Windows 2 Apples

To prevent confusion and the spread of misinformation, I need to add this quickie update to my last post … episode 6 of Windows 2 Apples.

Contrary to my initial impressions of the 08 version there is no simple way to manage multiple Web sites. You still have to move the domain file before booting iWeb in order to force it to ask for a site different from the one you worked on last. I must have assumed the prompt for domain was always present at launch because I had to reinstall iLife 08.

This inability to select the desired project without manually moving files around is so very limiting, prone to error and lame I am hoping that I have missed something and that I am wrong. As it is iWeb seems to be primarily intended for setting up and maintaining one .Mac site.

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iLife 08 is installed and I have had a chance to experiment with iMovie, GarageBand iPhoto and iWeb. As a relative iMac newbie, I suspect my comments regarding the new iMovie maybe a bet less harsh than those heaped on it by long time Apple users and admirers.

I bought into the Apple hype and waited to really spend much time learning iMovie until I upgraded to the much ballyhooed iMovie 08. As some may recall I hoped Apple would not follow the lead of Windows developers and just heap on a pile of unnecessary new features just to make a compelling argument to buy the latest upgrade. In the Windows world we have grudgingly grown expect code bloat and feature overload.

Well it does seem I had nothing to worry about from that quarter. Many old line Apple users are a bit miffed, to say the least, that Apple actually striped features in the name of enhanced easy of use.

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Let me assure you I wanted to see Apple shame Microsoft with a painless and inspired install of iLife 8. When the package arrived I had already spent hours watching one of my Web hosting services struggle to stay on line and was ready for some Apple magic.

Instead, I was met with one challenge after another and I am firmly convinced that as clever as Jobs and his team are they can screw up big time.

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