Apple introduces iLife ‘08
As expected, Apple’s given its iLife software suite a refresh in the form of iLife ‘08, which Jobs calls the “biggest jump since we introduced it.” A bold claim to be sure, but you’ll soon be able to judge for yourself, as the whole lot’s available today for $79 (and, of course, bundled with all new Macs). Here’s the breakdown app by app:iPhoto: New to iPhoto this around is “Events,” which promises to let you more easily organize your photo albums, and the .Mac Web Gallery, which’ll let you publish
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If you worked with pictures on your iPhone Tuesday morning, and again Tuesday afternoon, you may have noticed a peculiar change. In what might just prove the existence of Apple Elves, iPhones everywhere got a magical Web Gallery update; without actually updating.However, you DO need a .Mac account already set up for this to take effect. The last (and only, at the time of writing) update for the iPhone, version 1.0.1, was released last week, and didn’t include this feature. So unless this is some sort of Apple-exclusive timed update in the works, my Elves theory… 
Retailers will knock $50 off the Premium systems (bringing it to $350), $30 off the Elite (down to $450), and $20 off the Core (bringing it to $280). Expect it to take effect this Wednesday, the 8th. Buy, buy, buy, people. Oh, let’s briefly review how many of Microsoft’s retail partners had a difficult time keeping Redmond’s big secret.
