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Date: 19. Oktober 2007 18:20:55 MESZ
Subject: iPhone top seller for AT&T
Source: Apple Hot News
As reported by DigiTimes, ” ‘the iPhone has become AT&T’s top selling device, commanding some 13% of AT&T’s overall handset sales, and the fourth top selling handset in the US market,’ according to Barry Gilbert, VP of the Strategy Analytics BuyerTRAX programs.” What’s more, DigiTimes also quotes Gilbert as indicating that “ ‘ the sales trajectory we are observing with the iPhone could make it the top selling device in the US over the next 1-2 quarters.’ “Date: 19. Oktober 2007 18:25:09 MESZ
Subject: “iPhone excels in US customer satisfaction”
Source: Apple Hot News
“iPhone excels in US customer satisfaction”
Citing research from ChangeWave Research, Jonny Evans (Macworld) reports that “the iPhone now leads the pack in terms of customer satisfaction among its US customer base. An unprecedented 82 per cent of iPhone owners reported being Very Satisfied with their purchase, up five points since the previous survey in July and by far the highest rating of any mobile manufacturer.” Evans notes that “the research found 16 per cent of respondents who plan to purchase a phone in the next six months saying they’ll buy an iPhone - placing Apple up at the top among all manufacturers.”Date: 19. Oktober 2007 20:54:03 MESZ
Subject: Les Paul: Invented Here
Source: Apple Hot News
Wikipedia recognizes him as “one of the most important figures in the development of modern electric musical instruments and recording techniques.” Indeed, Les Paul, invented reverb, sound-on-sound and multi-track recording. On a mission to create “a radical new sound,” the multi-talented guitarist developed not only new ways of—and new equipment for—recording music but also new instruments. Most notably: the solid-body electric guitar that would bear his name and that legions of jazz, blues, country, and rock musicians would zealously adopt. Now Paul and his technical team have tapped the Mac, Final Cut Pro, and Soundtrack Pro to help tell the story about how he brought his radical new sound to life.Date: 19. Oktober 2007 23:46:22 MESZ
Subject: Taking iTunes U Beyond Campus
Source: Apple Hot News
“iTunes U, the education portal within Apple’s iTunes,” reports Campus Technology, “has expanded its content to include educational materials from sources beyond colleges and universities,” Called “Beyond Campus,” the area provides programming from Smithsonian Global Sound, KQED, Little Kids Rock, the Museum of Modern Art, and, most recently, “American Public Media, which is making its radio programming available free for educational purposes.”Date: 22. Oktober 2007 21:36:27 MESZ
Subject: Videophiles discovering short films on iTunes
Source: Apple Hot News
Videophiles discovering short films on iTunes
“First-time filmmaker Jesus Beltran,” reports Joe Garofoli (San Francisco Chronicle), “has made a couple of thousand dollars in the few months that his 19-minute ‘The Grass Grows Green’ has been sold on iTunes.” But for Beltran, Jon Bloom (“Overnight Sensation”), Tiffany Shlain (“The Tribe”), and many other short-filmmakers, the fact that people can actually find and see their films is even more rewarding.Date: 22. Oktober 2007 22:27:37 MESZ
Subject: Apple reports fourth quarter results, sets new record for Mac shipments
Source: Apple Hot News
Apple reports fourth quarter results, sets new record for Mac shipments
Announcing its fiscal 2007 fourth quarter results, Apple reported today that it had posted revenue of $6.22 billion and net quarterly profit of $904 million, or $1.01 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $4.84 billion and net quarterly profit of $542 million, or $.62 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 33.6 percent, up from 29.2 percent in the year-ago quarter. In the fourth quarter, Apple shipped 2,164,000 Macs, representing 34% growth over the year-ago quarter and exceeding the previous quarterly record for Mac shipments by 400,000. Apple also sold 10,200,000 iPods (representing 17% growth over the year-ago quarter) and 1,119,000 iPhones, bringing cumulative fiscal 2007 iPhone sales to 1,389,000.Date: 23. Oktober 2007 14:16:49 MESZ
Subject: Pre-order “The Complete Led Zeppelin” today on iTunes
Source: Apple Hot News
Pre-order “The Complete Led Zeppelin” today on iTunes
Available for pre-order exclusively on the iTunes Store, “The Complete Led Zeppelin,” a special digital box set, delivers the band’s entire discography for just $99. The 165-track collection includes the new career-spanning “Mothership,” a 24-track retrospective of the group’s best-known songs that’s also available separately. Pre-ordering either “The Complete Led Zeppelin” or “Mothership” automatically enters fans to win the chance to see the band’s reunion performance at London’s O2 Arena on November 26. Winners will receive 2 tickets to the show, round-trip airfare, and hotel accommodations. (Terms apply.)Date: 23. Oktober 2007 20:20:03 MESZ
Subject: Surround sound mixing in Soundtrack Pro 2 scores high
Source: Apple Hot News
Surround sound mixing in Soundtrack Pro 2 scores high
“One of the best new features in all of the Final Cut Studio family,” maintains Kevin McAuliffe (CreativeMac) “is the addition of surround sound mixing to Soundtrack Pro 2.” To illustrate, McAuliffe takes readers step-by-step through a simple “surround” tutorial. “This great and easy to use feature in STP2,” he concludes, “lets you mix your entire show in surround, export your mix as surround, and then take your submix, switch it back to “1,2”, and you now have a downmix to stereo from 5.1 for a stereo version of your show.”Date: 23. Oktober 2007 23:26:19 MESZ
Subject: iChat AV keeps Christopher in class—while he battles cancer at home
Source: Apple Hot News
iChat AV keeps Christopher in class—while he battles cancer at home
When Christopher Laub “sat in” on a Spanish, social studies, reading, or math lesson, he actually “sat” at home—miles away from his classroom—battling leukemia and undergoing chemotherapy. But thanks to iChat AV and iSight, Christopher could attend classes—even recess—on a regular basis. In fact, videoconferencing via his Mac and iChat not only kept Christopher connected with his friends and current with his classwork; it also let his fellow students learn about leukemia and its treatment, according to principal Patti Purcell. “Through the use of iChat AV, we’ve had many ‘teachable moments,’ and the kids have learned so much.”Date: 24. Oktober 2007 17:04:10 MESZ
Subject: Invisible Children sees visible results
Source: Apple Hot News
Invisible Children sees visible results
One day, Jason Russell, Laren Poole, and Bobby Bailey bought a camera on eBay, jumped on a plane, and began filming a documentary. The next day, they were saving lives. Invisible Children, the documentary the three produced, has become a highly successful film alerting millions to the plight of the children of Uganda. But the three filmmakers weren’t done yet. They also founded an international nonprofit organization, also called Invisible Children, that’s one of the fastest-growing nonprofits on the planet. And it’s built around Mac computers.Date: 24. Oktober 2007 17:53:19 MESZ
Subject: All Leopard. All night.
Source: Apple Hot News
This Friday, October 26, Apple retail stores will open from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. to celebrate the availability of Mac OS X Leopard. Visit a store near you, and you’ll see live demos of Leopard and have a chance to be one of the first to test drive the most impressive version of Mac OS X yet. There’ll even be free T-shirts for the first 500 guests to visit an Apple Store.Date: 25. Oktober 2007 17:09:59 MESZ
Subject: Mac OS X Leopard “better and faster than Vista”
Source: Apple Hot News
Mac OS X Leopard “better and faster than Vista”
“I’ve been testing Leopard,” reports Walter Mossberg (Wall Street Journal) and, “I believe it builds on Apple’s quality advantage over Windows. In my view, Leopard is better and faster than Vista, with a set of new features that make Macs even easier to use.” Among the more than 300 new features available in Leopard, Mossberg singles out as “marquee features” Time Machine, Cover Flow, and Quick Look.” And he was impressed that “every piece of software and hardware I tried on two Leopard-equipped Macs—a loaned laptop from Apple and my own upgraded iMac—worked fine, exhibiting none of the compatibility problems that continue to plague Vista.”Date: 25. Oktober 2007 17:49:49 MESZ
Subject: Leopard “hits all the right spots”
Source: Apple Hot News
Leopard “hits all the right spots”
“With Leopard, Apple’s operating system widens its lead aesthetically and technologically,” states Ed Baig (usatoday.com). Baig “migrated to Leopard” from Tiger “without pain on a MacBook laptop and my own iMac desktop; there’s mercifully none of the software driver and other hassles associated with a Windows operating system upgrade.” Calling Leopard “one cool cat,” Baig praises Time Machine with its automatic backup and effortless file retrieval; the new videoconferencing features in iChat Theater; stationery, notes and To Do options in Mail; Cover Flow, Spaces, Stacks, and the ability to “highlight and copy any portion of a Web page inside the Safari browser and turn it into a live Dashboard widget.”Date: 25. Oktober 2007 18:12:43 MESZ
Subject: Leopard unleashed
Source: Apple Hot News
Writing for the Telegraph, Claudine Beaumont tells us that “Leopard is slick, shiny” and offers any number of features that deliver the “wow factor.” Like CoverFlow, which in Leopard allows “you to whiz through files and documents, with the album covers replaced by mini-thumbnails showing the front page of documents. You can hover over these thumbnails to scroll through multi-page documents; if it’s a movie file, you can even play the film clip in Finder.” Stacks “another useful addition to Leopard, is a virtual ‘stack’ of documents that lives in the dock area, giving you one-click access to files.” “For me,” Beaumont states, “the stand-out feature is Time Machine,” but she’s also impressed that with Boot Camp built-in, Leopard becomes “the first Apple operating system that will also allow you to install a Windows operating system alongside it.”Date: 25. Oktober 2007 18:45:10 MESZ
Subject: Lots of “new goodies in Leopard”
Source: Apple Hot News
Lots of “new goodies in Leopard”
Mac OS X “Leopard is powerful, polished and carefully conceived. Happy surprises, and very few disappointments, lie around every corner. This Leopard has more than 300 new spots — and most of them are bright ones,” declares David Pogue (New York Times). He points, for example, to two “routine-changing” features. Time Machine, which offers “the shortest setup of any backup system in history.” And Quick Look, which lets you “view the contents of a document’s icon at full size, right at the desktop, without having to open the program that created it.” Pogue says “it’s fantastic.”Date: 25. Oktober 2007 19:46:17 MESZ
Subject: “Great”
Source: Apple Hot News
That’s the one-word assessment Rob Griffiths (macworld.com) offers for Time Machine. “Perfect for nearly everyone,” Griffiths points out that “Time Machine attempts to turn the complex and sometimes confusing world of backup and restore into a simple, visual operation. Backing up is simple: attach a drive of sufficient capacity.” And when the fateful day arrives and you need to rescue documents from oblivion, “ you launch the Time Machine application—Apple has added a Time Machine icon to Leopard’s Dock—and simply move backward through time to find the files or folders you wish to restore.”Date: 26. Oktober 2007 00:16:58 MESZ
