Apple's iLife '04

At Macworld San Francisco 2004 last month, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs introduced the company's latest suite of multimedia tools, dubbed iLife '04. Apple markets the $50 product as being "like Microsoft Office for the rest of your life," which is a cute way of saying that you'll need the lifestyle applications in this suite as much as you need products such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel at work. Although iLife '04 isn't perfect, it's a stunning value for the money and a must-have purchase for every Mac OS X user. And if you aren't running Mac OS X, fear not: I also explore some related offerings for PC users.

Apple iLife '04 includes five brilliantly integrated applications, and at least three of them are best of breed:

• iTunes 4: digital music organization, sharing, and iPod integration
• iPhoto 4: digital photo organization, sharing, and basic editing
• iMovie 4: digital video editing and sharing for home movies
• iDVD 4: DVD movie creation
• GarageBand: new to this version, a music-creation application with limited appeal. more...

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