Apple eNews: March 1, 2007

	In his review of the new AirPort Extreme Base Station for Macworld, Glenn Fleishman indicates that the new wireless router “solves three major wireless networking problems in one blow: speed, range, and configuration. The gateway also makes sharing multiple printers and hard drives across a network as easy as plugging in a cable.”
	May Wong (SFGate.com) tells us that Life Fitness, the world’s leading commercial manufacturer of exercise equipment, “plans to offer seamless integration with Apple Inc’s iPod players in upcoming products.” Because the new fitness machines include LCD touchscreens, you’ll be able to “plug in iPods and headphones and peruse [your] song libraries or watch [your] videos on the console” as you would on iPod’s built-in display.
	“In more and more college classrooms across the country,” explains Jonathan Wroble (DailyIllini.com), the iPod has evolved from playing music to displaying photos and playing videos to “taking on yet another role: teaching.” Take, for example, the role it’s playing in associate professor Kathy O’Connor’s Spanish curricula. O’Connor loads onto each iPod the “listening comprehension practice, vocabulary, and pronunciation practice that students need to do.” Filled, too, with “Spanish-language podcasts, radio, conversations, and even Latin music, she’s “made the language lab mobile” for all her students.
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Hello. Did you see the new ad for iPhone? It premiered during last weekend’s Academy Awards, but if you missed it, not to worry. You can pick up your mouse and say “hello.”

After more than 5 million downloads, VueScan continues to be the preferred choice for those using flatbed and 35-mm film scanners. And for good reason. It supports more than 700 scanners and can offer significantlly higher grade scans than the software that came with most film and flatbed scanners. Like to give it a try? Then visit Hamrick Software and download a free trial version of the recently released VueScan 8.4.10.

New for 2007: the Universal version of MYOB AccountEdge Network Edition. Optimized to work at peak performance over a Mac OS X network, the new network edition of AccountEdge lets you perform all standard accounting duties from any Mac on your network.

Defeat the Cogs. If you don’t, humor’s not likely to return to Toontown, Disney’s massively multi-player online role-playing game. How do you defeat those dastardly Cogs? Why, with gags of course. And don’t worry if you run out. You can always pick one or more up as you travel through Toontown and accomplish your quests.

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Every week, developers release new products for us to enjoy. This week brings us a ton of new arrivals from Quark, Autodesk, MoneyWorks, and other great Mac developers. Like to see some of the more recent arrivals?

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March 1, 2007
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Even before the teaser debuted on the jumpman23.com website, word had begun to spread through fan sites.

Then, after the lavish, Las Vegas launch of the new Air Jordan XX2—inspired by the F22 fighter jet—Blast Radius took the latest Brand Jordan sport shoe into high promotional orbit, complete with XX2-related podcasts, text messages, ring tones, wallpaper, videos, DVDs, and a fully interactive website.

Not surprisingly, the Mac and Final Cut Studio empower the agency to create the rich video content that invigorates the XX2 site, including clips of Michael Jordan’s recent European tour. Exclaims creative director Marcus Ericsson, “Kudos to Final Cut Pro, which is the way forward for the creation of video.”

How would you like to create a web gallery showcasing all your five-star football photos? Or southwest landscapes. Outdoor wedding photos shot in the Fall. Kids at play. Frisbee-catching dogs. Birds in flight. Food-related, still-life photos.

You may have suitable images for such a gallery scattered throughout your Aperture library, but you don’t have to hunt down candidates for such a portfolio one project at a time.

Instead, let Aperture do all the hunting and gathering for you. Click the Library icon, select New Smart...Web Gallery from the File menu, and enter your search criteria in the Query HUD that appears. Aperture will find in seconds what it would have taken you hours—or days—to find manually. We call it a Smart Web Gallery. Give it a try.

Like to see how easy it can be to instantly gather all of you photos into a Smart Web Gallery? Download the free Aperture Trial, import a few thousand photos, and get creative.

Some of the best indie films hail from IFC Entertainment. In fact, six recent full-length films from IFC were nominated for prestigious Independent Spirit Awards. And you’ll find all six—including “American Guns,” “Land of Plenty,” and “Sorry, Haters”—on the iTunes Store. The seven other IFC titles now getting star billing on iTunes were themselves past nominees for the Spirit Awards and several also won prizes at Cannes or Sundance film festivals. You can purchase any of them for just $9.99.

Wait, there’s more. You’ll also find some great new Short Films on the iTunes Store, including the 2007 Oscar winners in the Live Action and Animation categories and seven nominees. Don’t wait. You can scoop up these priceless little gems for just $1.99, each.

Nowadays, if you visit many museums, zoos, or galleries around the world, you can enhance your experience by taking a guided tour delivered via an iPod. It’s all the rage.

Visit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, for example, and you can check out an iPod for a small fee and enjoy in-depth, fully-guided self tours of the new Brice Marden and “Picasso and American Art” exhibits that run until the end of May. With iPod as your tour director, you can move at your own pace. Or rewind, if you’d like, to hear that discussion of the Femme Assise again.

Can’t get to San Francisco? Not to worry. Like many other museums, SFMOMA publishes its tours as podcasts and has even won a Muse Award for its Artcasts. You can check them—and others—out in the iTunes Museum Room.