Subject: The Mac is back in a big way on campus
Source: Apple Hot News
The Mac is back in a big way on campus
“St. Olaf sophomore Peter Holt, a longtime PC user, has just made the Mac switch after working in the school Mac-support department and realizing how seamlessly Apple hardware and software work together. He also likes having the option to boot into Windows as needed. He uses a desktop iMac for schoolwork and software development, as well as to play Windows games with his brother over the Internet.” Holt is not alone. As Julio Ojeda-Zapata (St. Paul Pioneer Press) points out, Mac use has surged “on campuses across Minnesota” and the rest of the US, as well, with some schools—like Pennsylvania’s Wilkes University—going all Mac.Date: 26. Oktober 2007 18:53:19 MESZ
Subject: New update gets Aperture ready for Leopard
Source: Apple Hot News
New update gets Aperture ready for Leopard
Aperture customers can now install the Aperture 1.5.6 Update, either by running Software Update or by visiting the Aperture Download page. Recommended for all those using Aperture, the Aperture 1.5.6 Update addresses issues related to performance, improves overall stability, and supports compatibility with Mac OS X v10.5. The update should be installed before first use of Aperture with Mac OS X Leopard.Date: 29. Oktober 2007 17:14:17 MEZ
Subject: Mac OS X Leopard “fast and sleek”
Source: Apple Hot News
Mac OS X Leopard “fast and sleek”
After putting Leopard through its paces, Dean Takahashi (San Jose Mercury News) finds it is aptly named—”It’s fast and sleek”—and concludes that the latest version of Mac OS X “gives Apple [an] advantage over Microsoft.” It offers “more than 300 new features, making it the biggest upgrade in a long time,” and “a lot of the features allow you to do things more quickly and more easily.” That includes iChat, which, he says, “got a good makeover. Besides doing video chats with the built-in Webcams on Macs, you can now use them to share any kind of file with the person you’re chatting with. You can also take over that friend’s desktop in case you’re diagnosing the machine from afar.”Date: 29. Oktober 2007 17:43:48 MEZ
Subject: “Using the computer more pleasurable” with Mac OS X Leopard
Source: Apple Hot News
“Using the computer more pleasurable” with Mac OS X Leopard
“The grace of Leopard’s interface enhancements makes productivity more pleasurable with a Mac, as more than 300 functional and fun features top off this update,” reports Elsa Wenzel (cnet.com). Awarding it an “Excellent 8 out of 10,” Wenzel maintains that Leopard not only “makes Macs more enticing than Tiger did,” but that it “makes it far easier to find documents and applications than Windows Vista. Leopard’s interface niceties made the daily mechanics of using the computer more pleasurable. Mundane chores, such as finding files and backing up data, become a visual treat.”Date: 29. Oktober 2007 18:14:27 MEZ
Subject: “Leopard leaps to new heights”
Source: Apple Hot News
“Leopard leaps to new heights”
“What’s new in Leopard? A lot,” say Ken Mingis and Michael DeAgonia (computerworld.com). The pair walk you through a 12-page analysis of the newest version of the Mac OS, spending time on many of the new features introduced in Leopard, including Stacks, Quick Look, Spaces, Time Machine, and numerous others. From Leopard’s “unified interface” to major under-the-hood changes, to wholly new apps, Leopard is a substantial, albeit evolutionary, advance for Mac OS X that builds on a solid foundation and adds a modicum of eye candy to reinforce the notion that this is something new and improved. It’s also fast — especially impressive given the new graphics sprinkled throughout the OS.”Date: 30. Oktober 2007 00:22:38 MEZ
Subject: Leopard delivers “a mountain of features”
Source: Apple Hot News
Leopard delivers “a mountain of features”
“Given the impressive value of Time Machine and improvements to existing programs such as iCal, iChat, Mail, and the Finder, most active Mac users will find more than enough reasons to consider [the] upgrade cost money well spent,” reports Jason Snell (pcworld.com). Leopard delivers, Snell declares, “a major alteration to the Mac interface, a sweeping update to numerous included productivity programs, a serious attempt to improve Mac OS security, and a vast collection of tweaks and fixes scattered throughout every nook and cranny of the operating system.”Date: 30. Oktober 2007 13:30:01 MEZ
Subject: Two Million Copies of Leopard Sold in First Weekend
Source: Apple Hot News
Two Million Copies of Leopard Sold in First Weekend
Since releasing Mac OS X Leopard on Friday, Apple sold (or delivered, in the case of maintenance agreements) more than 2 million copies of the sixth major release of Mac OS X, far outpacing the first weekend sales of Mac OS X Tiger, which was previously the most successful OS release in Apple’s history. “Early indications are that Leopard will be a huge hit with customers,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Leopard’s innovative features are getting great reviews and making more people than ever think about switching to the Mac.”Date: 30. Oktober 2007 15:55:25 MEZ
Subject: iPhone leads in Stuff’s “Cool List 2007”
Source: Apple Hot News
iPhone leads in Stuff’s “Cool List 2007”
“The mobile to end all mobiles pipped all the other top-name entries to earn the planet’s biggest gadget accolade,” according to the editors at Stuff. “The touchscreen device redefined how humans interact with their phones as well as offering almost every feature no self-respecting mobile should be without,” they conclude. And iPhone wasn’t the only honoree. “Sporting video playback and a scroll wheel,” iPod nano made the “Cool List” for 2007 gadgets. And Stuff readers voted iPod “the greatest gadget ever.” Cool.Date: 30. Oktober 2007 16:16:39 MEZ
Subject: “Macs take reliability, support prize”
Source: Apple Hot News
“Macs take reliability, support prize”
Mac computers, according to Gregg Keizer (computerworld.com), “are the most reliable and its support the most dependable of the five top [computer] vendors. In fact, Keizer reports that in its annual report on reliability, Rescuecom, “a national chain of computer service shops,” found that Apple “blew away the competition this year by posting a score of 51% higher than next-best Lenovo.” The score, explains David Milman, CEO of Rescuecom, “takes into account not just the quality and reliability of the equipment but also the quality of service.”Date: 30. Oktober 2007 16:49:54 MEZ
Subject: Leopard “a pleasure to use”
Source: Apple Hot News
Calling Leopard the “apple of my eye,” Dwight Sliverman (Houston Chronicle) tells us that as he’s played with the newest version of Mac OS X, “I’m constantly being surprised by smart, useful and convenient touches. It is a pleasure to use.” For example, he calls Spaces his “favorite Leopard feature, because it instantly multiplies your desktop real estate. Those who use portable computers will particularly appreciate it. On my MacBook it’s a godsend.”Date: 30. Oktober 2007 17:36:59 MEZ
Subject: Leopard makes “using a Mac both more productive and more fun”
Source: Apple Hot News
Leopard makes “using a Mac both more productive and more fun”
Troy Dreier (laptopmag.com) gives Leopard 4.5 stars (out of five). Praising Time Machine, he predicts that “Leopard will be remembered as the OS that debuted Time Machine, the backup tool that changes everything.” Equally positive about Cover Flow, Quick Look, Spaces, Mail, Boot Camp, and iChat, Dreier concludes that “Leopard is worth the price for Time Machine alone, but the sheer variety of improvements and innovation inside this OS give you much more than your money’s worth.”Date: 30. Oktober 2007 18:54:39 MEZ
Subject: Time Machine: “So simple, there’s no Step 3”
Source: Apple Hot News
Time Machine: “So simple, there’s no Step 3”
In his in-depth review of Time Machine, Ryan Faas (computerworld.com) does some déjà-vuing of his own, conjuring up an early iMac commercial to illustrate how simple it is for customers to use Time Machine to back up the data on their Macs. Calling it “one of the most compelling new features added to Mac OS X in years,” he praises Apple engineers for creating “a backup technology that requires little or no configuration, performs backups automatically and invisibly, and makes restoring files from those backups as simple and intuitive as humanly possible.”Date: 30. Oktober 2007 19:23:40 MEZ
Subject: Leopard “the most polished and easiest to use OS”
Source: Apple Hot News
Leopard “the most polished and easiest to use OS”
In his 4.5-star (out of 5) review of Leopard, Edward Mendelson (pcmag.com) maintains that Leopard is “by far the best operating system ever written for the vast majority of consumers, with dozens of new features that have real practical value.” Mendelson “found Leopard to be startlingly fast, brilliantly streamlined, and packed with conveniences and innovations. Leopard’s rich set of built-in software runs faster than I imagined possible.”Date: 30. Oktober 2007 19:37:36 MEZ
Subject: Leopard “something any Mac user will want”
Source: Apple Hot News
Leopard “something any Mac user will want”
After a “swift and easy” installation, Mark Kellner (Washington Times) found Mac OS X Leopard “something any Mac user will want to have.” “Offering better integration of e-mail with syndicated Internet news updates, a new backup feature likely to decrease the impact of hardware failures, and snazzy display features by the bushel, the $129 Apple Mac OS X Leopard upgrade is more than a reasonable purchase.”Date: 1. November 2007 16:09:49 MEZ
Subject: Now Shipping: RAID card upgrade kits for Mac Pro, Xserve
Source: Apple Hot News
Now Shipping: RAID card upgrade kits for Mac Pro, Xserve
Delivering enhanced storage performance and data protection, the Mac Pro RAID Card and Xserve RAID Card let you add a powerful hardware RAID engine with 256MB of cache and battery backup to your Mac Pro desktop or Xserve. The cards support a variety of RAID levels, allowing you to optimize your system for performance, capacity, or a combination of both. The cards, both priced at $999, are available today from the online Apple Store. (See Store for system requirements.)Date: 1. November 2007 17:27:49 MEZ
Subject: Time names iPhone Invention of the Year
Source: Apple Hot News
Time names iPhone Invention of the Year
Apple didn’t invent the touchscreen,” explains Lev Grossman (Time), but “Apple knew what to do with it,” creating a “whole new kind of interface, a tactile one that gives users the illusion of actually physically manipulating data with their hands—flipping through album covers, clicking links, stretching and shrinking photographs with their fingers.” It’s implementation of touchscreen technology is one of the five reasons Grossman believes that iPhone “is the best thing invented this year.” What do you think are the other four?Date: 2. November 2007 16:32:08 MEZ
Subject: iPod nano: “one of the most enticing iPods” ever
Source: Apple Hot News
iPod nano: “one of the most enticing iPods” ever
