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Consumer, Education, and Business Oriented Application Software
iLife® ‘06
In January 2006, the Company introduced iLife ‘06, an upgrade to its consumer-oriented digital lifestyle application suite, which features
iWeb™, iPhoto® 6, iMovie® HD 6, iDVD® 6, GarageBand™ 3, and iTunes®. All of these applications are Universal.
iWeb™ is a new application in the iLife ‘06 suite. iWeb allows users to create online photo albums, blogs, and podcasts and customize
websites using editing tools.
iPhoto® is the Company’s consumer-oriented digital photo software application. iPhoto 6 adds new photo management and editing
features, supports up to 250,000 photos, and introduces Photocasting™. Photocasting allows .Mac users to share and automatically update
photo albums over the Internet with anyone who uses a Macintosh or Windows-based computer.
iMovie® HD is the Company’s consumer-oriented digital video editing software application. iMovie HD 6 includes new real-time effects
that take advantage of Core Video technology, which uses the computer’s video card’s graphics processing unit to deliver hardware
acceleration to quickly preview video effects. iMovie HD 6 also provides a solution to make video podcasts, which can be published with
iWeb, and includes audio enhancement tools and sound effects.
iDVD® is the Company’s consumer-oriented software application that enables users to turn iMovie files, QuickTime® files, and digital
pictures into DVDs that can be played on most consumer DVD players. iDVD® 6 allows users to take content shot with HDV and
widescreen DV cameras and author custom DVDs with widescreen menus, movies, and high resolution slideshows. iDVD 6 features 10
new Apple-designed menu themes in both widescreen (16:9) and standard (4:3) formats.
GarageBand™ is the Company’s consumer-
oriented music creation software application that allows users to play, record and create music
using a simple interface. With GarageBand, recorded performances, digital audio and looping tracks can be arranged and edited to create
songs. GarageBand 3 allows users to record, produce, and publish through iWeb their own podcasts, including artwork, sound effects, and
music jingles.
iLife ‘06 also includes iTunes, the Company’s digital music jukebox software application that allows users to purchase a variety of digital
content available through the Company’s iTunes Store. iTunes organizes content using searching, browsing, and playlists, and also includes
features such as iMix playlist sharing and provides integration with the complete family of iPods. In September 2006, the Company introduced
iTunes 7, the latest version of its iTunes software. iTunes 7 delivers new features such as album and Cover Flow views of music, television
shows, and movies, enabling users to quickly find titles in their library as well as casually browse through titles they already own.
iWork™ ‘06
In January 2006, the Company introduced iWork ‘06, a new Universal version of the Company’s suite of productivity software designed to
help users create, present, and publish documents and presentations. iWork ‘06 includes Pages® 2 and Keynote® 3.
Pages® gives users the tools to create letters, newsletters, reports, brochures and resumes with advanced typography, multiple columns,
footnotes, tables of content and styles. Pages 2 features mail merge with Mac OS X Address Book, which allows users to personalize
documents by dragging and dropping individual contacts into documents using templates with predefined fields. Pages 2 also features new
templates for newsletters, flyers, posters, school reports, scrapbooks, brochures, business proposals, and invoices. Pages 2 allows users to
insert tables that have basic calculation functionality within any document and users can export their Pages 2 document to other formats.
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