1. Fast, Elegant, Innovative...and Coming Soon 2. Short or Tall, iMac Accommodates 3. eMac: Choose Your Startup System 4. New Features Sharpen iPhoto 1.1 5. Grace Under Pressure 6. Underwater Adventures with iMovie 7. Technically Speaking 8. Quick Takes
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1. Fast, Elegant, Innovative...and Coming Soon
At the Worldwide Developers Conference last week, Apple offered developers a sneak peek of the next major release of Mac OS X.
We code-named it Jaguar.
Scheduled for release late this summer, Jaguar will bring you a series of exciting new features. Take, for example:
* iChat. Instant messaging as it was meant to be, iChat will let you use your mac.com account name as your "handle" and converse with buddies on AOL. * Sherlock 3 will offer a sensational Yellow Pages channel--among others--complete with maps and driving directions. * Address Book. You'll no longer need to search everywhere for your contacts. With the new Address Book you'll have a central repository for all of them including all your iChat buddies.
And that's not all.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/newversion/
2. Short or Tall, iMac Accommodates
While some like to stand, others sit up straight and a few of us even slouch. Anyone do all of the above?
That's what's so great about the articulated neck on the flat-panel iMac.
No matter how we like to work or how many times our posture changes, the iMac display accommodates, gliding effortlessly into an almost infinite number of positions.
How adjustable is it? You can tilt the display forwards or backwards a full 35 degrees. Raise or lower it--it adjusts up to 7 inches. Or, for those who like to share, you can also rotate it 180 degrees from left to right.
We should all be so adjustable.
http://www.apple.com/imac/graphics.html
3. 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 great new software becoming available for Mac OS X as well as the great Mac OS 9 applications you already own.
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 startup in the operating system you prefer--Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X.
http://www.apple.com/education/emac/specs.html
4. New Features Sharpen iPhoto 1.1
You said you'd like to
* Email a photo to a friend with one click (using Mac OS X Mail)* * Adjust brightness and contrast in Edit mode * Search for photos by Keywords or Comments (set your choice in Preferences) * Pick a photo for your desktop * Create a custom screen saver with a single click * Show all EXIF picture data
Now you can do all of the above--and much more--thanks to the many new features we've added to iPhoto 1.1. Snap up your copy today by visiting our iPhoto website.
http://www.apple.com/iphoto/
* You'll need access to email and an account with an Internet service provider to take advantage of this feature.
5. Grace Under Pressure
Think your college entrance exam was tough?
To qualify for admission to the University of Sheffield, Matthew Pitts-Tucker had to sit next to a boiler and under a creaky theater stage when he took his exam. It gets worse: he spent a whopping 20 scorching hours there while he produced a one-and-a-half minute animated film.
But none of those distractions flustered this lifelong Mac owner. After all, he had a pair of invaluable assistants that kept him focused and helped him achieve an "A" grade.
iMac and iMovie.
"iMovie performed brilliantly," he says. "It's so easy to use, yet you can do really elaborate things with it. You can basically teach yourself to use it."
The kids couldn't wait to find out. Would their seafaring heroes find the elusive Pompeii worm?
No, it wasn't an after-school TV show they were following. They were immersed in the exploits of a group of undersea researchers on a 17-day mission: the Extreme 2002 expedition.
Each day, the researchers explored the Pacific Ocean floor and documented their findings with digital camcorders. Back aboard ship, they edited the footage with iMovie and transmitted the clips via satellite to their landlocked webmasters, who quickly updated their site with new video.
Says project director Tracey Bryant: "Without the Mac platform, there would have been no other way to do this."
Someone just sent you email with an important Microsoft Excel document enclosed. Thing is, you don't have MS Excel, so you can't open it.
But wait: AppleWorks came pre-installed on your iMac, and the latest version--AppleWorks 6.2.4--can read and write Microsoft Word and Excel files. In fact, this new version offers enhanced formatting tools, downloads Internet templates more quickly, provides enhanced support for FAXstf, and more.
Which version of AppleWorks are you running? Pull down the AppleWorks menu and choose "About AppleWorks." If the version number is greater than 6.0 but less than 6.2.4, surf to our Knowledge Base and download this free update.
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n120090
8. Quick Takes
No bolts are required for WingNuts.
But you will need Mac OS X v10.1 if you expect to defeat the evil Baron Schtopwatch and his fleet of robot planes, and as you can see from this QuickTime trailer, WingNuts' arcade action really soars.
http://www.apple.com/games/trailers/wingnuts/
MATLAB is coming to Mac OS X with the next release of the MathWorks product line later this year. MATLAB integrates mathematical computing, visualization and a powerful language to provide a flexible environment for technical computing.
Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones. About a Boy. Signs. Minority Report. Bourne Identity. The Salton Sea. High Crimes.
Now playing on the QuickTime Movie Trailers site.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/
Be an early bird. Macworld New York is coming sooner than you think. Register now to take advantage of special savings off regular pricing.
http://www.macworldexpo.com
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