...................... Apple eNews September 26, 2002 Volume 5, Issue 20 ......................
In This Issue:
1. Great Graphics by Design 2. You Have a Rendezvous with Mac OS X 3. We've Got the Proof 4. How Does This Sound? 5. Tips for Ten: Capture That Window 6. iTunes Tip: Move That Column 7. Technically Speaking 8. What's New?
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1. Great Graphics by Design
Designed to provide superior graphics performance, the Power Mac G4 offers the choice of three stellar graphics processors: the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX, Radeon 9000 Pro from ATI, and NVIDIA GeForce4 Titanium.
All three take advantage of the dual processors in the Power Mac G4.
All three support dual displays. (Add an Apple DVI to ADC Adapter, and you can make that two Apple flat-panel displays.)
All three take maximum advantage of Quartz Extreme, a powerful new feature in Mac OS X v10.2 Jaguar that uses the graphics card to accelerate the compositing of 2D, 3D, and QuickTime content.
http://www.apple.com/powermac/graphics.html
And if you have designs on some great graphics of your own, take advantage of the Design Freely promo and get a free copy of InDesign 2.0* when you purchase your Power Mac G4 computer.
http://www.apple.com/promo/designfreely/
* Via mail-in coupon. Terms and conditions apply.
2. You Have a Rendezvous with Mac OS X
Mark Gibson, the veterinarian appearing in our new television ads, expresses a message we've often heard. Customers enjoy using the Mac because it "just works." No fiddling. No fussing. The Mac "is advertised as a plug-and-play machine," says Gibson, "and it is. I could plug in a new printer and install the new driver, and the thing would work."
With Mac OS X v10.2, we're extending that ease of operation to networking, an area that has frustrated so many people using computers.
Imagine adding a printer to a network and having every Mac on the network simply discover it--without any configuration. Need a quick way to share files at a meeting? What if everyone's PowerBook or iBook computers could simply detect one another? Instant file sharing.
That's the power of Rendezvous, one of the new features available in Mac OS X v10.2 Jaguar.
Gary Knight's a collector. An evidence collector to be exact.
A forensic photographer, Knight has been capturing crime data on film for over 25 years. Until, that is, he saw the digital strobe light.
Realizing that the law enforcement organization for which he works would be better served by an all-digital solution, Knight staked out some space in his office for a new "digital hub"--a dual processor Power Mac G4 at its core and a suite of digital cameras, scanners, printers, and memory card readers at the ready.
How did Knight prove the practical benefits of the digital switch? He saved taxpayers a wad of money and offered the police a more timely and dependable evidentiary process in the bargain.
Show of hands. How many of you haven't the faintest idea how to take advantage of the iTunes equalizer?
Would you like to?
Good. Because we've made arrangements with Peachpit Press and award-winning Mac author Jim Heid to publish an excerpt from Heid's new book, "The Macintosh Digital Hub." In the book and its accompanying DVD, Heid covers iTunes, iPhoto, iPod, iDVD, and iMovie, offering invaluable information about the Mac and the digital hub in general and the various digital tools in particular.
As an example, we thought you'd enjoy his discussion about the iTunes equalizer, excerpted from the chapter on iTunes, and the complementary track from the DVD. Download them from Peachpit Press's website. And start taking advantage of the equalizer.
http://www.peachpit.com/digitalhub/download.asp
5. Tips for Ten: Capture That Window
With Mac OS X v10.2, you now have an additional option for capturing screen shots.
1. Type Command-Shift-3 to take a screen shot of your entire screen. 2. Type Command-Shift-4 and Mac OS X will present you with crosshairs you can use to select whatever portion of your display you'd like to capture in a screen shot.
And here's the new option:
3. Immediately hit the spacebar after typing Command-Shift-4. Instead of crosshairs, you'll see a little a camera. Move the camera around to highlight the Dock, the menu bar, the desktop, or any open window. Then just click the mouse to "snap" a screen shot. In fact, with this option, you can entirely eliminate the desktop when you capture a screen shot of an individual window.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
6. iTunes Tip: Move That Column
You probably already know that you can tell iTunes to sort the music you're browsing simply by clicking one of the column heads.
For example, if you click Song Name, iTunes lists the songs you're browsing in alphabetical order. (Click the triangle to change to reverse alphabetical order.) Want to sort your tunes by playing time? Click the Time column.
But that's not the only trick you can play with column headers. Did you know that you can easily change the order of the columns?
It's true. Say you want the Artist column to appear immediately after the Song Name column. Position the mouse over the Artist column, hold down the mouse button, and drag the column to its new position. The change will apply only to the iTunes window you're browsing.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/
7. Technically Speaking
You're out enjoying the sparkling fall weather. Just you, your daughter, and the sound of leaves crunching underfoot. Cool evening temperatures and shorter days, you explain, are causing the leaves to change color. That's when the phone rings. That's right: Carly has a dance recital at 4:00, and you don't want to be late. Again.
So whose responsible for the timely reminder?
iCal and Address Book deserve the thanks for this handy (and very practical) application of the digital hub. And it's so simple to implement. Just add your mobile phone or pager number to the new systemwide Address Book that's part of Mac OS X v10.2 Jaguar. Then set iCal to send email to your phone email address. Like to see step-by-step instructions?
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61728
8. What's New?
There's a new addition in IBM's family of ViaVoice products for the Macintosh. It's ViaVoice Simply Dictation for Mac OS X. Available now from the Apple Store, ViaVoice Simply Dictation for Mac OS X is easy to use and offers outstanding dictation accuracy.
Offering outstanding dictation accuracy, ViaVoice Simply Dictation for Mac OS X lets you use your voice--instead of your mouse and keyboard--to enter, edit, format, and correct text. For more information:
Explore Mac OS X v10.2. See how to burn data to a CD in the Finder, use Inkwell, configure printers, take advantage of Mail, have fun with iChat. Just visit our new Mac OS X Theater and play our QuickTime videos.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater/
If you're running Mac OS X v10.2, you can keep your Mac secure and operating at peak performance levels. Thanks, that is, to Symantec's fine suite of Mac utility products, all of which support Mac OS X v10.2.
http://www.symantec.com/mac/
With "Star Trek: Nemesis" hitting theaters on the 13th and "The Two Towers" screening on the 18th, December's going to be a hot movie month. So--lest you forget--you'll want to set reminders for yourself in iCal. While you're at it, schedule some time to watch the new trailer for "Star Trek: Nemesis."
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