Apple eNews: June 21, 2007

Waxing enthusiastic about the forthcoming Mac OS X Leopard, Bob LeVitus (Houston Chronicle) purrs "If you like what you saw of Leopard before, wait until you see what's new. First and foremost, the Finder, Desktop and Dock all have new looks and features," he says. "Mail has stationery layouts and to-do items; iCal has powerful group calendaring features; iChat lets you share photos, presentations, videos and files in video conferences; and Safari lets you turn your favorite Web pages into Dashboard widgets."

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Ready for some more good news? Today you can watch YouTube from the best seat in the house. And in just eight days, you can enjoy YouTube to go. All thanks to a new Apple-designed application and YouTube, which has been hard at work encoding its popular content into H.246 format just for Apple TV and iPhone.

Available to Apple TV customers today as a free software update, the new application lets you use Apple Remote to navigate through YouTube’s now-familiar categories to find just the content you want to watch.

As for iPhone customers, you’ll find it already installed on your iPhone, letting you watch YouTube content streaming over Wi-Fi or EDGE networks the first time you two go out together.

Seen the new TV ads for iPhone? You’ll find them on the iPhone site.

Pre-order the standard or deluxe version of “My December,” the new album from Kelly Clarkson scheduled for release on June 26, and you’ll receive a password to purchase exclusive access to preferred seating for Clarkson’s upcoming tour through Ticketmaster.com. The deluxe version features four bonus tracks, one—“Not Today”—available only if you pre-order the album.

Now in their twelfth year, Apple Design Awards recognize technical excellence and outstanding achievement in Mac OS X software design and development. This year, Apple presented Design Awards in seven categories. And the winners are...

If you couldn’t get to San Francisco last week, you can still catch the WWDC 2007 Keynote, streamed to you exclusively in QuickTime and MPEG 4.

Fans of Kyra Sedgwick and “The Closer” can now find every episode from the first two seasons on iTunes. Of course, the third season of the TNT crime drama—which debuted this week—also gets a starring role on iTunes. Download them after they air for just $1.99 or purchase a Season Pass for just $27.99.

In addition to “The Closer,” the hit ABC Family series “Kyle XY” returns for its second season, and you can once again catch the action as it unfolds on iTunes.

Or purchase a Multi-Pass for “Days of our Lives,” now in its 42nd year as a daytime drama.

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Every week, developers release new products for us to enjoy. Like to see some of the more recent arrivals? recent arrivals?

Apple eNews
June 21, 2007
Volume 10, Issue 12

We hope you thoroughly enjoyed reading this issue of Apple eNews. You can expect your next issue on July 5. See you then.

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On June 29, you should come meet us at an Apple Store. We’ll bring iPhone, and you two can, well, talk. Get to know one another. Maybe even fall in love.

After all, iPhone has a lot to email home about. Offering up to 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback,⁽¹⁾ iPhone combines three products into one small and lightweight handheld device. A revolutionary mobile phone. A widescreen iPod with touch controls. And it puts the Internet in your pocket with best-ever applications on a mobile phone for email, web, web-browsing, and maps.

Now, you may have been searching for your cell mate for a long time. But the wait’s almost over. In just eight days, it’ll be you and iPhone. Together at last.

^{1. All battery claims are dependent upon network configuration and many other factors; actual results may vary. See www.apple.com/batteries for more information. Music capacity is based on four minutes per song and 128-Kbps AAC encoding; actual capacity varies by content.}

Developers attending the World Wide Developers Conference left San Francisco with tomorrow in their hands. A near final version of Mac OS X Leopard. Scheduled to ship this October, the world’s most advanced operating system comes with more than 300 new features designed to make it easier—and more enjoyable—to work and play on your Mac.

Among the innovative features coming to your Mac in Leopard, you’ll enjoy:

•	A new Desktop that features a translucent menu bar and reflective Dock with Stacks, folders that help you keep your desktop clutter-free.
•	A new Finder that makes browsing files as easy as browsing music in iTunes, letting you quickly scan documents in Cover Flow or find them instantly using Spotlight and its new pre-built smart searches.
•	Quick Look, a magical new way to get, well, a quick look at your documents—photos (even RAW images), text files, Keynote presentations, PDFs, Excel files, QuickTime movies, Word files—without opening them.
•	Time Machine, which introduces an entirely new—and effortless—way to maintain an up-to-date copy of everything on your Mac: invoices, music, photos, TV shows, and other documents.
•	Spaces, a great new version of Mail, next-generation video chatting with iChat, and many other new features make their debut in the sixth major release of Mac OS X this October.

Come take a close look at Leopard.

Do you have friends who'd enjoy using the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world on their Windows PCs? Then send them to the Safari page and have them download the public beta of Safari 3.0. Millions of Mac customers have made Safari their browser of choice, and now Windows users can, too.

Safari 3.0 offers blazing performance. It launches faster than the competition. Executes JavaScript faster than the competition. And loads web page faster than any other web browser on the planet—up to 2 times faster than IE 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than FireFox 2.⁽¹⁾

Wait, there's more. As important as it is, speed's not the only reason anyone serious about the Web will positively love browsing with Safari 3.0. There's also...

^{1. Performance will vary based on system configuration, network connection and other factors. Testing conducted on an iMac 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo system running Windows XP, with 1GB of RAM}

Scheduled to ship in October, Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard makes it easier for businesses and workgroups to set up and manage a server for delivering file and print services, managing network and workgroup services, deploying web solutions, streaming QuickTime media. Or all of the above.

No need to hire a roomful of IT pros, even nontechnical users can easily install and run Leopard Server to configure Leopard clients for file sharing, Mail, iChat, iCal, iChat, Address Book, VPN, and other services.

Simply powerful, Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard introduces a variety of new services, as well. These include a wiki server, Podcast Producer, Spotlight Server, and the new iCal Server. How will you be able to take advantage of Mac OS X Server Leopard?

A pro photographer for more than 20 years, Rick Sammon has taught millions of shutterbugs how to move from taking snapshots to capturing great shots. That's also the goal of his latest DVD training project: “Rick Sammon's Canon Digital Rebel Personal Training Photo Workshop.” Working with Emmy-award-winning editor David Leveen, the two turned the project into a family affair. A Mac-family affair.

“We used Macs exclusively for this DVD,” says Sammon. “We used Aperture to organize the hundreds of photos, Keynote to make the review sections for each lesson and Final Cut Pro to put it together. The project really wouldn't have been possible without our Macs.”

Leveen concurs. “Final Cut and Aperture were just killer. The fact that Aperture worked so well with Final Cut Pro, Motion and Keynote, the fact that it worked so well with all the pro apps, was just amazing.”