...................... Apple eNews March 20, 2003 Volume 6, Issue 6 ......................
In This Issue:
1. What's Causing the Heavy Traffic? 2. Why You Should Upgrade to Mac OS X 3. Tips for Ten: Resizing with a Zoom 4. Video Mirroring. Or Dual Display? 5. Safari Tip: Let SnapBack Take You Back 6. An iMovie Tutorial at Your Fingertips 7. Technically Speaking 8. What's New?
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1. What's Causing the Heavy Traffic?
When it comes to showcasing new automobiles, nothing beats QuickTime VR, and no one creating VR outperforms John Early.
Using dual processor Power Mac G4 computers, Mac OS X, Final Cut Pro, QuickTime Pro, and other Apple software, Early creates some of the most sophisticated VR in the business, movies that combine footage shot in a studio with video shot in the field, still photos interspersed with Flash animation interspersed with full-motion video, sprites, hotspots, multiple audio tracks, and more.
You can catch Early's work on some of the slickest sites in town: Acura, Audi, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, Mercury, Toyota. But--fair warning--after seeing one of Early's productions, you may find the car of your dreams that much harder to resist. "There are people," Early points out, "buying the car straight off the websites."
http://www.apple.com/pro/photo/early/
2. Why You Should Upgrade to Mac OS X
Show of hands.
How many of you can't imagine managing your library of digital music with any application other than iTunes? Especially iTunes 3.
Digital photographers and filmmakers wax equally enthusiastic about iPhoto 2 and iMovie 3, practically swooning over how easy it is to archive their photographs or burn their iMovie projects on DVD using iDVD 3.
The availability of the iLife suite of applications (iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD) is a truly compelling reason for upgrading to Mac OS X. Especially when you consider the other world-class Mac OS X-only applications from Apple: Safari, Keynote, iSync, iCal,
Mail, iChat. And the equally impressive software from developers: Microsoft Office v. X, ShadowBane, Macromedia Director MX, Toon Boom Studio, Maya, and others.
But the availability of thousands of great titles for Mac OS X is only one of the many reasons customers have been making the switch to Mac OS X. Here are still more:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/reasons.html
3. Tips for Ten: Resizing with a Zoom
Your colleague, who likes to open Excel spreadsheets so that they fill her 23-inch Apple Cinema HD Display from corner to corner, routinely sends such files to you without resizing them.
The result? When you open them on your Mac, the documents are so big you can't see the scroll bars or grab the resize control corner.
What should you do the next time this happens? Just reach for the Zoom button.
The green zoom button sits immediately to the right of the red close and yellow minimize buttons in the upper-left corner of every Mac OS X window. Use the Zoom button to either enlarge or reduce the size of a window. Just one click should do the trick.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
4. Video Mirroring. Or Dual Display?
On Apple's 12-inch PowerBook G4 computer, you can toggle easily between video mirroring and dual display modes by using the F7 function key.
You didn't know that the smallest full-featured notebook in the world offered dual display support?
Absolutely.
Just like the 15- and 17-inch models, the 12-inch PowerBook lets you connect a projector or second display with the included VGA adapter. That makes the 12-inch PowerBook the perfect choice for your desktop and for presentations on the go. It also supports S-video and composite video signals, letting you play DVD movies or make presentations on a big-screen TV.
Widely available, Apple's compact powerhouse starts at just $1799.
http://www.apple.com/powerbook/index12.html
5. Safari Tip: Let SnapBack Take You Back
SnapBack works great when you're immersed in some serious Googling. Several layers deep you may dive, but one click on the SnapBack button, and back you go to your original Google results page.
SnapBack works equally well in the progress bar. If you visit a site--www.apple.com, let's say--and click a few links, one click of the SnapBack button takes you right back to www.apple.com.
But did you know that as you venture on your surfin' Safari, you can choose the page to which you'd like to return? Here's how:
1. Go to the page to which you'd like to return using ShapBack. 2. Choose "Mark Page for SnapBack" from the History menu (or type Option-Command-M).
You're done. To read more about Apple's turbo browser for Mac OS X:
http://www.apple.com/safari/
6. An iMovie Tutorial at Your Fingertips
New to iMovie? Like to get up to speed with iMovie 3 as quickly as possible? Then you may enjoy the iMovie tutorial already waiting for you on your Mac.
The tutorial's eight lessons introduce you to all aspects of iMovie, explaining how to edit scenes, pull digital photos in from iPhoto, add video and audio effects (iMovie 3 has an impressive collection of new video and audio effects), work with the enhanced titling available in iMovie 3, and much more.
Here's how simple it is to take the iMovie 3 tutorial. With iMovie 3 open, choose iMovie Help from the Help menu and click Tutorial.
And while we're discussing iMovie 3, you may want to take a few minutes to install the newest version: iMovie 3.0.2. To do so, launch Software Update or visit the iMovie page:
http://www.apple.com/imovie/
7. Technically Speaking
You may be familiar with some of the services AppleCare offers:
* Knowledge Base, which contains thousands of helpful articles * An extensive library of software updates it maintains * Award-winning phone support * Expert and speedy repair service
But did you know that AppleCare also offers a wide variety of products and services designed specifically for professionals and businesses?
If you'd like to have a video expert on call to answer your toughest
Final Cut Pro questions or would like to take advantage of premium service and support for your new Xserve or Xserve RAID, then visit our website and read about the range of professional products and services available from AppleCare.
http://www.apple.com/support/products/
8. What's New?
iPod Software 1.2.6.
The newest software for your iPod provides improved battery management, addressing an issue that may shorten your iPod's battery life and offering longer stand-by time on all iPods.
Download iPod Software 1.2.6 via Software Update, or visit the iPod download page, where you'll find separate versions for Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and Windows.
http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/
PowerSchool 3.5, an innovative web-based student information system for districts with up to 10,000 students, offers schools an Enhanced Master Schedule Builder with multi-day scheduling, visual schedule matrices, walk-in scheduling, and new scheduling reports.
http://www.apple.com/powerschool/
Java 1.4.1 for Mac OS X.
The latest, certified release of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, version 1.4.1 for Mac OS X, delivers hundreds of new features, performance improvements, and unique benefits by tightly integrating Java even more closely with the key technologies of Mac OS X. Like more info on Java 1.4.1?
http://www.apple.com/java/
Now shipping: FAXstf X Pro from Smith Micro Software. Delivering over 20 new feature enhancements, FAXstf X Pro lets you send, receive, and manage faxes from any application--e.g., Microsoft Office v.X, Adobe Photoshop, iPhoto--or from within its new browser. Visit the Smith Micro website for more information.
http://www.smithmicro.com
If you use AppleWorks and would like a good resource for tips, pay a visit to the AppleWorks Users Group (AWUG). The group hosts an AWUG Daily Tip page, where you'll find a seemingly unending supply of tips.
http://www.awug.org/misc/tips.html
While you're there, you might want to get more information about AWUG--including how you can receive the monthly AppleWorks newsletter.
http://www.awug.org/
Ever had a few friends over for an invigorating night of computer games? Imagine, then, if you could play online with hundreds--or even thousands--of fellow game players. That's just one of the attractions of massively multiplayer online games, in general, and Shadowbane, in particular:
Want to get in on all the action? You'll find Shadowbane at the Apple Store:
http://www.apple.com/enews/store/shadowbane.html
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