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.Mac Web Gallery lets members share photos and movies directly from iLife '08 with anyone on a Mac, PC or iPhone. With the new iPhoto '08, .Mac members can create a gallery with just a few clicks and choose whether they want to make their albums available to everyone or limit access to specific people, whether to allow visitors to download high-quality images suitable for making up to 16x20-inch prints, and permit friends and family to contribute photos.

.Mac Web Gallery is designed to behave more like a desktop application than a web page. Visitors will have the same rich viewing experience whether they are using a Mac or PC and can experience .Mac Web Gallery photo albums in their choice of views, including mosaic, grid, slideshow or carousel. Users can skim through albums by simply moving their mouse

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over an album on the web page to see the photos inside.

Images can also be sent to a gallery by email - from a computer or an iPhone - and any images added will automatically by synced with iPhoto.

With iMovie '08, .Mac members can easily encode and upload their movies to their .Mac Web Gallery for viewing in several sizes, with the largest size offering higher-than-DVD resolution.

.Mac members now have 10 times more online storage space for photo and movie sharing, email, website hosting, exchanging files and back up, increasing from 1GB to 10GB for individual members and from 2GB to 20GB for Family Pack customers. Members can also purchase an additional 10GB of storage and send and receive larger email attachments up to a maximum size of 20MB. Spam filtering has been improved.

Using iWeb '08, .Mac members can embed dynamic web widgets like Google Maps, Google AdSense, .Mac Web Gallery albums or HTML snippets in their .Mac website and host their websites at their own personal domain.

.Mac costs £69 for a year's subscription; for more information go to mac.com.

Apple is currently offering a £20 rebate on .Mac membership for anyone buying any new Mac together with a .Mac Retail Box or .Mac Family Pack Retail Box until 22 October 2007.