Calling it “awesome,” Digital Trends lavishes praise on the new iPod nano. “It’s thin, sexy, easy to use, holds plenty of music, videos and photos. The sound quality is impressive,” and the review concludes, “video quality is great, too.”Date: 2. November 2007 19:28:36 MEZ
Subject: Leopard offers “a better user experience” and “inherent reliability”
Source: Apple Hot News
Leopard offers “a better user experience” and “inherent reliability”
Laying “the foundation for the next generation of personal computing,” Leopard “redefines what personal computing looks like,” according to Michael Gartenberg (computerworld.com). And Gartenberg offers a litany of Leopard features by which he’s impressed. “Cover Flow, a feature first used in iTunes, lets you browse files visually and then see a file’s contents without opening it.” He argues that “Apple’s IM client, iChat, runs rings around what’s available for other systems.” He’s always used his “e-mail in-box as a to-do list,” Gartenberg admits, “and Apple’s Mail client makes that really work.”Date: 2. November 2007 20:37:30 MEZ
Subject: Learning creatively at the Western Academy of Beijing
Source: Apple Hot News
Learning creatively at the Western Academy of Beijing
Teachers at the Western Academy of Beijing have created a 1-to-1 learning program that’s second to none, letting students work at their own pace, collaborate with one another, or get assistance from a teacher—or the Help Desk—with absolute ease. Students from all over the world use iLife on their Mac notebooks to create multimedia projects. To share their work with friends and family back home, they use iWeb, creating online digital portfolios they can update as frequently as they’d like. And they study Chinese on the go with iPod, using digital flash cards and podcasts to augment traditional curricula.Date: 2. November 2007 22:49:00 MEZ
Subject: Time lists iPod touch among its best inventions of the year
Source: Apple Hot News
Time lists iPod touch among its best inventions of the year
“The new star of Apple’s iPod lineup steals more than looks from the iPhone,” reads the description of iPod touch in Time’s assessment of the Best Inventions of the Year. “It sports the same brilliant 3.5-in. (9 cm) wide-screen video display with touch controls, and built-in wi-fi lets you surf the Web, check e-mail and even buy and immediately download iTunes tracks on the fly.”Date: 2. November 2007 22:50:56 MEZ
Subject: iPod touch “the clear frontrunner” among flash players
Source: Apple Hot News
iPod touch “the clear frontrunner” among flash players
“Boy, this baby is beautiful,” Tim Gideon (pcmag.com) says of the iPod touch. “After reviewing the freshest crop of flash-based music and video players, Gideon concluded that with its “cool-looking glass display, a built-in Web browser, and the ability to buy music wirelessly” iPod touch was “the best of the bunch.”Date: 2. November 2007 23:40:02 MEZ
Subject: iPhone a candidate for “Gadget of the Year”
Source: Apple Hot News
iPhone a candidate for “Gadget of the Year”
In addition to naming it the Invention of the Year, Time also includes iPhone among its candidates for Gadget of the Year. iPhone, Time editors say, “changed the way we think about how mobile media devices should look, feel and perform. The design is exceptional inside and out: It’s got a slick glass-and–stainless steel case and an elegant touch screen loaded with eye candy.” Ready to cast your vote?Date: 5. November 2007 22:03:17 MEZ
Subject: Quick Tip of the Week: Filling shapes with images in Keynote ’08
Source: Apple Hot News
Quick Tip of the Week: Filling shapes with images in Keynote ’08
With Keynote ’08, you can add a shape to a slide, resize it, reposition it, and then fill it with an image from your iPhoto or Aperture library. Using the handy graphics Inspector, you can further customize it with an assortment of intuitive adjustment tools. To see how, watch the latest Quick Tip of the Week.Date: 6. November 2007 00:59:29 MEZ
Subject: Writing with Video at the University of Illinois
Source: Apple Hot News
Writing with Video at the University of Illinois
They had a lot to say, but some students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had a hard time expressing themselves in traditional writing courses. That changed when Maria Lovett, an instructor and filmmaker, introduced Writing with Video. The innovative course mashes writing with filmmaking, transforming students into “visual anthropologists” who use Pages and iMovie to “build a visual vocabulary and create links between written and visual language.”Date: 6. November 2007 01:25:50 MEZ
Subject: “Leopard breathes new life into an aging Mac”
Source: Apple Hot News
“Leopard breathes new life into an aging Mac”
“If you own a Mac, you’ll want Leopard,” writes Eric Benderoff (chicagotribune.com). Running Leopard on both an iBook and a MacBook Pro, Benderoff learned first hand “why Apple’s new operating system upgrade, called Leopard, continues to make Mac computers the easiest and most enjoyable to use.” Citing Cover Flow, Spotlight, Spaces, and Stacks to illustrate his point, he concludes, “I can tell you this: for $129, Leopard breathes new life into an aging Mac.”Date: 6. November 2007 09:02:00 MEZ
Subject: iPhone goes on sale this Friday in the UK
Source: Apple Hot News
iPhone goes on sale this Friday in the UK
At 6:02 p.m. this Friday, November 9, iPhone goes on sale at more than 1,300 Apple, 02, and Carphone Warehouse retail and online stores, giving customers in the United Kingdom their first chance to get their hands on the revolutionary new product that combines three devices—a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device—into one. “Every Apple retail store will offer support for iPhone at the legendary Genius Bar,” said Ron Johnson, Apple’s senior vice president of Retail, and beginning Saturday morning, customers “can learn how to get the most out of their new iPhone by attending a free workshop or scheduling a personal training session through our popular One-to-One program.”Date: 6. November 2007 21:01:51 MEZ
Subject: Ringtones: the Playlists
Source: Apple Hot News
Listen up. The iTunes Store has just made it easier to find the perfect ringtones to assign to your favorite callers. After scouring the more than 500,000 currently available ringtones, iTunes editors have assembled a wide assortment of ringtone playlists. The genre-based playlists include such eminently “ringtoneable” tracks as “Answer the Phone” (Sugar Ray), “Pyscho” (Bernard Hermann), “My Funny Valentine” (Chet Baker), “Hung Up” (Madonna), “On the Road Again” (Willie Nelson), “Soul Man” (The Blues Brothers), and many others. Want help creating your new ringtones?Date: 6. November 2007 22:23:12 MEZ
Subject: Leopard Server “an excellent option for all-Mac, Mac/Windows, even all-Windows shops”
Source: Apple Hot News
Leopard Server “an excellent option for all-Mac, Mac/Windows, even all-Windows shops”
Apple’s Leopard Server offers numerous advantages over Microsoft’s Windows Server, concludes Computerworld’s Ryan Faas. The unlimited client version of Mac OS X Xerver “provides organizations with significantly more room to grow. There is no limit to the number of users or for replication to additional servers. “ And “more importantly, Apple has designed Leopard Server specifically for smaller organizations that have little or no IT staffers.” “Given the added possibilities that Mac OS X Server offers beyond simple client management,” Faas concludes it “worth consideration in many organizations, ranging from small businesses to enterprise networks.”Date: 6. November 2007 22:46:06 MEZ
Subject: Leopard Server “sleek, fast and business-ready—even for mixed environments”
Source: Apple Hot News
Leopard Server “sleek, fast and business-ready—even for mixed environments”
Calling it a “sexy beast,” Joe Hernick (networkcomputing.com) considers Mac OS X Server 10.5 “a substantial upgrade to Apple’s server offering, and we recommend shops running 10.4 to investigate.” In fact, Hernick find it “ready for work. The e-mail platform connects to Active Directory and bundles AV and anti-spam software without pesky client access licenses. A spiffed-up calendar application can serve as a group scheduler. VPN services can host 500 users per Intel Xserve. In a first for Apple, IP failover provides high availability, and TimeMachine enables easily deployed server-based client backup. Leopard Server can even mimic an NT domain controller.”Date: 6. November 2007 23:08:08 MEZ
Subject: Free Leopard Server seminar. Right in your backyard.
Source: Apple Hot News
Free Leopard Server seminar. Right in your backyard.
Thanks to Leopard Server—the most advanced Mac OS X Server ever—you don’t need a dedicated IT department to deploy and operate a server. Leopard Server lets you set up and manage servers quickly and efficiently; collaborate effectively on wiki-powered intranet websites; share calendars, schedule meetings, and coordinate events; encode, publish, and distribute high-quality podcasts; and much more. Beginning on November 27, you can learn how your organization can take advantage of the power and versatility of Leopard Server by signing up for a free seminar.Date: 6. November 2007 23:08:08 MEZ
Subject: Free Leopard Server seminar. Right in your backyard.
Source: Apple Hot News
Free Leopard Server seminar. Right in your backyard.
Thanks to Leopard Server—the most advanced Mac OS X Server ever—you don’t need a dedicated IT department to deploy and operate a server. Leopard Server lets you set up and manage servers quickly and efficiently; collaborate effectively on wiki-powered intranet websites; share calendars, schedule meetings, and coordinate events; encode, publish, and distribute high-quality podcasts; and much more. Beginning on November 27, you can learn how your organization can take advantage of the power and versatility of Leopard Server by signing up for a free seminar.Date: 7. November 2007 18:52:58 MEZ
Subject: Put the Yellow Pages on your iPhone
Source: Apple Hot News
Put the Yellow Pages on your iPhone
Whether you’re in the market for tropical fish, sporting goods, cold remedies, or guitar lessons, iPhone can help you quickly locate a nearby vendor. Just tap on the Safari icon and pay a visit to yellowpages.com. It’s just one of the more than 350 web apps available for iPhone and iPod touch on our web apps page. Like information about designing, coding, optimizing, and submitting your own web application? Then visit our iPhone Dev Center.Date: 7. November 2007 20:32:06 MEZ
Subject: “The Mac has won”
Source: Apple Hot News
Farhad Manjoo (Salon) makes a compelling case. “If we’re going just by what’s better—the ages-old Mac-vs.-PC debate is over. Long over. Yell it from the rooftops; The Mac has won.” Now’s the right time “to buy an Apple computer,” proclaims Manjoo. “Indeed, it’s been that time for the past five years.” After all, “its Macintosh business is now in league with that of the biggest PC companies in the world.” And “everyone who’s used it agrees that Leopard, the operating system that Apple released late last month, is to its chief rival, Microsoft’s Windows Vista, roughly as Richard Wagner is to Richard Marx.” Manjoo even takes the opportunity to “put to rest the myth that an Apple computer will set you back more than a Windows PC. In fact,” he says, “it’ll cost you less.”Date: 9. November 2007 00:46:54 MEZ
Subject: A toast to Aperture.
