...................... Apple eNews August 8, 2002 Volume 5, Issue 17 ......................
In This Issue:
1. Coming Attractions: Mail 2. Heard a Good Book Lately? 3. Get the Big Picture 4. iTunes Tips: Editing Smart Playlists 5. Could You Replace All of Your Bookmarks? 6. Tips for Ten: An Option for Minimizing 7. Technically Speaking 8. What's New
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1. Coming Attractions: Mail
Junk mail. Like the weather, everyone complains about junk mail.
But we've actually done something about it.
We've made Mail smart. It learns. Thanks to sophisticated mail filtering technology--adaptive latent semantic analysis, to be exact--Mac OS X Mail learns what you consider to be junk email. And after an initial training period, you can tell Mail what to do with your junk email.
Mark it as junk and leave it in your inbox. File it in a folder. Or delete it as soon as it's received.
And that's just one of the many new features that are part of the improved Mail program coming your way in Jaguar, Mac OS X v10.2.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/mail.html
Order your copy of Mac OS X v10.2 today:
http://www.apple.com/enews/store/buyjaguar.html
2. Heard a Good Book Lately?
Summer. The perfect time to hike up to the mountains with Nicholas Sparks' "A Bend in the Road." Make a quick getaway to the beach with that new issue of "Fast Company." Or visit a nice grassy meadow with Laura Hillenbrand's "Seabiscuit."
Yes, iPod now lets you take both your favorite tunes and the newest books on your digital shelf along with you when you hit the road--thanks, that is, to the support iTunes 3 provides for spoken word content from Audible.com.*
In fact, Audible.com has a special offer for Mac customers: the chance to hear an audio program from actor/comedian Robin Williams. Download it for free and listen to it on your Mac in iTunes 3:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/audiobooks.html
To listen to Robin Williams--or other Audible content--on your iPod, visit the iPod site later today and download the iPod Software 1.2 Updater:
http://www.apple.com/ipod/
* Support for Audible content available only to Macintosh versions of iPod.
3. Get the Big Picture
The 17-inch LCD display on the new iMac offers twice the brightness, sharpness, and contrast of conventional CRT displays and 65% more viewable screen real estate than the 15-inch LCD.
And, whether you're cutting a movie, editing digital photos, amassing a complex spreadsheet, writing a novel, creating a presentation, laying out a new manual, or watching a DVD, the all-digital 17-inch widescreen display offers absolutely stunning picture quality. It also lets you:
* Watch DVD movies widescreen (16:10 aspect ratio), as they were meant to be seen * Edit Photoshop files with room enough for a variety of toolbars and palettes * See significantly more columns in an Excel spreadsheet * View two side-by-side pages in Microsoft Word, Adobe InDesign, or other word processing or publishing programs
See more on the new 17-inch widescreen iMac:
http://www.apple.com/imac/graphics.html
4. iTunes Tips: Editing Smart Playlists
Had an opportunity yet to create a Smart Playlist?
Instead of creating playlists one tune at a time, Smart Playlists let you assemble playlists automagically. Using this feature, you can find all the songs by Norah Jones, all the Techno in your collection, or all of the tunes you haven't heard in the last 30 days. And there are limitless other possibilities.
To get you started, we have some Smart Playlist ideas on our website. And we'd like to answer a question we've heard. Is there a way to modify Smart Playlists?
Of course. Here's how:
1. Click on a Smart Playlist to select it 2. Pull down the "File" menu and choose Get Info 3. Change whatever criteria you'd like and click OK
http://www.apple.com/itunes/smartplaylists.html
5. Could You Replace All of Your Bookmarks?
The contacts you have stored in Address Book? Your iTunes playlists? Or your Microsoft Word and Excel documents?
Do you even know where to find all of the above on your hard drive?
Most of us don't. That's why Backup, the new personal backup software you receive with your .Mac membership, offers such an invaluable service. It lets you, quickly and easily, identify the files you'd like to back up and the destination (iDisk, CD, or DVD) to which you'd like to save them.
