We all knew that Apple is planning to release iLife before October but what we didn't expect is for it to be  officially unveiled this early. In fact, the Cupertino-based company came up with a press release the other day, officially announcing the new build for suite of digital lifestyle applications to the world.

"Apple has taken iLife '08 to a new level that is years ahead of anything available for the PC. We think iLife '08 gives Mac users even more reasons to love their Macs, and PC users even more reasons to switch," commented Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The following are the general changes applied to the program:

• iPhoto 08 automatically groups all photos into Events, each containing a day's worth of photos represented by a single picture
• iMovie '08 can import video from the latest AVCHD, HDV and DV camcorders, as well as from digital cameras, and displays a user's entire video library whether itÂ?s stored on internal or external drives
• .Mac Web Gallery is fully integrated with iPhoto '08 and iMovie '08, letting users share their photos and movies on the web with just a few clicks.
• iWeb '08 offers new features to make websites more interactive by adding live web widgets such as Google Maps, targeted ads using Google AdSense and photos or movies from .Mac Web Galleries
• GarageBand '08 offers powerful new features for more advanced musicians, including multi-take recording to capture the best performance, arrangements to cut, copy and paste intros, verses and choruses, and support for 24-bit audio interfaces

iLife is currently on sale for suggested retail price of US$ 79 through the Apple Store, Apple's retail stores, and Apple authorized resellers. If you want to know more about the latest version, click on our Read link below. It should take you to Apple's dedicated page for iLife 08.

The iPhone had already been announced and revealed during Steve Jobs' MacWorld keynote. To put it mildly, things have been picking up for Apple since then. But what more of it? ActionCorp has posted an interesting video that compiles four features that we may have missed during that keynote address.

As mentioned in the clip, these aren't anything groundbreaking, but they're still interesting to take note of. The simple fact that Jobs merely mentioned these in passing might pique your interests and make you hopeful that there probably really is something more to this:

• Calendar application - viewable by year, day, and month + buttons for notes and adding events
  
• Google maps - no interface for traffic and directions shown, but there are buttons that could possibly show this
  
• Letter scrolling - on top of finger flicking/scrolling, you can also simply click on said letter to jump on
  
• Ringtones - default ringtone heard + ringtones sold on iTunes

The video pretty much explains everything and gives sound basis for their speculations and expectations of the final specs for the iPhone. Check out the vid below:

After all the rumors and speculations about the much-awaited iPhone, we now have a whole bunch of confirmed details about this upcoming revolutionary telecommunications gadget.

During the recently held Macworld Conference and Expo, Steve Jobs divulged details on the widescreen iPod-donning phone including its "multi-touch" feature, internet-browsing capabilities, wireless connectivity, and tons more! So let's not waste any time with all the chitchatty yadda yadda, here's an outline of some of the iPhone's features:

• widescreen iPod - browse through music, audiobooks, videos, TV shows, and movies on a 3.5-inch widescreen display. You can also use the Cover Flow feature to browse through music via the album covers.
  
• User Interface
  
• QWERTY keyboard and intelligent Multi-touch display - control is literally all in your hands, no need for a stylus, ignores unintended touches
• Internet device - built-in Google and Yahoo! search, Safari web browser, Google maps, iTunes, Widgets,
  
• Connectivity - quad-band GSM, EDGE, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)

More info and pictures await in the Full Article!

Okay, here's something nifty you can do: open the Localizable.strings file inside the iPhoto app bundle. You'll should see several interesting keys.

Notice that the GPSMapURL is set to "http://maps.google.com/maps?maps?q=%f+%f", funky weird huh? The 6.0.5 iPhoto update contains new calendar, greeting card, and postcard themes for use with Apple print services. It should also include a variety of holiday card designs. Anyway, based on the pic above, Google is up to something with Apple.

Now upen the iPhoto's InfoPanel.nib file. And you'll see a hidden show button.

If you go through the iPhoto executable itself with a Hex Editor, you'll see around 70 references to GPS. Now, GPS fields in iPhoto isn't exactly news. What is news is the presence of Google Maps and that hidden Show button.

More on Javester, Exif tools, and that last interesting bit on iPhoto after the jump!

There are a lot of speculations on what the highly-anticipated and much publicized Operating System from Apple, Leopard, will have as its spots, I mean, features. Some possible candidates that are being thrown around are Boot Camp, Bit Torrent, Maps...

Yes, you read it right, Maps. I bet you never saw that one coming huh? What good purpose will maps on your Macs serve, you ask? Apparently, Leopard will come bundled with something simply called Maps, which works pretty much the same way as Google Maps and Microsoft's Virtual Earth does. Maps, insiders say, will use GPS to track down stolen Apple goods. How Steve Jobs and the people a Apple are going to do that before its release in August, I absolutely have no clue. We simply know they can.