Source: Apple Hot News
If you’ve visited the Aperture Users Professional Network recently, you no doubt noticed that the site sports a great new design that makes finding content on Aperture—like this informative article by Brett Wilhelm—much easier. Aperture gave Wilhelm, a photojournalist by trade, all the tools he needed to successfully shoot a friend’s wedding, edit the shoot, design a book (an elaborate 80-page layout), and have it delivered just seven days later—the day the bride and groom returned from their honeymoon. “I’m pleased to say,” Wilhelm says of the book, that “it was in its 2nd printing in under two weeks. Thank you Aperture.”Date: 9. November 2007 01:22:03 MEZ
Subject: Starbucks serving up iTunes
Source: Apple Hot News
“That tall mocha Frappuccino never sounded so good,” comments Ellen Lee (San Francisco Chronicle) as she downs her mocha while testing out the iTunes WiFi Music Store at a San Francisco Starbucks. “The new service lets customers shop for music wirelessly through iTunes at Starbucks for free,” Lee explains. It made its debut in New York and Seattle Starbucks coffee shops earlier this year, just opened all across the San Francisco Bay area this week, and “is expected to be available in the nation’s 6,000 company-operated Starbucks coffee shops by the end of 2009.”Date: 9. November 2007 19:32:16 MEZ
Subject: XL Video: Super Screens
Source: Apple Hot News
Go to a concert, and you’re likely to see a tightly choreographed program on stage and an even more elaborately choreographed multimedia extravaganza playing out on the huge, multi-million-pixel displays backing up the on-stage performance by your favorite artists. Like the dazzling video shows created by XL Video. Specialists in huge-format video, XL Video uses “Macs throughout the whole process, from concept drawings to content creation to final playback. And Final Cut is the linking piece of the chain,” says Richard Burford, head of XL Video.Date: 9. November 2007 21:32:53 MEZ
Subject: The model for success at the UC Conservatory of Music
Source: Apple Hot News
The model for success at the UC Conservatory of Music
At the University of Cincinnati’s Conservatory of Music, “electronic media” majors use MacBook Pro computers and the iLife suite of digital authoring tools to hone the skills they need for careers in audio and video production, radio, broadcast journalism, and new media. “The MacBook Pro allows us to leverage the iLife software suite,” explains Assistant Professor Richard Cawood. “This gives students an entire tapestry of tools for video, audio, web, and photographic work.”Date: 10. November 2007 00:05:07 MEZ
Subject: Logic Studio a “landmark release”
Source: Apple Hot News
Logic Studio a “landmark release”
“With Logic Studio,” reports Peter Kirn (Macworld), “Apple has transformed Logic from a deep but difficult program into one of the most streamlined and elegant music environments of its kind.” Kirn gives Logic Studio a 4.5-mouse rating (out of five), concluding that its “ streamlined, fewer clicks-to-music philosophy throughout, combined with more precise tools for audio editing and surround, make this a landmark release.”Date: 12. November 2007 20:16:41 MEZ
Subject: “iPhone is the best phone ever.”
Source: Apple Hot News
“iPhone is the best phone ever.”
Still “hooked” after all these months, Mike Wendland (Detroit Free Press) remains smitten with his iPhone. “Every week, I’ve been getting the latest and greatest of the mobile phones being introduced for holiday sales. And while some are promising, none can come close to the iPhone in ease, elegance and excellence of design. Almost five months now since it was introduced in the United States, it remains not just the best cell phone I’ve ever used but the most revolutionary piece of personal technology I’ve ever used.”Date: 12. November 2007 20:41:28 MEZ
Subject: “iPod is my radio and TV.”
Source: Apple Hot News
Esther J. Cepeda (Chicago Sun-Times) has discovered the “voluminous” selection of sports entertainment podcasts available at the iTunes Store, proclaiming, “iPod can be sport geek’s all-encompassing radio and TV.” She also notes that the iTunes Store features podcasts about “every imaginable subject.”Date: 13. November 2007 21:45:58 MEZ
Subject: Apple iPhone debuts in UK stores
Source: Apple Hot News
Apple iPhone debuts in UK stores
With Rory Cellan-Jones (BBC News) describing the scene in London as “mayhem”, fans “started queuing at stores overnight” in order to be one of the first to get their hands on a new iPhone. The iPhone has gone on sale at more than 1,300 stores around the UK with each customer limited to two handsets each. After waiting in line for 26 hours, Tom Jalinski was the first out of the London Apple Store with his new iPhone and proclaimed it, “worth the wait.”Date: 13. November 2007 21:47:44 MEZ
Subject: iPhone hits Germany with fanfare
Source: Apple Hot News
iPhone hits Germany with fanfare
Not rain, nor wind, nor chill of night would stop German shoppers from getting their hands on a new iPhone. Shortly after midnight, T-Mobile began selling the Apple iPhone in downtown Cologne, Germany, where an estimated 400 people braved the harsh weather. T-Mobile had planned ahead and handed out umbrellas, blankets, coffee, and pretzels to the waiting customers. A few radio stations offered more than 1,000 euros for the first iPhone purchased, but the buyer preferred to keep the phone.Date: 14. November 2007 18:43:14 MEZ
Subject: Introducing Bento. The stylish personal database for Leopard.
Source: Apple Hot News
Introducing Bento. The stylish personal database for Leopard.
Designed specifically for Mac OS X Leopard, Bento offers one place to put your important information, including: contacts, calendars, projects, and events. Bento automatically displays contacts and calendars kept within Address Book and iCal, with no need to re-enter existing names, phone numbers, email addresses or upcoming events. “Bento is the personal database for the millions of Mac users who appreciate the elegance and ease of use of their Mac,” said FileMaker president Dominique Goupil. “With Bento, we are providing an incredibly easy way to manage all your information — iCal calendar events, Address Book contacts, digital media and files — all in one place, effortlessly.”Date: 15. November 2007 14:46:32 MEZ
Subject: Apple releases Final Cut Express 4
Source: Apple Hot News
Apple releases Final Cut Express 4
Apple today released Final Cut Express 4, a significant upgrade to its powerful video editing software based on Apple’s award-winning Final Cut Pro 6, with a new low price of $199. Final Cut Express 4 adds support for the latest AVCHD cameras, allows mixing of standard and high definition content on a single timeline, includes the ability to import iMovie ‘08 projects, and gives users access to hundreds of sophisticated FxPlug cinematic effects and filters. “Almost a million digital filmmakers have made Final Cut their editing application of choice,” said Rob Schoeben, Apple’s vice president of Applications Product Marketing. “With the introduction of Final Cut Express 4, Apple makes it easy for anyone to join the rapidly growing community of Final Cut editors worldwide.”Date: 16. November 2007 23:36:55 MEZ
Subject: Free Holiday Workshops at the Apple Store
Source: Apple Hot News
Free Holiday Workshops at the Apple Store
Tis’ the season to learn how to use iPhoto to create beautiful holiday gifts and keepsakes using your photos. Make a 2008 calendar. Design your own holiday cards. Create a hardcover photo book complete with customized dust jacket. Sign-up or drop-in for a free Print Products Holiday Workshop at your local Apple Store.Date: 20. November 2007 15:09:35 MEZ
Subject: “Purple Violets” premieres exclusively on iTunes
Source: Apple Hot News
“Purple Violets” premieres exclusively on iTunes
This morning, “Purple Violets” became the first feature film to premiere exclusively on iTunes. A contemporary comedy-drama written, directed, and produced by independent filmmaker Ed Burns, the award-winning film stars Selma Blair, Debra Messing, Patrick Wilson, and Burns. “We’re thrilled Ed Burns chose to premiere ‘Purple Violets’ exclusively on the iTunes Store,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. “Apple continually strives to provide the most innovative offerings to our customers and we look forward to more great independent film makers debuting their films via iTunes.” iTunes customers can purchase and download “Purple Violets” for just $12.99, play it on Apple TV, watch it in iTunes on a Mac or PC, or enjoy it “to go” on iPod or iPhone.Date: 20. November 2007 15:36:27 MEZ
Subject: PC Magazine: iPhone scores “stunning” ratings
Source: Apple Hot News
PC Magazine: iPhone scores “stunning” ratings
In the 2007 PC Magazine Readers’ Survey, Sascha Segan and Eric Griffith (PC Magazine) report that “iPhone owners passionately love their devices. In its first year on the survey, the Apple iPhone scored a stunning 9.1 out of 10 from our readers, beating the ratings that every other phone, from every carrier, in nearly every category, has received in the three years we’ve been including cell phones. The iPhone’s 9.6 scores in music and video playback might have been expected, but its 8.2 for call quality (a score significantly better than average), another 8.2 for coverage, and an 8.0 for earpiece volume show that it’s not just the i our readers like. They love the phone, too.”Date: 26. November 2007 18:51:23 MEZ
Subject: “The Apple iPod is my radio and TV.”
Source: Apple Hot News
“The Apple iPod is my radio and TV.”
