Apple eNews: April 6, 2006

....................... Apple eNews April 6, 2006 Volume 9, Issue 7 .......................

In This Issue: ..............

1. Sharing in a Snap 2. Creativity on Demand 3. Now Shipping: Final Cut Pro 5.1 4. A Red Hot Date 5. It Began with "Plans" 6. News Hounds Take Note 7. The Matter Before the Court 8. What's New?

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1. Sharing in a Snap ....................

You can snap photos in a fraction of a second. Wouldn't it be great, if it were just as fast and just as easy to share them with all your friends?

Now it is. Thanks to photocasting, your friends and family can enjoy your photos almost as quickly as you can download them into iPhoto. And easy: all you have to do is select a folder and choose Photocast from the Share menu. iPhoto and .Mac* take care of the rest.

Not only will all the existing photos you've chosen to photocast automatically appear in your friend's iPhoto library. But every time you place new photos in that folder, your friends and family will see them as quickly as those photos can travel over the Internet. What's more, even friends with Windows can play--find out how.

http://www.apple.com/enews/eissue/2006/07/01hg.html

* The .Mac service is available to persons age 13 and older. Annual membership fee and Internet access required. Terms and conditions apply.

2. Creativity on Demand ....................... If you love the Mac and you love jazz, it's really cool to listen to "Silver Rain," the latest album from Jazz Fusion phenom Marcus Miller, and know he produced the entire album using Logic Pro on his Macs.

"I was on tour when I started the album," Miller says of "Silver Rain." As ideas came to him, he would develop them in Logic, even holding impromptu recording sessions on his PowerBook.

Wherever his gigs take him, Miller's system remains ready to perform at all hours and all venues. "The new sound processing apps are really revolutionary," says Marcus Miller. "I remember having to wait to hear the sound in my head until I got to the studio or until I could buy a certain piece of gear. I don't have to wait anymore. If I have a few hours, I can create pretty much exactly what I imagine."

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3. Now Shipping: Final Cut Pro 5.1 .................................. One box. Many tools.

Final Cut Studio 5.1 brings together a rich collection of real-time video and audio production tools. The production studio in a box comes complete with Universal versions of the four headliners-- Final Cut Pro 5, Soundtrack Pro, Motion 2, and DVD Studio Pro 4--as well as the superb supporting cast--Compressor 2, Cinema Tools 3, Apple Qmaster 2, and LiveType 2--all of which now run natively on both PowerPC-based and Intel-based Macintosh computers.

You can pluck the box from store shelves wherever Apple products are sold.

http://www.apple.com/enews/eissue/2006/07/03ht.html

But if you already own a standalone version of Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Motion, or DVD Studio Pro, you may be able to upgrade to Final Cut Studio 5.1 for as little as $99. Visit our upgrade page to download an order form.

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4. A Red Hot Date ................. Have you heard? You'll now find the entire catalog of the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the iTunes Music Store. That includes four deluxe albums with previously unreleased studio recordings. And exclusive music videos.

More's coming, too. "Stadium Arcadium," a new double album from the group with 28 original tracks, blazes into town on May 9, and we've already started taking pre-orders for it. Pre-order the album, and you immediately become eligible to purchase exclusive pre-sale tickets to the Peppers's concert tour.

And get this. If you pre-order the album, "Dani California," one of the tracks from the album will download into your music library immediately. You're also automatically entered to win a special edition iPod--engraved with the band's logo and all their signatures--and collectible gift cards you can use to redeem the entire catalog of the Red Hot Chili Peppers from the iTunes Music Store.*

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* No purchase necessary. To see the official rules, visit

http://www.apple.com/enews/eissue/2006/07/04ht.html.

5. It Began with "Plans" ........................ "Directions" takes the innovative Death Cab for Cutie where no band has gone before. Inspired by "Plans," the groups Grammy-nominated and wildly popular album, "Directions" offers a collection of short films, each created by a different filmmaker and creative team and each inspired by a song from the original album.

Though the songs play as a soundtrack throughout, it is the short films that take center stage on this first-of-its-kind video album. You can purchase the entire video album exclusively from the iTunes Music Store. Care to preview the new "Directions"?

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6. News Hounds Take Note ........................

Did you know that you can get the front page of the New York Times delivered right to your ears? Just subscribe to the New York Times Front Page podcast, and iTunes will download it for you every day, letting you hear the news of the day as you drive to work, walk the track, or climb the stairmaster.

