iMac Update: November 29, 2001

Play Cro-Mag Rally. Edit your own desktop movie. Download some digital photos and create a slide show. Compose a new playlist in iTunes and update your iPod.

There are so many ways to have fun with an iBook, and now you can play more and pay less. Just purchase an iBook before December 31, 2001, and we’ll send you $100 back by mail.

Get all the details (and the mail-in rebate coupon) on our website.

Inspiration hit him like a train.

But then, 17-year-old actor Daryl Wein was on one at the time. Commuting from his Connecticut home to auditions in New York City, Wein began “observing the intricate social hierarchy of the commuters riding the train” and knew that he wanted to shoot “a whole movie that takes place on a train.”

Five years ago, even someone as talented and enthusiastic as Wein might not have had the resources to effect the leap from inspiration to “Life Is a Train,” the 12-minute film that earned Wein third prize in an international film festival. But Wein had the resources.

Borrowing his dad’s camcorder to capture the footage, Wein relied on his iMac and iMovie to edit and produce “Life Is a Train.”

Peggy hears the music playing. She wakes up to smooth jazz. Tunes in to her favorite stations in the car. Rocks to the beat at work. Pedals to it in the gym. And when she works on her iBook, you guessed it, iTunes soothes her soul.

And that’s good news. When it comes to picking out a gift for someone like Peggy, it’s not hard to figure out where to look.

Just visit our Holiday Gift Guide and waltz into the music section. You’ll find lots of great gift ideas for the music lovers in your life. Noise cancelling headphones. “The Little iTunes Book.” CD burners. And, the ultimate gift for true lovers of music, iPod.

It happened to Bess Moffitt. And she wasn’t the only one to succumb to its charms. So — fair warning — when you meet iPod, you may fall in love.

Moffitt’s fate was sealed at a recent Macintosh user group event. Not only did she find iPod “adorable,” but she also relished the idea of being able to carry her entire music collection with her when she traveled.

Traveling was also on the mind of David Morgenstern, who pointed out that iPod “has enough battery life to take you from the ride to the airport, up in the air and then back down at your destination across the country.”

Like to gauge the big attraction for yourself? Visit an Apple retail store or an authorized Apple reseller. iPod is in stores now.

Now shipping, IBM’s ViaVoice for Mac OS X has a few tricks up its sleeve. For example, you can have it read email (or other documents) to you. Out loud. That could come in handy if your hands are occupied with something else — like wrapping presents maybe.

Of course, here’s the product’s true claim to fame: it listens to every word you say and lets you rely on your voice rather than your keyboard or mouse. Thanks to award-winning speech-recognition technology, it lets you dictate into most text applications (including email); launch applications by name; and navigate through your hard drive.

You can learn all about Via Voice for Mac OS X on our website, and, if you like, you can purchase it from the Apple Store.

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Choose an application or a document, make an alias, place it in the Startup Items folder, and, voila, Mac OS 9 would launch that application or open that document every time you started your Mac.

Like to do the same in
Mac OS X? Here’s how:

1.	Open System Preferences
2.	Click Login (in the Personal group)
3.	Click the Login Items tab
4.	Click the Add button and select the applications or documents you’d like Mac OS X to launch when you next start up your Mac

Mac OS X even lets you specify the order in which they’ll start up. And it’s so simple: just drag and drop to set the start-up order.

Give it a try.

Get with the plan. The AppleCare Protection Plan, that is.

If you own a Mac, it came with built-in service and support coverage—90 days of complimentary telephone support and a one-year limited warranty.

Would you like that coverage to last a bit longer — for up to three years, in fact?

Purchase an AppleCare Protection Plan for that computer, and you can extend the built-in service and support coverage for an additional two years beyond the expiration date of its warranty.¹

Visit our support site to learn more about the AppleCare Protection Plan.

¹ To qualify, the AppleCare Protection Plan must be purchased before the one-year limited warranty expires.
Technical telephone support coverage begins after the 90-day complimentary support period and extends for three years from the computer’s purchase date.

Stewart Alsop (Fortune) says that iPod “is so portable and self-contained that it solves the lifetime problem I (and every other person who listens to music) have, which is that the music I want to listen to is somewhere else.” “Now, with iPod,” he enthuses, “the music I want is always in my pocket.”

And he’s not the only one lavishing praise on iPod.

What do you send when you want to send the very best? A Hallmark, of course. And now you can send friends or family a Hallmark birthday, Christmas, or Kwanzaa iCard.

And don’t forget to check our Holidays category for other seasonal iCard offerings.

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