“Every day at 4, when ‘Around the Horn’ airs on TV, I’m at my desk abusing my keyboard and can’t catch the Sun-Times’ Jay Mariotti.“ But Chicago Sun-Times columnist Esther J. Cepeda found that she “could download the audio of Jay’s segment as a podcast.” At the iTunes Store, “you’ll find everything from the Sunday morning political talk shows I prefer to podcasts and videocasts about woodworking, wine-loving, how-to ’casts on every imaginable subject and commentary.” In fact, iTunes now offers more than 125,000 podcasts and 25,000 videocasts, including a “voluminous” selection of sports. Take a look..Date: 26. November 2007 20:17:01 MEZ
Subject: Give them a gift they’ll treasure
Source: Apple Hot News
Give them a gift they’ll treasure
With the photos you have in your iPhoto library, you can create memorable—and highly personal—gifts for someone this holiday season. Stunning photo books, gorgeous calendars, handsome photo cards, and professional prints up to 20×30 inches—all featuring your beautiful photographs. It’s fun and easy to create such gifts, but if you’d like someone to receive your gift by December 25, you’ll need to order them by no later than December 14 (express shipping) or December 11 (standard shipping). Visit the iPhoto website for more information. And if you’d like some help creating your gifts, sign up for a Hands-on iPhoto Holiday workshop at your local Apple Store.Date: 27. November 2007 00:09:51 MEZ
Subject: “Mac OS X Leopard: A perfect 10”
Source: Apple Hot News
“Mac OS X Leopard: A perfect 10”
So states Tom Yager (InfoWorld). “People buy Macs,” Yager reports, “because the platform as a whole is perfect, full stop. Leopard is a rung above perfection. It’s taken as rote that the Mac blows away PC users’ expectations. Leopard blows away Mac users’ expectations, and that’s saying a great deal.” Leopard, Yager says “is remarkable; it’s more and better software than anyone should sell for $129.”Date: 27. November 2007 23:43:49 MEZ
Subject: Relishing the iPod lecture circuit
Source: Apple Hot News
Relishing the iPod lecture circuit
“Retirees in Long Beach and Weaverville, Calif., halibut fishermen in Alaska, data entry clerks in London, casting agents in New York—all separated from the classroom by age, distance or circumstance—are learning from some of the world’s top scholars,” Michelle Quinn (Los Angeles Times) tells her readers. They’re learning by downloading podcasts from iTune U, where “28 colleges and universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford and Yale, now post select courses without charge at iTunes.”Date: 28. November 2007 20:46:01 MEZ
Subject: iMac delivering “twice the bang for the buck”
Source: Apple Hot News
iMac delivering “twice the bang for the buck”
At Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, iMac offers the best of both worlds, allowing students and faculty to “run their Mac-based programs of choice, while still enabling access to the Windows applications they need.” Says Dimitris Hilaris, Iona’s associate vice provost for IT, “Now that we have the versatility of being able to put both operating systems on one computer and the pricing is competitive, it doesn’t make sense not to go with Apple.”Date: 12. Dezember 2007 16:54:51 MEZ
Subject: Hit TV programming now available on iTunes Store in Canada
Source: Apple Hot News
Hit TV programming now available on iTunes Store in Canada
Canadian TV viewers can now visit the iTunes Store in Canada and find programming from Canada’s top networks, US broadcasters, and the National Hockey League (NHL). Now available for just CAN$1.99 per episode, programs include such Canadian-produced favorites as the top-rated and award-winning Corner Gas (CTV), the smash hit comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie (CBC), Emmy and Peabody Award-winning South Park (Comedy Central), and the NHL Games of the Year.Date: 12. Dezember 2007 17:45:00 MEZ
Subject: Pro Tip of the Week: Browsing files with Cover Flow
Source: Apple Hot News
Pro Tip of the Week: Browsing files with Cover Flow
Now you can browse the files on your Mac as easily—and enjoyably—as you breeze through album covers in iTunes or flip through photos on your iPhone or iPod touch. Just choose Cover Flow (a new viewing option in Mac OS X Leopard) instead of Icon, List, or Column view in your Finder window. Learn how you can “Go with the Flow”—and pick up some handy keyboard Cover Flow shortcuts—by reading our latest Pro Tip of the Week.Date: 12. Dezember 2007 17:47:15 MEZ
Subject: Time names iPhone the Top Gadget of 2007
Source: Apple Hot News
Time names iPhone the Top Gadget of 2007
Saying that iPhone “changed the way we think about how mobile media devices should look, feel and perform,” Time Magazine put iPhone at the top of its list of “Top 10 Gadgets.” iPhone’s design, Time says, “is exceptional inside and out: It’s got a slick glass-and-stainless steel case and an elegant touch screen loaded with eye candy. It’s an iPod and a 2-megapixel camera. Images and video clips display vertically or horizontally—they reorient themselves depending on how you hold the thing. When the phone detects a wireless network within range—your own home wi-fi set up or somebody else’s—it lets you tap once to connect, and then proceed with your Web surfing, Google mapping, emailing and other activities.”Date: 13. Dezember 2007 19:08:26 MEZ
Subject: “We’re iMac converts”
Source: Apple Hot News
Calling iMac a “metal-clad masterpiece,” James Holland (t3.com) gives the popular all-in-one computer a 5-star rating (out of five). “Overall,” he says, “ the build quality, slick and tasteful aluminium finish, huge screen and jaw-dropping keyboard make this a winner. Paired with OS X and iLife ‘08, this is simply the finest all-in-one your money can muster. We’re iMac converts, and we couldn’t be happier.”Date: 14. Dezember 2007 19:38:37 MEZ
Subject: T-Pain: Sprung
Source: Apple Hot News
“I can do it anywhere,” says the five-time Grammy nominee T-Pain. He can handle any aspect of music production—from composing to recording to mixing—wherever he happens to be. “All I need is my laptop, a hard drive and a controller and I have a full studio in my bag. And it sounds good — most of my stuff that’s on the radio now was straight out of Logic.” Logic Studio is so powerful, in fact, that T-Pain beams that “ I haven’t found anything that I can’t do in the program. I just get more and excited about it and now I tell everybody to use Logic.”Date: 17. Dezember 2007 18:03:15 MEZ
Subject: Bemidji State University bullish on Boot Camp
Source: Apple Hot News
Bemidji State University bullish on Boot Camp
“With the Intel Macs,” explains Brian Allen, director of technical support at Bemidji State University in Minnesota, “students now have the potential to have both systems on their machines, so they can run both Windows and Macintosh applications. They can easily switch between Apple’s iLife suite and AutoCad. It’s the best of both worlds; they’ll really have two computers for the price of one.” In addition to offering students more flexibility, Allen and his team discovered that “Windows applications run faster on the Mac.” Best of all, dual-booting Mac computers offer BSU “the potential to save $150,000 to $200,000 a year in lab hardware purchases.” What’s next for Boot Camp at BSU?Date: 17. Dezember 2007 18:49:00 MEZ
Subject: Keynote a thrill ride for Gillispie School students
Source: Apple Hot News
Keynote a thrill ride for Gillispie School students
For the students in Laura Sanderford’s sixth-grade science class, Keynote ’08 proved to be a roller-coaster experience. And they loved every minute of it. Having just learned about Newton’s laws of physics and researched the history of roller coasters, the class next built their own roller coasters as a science project. To share their experiences with other students, Sanderford’s class turned to Keynote. “The intuitive, seamless way that Keynote works with iLife made the project not only fun, but extremely easy,” she says. “The kids could edit videos with iMovie, and make their own music and record their thoughts with GarageBand, and then bring it all into Keynote. Everything works together so fluidly.”Date: 17. Dezember 2007 19:11:20 MEZ
Subject: Five stars for iPod nano
Source: Apple Hot News
After thoroughly testing the new iPod nano, Dan Frakes (Macworld) concludes that “it’s been improved in almost every way.” It offers “very good sound quality, excellent battery life,” and an “improved user interface.” And one great screen for watching video. “Even though this is the smallest video-playing screen we’ve used, after watching a 90-minute movie on the nano we were pleasantly surprised by the experience. Picture quality is comparable to that of the iPhone, just smaller.”Date: 17. Dezember 2007 19:19:29 MEZ
Subject: Picasa retooled for iPhone
Source: Apple Hot News
Bryan Gardiner (wired.com) reports that Google has optimized its popular Picasa photo service for the iPhone. He quotes Google software engineer Joe Walnes as saying: “Today, I’m happy to tell you that we’ve just released this new iPhone interface for Picasa. After you go to Picasa on your iPhone and log in, you can quickly see all your albums that you’ve uploaded to Picasa web. If you click on any of the albums, you can get a full view of your picture with comments from your friends.”Date: 17. Dezember 2007 20:19:03 MEZ
Subject: The iPhone tops Gen-Y wishlists
Source: Apple Hot News
The iPhone tops Gen-Y wishlists
According to Jonny Evans (Macworld), “iPhones are the most popular mobiles on the Christmas wish lists of 13 to 25-year-olds in the US.” As he explains, “the statistics drawn from the survey of 1,175 Gen-Y consumers are a ’bellwether for up-and-coming consumer trends,’ said Murtaza Hussain, chief executive officer at Peanut Labs.”Date: 17. Dezember 2007 20:24:05 MEZ
Subject: iPhone most popular Google search term
Source: Apple Hot News
iPhone most popular Google search term
The editors at tech.com.uk report that Google Zitgeist 2007, the “list of the most popular search terms it processed in” 2007 “has just been made public and, as expected, is topped by everybody’s favourite gadget, Apple’s iPhone. The iconic device was the fastest-rising search term both globally and in the US, which is where most of Google’s stats are drawn from.”Date: 17. Dezember 2007 20:27:39 MEZ
Subject: iPhone a “clear winner in North America”
Source: Apple Hot News
iPhone a “clear winner in North America”
Seth Weintraub (computerworld) reports that a survey conducted by Canalys for Symbian “shows that iPhone sales are second only to Blackberry in North America. That means that iPhone has passed Windows Mobile, Palm and Linux in sales in North America.”Date: 19. Dezember 2007 18:37:33 MEZ
Subject: Spreading the love of physics. On iTunes.
Source: Apple Hot News
Spreading the love of physics. On iTunes.
