Apple's new iLife '08 + .Mac Web Gallery integrates with iPhone

When Steve Jobs on August 7 presented Apple’s new iMacs and revised software packages (see above), he discussed iLife ‘08 and .Mac integration with the iPhone.

iLife’s iPhoto module can easily upload photos and videos to the “Web Gallery” (see above) on Apple’s online storage/application service .Mac.  Photos and videos uploaded from a computer to .Mac can be downloaded by the iPhone as well as the iPhone being able to easily retrieve a list of the user’s Web Gallery albums. 

The iPhone can easily upload a photo to the Web Gallery and Apple has added a fourth navigation bar — Send to Web Gallery — to the iPhone’s camera/photo screen in addition to the existing “Use as Wallpaper,” “Email Photo” and “Assign To Contact” (see left).

(Grammatical note to Apple:  The “t” in Send to Web Gallery is lower case; the “t” in Assign To Contact” is upper case.  Considering Apple’s attention to detail, shouldn’t it be one or the other?)

Videos configured for iPhone

One more iPhone feature:  Apple’s dramatically enhanced iMovie, that’s bundled with iLife ‘08, can easily configure a video for viewing on a mobile device, such as the iPhone or an iPod well as for viewing on a computer or via Apple TV (see below).  The “Share” navigational menu (see left) is used to configure a video for iTunes so it can be synched to an iPod or an iPhone.

By the way, Jobs says videos in iMovie can be configured to a higher resolution than a DVD….assuming it was shot in a high resolution, of course.  All the iMovie videos also may be uploaded to the .Mac Web Gallery so there’s no reason to mail a DVD because of the high resolution that may be viewed on the Web, Jobs says.