I bought iLife 05 when it came out, and recently decided to give the ‘book feature’ a try. Basically, you can assemble a photo album, lay it out, and pick a theme for it, and they’ll print you a hard bound book for 29 bucks. Not a bad idea if you think about shipping costs, printing costs, etc.

Each page after the original 20 they give you are a dollar each. So, you could end up spending a ton of cash on one of these things, but I decided to go with a conservative approach the first time around, to see if it was worth the money. I recieved the book in the mail yesterday, and I’m very pleased with how it tuned out.

There are just about 50 or so photos I took while in Europe last year that I wanted in tangible form, so I figured this was as good of an opprotunity as ever. There’s something to be said for having photos you can actually touch and feel and look at somewhere that’s not a computer or TV screen. Below are some quick shots I took in my room (sorry, my room is rather dim, so they didn’t turn out that great…): Cover Inside pages Another page iLife as a whole is a pretty solid upgrade this year.

I dabbled in iMovie HD, but have spent most of my time messing around with the iDVD and iPhoto programs and I’m very pleased. For only $59 (student), you can’t go wrong with all of the new features in all of the programs.