“Walter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor, has long had a cult following at M.I.T. And he has now emerged as an international Internet guru, thanks to the global classroom the institute created to spread knowledge through cyberspace,” writes Sara Rimer (New York Times). Due to MIT OpenCourseWare, the “global classroom” that delivers more than 1800 courses via the MIT website, Lewin receives fan mail from students all over the world. “Professor Lewin revels in his fan mail and in the idea that he is spreading the love of physics. ’Teaching is my life,‘ he said.” Like to sit in on a physics course taught by Professor Lewin? You can download free video podcasts of his lectures on iTunes.Date: 19. Dezember 2007 19:43:31 MEZ
Subject: “Aperture has given me a really elegant solution”
Source: Apple Hot News
“Aperture has given me a really elegant solution”
“John McDermott’s workflow once consisted of handing off rolls of Kodachrome to a courier and waiting to see which images appeared in Newsweek,” writes Derrick Story (digitalmedia.oreilly). But now Aperture has transformed McDermott’s workflow. “It’s basically brought everything under one roof for me,” the assignment photographer tells Story in the latest Inside Aperture podcast. Aperture allows him to “download, edit, caption, and correct images” in the post-production tool McDermott describes as “a really elegant solution, and a simple one.”Date: 20. Dezember 2007 19:47:25 MEZ
Subject: Pro Tip of the Week: Scheduling iCal via Mail
Source: Apple Hot News
Pro Tip of the Week: Scheduling iCal via Mail
You get an email confirming your registration for a Final Cut Studio seminar. Next step: adding the event to your iCal schedule. Since you’re using Mac OS X Leopard, you don’t even have to leave Mail or open iCal. That’s because Leopard introduces a new technology called Data Detectors that lets your Mac recognize dates, email addresses, physical addresses, and other similar data. In this case, Mail can take advantage of Data Detectors to create a new iCal event for you. Find out how by reading the Pro Tip of the Week.Date: 21. Dezember 2007 00:31:28 MEZ
Subject: Reaching new heights with LaunchSquad
Source: Apple Hot News
Reaching new heights with LaunchSquad
Their clients have exciting new products we’ll want to use; cutting-edge stories we need to hear. Who better to spread the word than LaunchSquad. One of the world’s fastest growing PR firms, LaunchSquad wants to excite people about the new ideas and technologies offered by the companies they represent. And they depend on their Macs to get the story out, supplementing traditional PR tools with audio, video and other Web 2.0 techniques. We’re “building stories about our clients using new communications channels such as blogs and podcasts,” says founding member Jason Throckmorton. “And we couldn’t do it without our Macs.”Date: 21. Dezember 2007 01:23:26 MEZ
Subject: Charity Checks: the Gift of Giving
Source: Apple Hot News
Charity Checks: the Gift of Giving
Run completely on Macs, Charity Checks is a giving program that lets you make contributions to any charity while your gift recipient chooses the cause. With Charity Checks everyone comes out a winner.Date: 21. Dezember 2007 21:26:37 MEZ
Subject: Coppola/Murch: Second Youth
Source: Apple Hot News
For “Youth without Youth,” his first film in ten years, Francis Ford Coppola returned to self-funded, low-budget filmmaking and to longtime collaborator and Oscar-winning film editor Walter Murch. It took six months for Murch and crew to edit the film, and they depended on Final Cut Studio throughout the six-month editing process. “In the final stages of editing the film, we were working with the ultimate resolution of the film,” says Murch. “So really, the final film, other than the color correction, came out of our editing rooms on Final Cut Pro—in this case Final Cut literally was the final cut.”Date: 21. Dezember 2007 22:48:41 MEZ
Subject: iTunes Tutorials: Learn to use iTunes fast.
Source: Apple Hot News
iTunes Tutorials: Learn to use iTunes fast.
Just got a new iPod? Then visit iTunes Tutorials. It provides a fast and easy way to learn how to get the most out of iTunes. Short videos show you how to Sync Your iPod, Import Music from CDs, Create Playlists, Get Free Podcasts, Shop the iTunes Store, and more. Of course, if you’re giving a friend a new iPod this holiday season, be sure to send your lucky recipient to iTunes Tutorials website. It’s the perfect place to help them get started with iTunes.Date: 2. Januar 2008 18:12:37 MEZ
Subject: MacBook a “top choice” among laptops
Source: Apple Hot News
MacBook a “top choice” among laptops
Dan Ackerman (CNET.com) awards MacBook an “Excellent” 8.3 (out of 10) rating while proclaiming it “one of the best-loved laptops on the planet.” Now shipping with Mac OS X Leopard preinstalled, MacBook remains “in our top tier of laptop recommendations.”Date: 2. Januar 2008 18:41:52 MEZ
Subject: iPhone “transformed phone industry”
Source: Apple Hot News
iPhone “transformed phone industry”
Less than a year after its introduction, it’s clear “the iPhone has had a profound impact on the mobile phone business and likely will keep on influencing it for years to come,” Troy Wolverton (mercurynews.com) reports. “With its large, full-screen display, its notable lack of a keypad and its simple black-on-silver color scheme, the iPhone instantly became an icon—and a model for the rest of the industry.”Date: 2. Januar 2008 20:34:25 MEZ
Subject: iPhone release leads top tech stories of 2007
Source: Apple Hot News
iPhone release leads top tech stories of 2007
After taking stock of the hottest Internet and technology stories of the year, Michael Krey (Investor’s Business Daily) puts the release of iPhone at the top of the list. “The iPhone marked Apple’s first smart phone, and the cell phone industry will never be the same. Apple’s product doubles as an iPod digital music and video player.” iPhone, Krey concludes, ushers in “an era of more user-friendly handheld gadgets.”Date: 2. Januar 2008 23:17:23 MEZ
Subject: Pro Tip of the Week: Instant Email Slideshows
Source: Apple Hot News
Pro Tip of the Week: Instant Email Slideshows
Next time you receive an email with a slew of attached photos, you can enjoy them with an instant slideshow delivered by Quick Look. One of the leading features of Mac OS X Leopard, Quick Look interacts with a variety of Mac applications, including Mail, Leopard’s powerful and popular email client. How can you launch a Quick Look slideshow from Mail? Find out how in the latest Pro Tip of the Week.Date: 2. Januar 2008 23:35:53 MEZ
Subject: Registration now open for 7th Annual Final Cut Pro Supermeet
Source: Apple Hot News
Registration now open for 7th Annual Final Cut Pro Supermeet
If you’re attending Macworld 2008 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco less than two weeks from today, you may also want to participate in the seventh annual Macworld Final Cut Pro User Group Supermeet. Scheduled for Wednesday, January 16, it features presentations by Apple, Adobe, SONY, Blackmagic Design, and a variety of Bay Area filmmakers.Date: 2. Januar 2008 23:42:21 MEZ
Subject: “iPhone tops big tech year”
Source: Apple Hot News
“The biggest tech story of 2007 occurred shortly after the new year when Apple announced the iPhone at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco,” writes Larry Magid (cbsnews.com) in his assessment of the tech innovations for 2007. And, Magid points out, Apple “also came out with a new operating system last year called Leopard.” In fact, “unlike the lukewarm response to Vista, Mac users seem to be generally impressed by Leopard.”Date: 2. Januar 2008 23:43:54 MEZ
Subject: iPhone and iMac share limelight among tech 2007 highlights
Source: Apple Hot News
iPhone and iMac share limelight among tech 2007 highlights
iPhone certainly caught Dean Takahashi’s (mercurynews.com) attention in 2007. “Apple tossed out the design parameters for cell phones and came up with a device based on what you wished cell phones would be,” he reports. iPhone “has a 3.5-inch display, a touch screen that makes it easier to use your fingers to browse Web pages, an instant link to YouTube’s top videos and an easy way to call contacts or create group calls.” Takahashi also thinks the “ new iMacs look great as wireless all-in-one units without a lot of ugly cables. They have great automatic backup systems, wonderful video editing tools, and cool methods for keeping your desktop organized.”Date: 8. Januar 2008 14:35:13 MEZ
Subject: Introducing the new Xserve—the most powerful Apple server ever
Source: Apple Hot News
Introducing the new Xserve—the most powerful Apple server ever
Starting at just $2,999, the new Xserve has up to two Quad-Core 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon processors for 8-core performance, a new server architecture, faster front side buses, faster memory, up to 3TB of internal storage and two PCI Express 2.0 expansion slots for greater performance and flexibility. “With the latest Intel processors and no client access licenses, Xserve offers unbeatable server performance and value for under $3,000,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.Date: 8. Januar 2008 14:38:43 MEZ
Subject: Apple Introduces the new Mac Pro
Source: Apple Hot News
Apple Introduces the new Mac Pro
The fastest Mac ever, the new Mac Pro has eight processor cores and a new system architecture that delivers up to twice the performance of its predecessor.* It combines two of Intel’s new 45 nanometer Quad-Core Xeon processors running up to 3.2 GHz, powerful new graphics and up to 4TB of internal storage, offering the ideal system for creative professionals, 3D digital content creators and scientists. The standard 8-core configuration starts at just $2,799. * Based on estimated results comparing a preproduction 2.8 GHz 8-core Mac Pro with a 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro running professional applications like Maya, modo and Logic Pro.Date: 11. Januar 2008 00:48:07 MEZ
Subject: “Great games” available for iPod
Source: Apple Hot News
“Great games” available for iPod
Marc Saltzman (usatoday.com) offers another reason to love your iPod: “great games. More than 20 downloadable digital diversions are now offered including Ms. Pac-Man,Sudoku,Texas Hold ‘Em and soon, Pole Position: Remix, based on Namco’s early ’80s arcade racing game.” In his CyberSpeak column, Saltzman also takes a close look at two of the latest games for iPod, ”Peggle” and “Phase.”Date: 11. Januar 2008 20:06:14 MEZ
Subject: Articulating the Wisconsin Idea
Source: Apple Hot News
Articulating the Wisconsin Idea
From iTunes U, which lets students take educational podcasts on the road; to the computational tools running on Xserves, which allow students to see and explore the structure, function, and behavior of molecules; to the Digital Academic Television Network, which delivers live TV via a network connection using QuickTime as a client), Macintosh computers, servers, and software help educators articulate the “Wisconsin Idea.” Erasing completely the “borders of learning,” they depend on the Mac to let learning go on—for students and teachers alike—anywhere and at anytime.Date: 11. Januar 2008 23:05:38 MEZ
Subject: Drew Wharton: A Day in A Seal’s Life
Source: Apple Hot News
Drew Wharton: A Day in A Seal’s Life
