVD, this book is great. It is wonderfully laid out, so that a person need not read through an entire section to learn how to do something or even to learn of a new feature compared to the last version of a particular iLife app. It is also a book that you could sit down with on the couch and read through WITHOUT having your Mac right in front of you. The content is presented in such a way that you can learn from it and then easily recall what you read and saw pictured in the book the next time that you are in front of your Mac.

So it should not be a surprise that I think this book is as great as the first iLife book I reviewed in Spring of last year. The accompanying DVD is the icing on the cake here. As mentioned of the DVD accompanying the first book, Jim does a superb job of anticipating the iLife users' questions as they follow along with his guided instructions and his explanations of the various features. It is almost as good as having a live person right there along your side, and I'm confident that with this book, you will have less of a need to contact your usual "go-to" Mac expert.

Lastly, to address the review below that says that this (and other books of its type) are a waste of money, I feel it necessary to say that, as a Mac expert and leader of a Mac User Group, I find his comments both short-sighted and arrogant. Sure you could get along without buying any book, but the point is that if you own a program, you probably want to get the most out of it that you can, and finding the best resource to help you do that is a very important and worthwhile thing. I happen to think that this book is an excellent one to help you do that.

...and no, I don't say that about every book I review.

...and no, I don't get any money from Jim Heid or owe him anything other than my appreciation for creating a good resource of which my family makes good use.

"Excellent when combined with (included) DVD", I heartily reccommend the book especially when you supplement it with the DVD that comes with it. Between the book and the DVD demonstrations you can develop a sense of what you can do with each program and (very importantly) how far you don't want to go (at least not yet.)
What a relief after sorting through a number of books on Photoshop Elements 3 (PS-3) that porport to be useable for Mac when in fact direction is almost exclusively Windows. iPhoto 5 will make you glad you are back in Mac country and will probably be able to most of your editing right there, without going on to PS-3. (The exception is layers, for which you have to go into PSE-3) but only really advanced photographers use this. And who knows, at this rate, iLife '06 might have layers, clone stamp etc as well. Apple is on a good roll here with iPhoto, as indicated by the fact that the editing possible is so much more powerful than in iLife '04.

"If you are two years old....then you might need to read this", Honestly, I have been using Mac computers since I was a kid and I can certainly say that all of these "hidden manual" things are a waste of money.

Mac's are already the most simple computer system to use so why waste your money on a manual telling you what your computer can.

There are no new tips, cheats, or hints for any of the applications except GarageBand where you will find out how to use the command keys, and navigate between tracks while listening to them.

Personally, When you buy iLife, I suggest just reading the box!

"Working with the Mac iLife '05 Book", The most important section is how to edit like a professional. Based on this information, I purchased an inexpensive 13-inch television.

I hooked up the RCA jacks for video and sound. I used my Canon ZR60 camcorder input/output setting. Now, I had a full 13-inch screen to work with instead of a 7-inch video screen on my iMovie HD. The TV connection rendered true TV output vs. the 7-inch output on my iMac G5's 20 inch screen. The new TV was worth the expense for editing my iMovies in real TV format.

Pages Worth Bookmarking

Page X-I. To get the best quality playback, watch it on your TV set.

Pages 2-3. Computers get personal with a spreadsheet of audio, imaging, video and storage information. Period covered is from 1960s to 2005.

Pages 10-11. This has a very good illustration of iMac G5 and how to use the  iMac G5 's rear connections.

Pages 62-63. Learn how you can import old tapes and albums' audio tracks, using Griffin Technology's iMic and Final Vinyl. Also, you can use Roxio's CD Spin Doctor. Note: the new Quicktime 7 Pro allows you to import audio.

Taken with Griffin Technology's iMic, I purchased a new iMic. I attached an external microphone in the iMic's audio port for voiceovers in both the iMovie HD and Final Vinyl programs. The iMic works quite well on my Mac G4 and iMac G5's 20 inch screen.

Pages 66-67. Excellent tips on using cross fading songs, sounds enhancer and how to crop songs in iTunes.

Pages 80-81. Information on the full-sized iPods: first to second generations. Also, detailed Information on third to fourth generations full-sized iPods.

Pages 256-257. iDVD at a glance with illustrations showing the icons and their various uses.

Pages 262-263. How you can add movies to your DVD using Jim Heid's step-by-step procedures. Also, tips for DVD Movies with encoder settings: the very best to the very fastest. How you can use movies from Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro.

Pages 266-267. Refining a slide show with icons fully explained. Also, slide show tips with TV-Safe area so you can avoid cutting off the outer edges of your photos.

Pages 280-281. Burning DVD tips. Learn how to create a disc image to your DVD and how to use Roxio's Toast software.

Pro Reaction

Two-page spreads with concise illustrations are excellent ways to quickly learn the The Mac iLife `05 programs. The special "The Macintosh iLife `05 DVD" is worth the price of the book. An excellent book for beginners and intermediate iLife users.

Con Reaction

My wish is for a separate iMovie HD and iDVD book by author Jim Heid. The digital pictures of the video screen various menus imported from the computer are blurry and are more noticeable with the crosscutting to Jim Heid and his comments on iLife '05 programs.

Final Reaction

I highly recommend Jim Heid's  Mac iLife `05 Book. This is a very good book for quickly learning how to use iLife `05 programs.


"David Weeks MyMac.com Book Review", The short version of this review is "If you want a great book that splendidly covers all the iLife '05 applications, don't ask questions, just buy this book."

If you want the long version, read on.

Just over a year ago, I reviewed the previous version of Jim Heid's The Macintosh iLife, and gave it high marks.

The new edition, which covers the recent updates to Apple's iLife suite (iPhoto, iMovieHD, iDVD, Garageband, and iTunes/iPod) is even better than its predecessor, if that's possible.

Jim Heid has been writing and teaching about the iLife applications for quite a while, and his expertise is visible on every page.

Each application gets plenty of coverage, but Heid balances space between the fundamentals and advanced (yet not-too-demanding) tips. I've been using the iLife applications (Garageband excepted) since the were first released, and I was very pleasantly surprised to find that there are more good tips and tricks still to learn.

New digital photographers and moviemakers will appreciate the review of the fundamentals of crafting good pictures and movies. If you're past that stage, skip right into the Tips section. Heid includes links to more detailed reference material in the text, in case you wish to delve deeper into the mysteries of digital photo, movie, or music making.

The new features in the iLife applications are covered in detail, especially the new procedures for creating photo books in iPhoto 5, and the ins-and-outs of high definition video when using iMovieHD. If you don't start making more photo books after learning how much easier they are with iPhoto 5, you need a stern talking-to.

The production values are as good as ever; The Macintosh iLife '05 is big and pretty. The DVD will appeal to those who learn best by watching, as opposed to reading. I watched the entire DVD, and was again impressed by the completely professional presentation and useful content. Several freeware and demoware applications are included on the DVD, along with a collection of GarageBand loops and a set of iTunes AppleScripts from AppleScriptmeister Doug Adams.

The book's price has gone up by $5.00, but what hasn't? For your extra five-spot you get 70 more pages and 45 more DVD minutes. This is money well spent.

You can easily find individual books on iLife apps that go into greater detail, but The Macintosh iLife '05 is the best all-around book on iLife that I've read; great for novices and intermediate users both.

Most highly recommended.

MyMac rating 5 out of 5