...................... Apple eNews July 11, 2002 Volume 5, Issue 14 ......................
In This Issue:
1. Seen the Reviews? 2. Manage Your Data from Your Desktop to the Web 3. "I Use Excel. I Use Word. I Use Lotus Notes." 4. Tips for Ten: Creating a PDF PDQ 5. Scientists Going Digital 6. "The Single Greatest Art Tool Available Today" 7. Technically Speaking 8. What's New
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http://www.apple.com/enews/2002/07/11enews1.html
1. Seen the Reviews?
While the stunning PowerBook G4 has always turned heads, our new 800MHz PowerBook G4 is changing minds.
The conventional thinking? Mobile computers offer road warriors a necessary compromise: portability for somewhat less performance.
But reviewers who have field tested the new PowerBook G4--David Pogue (New York Times), James Coates (Seattle Times), David Nagel (Digital Post Productions), Joe Wilcox (BetaNews)--came away more than pleasantly surprised. They found performance that exceeded their expectations, rivaling that of desktop systems and offering impressive Photoshop 7 and Final Cut Pro performance.*
What accounts for the impressive performance? Is it the speedier processor? The addition of 1MB of L3 cache? The faster system bus? The new graphics processor? The answer? All of the above.
http://www.apple.com/powerbook/
2. Manage Your Data from the Desktop to the Web
One of the first products built for Mac OS X now offers significant new features for gathering, managing, and sharing information of all types.
Available now, FileMaker Pro 6:
* Lets you import a folder of files (images, email messages, text, sound files, video, and others) directly into your database with just a few clicks * Offers integrated support for Extensible Markup Language (XML), the standard for universal data exchange * Brings you new searching and formatting capabilities * Comes with a wide assortment of new templates for common business, home, and education database needs * Features single-click web publishing * Provides robust cross-platform support for Mac OS X, Mac OS 8.6 through MacOS 9.2, Windows XP, and Windows 2002
Like more information about FileMaker Pro 6?
http://www.filemaker.com
3. "I Use Excel. I Use Word. I Use Lotus Notes."
"And they work great," says David Carey, proud owner of an iBook, in one of the two new TV ads now playing on Apple's Switch website.
Carey's a magazine publisher, but people from all walks of life--lawyers, owners of mail order companies, music engineers, marketing managers, software developers, and others--have written to tell us how well the Mac performs as a serious business computer. How their transition from the PC to the Mac was seamless. How easy it has been to share Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with PC-using friends. How little they needed to be concerned with compatibility issues. How well their Macintosh computers network with PCs.
It's a common theme.
http://www.apple.com/switch/stories/
4. Tips for Ten: Creating a PDF PDQ
Files saved in the Portable Document Format (PDF) let you share documents with friends or colleagues even if they don't have the application you used to create it.
Being able to create PDF files is really handy, and Mac OS X allows you to create them from any application. Here's how.
* Open a document you'd like to save as a PDF, pull down the File menu, and choose Print. * In the Print dialog, click the Preview button. Mac OS X will open the Preview application and display your document as a PDF. * To save it, pull down the File menu once more, choose Save As PDF, and tell Mac OS X where you'd like the PDF file saved.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
5. Scientists Going Digital
If we asked who you thought might be likely candidates for iMovie, Final Cut Pro, iDVD, or QuickTime Streaming Server, you might answer photographers, musicians, designers, or filmmakers. But they're not the only "creative types" who have embraced Apple's digital lifestyle products. Scientists have also made them integral parts of their work.
Take, for example, Dr. Kevin Burton, who captures digital video of skin cell movement with microscopes controlled by a Mac. Or Dr. Robert Williams, who uses QuickTime Streaming Server to share digital videos of brain slides with fellow researchers as they study brain-based diseases. Meanwhile, Dr. Jonathan Goldman uses DVD Studio Pro to create training DVDs for ultrasound diagnosticians.
Welcome to the digital science revolution.
http://www.apple.com/scitech/appletech/dv/
6. "The Single Greatest Art Tool Available Today"
Strong praise? That's how Digital Media Design describes Studio Artist 2.0 from Synthetik Software. A "graphics synthesizer" built for Mac OS X, this revolutionary tool lets you play with digital images and video in ways you may never have imagined possible, opening up entirely new avenues of self expression.
Suppose you have a photograph you want to give a very distinctive look. By selecting one of Studio Artist's 2,000+ presets, your image can appear rendered in watercolors or lit with neon.
Or what if you'd like one of your QuickTime movies to look like an animated film? It's entirely possible with the built-in rotoscoping capability Studio Artist offers.
If your Mac has a CD-RW drive, Combo drive, or SuperDrive, you may have already discovered how easy it is to back up all your files onto inexpensive CD-RW media:
* Insert a CD-RW disc * Name the disc, choose Standard in the Format drop-down menu, and click Prepare * Drag the folders, files, or applications you want to back up to the icon of the CD-RW disc * Select the icon of the disc on your desktop, then pull down the File menu and choose Burn Disc
But what if you want to reuse that CD-RW disc? What steps do you need to follow to erase the existing data? That process is just as easy.
Now Shipping: Xserve. Apple's new rack-optimized server offers superior performance, voluminous storage, easy deployment and maintenance, excellent remote management tools, a highly affordable price, and unlimited-client licenses.
http://www.apple.com/xserve/
Crystal Clear Savings. You can save up to $500 when you purchase a qualifying flat-panel display and a Power Mac G4 between now and August 12.
http://www.apple.com/promo/crystalclear/
Need to track the time you spend on client projects? TimeSlice 2.5 (Casady & Greene) not only tracks the time you spend on a job, client, or application basis but creates invoices, too.
http://www.casadyg.com/products/timeslice/mac/
If you'd like to become totally familiar with Apple's new flat-panel iMac, learn the ins-and-outs of iDVD, or immerse yourself in everything iPod, a trio of new books from Peachpit Press--"The Little iMac Book" (John Tollett & Robin Williams), "The Little iDVD Book" (Bob LeVitus), and "Secrets of the iPod" (Christopher Breen)--is sure to delight.
http://www.peachpit.com
Here's a great way to speed your journey to the information superhighway. Use Freeway 3.5, a new WYSIWYG tool from Softpress Systems, to design your websites:
http://www.softpress.com/
You'll never lose another business contact or waste time manually entering contact info into your Address Book. That's the promise of the IRIS Business Card Reader II:
Built for Mac OS X, "Medal of Honor transports you to the battlefields of World War II and immerses you in the conflict," says Aspyr Media president Michael Rodgers.
James Coates: http://www.apple.com/enews/quicktakes/jamescoates.html
David Nagel: http://www.apple.com/enews/quicktakes/davidnagel.html
Joe Wilcox: http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=1024550756
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