iLife ’06 is an in-built software that helps users make the most out of every bit of their digital content be it photos, videos, audio clips or their own website. This software is available free with Mac computers and laptops. Consumers can now collect, organise and edit the various elements of their digital world.
Also in-built is a collection of Apple-designed templates used as backgrounds to create masterpieces. These can be transformed into designer cards, colorful calendars, beautiful DVDs, podcasts, personal online journals, and family websites.  Even your own music can be created.
All this is possible using the iPhoto, iDVD, iWeb, iMovie and Garage Band features of iLife. The iPhoto is a tool with which users can create their own slide shows, select the brightness, and colour and even add transition effects supporting upto 250,000 photos.
While editing one can compare the original picture with the edited image keeping them tiled next to each other, allowing space for more clarity. You can also create cards  take printouts to send to friends. With the iMovieHD and iDVD you can create your own films adding titles, chapters and video effects. Users can author and burn movies, photos and music to suit widescreen DVD. The videos can also be saved onto an iPod. All this can be shared online with friends and family.
The software gives users the ability to create their websites, customised to their preferences of colour, style, background, pictures among others. On the site you can upload your own podcasts, slideshows, movies, music and blogs. The icing on the cake is that with a single click; the ‘Publish’ button one can take the website live on the web.
The Garage Band allows users to create their own music and record songs. It has in-built instruments that provide sounds alongwith settings of minor and major keys. Music lovers can listen to songs and rectify erros, all in real-time. “The band Lincoln Park is using this feature for some of their recordings,” says Smita Sharma, Store Manager, Ample Technologies.
Demonstrations for iLife are on till the end of July on weekends at Forum Mall, Bangalore, she informs.
Professors can record their lectures and make them available to students via the Podcasts. Users can listen to lectures, music, videos, radio news shared by people world over. The podcast recording studio in GarageBand 3 puts composers in the control room of their own full-featured radio station. With this they can get their voice on the Internet in just a few minutes.
Spotlight is a search feature worth mentioning. Using this locating missing files and folders in the computer becomes an easy task. By giving the name of the file or just the first letters, in just three seconds the system would retrieve files with the exact name. Users can use this to search documents, pictures, music
The basic Mac laptop is available at Rs 58,700. The Mac Book Pro is priced at Rs 1,18,700. The Mac Pro is priced at Rs 1,63,700 customisable upto Rs 9.5 lakh. The Mac Mini (small CPU) is available for Rs 36,900. The only drawback is that the software is customised only for the Mac computers and notebooks.