Then Backup takes care of everything else: finding the identified files and copying them to the media you choose. You can even schedule automatic backups to iDisk.
Like to find out how powerful and painless backing up can be?
http://www.mac.com/1/iTour/tour_backup.html
6. Tips for Ten: An Option for Minimizing
You know all about minimizing, right? In Mac OS X, you can easily dispatch a document to the Dock either by clicking the yellow Minimize button or by double-clicking the menu bar.
Minimizing certainly comes in handy, but when you have two or three browser windows, several folders, or five or six Excel documents open, it would be a pain if you had to minimize each of those windows individually.
But you don't.
Mac OS X lets you minimize an entire collection of Finder or document windows at once. Simply hold down the Option key when you click the Minimize button or double-click the menu bar, and each of those browser, folder, or document windows will find its way to the Dock.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
Order your copy of Mac OS X v10.2 today:
http://www.apple.com/enews/store/buyjaguar.html
7. Technically Speaking
With Audible.com spoken word content, there's no need to carry around a large number of cassettes or CDs. When you want to curl up with a good book, magazine, or any of the other genres of available spoken content, you simply visit the Audible.com website and download whatever you fancy hearing.
But exactly how do you set up iTunes 3 to listen to your newest choices?
A recent addition to our technical library, "iTunes 3: How to Add Spoken Word Content to Your Library," relates the entire story.
In fact, the Knowledge Base article explains that one account with Audible.com lets you listen to downloaded audio material on up to three different Macintosh computers. Find out how.
Now in addition to customers who purchase qualifying Macintosh systems on or after July 17 that ship without Mac OS X v10.2 included, customers who purchase Mac OS X v10.1.x on or after July 17 may also qualify to upgrade to Mac OS X v10.2 for just $19.95 (US), plus applicable local taxes.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/
We also now have a similar program in place--Mac OS X Server Up-To-Date--for those who would like to upgrade to Mac OS X Server v10.2 and who purchased Mac OS X Server v10.1, Xserve, or Macintosh Server G4 on or after July 17:
http://www.apple.com/server/uptodate/
Bet you'd love to replace your pokey dialup connection with fast cable modem access. Then you'll want to read about EarthLink's new Internet service. Available in major markets throughout the US, it features free installation and the first month free, and you can cancel at any time:
http://www.apple.com/earthlink/cable/
@Last Software made its pilgrimage to the recent Macworld Expo from Boulder, Colorado, and the New York crowds liked what they saw. As did the editors of Macworld magazine, bestowing on @Last's SketchUp software a Macworld Best of Show award. SketchUp--available for download from the company's website--provides artists working in 3D design with an "amazingly powerful tool for creating, viewing, and modifying 3D ideas quickly and easily."
http://www.sketch3d.com/macosx/
Like to carry your Word, Excel, and AppleWorks documents in the Palm--or Sony Clie--in your hand?
Documents to Go 5, a new Mac OS X product from DataViz, lets you do just that. It also lets you synchronize documents between multiple Mac and Windows computers; view PDF files, digital photographs, and charts on your handheld; and beam documents to colleagues--even if they don't have Documents to Go themselves. And for a limited time, DataViz is offering Apple eNews subscribers the opportunity to save $10 when they order Documents To Go Premium Edition. For details, visit:
http://www.dataviz.com/DXTGAppleOffer
Print and save. In our newest promotion, you can receive a free Epson photo printer when you purchase an iMac, eMac, or iBook. For complete details:
http://www.apple.com/promo/printandsave/
You're invited. This August and September, you'll be able to see Jaguar--Mac OS X v10.2--in action at select Apple resellers as part of our In-Store Events program. Check our website to see when an event comes to a store near you, and don't forget to bring a friend:
http://www.apple.com/events/instore/stores.html
We hope you enjoyed reading today's issue of Apple eNews. Look for your next issue on August 22, 2002.
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