Apple eNews: October 27, 2005

	Australia joins the party. With exclusive tracks from such Australian artists as Missy Higgins, Bernard Fanning, Paul Mac, Evermore, Gyroscope and The Dissociatives and with extensive catalogs from INXS, Hunters & Collectors, Paul Kelly and Slim Dusty, the iTunes Music Store opened its doors in Australia, offering fans down under the same innovative features, breakthrough pricing and seamless integration with iPod that music fans in 20 other countries around the world enjoy.
	“A showstopper.” That’s how Eric Benderoff (Chicago Tribune) describes the new iPod. “Co-workers marveled at the video quality,” and when he hopped on board mass transit, “strangers on the bus did not conceal efforts to peer over my shoulder. And even this reviewer’s wife, no friend to gadgets, decided it would make an excellent commuting aide.”
	“Call it the iPod Paradox: with each successive version, Apple’s 30-million-selling music player gets thinner and thinner, but its feature list grows longer and longer,” says David Pogue (New York Times). “The latest model, unveiled last week, is deliciously thin (4.2 by 2.4 by about 0.5 inches). In addition to its usual repertory (presenting music, digital photos, calendar, address book and song lyrics), it can now play video,” an experience he describes as “completely immersive.”
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Take a Tour. You can learn about our new application for professional photographers by visiting the Aperture site and playing our five Quick Tours. The tours introduce you to Stacks, show you how easy it is to compare images, let you get up close with the Loupe, and much more. Enjoy.

We just lowered the price of our gorgeous 23-inch Apple Cinema Display and 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display to just $1299 and $2499, respectively. Whether you’re using Final Cut Pro now or setting up your home studio to work full screen in Aperture, two Cinema Displays will help you work more productively, and now they’re more affordable than ever.

If you purchase an iPod, iPod nano, or iPod shuffle¹ for someone special this holiday season, you can personalize your gift with free engraving. Including a personal message won’t add a penny to your invoice, but wait till you see the smiles that result.

^{1 iPod shuffle engraving available only in North America.}

Now available for pre-order. It’s Madonna’s new album,”Confessions on the Dance Floor,” which is scheduled for release on November 15. Order it today, and you’ll immediately receive Madonna’s exclusive radio edit of the single “Hung Up.” Or you can pre-order the non-stop, continuous mix of the album. Whichever version of “Confessions” you choose, you’ll also receive a music video of “Hung Up,” a digital booklet, and other exclusives.

You can put a personal stamp on the envelopes you send out this holiday season. If, that is, you take advantage of the two photographic stamp services available to Mac customers from Stamps.com and endicia.com. Both let you access your iPhoto library and give you plenty of options for your holiday stamp purchases.

Drowning in paper? With the Fujitsu ScanSnap Paper Manager for Macintosh, you can take complete control of the paper trail in your home or office, automatically scanning single- and double-sided documents as PDFs that you can store easily on your Mac and find instantly using Spotlight. ScanSnap Paper Manager even lets you scan documents to email.

Every Wednesday in November, you can take advantage of Business Days at the retail Apple Store near you to learn all about FileMaker Pro 8 and how you can use it to manage everything from customers and vendors to inventory and assets.

Myst V: End of Ages—now available from the Apple Store—completes a cycle that began more than 10 years ago. Stunning graphics that transported players to another reality have been one of the hallmarks of the game. “The goal,” says co-creator Rand Miller, “has always been to have players turn down the lights, turn up the sound, and lose themselves in our alternate worlds.”

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Apple eNews
October 27, 2005
Volume 8, Issue 21

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As a professional photographer, you’ve waited a long time for an application created just for you. And thanks to Aperture, your wait is over.

The first all-in-one post-production tool for photographers, Aperture delivers an advanced and incredibly fast RAW-focused workflow that makes working with RAW images as easy as working with JPEGs. Its unique compare and select tools let you quickly and easily edit a large photo shoot, whittling down thousands of photos into a handful of top picks. And it offers stellar photo management tools scalable enough to handle thousands of projects.

