Apple eNews: April 12, 2007

	Reuters joins a host of other news outlets reporting that the 100 millionth iPod has now been sold. “Since its November 2001 launch, the portable music player has become the must-have gadget worldwide, with Apple introducing more than 10 new models to incorporate changing technology such as the ability to record and play videos, hold photos, and with more varied, fashionable colours.”
	“Switching to a Mac infrastructure may sound like an expensive proposition for a small business owner,” writes Jack M. Germain (Mac New World). “However, some who have made the change say they made the right choice.” Take, for example, the CEO of Stever Robbins Company: “I kept waiting and putting it off. Then my Windows computer kept crashing. I lost three-and-a-half days of my billable time as a consultant in getting my PC working again,” he explained. “The Mac changed my life, truly. I can’t imagine voluntarily switching back to Windows.”
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With more power at your fingertips — thanks to the new Mac Pro models — you’ll want a larger screen to manage all your work. And now that they’re more affordable than ever, it’s the perfect time to compliment your new Quad-core or 8-core Mac Pro with a widescreen Cinema Display.

You may already have seen the new ad for Apple TV. It appears during some of the coolest television shows. And on our website. Stop by and take a look.

Play ball. Now that you’ve opened the season with the free 2007 MLB.com Season Preview, iTunes can help you enjoy all the baseball action on deck with MLB video. That includes the 25-minute “MLB.com Daily Rewind” highlight shows and two weekly “Games of the Week,” featuring full versions of the best National and American League games. Purchase and download individual shows for just $1.99 or take advantage of Multi-Pass ($7.99) or Season Pass ($19.99) options.

Go underground. With Myst Online: URU Live, you can virtually explore the underground New Mexico cavern populated by the D’ni more than 10,000 years ago. Visit by yourself. Or invite others to join you on your exploration. Enjoy the new game trailer, read the feature article and play Myst Online for free on the GameTap site.

Now Available: Boot Camp Public Beta, version 1.2. The latest version not only runs on the newest Macs but also offers support for Windows Vista Home basic, Home Premium, Business, and Ultimate. For complete details, visit the Boot Camp Public Beta page.

Like to be an Apple Scholar? We’re inviting college-bound students headed for 2-year or 4-year accredited colleges or universities in the fall of 2007 to participate in the 2007 Apple Scholars Program. Winners will earn a MacBook, iPod, and $2,000 scholarship. To apply — and read the official rules for participation — visit the Apple Scholarship website.

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Every week, such developers as e frontier.com (Poser 7), Red Sweater Software (Black Ink), and Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (amira) release new products for us to enjoy. Like to see some of the more recent arrivals?

Apple eNews
April 12, 2007
Volume 10, Issue 7

We hope you thoroughly enjoyed reading this issue of Apple eNews. You can expect your next issue on April 26. See you then.

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If you’d like to take yourself on a 3.0GHz power trip, you now have two options. You can go for a blisteringly fast ride on a quad-core Mac Pro, featuring two 64-bit Dual-Core Intel Xeon “Woodcrest” processors. Or you can double the number of cores and go cruisin’ on the new 8-core Mac Pro.

Talk about a win-win situation for the power-hungry creative.

Available immediately, the newest member of the Mac Pro family features the latest innovation from Intel: two Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Clovertown” processors running at 3.0GHz. That’s the fastest “Clovertown” processor available today, and it’s unique to Mac Pro.

Whether you opt for an 8-core or quad-core Mac Pro, you have more than 33 million ways to configure your personal dream machine. And that includes partnering your new Mac with any of the gorgeous Apple Cinema Displays that we’ve recently made more affordable than ever.

Beginning next month, EMI Music will offer iTunes customers its huge catalog of music with higher audio quality and no usage restrictions. For just 30 cents more per track, you’ll be able to purchase and download music free of digital rights management (or DRM) that’s encoded at 256 Kbps (twice the current bit rate), making it all but indistinguishable from the original.

If you like the audio quality and freedom offered by the new tracks, you can upgrade the entire collection of EMI music already in your iTunes library for just 30 cents a track.

And, just like the music you already own, you can play the new tracks on any iPod, on Mac or Windows PCs, on Apple TV, and—when it arrives in June—on iPhone.

Now you can take Rocky with you on your iPod. Or use Apple TV to watch it on the widescreen TV in your living room.

That’s because Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky—along with a treasure trove of other great movies from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios—now appears on iTunes. Just added to the store and available for immedate purchase and download, movies like Mad Max, Dances with Wolves, Bananas, Ronin, The Thomas Crown Affair, and The Great Train Robbery add to the wealth of comedies, dramas, musicals, thrillers, and sci-fi films you’ll find on iTunes.

You can purchase any of the new MGM titles on the store for just $9.99. In fact, the iTunes store will include more than 500 movie titles with the addition of the MGM collection. We’ll be adding more great MGM films in the weeks ahead. So stay tuned.

No matter how confident you feel behind the lens, you’re always wondering what other people think about your work. The desire to share and get feedback takes pros like Inside Aperture’s Steve Simon to sites like Flickr, which Simon says, offers a “great way to get feedback on what you are doing and suggestions for making it better.”

And thanks to its Export Plug-ins, Aperture makes it easy for pros like Simon to share. “First I make a quick album with the images I want to upload. Then I select them all,” choose Export to Flickr from the File menu, “add the photos to a new photoset and voila,” the images stand ready for review by all takers.

In addition to the Flickr plug-in Simon employs, photographers have been snapping up other export plug-ins for Aperture, as well. You’ll find a growing collection of them on the Mac OS X downloads page.

When you’re selling multi-million dollar homes, the devil’s definitely in the details.

That’s why owner Michael Dreyfus and his associates at Dreyfus Properties take pains to capture each nuance of the travertine floors, gold-plated faucets, Italian marble tubs, and chiseled flagstone pathways that distinguish one property from the next. After photographing them, Dreyfus and his team import the high-quality images into iPhoto, tag them with keywords, and incorporate them in print materials and the Dreyfus website.

Thanks to two window-mounted Cinema Displays, passersby can watch the slideshow of available properties as they stroll past the company’s Palo Alto headquarters. Or go up on the web and do a virtual walk-through of a new home listing. They’re creating those on a Mac now, too.