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Get mail. Listen to MP3s. Update your home page. Get organized.
Grade papers. Play games. Download digital photos. Orchestrate
your music collection. Rip tunes.1 Visit the school library—wirelessly.2 Watch DVDs.
Burn CDs. Surf the web.3 Make movies. Enjoy a listening party. Transfer class notes from your organizer.
Tune in digital radio. Do your homework.
Now you can lead the digital life you’ve always dreamed of. And take it on the road with you.
With the new iBook we introduced just 2 days ago.
Just 4.9 pounds light. Just 1.3 inches thin. Featuring a 1024x768 TFT display (a first for a consumer laptop). And offering five hours of battery life.4
iBook is the perfect center for an active and varied digital lifestyle, connecting
you to virtually any digital device you’d want to use. Via FireWire. Via USB. Via Ethernet. Wireless Internet via AirPort.
And because you get to choose from four different built-in optical drives—CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-RW, or a new combination
DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive—you can build the mobile solution that best suits your digital needs.
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Barnaby Blackburn.
Recognize the name? Perhaps not, but thousands of
teachers, parents, and children know it well, consider the
11-year-old an “Internet superkid,” and admire the dyslexic
schoolboy who credits his iBook for helping him wage a successful
battle against dyslexia and propel him to the top of his class in
math, science, and Latin.
“Macs,” he says, “are brilliant for
dyslexics. If you are dyslexic and you learn to touch-type, a
laptop like mine gives you the same chance as the rest of the class
who can write and spell.”
Barnaby offers such advice to fellow dyslexic children around the
world on the website he created—iamdyslexic.com. The site, which he
updates and maintains on his iBook, includes “quizzes, hints, advice
and research that is designed to give readers an entertaining and
cheerful take on this common learning difficulty.”
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Sherlock Holmes had his magnifying glass. The kids participating in
the Engineering Science Quest Summer Camp at the University of
Waterloo have slightly more up-to-date tools for zeroing in on the
clues.
They tote AirPort-equipped iBook computers around campus to help
them solve the murder mystery they’re investigating.
“The computer is a central tool in solving the mystery,” explains Ali Asaria, one of two camp instructors.
“We created QuickTime movies and then copied the movies on a number of CDs, which were then hidden around the campus.”
The movies give the students hints to where they can find the next CD in the series, and sometimes the students have to access a
nearby AirPort Base Station to get clues from the Internet or the university’s network.
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Students enrolled in the School of Physics at the University of
South Wales in Australia just love to smash things—all in the name
of science, of course.
To better understand the physics of car crashes, the students send
blocks, outfitted with tiny sensors, smashing into brick walls. The
sensors on the “vehicles” feed information into LabPro data loggers.
Because the data logger connects to their iMac and portable iBook computers via a USB
port, students can view the data in real time as the crash occurs.
After analyzing the results, they can pick up the pieces, adjust the
variables and send the block careening into the wall yet again.
“When students see the colourful iMac computers, we certainly get
the enthusiastic reaction we anticipated,” explains IT Director
Gabriel Gaus, “but let me assure you, we chose them for purely
technical reasons. The colourful design is just a bonus.”
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Learning physics with iMac
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At the recent National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention
in Las Vegas, Apple announced the availability of QuickTime 5, our
industry-leading software for creating, playing and streaming
high-quality audio and video over the Internet. The latest version
of QuickTime 5 includes:
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An enhanced interface with an integrated channel window |
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Custom interfaces that can be delivered with your media file |
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Flash 4 and MPEG-1, for more dynamic presentations |
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An enhanced DV codec for faster and higher quality digital
video rendering than before |
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Cubic VR for immersive, 360-degree environments |
In its first week of availability, over 1.5 million multimedia enthusiasts downloaded
QuickTime 5, and you can, too.
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Thank you for reading this issue of iMac Update.
Look for your next issue on May 17.
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Whether you want to use one of the best HTML editors around, manage your personal stock portfolio,
or catch cows with your UFO (?), you’re likely to find a Mac OS X application to make you smile
and keep you productive on our newly-expanded Mac OS X Downloads web page, home of over 260 applications.
Easier to use than ever, the site features 12 categories of
software, including Productivity Tools (such as BBEdit 6.1.1), Business & Finance (Option Money 3.3) and Games & Hobbies
(e.g., The Cow Catching Game). There’s even a category for fun
little extras for your Dock (affectionately known as “docklings”).
And we’re just getting started. Expect to find many more
applications on the Mac OS X Downloads page over the coming months.
Several new downloads are added every week, so stop back often.
If your favorite application for creating newsletters,
presentations, databases, graphics, budgets, proposals, and a wide range
of other documents is AppleWorks 6, you probably already know that the Starting Points
window is a great place to find the tools you need to get to work.
But what if the icons in the web tab of the Starting Points window appear as
either plain generic icons—i.e., white icons that look like a sheet of
paper with a fold in the lower right corner—or as generic icons with small
red X’s in them?
Not to worry—we have an article in our Technical Information Library that
contains simple instructions to fix either problem.
Talk about a good first day. On Tuesday, Apple announced that Henrico County Public Schools have
already placed an order for 23,000 of our new iBook computers. Says Steve Jobs, Apple CEO:
“Apple is thrilled to partner with Henrico County Public Schools in their revolutionary initiative
because when every student and teacher has access to wirelessly-networked mobile computing, learning
reaches far beyond the classroom.”
We set something of a milestone the other day, announcing that we had just shipped the
five-millionth iMac computer. “Simply put, the iMac has redefined the consumer and education
computer, ushering in several industry firsts including USB,
FireWire, desktop movies, wireless networking, quiet fan-less
operation and world-class design,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs. “I
look forward to shipping our 10 millionth iMac in a few years.”
“That’s right,” Andrew Gore exclaims in one of the first reviews of our new iBook computer
to hit the virtual stands, “Apple has just delivered a portable the size and weight of a spiral-bound notebook.”
You’re invited. This summer, Apple will be hosting Apple Teacher Institutes—a series of hands-on technology workshops
for K-12 educators—across the United States and Canada, and we’d like to tell you all about them.
More than 75 camera models from leading digital camera
manufacturers — including Canon, Casio, Kodak, Olympus, Panasonic and
Sanyo — have integrated QuickTime technology into their products.
Read how AirPort is setting people free—in classrooms, at work, at conventions, at news events
and in the world of multiplayer games.
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