Well, Schiller delivers mediocrity.

It wasn’t all that bad, just disappointing that there were no minis. But hey whatever. iLife ‘09 brings it’s shiny face to the event and with some slick new features.

iPhoto - “Faces” and “Places” were added two pretty cool features that recognize people in photos and the places they were taken, respectively.
First up Faces. It would appear that once you tag an individual once iPhoto will hunt through and attempt to make more matches of that person in other photos and you simply approve or deny the suggestions. Pretty slick.
And Places. iPhoto now recognizes geotagging info from newer cameras and some cellphones(the iPhone anyone?) and sorts the pictures based on location. You can also tag them manually if your camera does not.
Flickr and Facebook support were added as well.

iMovie - ‘09 includes some new features and enhancements, animated maps and auto stabilization for that shaky footage you constantly capture. Drag-and-drop editing, which allows you to place a clip between others, is a really nice feature. You can also move audio from one clip onto another. There are also some other neat effects like x-ray, old-film and cartoon as well as some pretty well done dynamic themes.

Garage Band - Hands down the coolest feature of the entire bundle has to be the “Learn to Play” and “Artist Lessons” feature here.
HD videos display lessons on how to play instruments for now just guitar and piano but I am sure more are to come. Artist lessons show you how to play popular songs and give some back story for the song as well and come from some pretty good artists so far, John Fogerty, Sting, that guy from “Fall Out Boy”. It all looks pretty cool.

So that is it for iLife ‘09. Some pretty good updates and hopefuly a version of iMovie everyone can use.