1. iMac: Ready for the Future 2. Edith Ann Visits San Antonio 3. "About as Painless as a Haircut" 4. Your Last Issue 5. Tips for Ten: Changing Your Desktop Picture 6. Just Ask 7. Technically Speaking 8. What's New?
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1. iMac: Ready for the Future
Still amazed at the quality of the video you see on your flat-panel iMac? The smoothness? The clarity? The color saturation?
You can credit some of that stunning graphics performance to the brilliant LCD display; some to the fact that in the iMac, the graphics are all-digital all the time. And let's not overlook the contribution of the new graphics processor we use in iMac: the NVIDIA GeForce2 MX. <http://www.apple.com/imac/graphics.html>
Great for game players, the GeForce2 MX offers outstanding 3D performance, and when the next major version of Mac OS X ships this summer, your iMac will be able to take advantage of one of its exciting new features: Quartz Extreme.
How will you benefit from Quartz Extreme?
http://www.apple.com/macosx/newversion/
2. Edith Ann Visits San Antonio
Keynoting at last week's 2002 National Education Computing Conference (NECC) in San Antonio, TX, Lily Tomlin admits she was more into cheerleading than attendance when she was in high school.
But Tomlin certainly got an education at the conference, learning all about the newest products and services Apple has introduced specifically for students, parents, teachers, and administrators.
They include not only such hardware products as eMac (our most affordable PowerPC G4 system ever) and Xserve (Apple's groundbreaking new rackmount server), but also new versions of PowerSchool (the industry's leading web-based student information system), Apple Digital Campus Curriculum (which offers rich, project-based curricula), and the Apple Learning Interchange (a new online resource for teaching, learning, research, and collaboration).
http://www.apple.com/education/neccsa/index.html
3. "About as Painless as a Haircut"
"Two words: iMovie and iPhoto," exclaimed one writer. "There's nothing else like them--anywhere! In every aspect these two applications sealed the deal."
Just one of the thousands of people who have written to tell us about their experiences switching from the PC to the Mac--switching, he said, "was about as painless as a haircut"--his letter was so enjoyable, we had to share it with you. We think his sentiments about iMovie, iPhoto, and Mac OS X will resonate with many of you.
We're still reading the email you've submitted and plan to post more of your comments in the days and weeks ahead, so stop by and read your Real Stories:
http://www.apple.com/switch/stories/
4. Your Last Issue
As we mentioned last time, you're reading the last issue of iMac Update. We hope you enjoyed reading the newsletter as much as we enjoyed publishing it.
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If you decide Apple eNews is not for you, you can unsubscribe at any time. Thanks again.
5. Tips for Ten: Changing Your Desktop Picture
You may be a photographer yourself, or you may simply have a handful of digital images you've collected over the years--e.g., landscapes, portraits, still lifes, sports.
Place the images you most enjoy in your Pictures folder, and you can tell Mac OS X to use one of them as your Desktop Picture. Here's how: pull down the Apple menu, choose System Preferences, and click the Desktop icon.
Then choose Pictures Folder from the Collections drop-down menu. The images you dropped in your Pictures folder will appear, and you need only click to select your Desktop Picture. Best of all, you can change it as often as you'd like.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
6. Just Ask
Enjoy having options? No wonder you like working on a Mac.
Take, for example, choosing an image to use as your Desktop Picture. Yes, you can use System Preferences to select an image for your desktop, as we described above.
Or you can use iPhoto.
The latest version--iPhoto 1.1.1--lets you choose an image from your growing collection of digital photos to use as your Desktop Picture.
And you'll find the directions for doing so right on your Mac. In the Finder, pull down the Help menu, choose Mac Help, and click on the question mark icon in the lower left corner. Click the link for iPhoto Help. Then type "desktop picture," and click Ask.
http://www.apple.com/iphoto/
7. Technically Speaking
For many of us, creating playlists is a passion unto itself. Add a song here. Change the order there. And tweaking one playlist often helps you to realize the absolute need for another playlist on yet another musical theme.
Yes, iTunes is an audiophile's delight.
But, has this ever happened to you? No sooner do you get your playlist to the point of exquisite perfection than you realize there are too many songs to fit on an audio CD.
Not to worry. With iTunes, you have the option of burning not only audio CDs but MP3 CDs, as well. And you can fit over 12 hours of music on an MP3 CD.
Like to know how to create one?
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61106
8. What's New?
On Monday, July 1, we'll be posting the movie trailer for "Star Trek: Nemesis." Watch the trailer, exclusively in QuickTime:
If you live near Short Hills, NJ, you'll want to visit the newest Apple retail store--our 31st. Stop by before Saturday, June 29, and you'll be able to participate in the Grand Opening Sweepstakes:
http://www.apple.com/retail/shorthills/
Over the past two weeks, Apple has posted a series of software updates, including Java 1.3.1 Update, Networking Update 1.0, AirPort Software Update 2.0.4, and AppleScript 1.8.3. Be sure to run Software Update to install the latest system updates.
Ollo in the Sunny Valley Fair. Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Lilo & Stitch's Hawaiian Adventure. The Sims: Hot Date. RealMYST. Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds.
Those are just a handful of the new Mac OS X game titles that recently began shipping:
http://www.apple.com/games/
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