...................... Apple eNews May 30, 2002 Volume 5, Issue 11 ......................
In This Issue
1. Two Entrees, with Room for Dessert 2. eMac: Choose Your Startup System 3. Designing the Future 4. Making Sure Crime Doesn't Pay 5. The Wizard Behind Harry Potter 6. Conquer Planets in Your Spare Time 7. Technically Speaking 8. Quick Takes
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1. Two Entrees, with Room for Dessert
You know the 23-inch Apple Cinema HD Display serves up a delicious 2.3-million-pixel feast--plenty of space for your creative applications and their palettes and toolbars. And you know that the robust GeForce4 Titanium graphics card lets you connect two flat-panel displays to your Power Mac.
So what would you get if you connected two 23-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays to your Power Mac? About 4.6 million pixels of workspace. A smorgasbord large enough for you to open Final Cut Pro on one display and Cinema Tools on the other, and still have plenty of room on your plate for email and web browser applications. Or even a game or two. Talk about an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Sound enticing?
http://www.apple.com/powermac/graphics.html
2. eMac: Choose Your Startup System
In addition to iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, AppleWorks, QuickTime, Internet Explorer, Mac OS X Mail, AOL, World Book Mac OS X Edition and other utility and productivity software, every eMac ships with both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X.
http://www.apple.com/education/emac/software.html
As a result, your eMac computers can run all the new software becoming available for Mac OS X as well as the great Mac OS 9 applications you already own.
In fact, to make it as easy as possible for you to set up the eMac computers you order for your school, we've created configurations that will start up in the operating system you prefer--Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X.
http://www.apple.com/education/emac/specs.html
3. Designing the Future
When you take in the sci-fi thriller "Minority Report" this summer, you won't see any Macintosh computers, but their presence will underlie every scene--thanks to conceptual artist Warren Manser.
The film features designs created by Manser on his Power Mac. A "new-technology enthusiast," he purchased Mac OS X as soon as it was released, and the OS figured heavily in his work on the film.
"I'm always trying something new, and that's why I love Mac OS X so much," he says. "I really believe it's a superior OS."
http://www.apple.com/creative/designprint/manser/
4. Making Sure Crime Doesn't Pay
On the hit TV show "The District," police chief Jack Mannion depends on a high-tech tracking system to target heavy crime areas and needs it to work without a hitch.
Behind the scenes, visual effects supervisor Brenton Fletcher has his own set of heavy guns to depend on. While he relies on his PowerBook and Adobe After Effects to composite video footage, other crew members use Power Mac G4 computers to edit the faux video footage seen during the show.
And those huge screens that display the data Mannion and his officers rely on? They're generated by two Power Mac computers operating off-screen.
"We need something reliable that we know is going to work," explains Fletcher. "That's why we use Macs."
When Harry hops on his broomstick to play Quidditch in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," he has help from a fellow wizard.
No, not one of his Gryffindor House buddies--a visual effects wizard named Rob Legato. Instead of a wand, Legato deftly used a PowerBook and Final Cut Pro to create a seamless 11-minute Quidditch game, his legerdemain leaving viewers wondering where the live action ends and the computer-generated images begin.
"I was fascinated by how flexible Final Cut Pro is," he says. And despite the fact that he had never used the application before, he pulled off another feat that would make Harry proud: "I was doing essentially a week's worth of work in a day."
Seen "Attack of the Clones" yet? Would you like to take part in the action on your Mac?
Simply grab your copy of Aspyr Media's new strategy game--Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds--take control of one of six factions from the movies, and lead it to victory over your opponents. Develop technology, build spaceships, deploy your troops, and prepare to do battle on a variety of planets, including several from the movies.
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds is available now in the Apple Store. Pick it up and stage a few clone wars of your own.
After setting up your AirPort Base Station, you discover that while your Mac works just fine when you connect it directly to your cable modem or DSL hardware, it can't wirelessly access the Internet through your broadband connection.
If this has happened to you, it's probably because your Internet service provider (ISP) uses "hardware access provisioning," controlling access to its network by monitoring the "media access control" (MAC) addresses of connected devices. Both your AirPort Base Station and computer have unique MAC addresses, and your ISP's network is having difficulties recognizing the MAC of your base station.
Don't worry, though--we offer two simple solutions in the following Knowledge Base article:
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n106836
8. Quick Takes
Just around the corner.
It's Macworld. To be held July 15 to 19 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York, the Macworld Expo promises to be "the world's most comprehensive Mac OS event" with a wide assortment of workshops, conference sessions, and forums for Macintosh users of all levels.
And, if you register before June 17, you can take advantage of special Early Bird pricing. Like more info?
Xserve, Apple's new 1U rack-optimized server, is drawing raves. "A Unix server for the masses," David Coursey of ZDNet AnchorDesk writes. "This is a tremendous offering for small businesses, especially those that currently run Unix-based or Windows-based vertical apps." Read more of what he has to say.
"I'm generally spending less time understanding the mechanics of a given process and more time getting things done." That's Mark Kellner of The Washington Times talking about his experience with the Mac and Mac OS X.
We hope you enjoyed reading this issue of Apple eNews. Look for your next issue on June 13.
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