Together with his intrepid film crew, documentary filmmaker Drew Wharton often found himself within feet of enormous bellowing 4,500 pound alpha males clashing mightily over females in estrus. It is A Seal’s Life, after all. The film (which debuted at the Monterey Bay Aquarium) tells the story of the world’s largest seal species—the northern Elephant Seal—behemoths that come ashore once a year to give birth, molt, and mate. “Apple technology saves me a ton of time and money,” notes Wharton, who edited the film in Final Cut Studio. “Our whole workflow is based on Macs, from field acquisition to post production. A Seal’s Life was made on a Mac from start to finish—for me, it didn’t make sense to do it any other way.”Date: 15. Januar 2008 17:00:46 MEZ
Subject: Apple announces new software for Apple TV; lowers price to $229
Source: Apple Hot News
Apple announces new software for Apple TV; lowers price to $229
Available as a free automatic download later this month, the new software announced today lets movie fans rent movies on the iTunes Store directly from their widescreen TV. With iTunes Movie Rentals and Apple TV—and with no computer required—customers can effortlessly rent movies just by clicking a button on their remote. By the end of February, they’ll be able to choose from a catalog of more than 1,000 titles, including over 100 titles in stunning high definition video with 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound. DVD-quality iTunes Movie Rentals cost just $2.99 for library titles and $3.99 for new releases. High-definition versions are just one dollar more with library titles at $3.99 and new releases at $4.99.Date: 15. Januar 2008 17:06:09 MEZ
Subject: Introducing iTunes Movie Rentals
Source: Apple Hot News
Introducing iTunes Movie Rentals
Available today with the free download of iTunes 7.6, iTunes Movie Rentals allows customers to rent movies for as little as $2.99 and watch them on their Macs or PCs, all current generation iPods, iPhone and Apple TV. Featuring movies from all the major movie studios—20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Lionsgate and New Line Cinema—iTunes Movie Rentals is expected to offer more than 1,000 movie titles by the end of February, including over 100 titles featuring stunning high definition video with 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound. Movies can be rented directly from a widescreen TV using Apple TV.Date: 15. Januar 2008 17:13:47 MEZ
Subject: Major software upgrade available for iPod touch
Source: Apple Hot News
Major software upgrade available for iPod touch
With the installation of this major software upgrade, the best iPod becomes even more: the world’s best Wi-Fi mobile device. The upgrade—available from iTunes for just $19.99—adds five more great mobile applications to iPod touch: Mail, Maps, Stocks, Weather, and Notes. It also includes such new features as Web Clips, a customizable home screen, and the ability to watch iTunes Movie Rentals on iPod touch.Date: 15. Januar 2008 17:16:48 MEZ
Subject: New software update enhances revolutionary iPhone
Source: Apple Hot News
New software update enhances revolutionary iPhone
iPhone Software Update 1.1.3, a free software update available today via iTunes 7.5 or later, brings significant new features to iPhone. After installing the update, iPhone customers will be able to automatically find their location using the redesigned Maps application; text message multiple people in one message; create Web Clips for their favorite websites; customize their home screen; and watch movies rented from the new iTunes Movie Rentals right on their iPhone.Date: 15. Januar 2008 17:20:27 MEZ
Subject: Introducing Time Capsule—wireless backup for all your Macs
Source: Apple Hot News
Introducing Time Capsule—wireless backup for all your Macs
A backup appliance that works seamlessly with Time Machine to automatically and wirelessly back up everything on one or more Macs running Mac OS X Leopard, Time Capsule combines an 802.11n base station with a server grade hard disk in one small package. “Bring Time Capsule home, plug it in, click a few buttons on your Macs and voilà—all the Macs in your house are being backed up automatically, every hour of every day,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. When it ships in February, Time Capsule will be available in models featuring 500GB and 1TB hard drives for $299 and $499, respectively.Date: 18. Januar 2008 23:18:19 MEZ
Subject: Paul van Dyk: Digital Spin
Source: Apple Hot News
DJ cum live music producer, Paul van Dyk weaves his own music on stage in real-time on a pair of 17-inch MacBook Pro computers running Logic Studio and Ableton Live. “Ever since I basically began making music, I’ve worked with Macs,” he says. “They’re in the studio as well as on the road. I’ve always had my Macs with me. They’re an essential part of my music.”Date: 22. Januar 2008 14:30:03 MEZ
Subject: Apple adds pink iPod nano
Source: Apple Hot News
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, a gorgeous new pink iPod nano joins the lineup of the world’s most popular music player. The much-requested pink iPod nano features a stunning two-inch display for watching music videos, TV shows, or movies rented using the brand new iTunes Movie Rentals. Available immediately in an 8GB model for $199, the pink iPod nano can play up to 24 hours of audio or 5 hours of video on a single charge. In addition to pink, 8GB iPod nano models also come in silver, black, blue, green and a (PRODUCT) RED special edition.Date: 22. Januar 2008 22:32:30 MEZ
Subject: Apple reports best quarterly revenue and earnings in its history
Source: Apple Hot News
Apple reports best quarterly revenue and earnings in its history
Announcing financial results for its fiscal 2008 first quarter, which ended December 29, 2007, Apple today posted revenue of $9.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.58 billion, or $1.76 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $7.1 billion and net quarterly profit of $1 billion, or $1.14 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. In attaining its highest revenue and earnings in company history, Apple shipped 2,319,000 Macs, a 44% unit growth and 47% revenue growth over the year ago quarter; sold 22,121,000 iPods, representing five percent unit growth and 17 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter; and sold 2,315,000 iPhones in the quarter.Date: 23. Januar 2008 17:50:09 MEZ
Subject: Exciting updates make iPhone, iPod touch even more web savvy
Source: Apple Hot News
Exciting updates make iPhone, iPod touch even more web savvy
“This week,” reports Katerine Boehret (allthingsd.com), “I’ve been using an iPhone and iPod touch with” the recent Apple updates installed, “and I must say that both devices are much more useful and fun with these improvements.” In particular, Boehret likes Web clip because they “give these gadgets a new sense of instant gratification.” And the iPod touch “now has the same stellar Mail program that is found in the iPhone, a real plus.” The updates, she concludes, “are exciting, especially because they make home screens much more useful and individualistic. These tiny devices continue to become truly mobile computers.”Date: 23. Januar 2008 18:22:48 MEZ
Subject: Tickled pink over new iPod nano
Source: Apple Hot News
Tickled pink over new iPod nano
With “Valentine’s Day around the corner” Marc Saltzman (usatoday.com) tells us that “it pulled on my heart strings enough to report that Apple has added a pink iPod nano to its line-up, just in time for you to buy it for your sweetie.” The new 8GB iPod nano “costs $199 and includes free engraving on the back and free shipping when purchased at Apple.com’s web store.”Date: 23. Januar 2008 20:49:02 MEZ
Subject: Doing extreme business on the Mac
Source: Apple Hot News
Doing extreme business on the Mac
“It’s easy to ride, it’s exciting, and it’s dynamic.” That’s Frank Aguilar, waxing enthusiastic about Snowcycle, the snow-shredding board bike his company designed on a Mac. In fact, the Mac performs a pivotal role at the company. Slopecycle depends on virtually every phase of its business, including accounting, marketing, scheduling graphic design, and both audio and video production using Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro. “Most of us have never had any formal video training, but Final Cut Pro is so straightforward and powerful that we didn’t really need it,” says Aguilar.Date: 23. Januar 2008 22:24:18 MEZ
Subject: Apple posts 2008 proxy statement online
Source: Apple Hot News
Apple posts 2008 proxy statement online
Apple today made its 2008 proxy statements available online at www.apple.com/investor. The move, complying with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s new Notice and Access rule, allows Apple to significantly reduce the environmental impact of producing and delivering printed materials.Date: 24. Januar 2008 20:42:38 MEZ
Subject: Folding the Mac into Origami
Source: Apple Hot News
A physicist by trade, Robert J. Lang also has a quite unique claim to fame as one of the world’s foremost origami artists. In fact, he has a Pteranodon with a 14-foot wing span at permanent display at the Redpath Museum of Natural History and a long list of commissions and commercial projects waiting in the wings. And he uses his MacBook Pro, two software programs he authored, and Wolfram’s Mathematica to help him conceptualize and map out each new creation.Date: 29. Januar 2008 01:09:57 MEZ
Subject: Quick Tip of the Week: Using Data Detectors
Source: Apple Hot News
Quick Tip of the Week: Using Data Detectors
Data detectors—a new feature in Leopard Mail—lets you quickly create a new contact in your Address Book, map an address, or create an iCal event. How does it work and how can you take advantage of the data detectors in Mail? Watch the latest Quick Tip of the Week to find out.Date: 30. Januar 2008 18:33:39 MEZ
Subject: MacBook Air now shipping; Apple TV Update coming soon
Source: Apple Hot News
MacBook Air now shipping; Apple TV Update coming soon
The world’s thinnest notebook is now shipping, Apple announced today. MacBook Air measures an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest point. And at it’s maximum height of 0.76-inches, it’s less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks. Apple also announced that the free Apple TV software update enabling movie rentals is not quite finished and will now be available in another week or two.Date: 5. März 2008 00:04:32 MEZ
Subject: Bento offers a tasty meal
Source: Apple Hot News
“Just as Bento, the traditional Japanese dish, serves up different foods in a single compartmentalised tray, Bento, the new Mac application, serves all your different types of personal data in a single window,” writes John O’Brien (news.com). In his review. O’Brien calls FileMaker’s new personal database application for Mac OS X Leopard “a cohesive, powerful tool for keeping personal information at your fingertips.”Date: 5. März 2008 20:48:28 MEZ
Subject: Assessing the value of making a switch
Source: Apple Hot News
Assessing the value of making a switch
For most companies, saving $60,000 in one year alone and setting the stage for similar savings in the future might serve as ample proof of a wise business decision. But for Quist Valuation, that decision has also allowed the company and its employees to reap professional (and personal) benefits, expand into multiple branch offices, even to develop its own web-based valuation software that promises to revolutionize the way it conducts its business. All the direct result of switching to the Mac.Date: 6. März 2008 20:24:31 MEZ
Subject: Apple Announces iPhone 2.0 Software Beta
Source: Apple Hot News
Apple Announces iPhone 2.0 Software Beta
