1. Have Music, Will Travel 2. iTunes 2 Performs in Perfect Harmony 3. Here's a Great Photo Op 4. Built for Mac OS X: QuicKeys 5. A Life Changed by iMac 6. We Play You Play FreePlay 7. You Don't Mean That, Do You? 8. Technically Speaking
Read this week's issue of iMac Update online:
http://www.apple.com/enews/2001/11/01enews2.html
1. Have Music, Will Travel
Now, when you hit the trail, climb a mountain, hop a train, run a marathon, backpack the high Sierras, go mountain biking in Moab, or catamaran to Ochos Rios, you can invite your music library along for the ride.
In fact, it can travel in your shirt pocket.
As long, that is, as you're packing your iPod, the new ultraslim, ultralight, and ultraportable MP3 player Apple introduced just last week and will be available in stores on November 10.
Thanks to iPod and its 5GB hard drive, you can tote not 10, not 100,
but up to 1000 songs in a svelte unit no larger than a pack of playing cards. And you can play music for up to 10 hours before recharging the lithium polymer battery.
Want to hear more about iPod?
http://www.apple.com/ipod/
2. iTunes 2 Performs in Perfect Harmony
Wondering how you'll move your music library to iPod?
iTunes 2.
That's right, you can expect a new version of iTunes just nine days from now--on November 10--and it comes packed with some great new features.
* A 10-band equalizer with over 20 custom presets * Crossfading for smoother transitions between songs * MP3 CD burning * A built-in sound enhancer for richer audio playback * Faster audio CD burning (up to twice as fast as before)
But, wait, there's more. iTunes 2 and iPod are an absolute item. A musical dynamic duo, they synchronize beautifully, allowing you to transfer your music collection--playlists and all--automatically (or manually if you'd like) from your Mac to your iPod. In fact, thanks to FireWire, music transfers blazingly fast. How fast? You can transfer a CD of music in less than 10 seconds. A full 5GB of music in less than 10 minutes.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/
3. Here's a Great Photo Op
Want a great way to keep in touch with friends and family--not just with words but with stunning digital photographs?
Buy an iMac.
With iMac, it's a snap to download photos and then post them on your web page or send them to others as iCards or via email.
And if you purchase a qualifying iMac between October 26 and December 31, 2001, you can take your snapshots with an HP 318xi digital camera (or get $150 cash back) via a mail-in rebate.
To obtain your digital camera (or request your $150 rebate), download the rebate coupon you'll find on our Snap it Up website. It will bring all of the details of this promo into sharp focus.
http://www.apple.com/promo/snapitup/
Or visit the Apple Store (http://www.apple.com/store), an Apple retail store (http://www.apple.com/retail/), or one of our participating authorized Apple resellers (http://www.apple.com/buy/).
4. Built for Mac OS X: QuicKeys
How many times a day do you type your name? Visit a particular web page? Open a set of related applications or documents? Insert the identical paragraph or two of copy in a document? Check your calendar? Mount a server? Update an expense report? Call what's-his-name? Check email?
Wouldn't it be great if you had a simple yet effective way of doing any or all of the above just by hitting one or two keys on your keyboard?
You can. With QuicKeys. In fact, QuicKeys X--the most recent version of the venerable Macintosh macro utility program--lets you easily create all sorts of shortcuts that can save you time and make you more productive.
Here's another in a series of letters you submitted, telling us how iMac changed your lives. Today's letter comes from Madison in Amsterdam.
When I bought my iMac DV Special Edition I never really bothered to check the DV stuff. However, when Dutch MTV ran a VJ-for-a-day contest, all you had to do was make an 8 minute video. I ran out, borrowed a friend's camera, and went for it.
I didn't need any instructions. iMovie was THAT easy (I never used any DV programs before you know!). After exporting the whole thing back to tape, I send my video to MTV.
Out of 1250 people, five finalists were selected for a trip to London to experience the studios for a day. One of those people was me!! I never would have entered the contest with a normal camera, with all the editing etc. But with a DV cam, iMovie and my iMac, it was loads and loads of fun. Thanks Apple for the iMac, and thanx MTV Holland for a great day in London's Studios! :-)
Then you recently received a folder stuffed with 2100 royalty-free tunes from freeplaymusic.com.
Yours to use, the 35 genres of music you'll find in your iDisk make great soundtracks for movies. In fact, you'll find tracks in 10-, 15-, 20-, 30-, 60-, and 120-second cuts to make it even easier to incorporate them in iMovie and Final Cut Pro projects.
Using them in iMovie couldn't be easier. Drag MP3 files from your iDisk to your hard drive. Preview them in iTunes. Then open iMovie, choose "Import" from the File menu, and select the song you'd like to use in your movie.
Freeplaymusic.com even offers uncompressed WAV files for use in Final Cut Pro. Use iTunes to preview the music, then visit www.freeplaymusic.com and download the files you want to use.
So, how do you find this free music? Mount your iDisk and follow this path: Software/Mac OS X Software/Extras/.
http://www.apple.com/itools/
7. You Don't Mean That, Do You?
If someone touts your talent to temporize, don't get tremulous.
Get Sherlock.
With the addition of the new Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com plug-ins to bolster the already efficacious plug-ins for the American Heritage Dictionary and Roget's II: New Thesaurus, our intrepid searchmeister can help you triangulate the meaning of terms tortuous and transparent.
We speak veraciously.
Look for the newest Sherlock plug-ins in the Reference channel.
http://www.apple.com/sherlock/
8. Technically Speaking
Back up your important data. Send CDs to friends and relatives filled with your latest movies. Burn audio CDs you can listen to on your Mac, in your walkman, or home or car stereo.
Yes, the CD-RW drive in your iMac or iBook can be really useful, and you'll understand your choices more clearly if you familiarize yourself with the formatting options--Standard, MP3 CD, or iTunes--available to you.
Which one best fits your needs? Find out by reading "Disc Burner: Creating CDs and Choosing Formats" and get a few handy CD burning tips at the same time.
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