A suite of multimedia applications that comes with the Macintosh and includes the venerable iTunes jukebox software along with iPhoto (edit pictures), iMovie (edit video), iDVD (burn DVDs), GarageBand (create music) and iWeb (create Web sites and blogs). See iWork, iTunes and .Mac.
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