...................... Apple eNews December 19, 2002 Volume 5, Issue 26
Happy Holidays ......................
In This Issue:
1. A "Pretty Wonderful" Experience 2. What Do These Products Have in Common? 3. Many Contacts, One Book 4. Tips for Ten: Customizing the Mail Toolbar 5. Got Pictures? Get 100 Free Prints. 6. Technically Speaking 7. What's New?
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1. A "Pretty Wonderful" Experience
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Turnley has covered nearly every major world event of the past twenty years. But he had never photographed digitally until he participated in the Day in the Life of Africa project.
He loved the experience
In fact, he describes the entire digital process--downloading his images to a PowerBook G4 computer and organizing them with iPhoto--as "pretty wonderful."
"It was the first time I had edited on a Mac in the field," he says. "It was seamless, and it was amazing to be able to offer an editor an edited set of photographs, with captions, within several hours of having made the images. I burned them onto a CD, delivered them on a CD, and took an extra copy home with me."
http://www.apple.com/pro/photo/turnley/
2. What Do These Products Have in Common?
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0. A one-year membership in .Mac. Reunion 8. A Wacom Graphire 2 USB tablet--complete with an optical mouse. Toast 5.0 Titanium. Palm Zire. DiskOnKey--128MB of USB storage on a keychain. ViaVoice Simply Dictation. Quicken 2003. An AirPort Card for wireless networking.
Give up?
They're all available for under $100. What's more, these are just a sampling of the many great products available for the Mac for $100 or less. You can see the entire collection by visiting our Holiday Gift Guide.
http://www.apple.com/giftguide/under100.html
3. Many Contacts, One Book
In Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar," Address Book takes on much more responsibility than it had before. It works seamlessly with Mac OS X Mail and interfaces directly with other applications, as well.
Address Book now helps you access friends' public folders on iDisk, making it easier to exchange documents. It lets you send them instant messages via iChat without leaving Address Book. And if you have a cell phone with Bluetooth, Address Book will even dial their numbers for you.
Visit the Mac OS X website for more information on Address Book.
And be sure to download the "Mail & Address Book" chapter of the "Robin Williams Mac OS X Book, Jaguar Edition" (new from Peachpit Press) and find out how you can put Mail and Address Book to work for you.
Would you like to customize the toolbar in Mac OS X Mail? Scott Kelby explains how in this excerpt from Mac OS X Killer Tips:
"Control-click the Toolbar to display a contextual menu that lets you choose to have Toolbar items displayed as icons and text, just icons, or just text (and at which size for both). If you Command-click on the white, pill-shaped button [or Toolbar Disclosure button] in the upper-right corner of the title bar, you'll step through the various options. Hold Option-Command and click the same button, and the all-important Customize toolbar sheet--with even more options for customizing the Toolbar--will appear."
By the way, with the customize toolbar sheet, you can add an icon that makes adding someone to your Address Book a one-click operation. For more tips, visit the Mac OS X Killer Tips website.
http://www.scottkelbybooks.com/osx/osx.html
Or visit the Apple Store to order "Mac OS X Killer Tips" for yourself.
http://www.apple.com/enews/store/killertips.html
5. Got Pictures? Get 100 Free Prints.
Everyone may be snapping digital photos this holiday season, but thanks to a pair of exciting offers from .Mac, you'll be able to share your photos more easily.
Because .Mac works so flawlessly with Mac OS X v10.2, in general, and Mail and iPhoto, in particular, you'll find it easy to email your holiday photos to friends and family, order beautiful Kodak prints of your favorite pics, and post digital photos on your own
In fact, the first 100 4x6 Kodak prints you hand out can be on us. If, that is, you join .Mac and activate your free prints credit by December 31.
There's more. As a .Mac member, you can also participate in our HomePage Creativity Contest and vie for a 20GB iPod and 1GB of iDisk space. How can you take advantage of these offers?
http://www.apple.com/promo/dotmac/
6. Technically Speaking
How would you like to use your cell phone as a modem?
Thanks to its built-in support for the Bluetooth wireless standard <http://www.apple.com/bluetooth/>, Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar" lets you establish a really close connection between your Mac and cell phone. Find out how in this Knowledge Base article. It offers step-by-step instructions for using a Sony Ericsson T68 mobile phone as a Bluetooth modem--very handy if you and your iBook are out on the road together, and you'd like to download your mail or surf the web.
That's not all. When Bluetooth and iSync <http://www.apple.com/isync/> team up with Mac OS X, they make it easy for you to keep your contacts fully synchronized among your Mac, Bluetooth-enabled cell phone, and PDA.
When it comes to putting a slideshow of your family's vacation or holiday activities on a DVD, Walt Mossberg found that iDVD "produced by far the best slideshow discs" of the programs he tested.
http://ptech.wsj.com/solution.html
Spruce up your Dock or desktop for the holiday season. Use "Christi's Tree" to adorn them with a fully decorated Christmas Tree . Or treat your files and folders to a festive "Aqua Christmas." Both freeware titles are available on the Mac OS X Downloads page.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/
Borders Books and Peachpit Press would like to treat you to the Macworld Expo in San Francisco:
http://www.apple.com/enews/quicktakes/passes.html
See an exclusive interview with Ian McKellen. He plays Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," which just opened in theaters yesterday and has already earned rave reviews:
Wait, there's more. We've just posted new QuickTime trailers for Bad Boys II and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines--both will be back in theaters this July:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/
We hope you enjoyed the last issue of Apple eNews for 2002. Expect to receive your next issue on Thursday, January 9, 2003.
In the meantime, have a festive holiday and a very Happy New Year.
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