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Now, when you hit the trail, climb a mountain, hop a train, run a
marathon, backpack the high Sierras, go mountain biking in Moab, or
catamaran to Ochos Rios, you can invite your music library along for
the ride.
In fact, it can travel in your shirt pocket.
As long, that is, as you’re packing your iPod, the new ultraslim,
ultralight, and ultraportable MP3 player Apple introduced just last
week and will be available in stores on November 10.
Thanks to iPod and its 5GB hard drive, you can tote not 10, not 100,
but up to 1000 songs in a svelte unit no larger than a pack of playing
cards. And you can play music for up to 10 hours before recharging
the lithium polymer battery.
Want to hear more about iPod?
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Wondering how you’ll move your music library to iPod?
iTunes 2. That’s right, you can expect a new version of iTunes just nine days
from now—on November 10—and it comes packed with some great new features.
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A 10-band equalizer with over 20 custom presets |
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Crossfading for smoother transitions between songs |
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MP3 CD burning |
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A built-in sound enhancer for richer audio playback |
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Faster audio CD burning (up to twice as fast as before)
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But, wait, there’s more. iTunes 2 and iPod are an absolute item. A
musical dynamic duo, they synchronize beautifully, allowing you to
transfer your music collection—playlists and all—automatically (or
manually if you’d like) from your Mac to your iPod. In fact, thanks
to FireWire, music transfers blazingly fast. How fast? You can
transfer a CD of music in less than 10 seconds. A full 5GB of music
in less than 10 minutes.
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Want a great way to keep in touch with friends and family—not just with words
but with stunning digital photographs?
Buy an iMac.
With iMac, it’s a snap to download photos and then post them on your web
page or send them to others as iCards or via email.
And if you purchase a qualifying iMac between October 26 and December 31, 2001,
you can take your snapshots with an HP 318xi digital camera. We'll send you the camera
(or $150 cash back) via a mail-in rebate.
To obtain your digital camera (or request your $150 rebate), download the coupon you'll find
on our Snap it Up website.
It will bring all of the details of this promo into sharp focus. Or visit the Apple
Store, an Apple retail store, or one of our participating
authorized Apple resellers.
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How many times a day do you type your name? Visit a particular web
page? Open a set of related applications or documents? Insert the
identical paragraph or two of copy in a document? Check your
calendar? Mount a server? Update an expense report? Call
what’s-his-name? Check email?
Wouldn’t it be great if you had a simple yet effective way of doing
any or all of the above just by hitting one or two keys on your
keyboard?
You can. With QuicKeys. In fact, QuicKeys X—the most recent version
of the venerable Macintosh macro utility program—lets you easily
create all sorts of shortcuts that can save you time and make you
more productive.
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If someone touts your talent to temporize, don’t get tremulous.
Get Sherlock.
With the addition of the new Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com
plug-ins to bolster the already efficacious plug-ins for the
American Heritage Dictionary and Roget’s II: New Thesaurus, our
intrepid searchmeister can help you triangulate the meaning of terms
tortuous and transparent.
We speak veraciously.
Look for the newest Sherlock plug-ins in the Reference channel.
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Thank you for reading this issue of iMac Update.
Look for your next issue on November 15.
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Here’s another in a series of letters you submitted, telling us how
iMac changed your lives. Today’s letter comes from Madison in
Amsterdam.
When I bought my iMac DV Special Edition I never really bothered to
check the DV stuff. However, when Dutch MTV ran a VJ-for-a-day
contest, all you had to do was make an 8 minute video. I ran out,
borrowed a friend’s camera, and went for it.
I didn’t need any instructions. iMovie was THAT easy (I never used
any DV programs before you know!). After exporting the whole thing
back to tape, I send my video to MTV.
Out of 1250 people, five finalists were selected for a trip to
London to experience the studios for a day. One of those people was
me!! I never would have entered the contest with a normal camera,
with all the editing etc. But with a DV cam, iMovie and my iMac, it
was loads and loads of fun. Thanks Apple for the iMac, and thanx MTV
Holland for a great day in London’s Studios! :-)
Back up your important data. Send CDs to friends and relatives
filled with your latest movies. Burn audio CDs you can listen
to on your Mac, in your walkman, or home or car stereo.
Yes, the CD-RW drive in your iMac or iBook can be really useful, and
you’ll understand your choices more clearly if you familiarize
yourself with the formatting options—Standard, MP3 CD, or
iTunes—available to you.
Which one best fits your needs? Find out by reading “Disc Burner:
Creating CDs and Choosing Formats” and get a few handy CD burning
tips at the same time.
Got an iTools account?
Then you recently received a folder stuffed with 2100 royalty-free
tunes from freeplaymusic.com.
Yours to use, the 35 genres of music you’ll find in your iDisk make
great soundtracks for movies. In fact, you’ll find tracks in 10-,
15-, 20-, 30-, 60-, and 120-second cuts to make it even easier to
incorporate them in iMovie and Final Cut Pro projects.
Using them in iMovie couldn’t be easier. Drag MP3 files from your
iDisk to your hard drive. Preview them in iTunes. Then open iMovie,
choose “Import” from the File menu, and select the song you’d like
to use in your movie.
Freeplaymusic.com even offers uncompressed WAV files for use in
Final Cut Pro. Use iTunes to preview the music, then visit
www.freeplaymusic.com and download the files you want to include
in your project.
So, how do you find this free music? Mount your iDisk and follow
this path: Software/Mac OS X Software/Extras/.
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