Wouldn’t it be great if you had an easy way to share your Desktop Movies with colleagues, friends, or family?

An easy way to send a “digital reel” to potential clients, to provide a set of training videos to staff at a remote office location, or to share the collection of Desktop Movies you’ve made of your kids with their grandparents?

Well, now you do. With a new Power Mac G4 equipped with a SuperDrive (that reads and writes both CDs and DVDs) and our new iDVD software, you can easily create DVD-Video discs that can be played in most standard DVD players. That’s the power of a Digital Hub.

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs completed his Macworld keynote address, the crowd in attendance made a bee line for the show floor. No surprise: there were loads of new Mac products to be seen.

Hardware products—from digital media the size of a quarter to some cool MP3 players to use with iTunes to wireless printing solutions from Epson and Hewlett-Packard—were certainly in evidence, but it was software—particularly applications built for Mac OS X—that dazzled attendees.

Graphic designers, animators, video and still photographers—they’re not the only pros hip deep in digital media. Musicians have clearly embraced PowerBook and Power Mac computers and could probably explain at least as well as we can how MIDI, USB and FireWire technology help transform the Mac into a Digital Hub, an indispensable tool that lets them make music the 21st century way.

So did musicians find products to covet at Macworld? They certainly did, especially at the giant Guitar Center booth, where digital audio recording and editing products—sound cards, MIDI interface devices, custom FireWire storage devices, and Logic audio software—could be spun up and sampled.

Judging by the frenetic activity in the Apple Games Theater at the recent Macworld Expo and by the long list of releases scheduled for the coming year, 2001 promises to be a veritable gaming odyssey for those of us who game on the Mac.

Couldn’t make the trip to the show? Not to worry, we hit the road for you and brought back lots of exciting news about “Master of Orion III,” “Oni,” “Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2,” “Myst III: Exile,” “Summoner,” “Myth III: the Wolf Age,” “Escape from Monkey Island,” and many more gaming titles arriving on the Mac this year.

By the way, did we mention that you could win a million dollars just by solving the final riddle in one of the newest Mac games, “Treasure Hunt 2001: The Mask of Nefer”?

It’s been a stalwart for the design community for 13 years and counting—the one and only product to combine vector-based drawing and pixel-based painting—and now Canvas, the flagship product of Deneba Software, is coming to Mac OS X.

Says president Manny Menendez, “Mac OS X will be a formidable alternative to every established OS standard available today,” and Deneba plans to release the yet-unnamed Mac OS X version of Canvas shortly after the new OS ships.

You won’t find this one on cable or satellite; “Entertainment” is an all-new channel in Sherlock. Introduced during Macworld, the Entertainment channel is the home of four sites where you’ll find a wealth of entertaining news, info, gossip, and multimedia. Currently, E! Online, Rolling Stone, NBCi.com, and the encyclopedic Internet Movie Database populate the Entertainment channel, and we expect to add more entertainment-related search sites soon.

What’s that? You don’t see the new channel when you open Sherlock?

Searchers using Mac OS 9.1—which was also introduced during Macworld and is available for download—will automatically see two rows of channels when they start Sherlock. Those of you using an earlier version of Mac OS or Mac OS X Public Beta may have to pull down the channel drawer to expose a second row. Go ahead. Open that drawer and prepare to be entertained.

They were among the first to see the new Titanium PowerBook G4 and CD-RW-equipped Power Mac G4 computers. Among the first to sign up for iTools for Education—a new version of the popular web-based service designed just for educators. Among the first to see such new products as “Kidspiration,” “PowerSchool,” “Leading the Nation,” the “iBook Mobile Wireless Lab,” and other technology products created specifically for the education market.

And the educators who attended the recent Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC)—one of the most important venues for the discussion of educational technology in the U.S.—were also among the first to hear Cheryl Vedoe, Apple Vice President of Education Marketing and Solutions, discuss Apple’s commitment “to support the entire education community—students, teachers and faculty, administrators, and parents.”