All told, the individual apps in iLife continue to make some rather amazing capabilities-sorting and editing thousands of digital images, editing digital video into watchable form, creating and editing great looking websites, or creating (or learning to create) music-accessible to mere mortals. Mac) service, there is also added integration with other online services, such as Facebook and Flickr. And while the apps continue to integrate with Apple's MobileMe ( n?e. In the suite's 2009 incarnation, all of the iLife apps add numerous small interface tweaks (except for, again, iLife's appendix, iDVD). (Indeed, because iDVD hasn't received any significant updates since iLife '06-and none at all since iLife '08-we have not reviewed it here.) And iDVD has been relegated to a quaint anachronism as more and more video is shared and streamed online. iWeb was added in iLife '06 for creating simple, template-based websites.
iTunes has more or less been made a permanent part of Mac OS X, and so is no longer in the collection. And as the Mac has evolved, the suite's makeup has also changed with the times. Since its introduction in 2003, the iLife suite has become an integral part of Apple's sales pitch for the Mac platform.
