Apple iLife '11 install

I installed the new version of iLife finally, iLife '11.  My first poke around the three main apps; iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand give me the feel that this is a useful update. I have been very back and forth on my like and dislike of iPhoto. Since the second release, I've used it and then tried to find something better, but end up back in iPhoto. One of the problems was that some of the useful features were only in the full screen UI, while other were in the non-full screen UI. This version seems to go a long way to making almost everything available in the full screen mode. While I have not used iPhoto's book, card and calendar publishing functions, I've helped a number of other people create hardcopy from pictures in their iPhoto collections. For the most part everyone has been very happy with the results. In this version of iPhoto, Apple looks to have added both a user interface to the publishing function and a lot more card and other media. The new UI in the publishing section does not seem very stable as yet, I found it crashing and very slow in my early experiments. As the holidays get closer I am sure I will be helping a number of folks use it, so it might be a pretty 'crashie' Christmas in front of some Macs!

I am not a musician,  so I cannot comment on GarageBand other than to see it sure starts up a lot faster now and the UI seems cleaner.

I seem to have a video driver bug that pops up on my primary MacBook Pro more and more as late. My gut says there is some issue with the machine having 4 GB of RAM. Just a hunch, but this is right on the 64 / 32 bit jump point I believe and I suspect that in this generation [read older] MacBook Pro, there is some type of memory mapping issue with the video driver. So I've not done anything with iMovie as yet but look forward to exploring.

So my only useful points about iLife '11 are in iPhoto; in summary good upgraded full screen features, however the photo card printing functions look buggy.

Perhaps I missed it in past installers, but this is the first time I noticed the little Signed Certificate icon in the upper right of the Apple installer. It seems to be a way to confirm the legality of the software. If this is new, I wonder if it is something that is going to be used with the new Mac applications store that is about to open up. Here is a picture of the installer: