....................... Apple eNews January 24, 2002 Volume 5, Issue 2 .......................
In This Issue
1. Mac OS X Takes Center Stage at Macworld 2. Microsoft Offers Us a Suite Deal 3. What's Cooking at Adobe? 4. Don't Take Risks: Back It Up 5. How Do You Make Paper Digital? 6. Games Galore at Macworld 7. Just Ask 8. Technically Speaking: iPod 9. Quick Takes
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1. Mac OS X Takes Center Stage at Macworld
Was Macworld a success?
Consider that close to 90,000 Macintosh enthusiasts packed the show. That nearly 350 exhibitors came to show off their newest Mac products. And that Mac OS X figured prominently in virtually any direction you walked or looked.
The last quarter saw a 40% increase in the number of applications built for Mac OS X, and at the latest count, there are over 2500 shipping Mac OS X applications. Every product that won a Best of Show award <http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0201/10.bestofshow.php> runs (or soon will run) in Mac OS X, and for practically every product need, there seems to be a Mac OS X solution on the shelves or in the wings.
Take a look, for example, at the Mac OS X products featured below.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
2. Microsoft Offers Us a Suite Deal
How about a really "suite deal" to get the new year off to a good start?*
Microsoft will send you up to $150 back (via a mail-in rebate) when you purchase Microsoft Office v.X, the new version of Microsoft Office designed expressly for Mac OS X.
How can you save on this Suite Deal?
* To get $150 back, purchase the full version of Microsoft Office v.X and any Macintosh computer--including the stunning new iMac.
* Get $75 back when you purchase the upgrade version of Microsoft Office v.X and any Macintosh computer.
* Or get $50 back by purchasing Microsoft Office v.X and Mac OS X.
For complete details and a copy of the mail-in coupon, visit:
http://www.apple.com/promo/suitedeal/
What's that? You'd like to try Microsoft Office before you buy? Here's your chance. Take advantage of Microsoft's Office v.X Test Drive, and experience Word X, Excel X, PowerPoint X, and Entourage X for yourself--free, for 30 days:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/officex/otdreg.asp
* Microsoft's Suite Deal promo runs from January 7 to March 31, 2002.
3. What's Cooking at Adobe?
Intent on offering an entire menu of blue-plate delicacies, Adobe is already serving up quite a feast of tantalizing Mac OS X applications, including
Of course, their entire library of typefaces is already built for Mac OS X. And at Macworld, the company announced that two more Mac OS X applications--GoLive 6.0 and LiveMotion 2--would ship shortly.
What's more, Adobe demonstrated the next version of Photoshop and offered these comments from president and CEO Bruce Chizen: "With the next version of Photoshop coming this Spring, our customers are seeing more and more value in switching to Mac OS X. Apple has quickly made Mac OS X their best operating system yet for users and developers, and Adobe is dedicated to being the premier developer of Mac OS X."
http://www.adobe.com/
4. Don't Take Risks: Back It Up
It happens to everyone. Whether it's the result of electrical failure, vandalism, or an accidental drag to the Trash, it's all too easy to lose data you can't afford to be without.
The best solution, as you've no doubt heard before, is prevention.
And you can prevent such mishaps with, for example, two products just announced at the recent Macworld Expo. Dantz unveiled a preview version of Retrospect 5.0 for Mac OS X--available for download now from their web site--that includes several new features, including the ability to back up files larger than 2GB.
And CMS Peripherals introduced a series of automatic backup systems for Mac OS X that couldn't be simpler to use. Connect an external drive, and your data gets backed up automatically
http://cmsproducts.com/
5. How Do You Make Paper Digital?
No, we don't have a magic wand or an alchemist's formula.
When you need to convert information you have on paper--faxes, photocopies, newspaper articles, letters, forms, excerpts from a book--into electronic data you can open and re-purpose in Word, Excel, or countless other Mac applications, you need good OCR (optical character recognition) software.
Most scanners come with such software, but some programs are better than others, and the recently introduced OmniPage Pro X is among the best, offering not only superior accuracy but such advanced features as automatic spreadsheet and table recognition, HTML output, automatic scanning into Word v.X and Excel v.X, and AppleScript compatibility. OmniPage Pro X--designed exclusively for Mac OS X--even lets you convert PDF documents (including read-only PDFs) into usable data.
Got paper documents you need to turn into digital files? Find out how OmniPage Pro X can help.
http://www.scansoft.com/products/omnipage/opxmac/
6. Games Galore at Macworld
Mac gamers attending Macworld were agog. Not only did they learn that a flood of great games was coming their way, they found many on display--and available for play--right on the show floor. Two of the titles, the strategy game Civilization III and the online role-playing game Lineage, even won Best of Show awards.
Fact is: the games at Macworld--from Links: Championship Edition to Survivor to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to Spider-Man--were so impressive that everyone had a game or three they just had to try out.
And with Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, Aliens vs. Predator 2, and many more great games announced at the show for release later this year, Macworld attendees left the expo with a lot to look forward to in 2002.
Now that you've begun to organize your digital photographs in iPhoto, you'd probably also like to take advantage of the application's Export feature to enhance the reports, presentations, flyers, newsletters, sales presentations, calendars, or other documents you create in Microsoft Office v.X, AppleWorks, and other applications.
Would you be surprised to learn that you already have directions for doing so on your Macintosh? When you downloaded and installed iPhoto, you also installed iPhoto Help. Here's how to find instructions for using the Export feature in iPhoto, our newest Mac OS X application.
Launch iPhoto, select iPhoto Help from the Help menu, type "Exporting photos" in the dialog box, and click Ask.
8. Technically Speaking: iPod
Ever wonder why your music doesn't skip when you jog, dance, or bicycle with iPod? Do you know if you can update your iPod from more than one Mac? Connect iPod to your home or car stereo? Or whether you can synch iTunes with more than one iPod--in case your family has one Mac but more than one iPod?
Because you're not the only one who has asked such questions since we unveiled iPod last year, we compiled a list of the most frequently asked questions and posted them--and the answers to them--in our Knowledge Base.
Take a look. You're sure to learn something about iPod you didn't already know.
"I've been testing the new iMac in my home for the past five days," writes Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal. "The screen is the most vivid 15-inch flat panel I've seen, and inside the base Apple has packed a surprisingly powerful computer with a fast G4 processor, ample memory and hard-disk space, and, in the top-of-the-line model I tested, a disk drive that can even create DVDs."
http://ptech.wsj.com/ptech.html
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