Apple today previewed the iPhone 2.0 software — scheduled for release this June — and announced the immediate availability of a beta release of the software to selected developers and enterprise customers. The iPhone 2.0 beta includes both the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) and new enterprise features, such as support for Microsoft Exchange Active Sync and the addition of Cisco IPsec VPN.Date: 6. März 2008 21:41:53 MEZ
Subject: MacBook Pro “a pleasure to use”
Source: Apple Hot News
MacBook Pro “a pleasure to use”
In her review of MacBook Pro, Grace Aquino (bloomberg.com) reports that the latest version “offers some compelling reasons for a Windows PC user to switch to a Mac. It’s fast, elegantly designed, simple and a pleasure to use.” Calling it the “ultimate workhorse,” she points out that the updated MacBook Pro “uses some of the most powerful pieces of notebook hardware available” and that she doesn’t “even have to give up using Windows, since I can run both Windows and Mac operating systems on the same Apple notebook.”Date: 7. März 2008 00:36:13 MEZ
Subject: Four stars to Aperture 2
Source: Apple Hot News
Writing for Digital Arts, Steve Paris awards Aperture 2 a four-star (out of five) rating and proclaims it “a great version that will please professional photographers and other creatives working with large collections of photos.” The redesign, Paris says, “has made the application more streamlined and efficient. The addition of new tools means there are even fewer reasons to visit another application when working on your projects, and the speed increases are definitely welcome.”Date: 7. März 2008 20:21:31 MEZ
Subject: Set up and manage your own network
Source: Apple Hot News
Set up and manage your own network
Using Mac OS X Server. The simply powerful solution from Apple harnesses the power of Leopard to run your network, letting you set up and manage a server in just a few clicks. It’s the perfect option for small business owners just getting started with servers. Or even IT managers who’d like to quickly deploy a wide assortment of new client services. To find out how you can bring more power to your organization, sign up for a free Leopard Server Seminar today. And hurry. Seats are filling fast.Date: 7. März 2008 22:39:33 MEZ
Subject: Greg Laswell: Sonic Soul
Source: Apple Hot News
Greg Laswell’s studio may be crammed with state-of-the art synthesizers, samplers, and recording gear, but when its time to get down to the business of writing music, Laswell finds the inspiration — and the tools — he needs in his MacBook and GarageBand. “You can do so much with GarageBand, from recording to composing to effects,” he says. “It’s fun and it’s part of being a musician today. Once you power GarageBand up for the first time, you’ll get hooked.”Date: 10. März 2008 17:52:26 MEZ
Subject: Apple’s “speediest laptops ever”
Source: Apple Hot News
Apple’s “speediest laptops ever”
“If you’ve been waiting to buy a new Apple laptop, or you’ve been hesitating about upgrading from your G4 PowerBook, wait no longer,” writes Jackie Dove (macworld.com). That’s because the new MacBook Pro computers “are Apple’s speediest laptops ever. The higher-end models are loaded with both system and video RAM and better L2 cache capacities, which directly affect performance,” making them “outstanding top-of-the-line models for any professional, artistic, scientific, or scholastic application.”Date: 11. März 2008 17:15:09 MEZ
Subject: MacBook Air “will turn heads”
Source: Apple Hot News
A major step forward in portable computing,” MacBook Air, writes Eric M. Strauss (abcnews.go.com) “is a mega-desirable computer that blends aerodynamic styling with serious innovations in an itsy, bitsy three-pound package that is a blast to use.” Strauss suggests that “if you are a student or worker-bee who is often on the go and wants your email, Internet, and access to your music, photos and movies, you’ll love MacBook Air.”Date: 11. März 2008 22:52:17 MEZ
Subject: “As close to a must-have as any computer can be”
Source: Apple Hot News
“As close to a must-have as any computer can be”
“If you travel frequently or if you have any care for your shoulders and back, the MacBook Air is as close to must-have as any computer can be,” posits Mark Kellner (washtingtontimes.com). “This was most plainly evident when I wandered the halls of a convention in Nashville, Tenn., toting the MacBook Air in a briefcase. The computer itself was almost negligible in terms of its presence: I didn’t really feel it in the bag. Yet, when I needed to check e-mail or do some writing, the power of the MacBook Air was there, ready to respond in an instant.”Date: 11. März 2008 22:54:48 MEZ
Subject: MacBook Air “a pleasure to use”
Source: Apple Hot News
MacBook Air “a pleasure to use”
Phil Baker (sandiegotranscript.com) calls MacBook Air “the sleekest, thinnest and most beautiful notebook ever.” He admires its construction: “Fit, finish, and workmanship are superb,” he says. “Whether sitting back in a lounge chair outdoors or at a desk indoors, the brilliant, sharp and high contrast screen has no equal in brightness or readability. Its comfortable full-size backlit keyboard is a pleasure to use, and the housing never gets hot as other Mac notebooks sometimes do.Date: 12. März 2008 13:13:27 MEZ
Subject: iPhone SDK Downloads top 100,000
Source: Apple Hot News
iPhone SDK Downloads top 100,000
In the first four days since its launch on March 6, more than 100,000 iPhone developers have downloaded the iPhone SDK, Apple today announced. Leading developers such as AOL, Electronic Arts, Epocrates, salesforce.com and Sega have already demonstrated amazing applications using the SDK, and developer response continues to be phenomenal with more developers embracing the platform.Date: 12. März 2008 17:17:31 MEZ
Subject: Four mice for Aperture 2
Source: Apple Hot News
“Easy and fun to use,” Aperture 2 is “an incredibly powerful tool for the professional or serious amateur photographer,” writes Russ Juskalian (macworld.com). Praising its “across the board speed improvements,” its “streamlined interface,” and such new tools as “ Vignette, Definition, Vibrancy, and others,” Juskalian calls Aperture 2 “the program photographers wanted all along.”Date: 12. März 2008 19:10:23 MEZ
Subject: iPhone SDK “sets the bar high” for mobile software
Source: Apple Hot News
iPhone SDK “sets the bar high” for mobile software
Tom Yager (infoworld.com) expects gobs “of great software for iPhone and iPod touch” by the end of the year. All thanks to the recently released SDK, which Yager describes as “the simplest, best-documented, and most enjoyable experience for mobile application developers.” Comparing it to other mobile software environments, Yager says the iPhone SDK “blows them away.” In fact, Yager contends that once available, iPhone 2.0 software “will instantly transform high-end consumer phones and music players, and it will gradually alter the landscape for commercial mobile devices.”Date: 12. März 2008 20:02:15 MEZ
Subject: Shooting the moon with Aperture 2
Source: Apple Hot News
Shooting the moon with Aperture 2
After describing how he shot the recent Lunar eclipse, photographer Marty German also explains how he processed his RAW images: “I used my Aperture 2 trial software to process the three shots. Thanks to Derrick Story’s, Aperture 2: New Features tutorial on lynda.com, it took only a couple of minutes for me to adjust each shot, fine tuning exposures, boosting contrast and reducing color noise.” German adds that, in his estimation, “the raw converter in Aperture 2 is as good as NX’s and both NX and Aperture produce noticeably better Nikon raw conversions than ACR does.”Date: 12. März 2008 20:17:25 MEZ
Subject: How big can iPhone market become?
Source: Apple Hot News
How big can iPhone market become?
“It’s clear that the platform is gaining momentum,” states Jim Goldman (cnbc.com). Goldman’s comments stem from the revelation this morning that more than “100,000 iPhone developers downloaded the beta version of the SDK in the first four days that it was available.” And to the fact that Intuit, Namco Networks, NetSuite, PopCap, Rocket Mobile, Six Apart, and THQ Wireless have joined Sega, salesforce.com, Electronic Arts, and ePocrates in expressing enthusiasm for the SDK and their interest in creating software for iPhone.Date: 13. März 2008 23:50:26 MEZ
Subject: “I can’t tell you how huge this is going to be”
Source: Apple Hot News
“I can’t tell you how huge this is going to be”
Says David Pogue (nytimes.com). Waxing enthusiastic about the forthcoming iPhone 2.0 software, Pogue explains that following its release, “there will be thousands of iPhone programs, covering every possible interest.” And they’ll be available 24/7 since “Apple will preinstall the iPhone Apps Store right on every phone.” The move will turn iPhone into “an engineering tool, a game console, a free-calls Skype phone, a business tool, a dating service, an e-book reader, a chat room, a database, an Etch-a-Sketch,” and, Pogue predicts “a gigantic success.”Date: 14. März 2008 17:05:37 MEZ
Subject: New Mac Pro a “speed demon”
Source: Apple Hot News
“I’ve never had to wait less for any application to launch or process to complete,” says Michael DeAgonia (computerworld.com) in his review of the new Mac Pro. Calling it “an amazing machine that is as fast as it is stable, offering pure brute force and processing power at a competitive price,” DeAgonia concludes that the latest version of the Mac Pro “is beyond the sum of its parts. It’s the technological equivalent of a well-played symphony: Each individual piece is solid in its own right, but everything is amplified once they’re put together in concert.”Date: 14. März 2008 17:21:21 MEZ
Subject: Pro Tip of the Week: Annotating PDFs in Preview
Source: Apple Hot News
Pro Tip of the Week: Annotating PDFs in Preview
While it was already a great tool for reading PDFs, Preview in Leopard became even better with new features that include a new user interface, relevancy ranked searches (thanks to Spotlight), and many more. In fact, Preview now lets you annotate PDFs, offering a fast and efficient way to share comments with those you’re collaborating with. Find out how by reading our Pro Tip of the Week.Date: 17. März 2008 13:17:21 MEZ
Subject: Introducing the new AirPort Express with 802.11n
Source: Apple Hot News
Introducing the new AirPort Express with 802.11n
Now featuring support for the faster 802.11n Wi-Fi specification, the new AirPort Express Base Station delivers up to five times the performance and twice the range of the previous model. The world’s smallest 802.11n-based mobile base station, the new AirPort Express offers a great option for anyone who wants to set up a high-speed wireless network, share a printer wirelessly, or stream iTunes music wirelessly from a Mac or PC with AirTunes. And because its so compact, you can take AirPort Express with you and set up an ad hoc wireless network in your hotel room. Available immediately for Mac and Windows, AirPort Express sells for just $99.00.Date: 17. März 2008 21:14:00 MEZ
Subject: Quick Tip of the Week: Sharing Screens
Source: Apple Hot News
Quick Tip of the Week: Sharing Screens
Thanks to Mac OS X Leopard, its even easier to collaborate with others on your network. Not only does Leopard facilitate the sharing of files, it also lets you start interactive screen sharing sessions. Screen sharing offers a great solution for training a co-worker or running a Keynote presentation on a networked Mac clear across the room. Watch the latest Quick Tip of the Week to learn more.Date: 17. März 2008 22:18:25 MEZ
Subject: Kudos for the “outstanding AirPort Express”
Source: Apple Hot News