But that's not all. The iTunes Music Store makes it easy for you to subscribe not just to the Time's Front Page podcast but to any of the 18 podcasts currently available from the Times. That includes the Science Times; the Op-Ed Podcast; movie and book reviews; sports, theater, music updates; and still others.

Think of it as one-stop-shopping for news.

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7. The Matter Before the Court .............................. When two Atlanta-based law firms decided to merge a few years ago, one decision that appeared on the Gaslowitz Frankel LLC docket: would the firm conduct business on a Mac or PC?

Turns out, thanks to a quick out-of-court settlement, the firm found strongly for the former. Adam Gaslowitz, one of the founding partners, cites "ease of use and productivity," as the main reasons for the favorable decision. "We don't worry about viruses, connecting external hard drives, or adding new printers. When a contract attorney or temp comes to work at our office, any person here can explain the basics of the Finder, email, Word and Safari, everything they will need to do to be productive, in under five minutes. It doesn't get much easier than that."

Case closed.

http://www.apple.com/enews/eissue/2006/07/07hg.html 8. What's New? .............. Want to run Windows XP on your Intel-based Mac? Now you can. Thanks to Boot Camp Public Beta, Macs do Windows, too. Available now as a free download, Boot Camp lets you decide--each time you start up your Mac--whether you'll boot into Mac OS X or Windows XP.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

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Podcast Pick. The indubitably Irish town of Dublin thinks you ought to stretch your legs. "With history so apparent on its streets," Dublin's official online tourist office explains, "Dublin is ideally suited for exploration on foot." Which is why they created the "iWalk," a series of podcast walking tours that guide you through Dublin's past and present. Of the eleven tours on the drawing board, two ("Georgian Dublin" and "The Historic Northside") already beckon for free downloading. And you can easily subscribe to the rest by visiting either the iWalk Dublin site:

http://www.apple.com/enews/eissue/2006/07/08hg.html

or iTunes:

http://www.apple.com/enews/eissue/2006/07/08ht.html

... To help high school and college students "become completely at home with the essential details of DNA's three-dimensional double helix structure," OnScreen Science has created OnScreen DNA and OnScreen DNA Lite, both Universal applications available now. Fun and fascinating, OnScreen DNA is also available as a free Mac demo.

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... We've been airing a cool new TV ad for iTunes. If you haven't seen it, hightail it to our website and take a look. You'll even find a version of the ad you can take with you on your iPod.

http://www.apple.com/ipod/ads/

... If you own an iPod nano or fifth-generation iPod and download and install software update 1.1.1, you can use it to set a personal maximum volume limit for your--or your child's--iPod.

http://www.apple.com/enews/eissue/2006/07/08hg3.html

Visit our Sound website for further information about safe listening with iPod.

http://www.apple.com/enews/eissue/2006/07/08ht3.html

... Ever have a series of audio tracks--like a live album of your favorite recording artist--that you'd like to join together into one continuously playing "song"? Sure, you can use the Join CD Tracks that iTunes provides to do this on import, but what if you've already imported the CD? Enter "Join Together v3.3," a script created by AppleScript maven Doug Adams that enlists the help of QuickTime Player to bring unity to those separate tracks.

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... If you fondly remember the days you, too, had a nightlife, the good news is you can have one again. Virtually, at least. Thanks to "Sims 2: Nightlife." Brought to us by Aspyr Media and created by Maxis, "Sims 2: Nightlife" lets you send your Sims out on the town. What's a nightlife like for those lucky Sims? Read our article on "Sims 2: Nightlife" and find out:

http://www.apple.com/enews/eissue/2006/07/08ht5.html

Then mosey over to the Apple Store and get a Nightlife of your own:

http://www.apple.com/enews/eissue/2006/07/08hg5.html

... You can create posters, business cards, or pamphlets; merge-print address labels using your contact information in Address Book; or print CD labels and case inserts using your iTunes playlists. In fact, the Print Shop for Mac 2.0 lets you do even more. And it's already a Universal application.

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... Every week, developers release new products for us to enjoy. Like to see some of the more recent arrivals?

http://www.apple.com/enews/eissue/2006/07/09ht2.html

... We hope you enjoyed reading today's issue of Apple eNews. We're already working on the next issue, scheduled to make its appearance in your inbox two weeks from today. On Thursday, April 20.

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