Built-in nondestructive RAW image editing allows you to perfect your images without fear of damaging or overwriting digital “masters.” And Aperture provides you with all the tools you need to create stunning prints, customized contact sheets, beautiful bound books, and websites as outstanding as your own photos.

Apple’s newest pro application comes your way in November, but you can learn all about—and pre-order it—today by visiting the Aperture website.

Introducing an exciting new dynamic in desktop computing: the Power Mac G5 Quad and Power Mac G5 Dual. The formidable lineup offers an impressive series of features designed to speed you through your work and deliver application performance that’s up to three times faster than the fastest Power Mac G4:

•	Dual-core PowerPC G5 processors running at up to 2.5GHz per core deliver breakthrough performance.
•	The modern PCI Express architecture opens the door to high-performance video and audio devices and to multiple graphics cards, letting you connect up to eight displays at once.
•	Support for workstation graphics cards—like the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500—speed the display of effects, 3D animation, and scientific applications—such as stereo-in-a-window visualization.

The new systems also provide support for 533MHz DDR2 main memory—expandable up to 16GB—and come with two Gigabit Ethernet ports. With two models of the Power Mac G5 Dual available now and the 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad speeding to stores in early November, there’s never been a better time to step up to the Power Mac G5.

The best portable solutions in the marketplace now feature higher resolution displays, longer battery life, and lower prices. That’s right, our 1.67GHz 15- and 17-inch PowerBook G4 computers now start at just $1999 and $2499, respectively. Yet they offer a notable list of stellar improvements, including:

•	Higher-resolution Displays. 1440x960 on the 15-inch and 1680x1050 on the 17-inch PowerBook.
•	Longer Battery Life. Now work up to 5.5 hours untethered, an hour longer than with previous PowerBooks.
•	More Burn for Your Buck. 8x slot loading SuperDrives with double-layer support.
•	Larger (up to 120GB) and faster (up to 7200 rpm) hard drives.

And the highly popular 15-inch PowerBook now comes standard with features previously available only on its big brother: double the graphics memory (128MB), dual-link DVI support for use with a 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display, and optical digital output/input. Your PowerBook awaits.

If you can’t wait to hit the slopes with your friends this winter, we have a great suggestion. Get a jump on the season by creating a .Mac Group for your ski club and keep in touch online.

.Mac Groups offer everything you need.

Correspond with one another using your group email address. Log onto your group’s private website, and you can check the message board or see if there’s an upcoming event or meeting scheduled on the group’s November calendar. Everyone will enjoy seeing photos and movies from last year’s adventures on the slopes, and HomePage makes it easy to post them on your group website. Members can even share files using the Group iDisk, easily accessible from a .Mac members own iDisk.

How could your club, class, or family take advantage of .Mac Groups?

Creating Keynote Presentations with iWork

Whether you’re just learning a new application or you’d like a great way to brush up on your skills, there’s nothing better than rolling up your sleeves and taking on a project from start to finish. Which is exactly the thinking behind the new Visual QuickProject series from Peachpit Press.

Two of the newer titles in the series help you develop or hone your iWork skills. Tom Negrino’s “Creating Keynote Presentations with iWork,” steps you through the process of creating an information presentation in Keynote:

And in David Morris’ “Creating Pages with iWork,” you’ll create a series collateral materials—letterhead, a flyer, and a newsletter template—for an imaginary organization of neighborhood groups.

For more information about Pages and Keynote, visit the iWork site.

As you may know, the new iPod—now shipping from the online Apple Store and available in the retail Apple Store and from thousands of Apple resellers—lets you watch music videos, video podcasts, movie shorts, and episodes of some the most popular shows on television.

But did you know that the new iPod also offers you the perfect way to share your own movies—those gems you created yourself in iMovie HD—with friends, family, and colleagues at work? In fact, exporting your movies in the 320x240 format needed for iPod is built into iMovie HD. You may even have taken the first few steps if you’re running iMovie HD 5.0.2 and you’ve already downloaded and installed QuickTime 7.0.3 and iTunes 6. If so, read “Exporting a movie from iMovie HD to iPod,” for the few steps that remain.