While the stunning PowerBook G4 has always turned heads, our new
800MHz PowerBook G4 is changing minds.
The conventional thinking? Mobile computers offer road warriors a
necessary compromise: portability for somewhat less performance.
But reviewers who have field tested the new PowerBook G4—David
Pogue (New York Times), James Coates (Seattle Times), David Nagel
(Digital Post Productions), Joe Wilcox (BetaNews)—came away more
than pleasantly surprised. They found performance that exceeded
their expectations, rivaling that of desktop systems and offering
impressive Photoshop 7 and Final Cut Pro performance.
What accounts for the impressive performance? Is it the speedier
processor? The addition of 1MB of L3 cache? The faster system bus?
The new graphics processor? The answer? All of the above.
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It was one of the first products built for Mac OS X, and now a new version of
FileMaker Pro offers significant
new features for gathering, managing, and sharing information of all
types.
Available now,
FileMaker Pro 6:
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Lets you import a folder of files (images, email messages, text,
sound files, video, and others) directly into your database with
just a few clicks |
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Offers integrated support for Extensible Markup Language (XML),
the standard for universal data exchange |
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Brings you new searching and formatting capabilities |
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Comes with a wide assortment of new templates for common business,
home, and education database needs |
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Features single-click web publishing |
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Provides robust cross-platform support for Mac OS X, Mac OS 9,
Windows XP, and Windows 2002 |
Like more information about FileMaker Pro 6?
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“And they work great,” says David Carey, proud owner of an iBook, in
one of the two new TV ads now playing on Apple’s Switch website.
Carey’s a magazine publisher, but people from all walks of
life—lawyers, owners of mail order companies, music engineers,
marketing managers, software developers, and others—have
written to
tell us how well the Mac performs as a serious business computer.
How their transition from the PC to the Mac was seamless. How easy
it has been to share Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with PC-using
friends. How little they needed to be concerned with compatibility
issues. How well their Macintosh computers network with PCs.
It’s a common theme.
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Files saved in the Portable Document Format (PDF) let you share
documents with friends or colleagues even if they don’t have
the application you used to create it.
Being able to create PDF files is really handy, and Mac OS X lets
you create them from any application.
Here’s how:
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Open a document you’d like to save as a PDF, pull down
the File menu, and choose Print. |
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In the Print dialog, click the Preview button. Mac OS X
will open the Preview application and display your document
as a PDF. |
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To save it, pull down the File menu once more, choose Save As PDF,
and tell Mac OS X where you’d like the PDF file saved. |
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If we asked who you thought might be likely candidates for iMovie,
Final Cut Pro, iDVD, or QuickTime Streaming Server, you might answer
photographers, musicians, designers, or filmmakers. But they’re
not the only “creative types” who have embraced Apple’s
digital lifestyle products. Scientists have also made them integral
parts of their work.
Take, for example, Dr. Kevin Burton, who captures digital video of
skin cell movement with microscopes controlled by a Mac. Or Dr.
Robert Williams, who uses QuickTime Streaming Server to share
digital videos of brain slides with fellow researchers as they study
brain-based diseases. Meanwhile, Dr. Jonathan Goldman uses DVD
Studio Pro to create training DVDs for ultrasound diagnosticians.
Welcome to the digital science revolution.
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We hope you enjoyed reading this issue of Apple eNews.
Look for your next issue on July 25.
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Strong praise? That’s how Digital Media Design describes Studio
Artist 2.0 from Synthetik Software. A “graphics synthesizer” built
for Mac OS X, this revolutionary tool lets you play with digital
images and video in ways you may never have imagined possible,
opening up entirely new avenues of self expression.
Suppose you have a photograph you want to give a very distinctive
look. By selecting one of Studio Artist’s 2,000+ presets, your image
can appear rendered in watercolors or lit with neon.
Or what if you’d like one of your QuickTime movies to look like an
animated film? It’s entirely possible with the built-in rotoscoping
capability Studio Artist offers.
Could you use such a tool in your arsenal?
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If your Mac has a CD-RW drive, Combo drive, or SuperDrive, you may
have already discovered how easy it is to back up all your files
onto inexpensive CD-RW media:
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Insert a CD-RW disc |
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Name the disc, choose Standard in the Format drop-down menu, and
click Prepare |
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Drag the folders, files, or applications you want to back up to the
icon of the CD-RW disc |
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Select the icon of the disc on your desktop, then pull down the
File menu and choose Burn Disc |
But what if you want to reuse that CD-RW disc? What steps do you
need to follow to erase the existing data? That process is just as
easy.
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Now Shipping: Xserve. Apple’s new rack-optimized server
(which toasted a Dell 1650 in a recent
performance “bake-off,”) offers
superior performance, voluminous storage, excellent remote management tools, a
highly affordable price, and unlimited-client licenses.
Crystal Clear Savings. You can save up to $500 when you purchase a qualifying flat-panel display and a
Power Mac G4 between now and August 12.
Need to track the time you spend on client projects? Try TimeSlice 2.5
(Casady & Greene), which now creates invoices, too.
Peachpit Press brings you a trio of
new books: ”The Little iMac Book” (John Tollett & Robin Williams), “The Little iDVD
Book” (Bob LeVitus), and “Secrets of the iPod” (Christopher
Breen).
Here’s a great way to speed your journey to the information
superhighway. Use Freeway 3.5, a new WYSIWYG
tool from Softpress Systems,
to design your websites.
You’ll never lose another business contact or waste time manually
entering contact info into your Address Book. That’s the promise of
the IRIS Business Card Reader II.
Built for Mac OS X, "Medal of Honor transports you to the battlefields of World War II and immerses
you in the conflict," says Aspyr Media president Michael Rodgers.
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