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Commentary on all and sundry
he above headline is intended
for whomever it was at Telstra
and Vodafone who decided to
keep the pricing plans for iPhone 3G
secret until the last possible second
Consider it administered, as they say,
“upside the head”. Optus could also
have come out with its info a little
earlier, but it at least gave customers
a solid week to pore over the plans.
And Apple shouldn't escape the
smackings either, if only because
its own coy behaviour in the leadup
to the iPhone's release served to
encourage the secrecy on the part
of telcos. Two days before the thing
went on sale, | was still getting “we
haven't made an announcement yet”
in answer to the simple question “will
the iPhone be sold at the Sydney
Apple Store”. Hold out your hand —
this is going to hurt you more than it
hurts me.
The iPhone 3G is, in some ways,
like a new Star Wars movie. The fan
base is already there, the hype is vir-
tually self-perpetuating, and it really
doesn't much matter what the critics
say, it's going to have a big opening
weekend. Everyone involved knew
that, and to my mind took advantage.
In Telstra's case particularly, | can't
help feeling that if the iPhone data
plans had been publicised a week in
advance there would not have been
many people queued up outside Tite
shops. Instead, the final plans were
announced the day the device went
on sale, so people who'd queued
since the wee small hours were
signed up before they'd even fully
gained consciousness.
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AMW’s Danny Gorog weighs up iPhone plans
012 AMW Augus
You could say, and many have, that
no-one was holding a gun to anyone's
head and saying you have to buy on
day one. More than a few people said
“sit back and wait a few days or even
weeks, and check out the plans. Don't
sign anything until you're sure”. Time
magazine also said The Phantom
Menace was kind of dull, but it made
a billion bucks anyway.
Likewise people rocked up to
Telstra and Vodafone and Optus with
100 points of ID ready to sign on the
dotted line for whatever two-year com-
mitment they could get in ten minutes
If they couldn't get the 16GB black
model they wanted, they'd take the
8GB, or a white one — just don't let
me leave the store without an iPhone!
It was foolish. It was reckless. And
the telcos knew it was going to hap-
pen, and they were waiting,
The great irony in it is that all three
were apparently holding back their
plans to avoid being undersold by
their competitors, yet Optus, the one
that released its plans earliest, turns
out to have generally the best value
plans. Some of the Vodafone plans
offer similar value to Optus, though
there's less flexibility. Don't get me
started on Telstra. SMB included data
a month? What?
There were practically riots in the
streets in Canada (I say practically
because, really, Canadians aren't the
rioting kind) when its one and only
iPhone provider came out with a plan
offering 2GB of data for $C115 (about
$A117). For $4119 you get 1GB from
Telstra. That is frankly absurd.
Rogers has relented and now
offers a plan with 3GB of data for
$C60 ($A61.50). Of course it relented
because people knew about its plans
far enough in advance to realise how
awful they were, kick up a stink, sign
petitions and get media coverage that
made Rogers look opportunistic and
greedy. No-one knew Telstra's plans
were even worse until it was too late.
Maybe we could riot in the streets now,
but it won't help people who, groggy at
6am and running on the pure adrena-
line hit of owning an iPhone, have
already signed the contracts.
We're supposed to have a competi-
tive telecommunications industry here.
We've got telcos providing iPhones —
that should have led to better deals,
not worse. The secrecy, the skuldug-
gery, the sheer arrogant silence of the
three telcos and Apple over the weeks
leading up to the iPhone launch com-
pletely undermined what the market
should have been able to provide.
In the USA, where there is only one
telco selling iPhones, AT&T offers
plans from as little as $US70 (about
$A72) with unlimited data.
For what it’s worth, at time of writing
I'd been using the iPhone 3G for three
weeks on a variety of networks and
had used about 180MB of mobile
data (not counting WiFi, which | gen-
erally use at home and in the office)
Of course only a few days of that had
included the availability of MobileMe
and the App Store. At a guess I'd
say the $89 200MB per month plan
wouldn't be enough for me (even with
its very generous $25 of included calls
— that's not a typo). I'd have to go on
to the $119 1GB plan
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Welcome to the world
About 2 months ago | decided it was
time for a change in my computing
world, and that | was going to try out a
Mac computer. Next Byte is the main
Apple reseller in Tasmania, so | bought
a MacBook from them. | got home and
started the computer up, only to find that
it had an account already on it. Upon
ringing Next Byte, | discovered they had
given me a laptop that had been taken
back to them because it was dodgy. Bad
salesmanship, but no fault of Apple.
So | went back and they promptly gave
me anew one. Unfortunately, when |
‘opened this one, it had a warped battery.
A\little perturbed, | went back again
and showed them the problem. So they
‘sent it back as a dead on arrival, and
after a few days they got me a new
MacBook. This third MacBook seemed
fine for a while, but then every now and
then it started using insane amounts of
CPU and would lag horrendously. Once
Weird (lack of) Science
lam a PhD student studying biological
science and a regular reader of Australian
Macworld. | just wanted to know if there is
anyone else out there who would thinks it
would be good to hear some tips on using
a Mac as a scientist either in the mag or on
the web site.
There are plenty of topics that could be
covered, including using Macs to find and
keep track of scientific literature, how to
produce a scientific paper with Word and
Endnote, how to handle large documents
in word processors (such as theses) and
so on. There could be advice on the best
way to word with other scientists using
Windows and how to submit a paper
so that you don't run into compatibility
problems.
There are also many scientific applications
(such as Endnote) that could be reviewed
can suggest a few applications that |
regularly use.
Is this something that you might consider?
I'd be happy to contribute in some way.
Ben
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Your magazine,
your forum.
again | went back to Next Byte (keep in
mind this was nearly a month after | had
purchased the first computer), and they
played around with it for a bit.
When they realised it was faulty, they
made arrangements for me to get a
fourth MacBook: the one | am currently
typing on. When I first got it, | noticed it
had a slightly wobbly mouse button, but
Iwas too tired of dealing with them, so |
decided to let it pass.
That was the beginning on my adventure
into the world of Macs. Thankfully it has
been a smoother ride since then.
Leuke Marriott
‘South Hobart, Tas.
/t would be great if every new Mac user had
an absolutely flawless experience when
they made the switch. Unfortunately stories
like this one seem to come up from time to
time. My recommendation: join the AMW.
forums, where you'll get a virtually infinite
source of help and advice. — M.JC.P
If there's enough interest from readers, of
course we'd look at covering more special-
ist scientific topics. We've done a few such
articles in the past (and most of what we
cover is at least partly applicable to what
scientists do with their Macs as well) but
if there's something we should be looking
more closely at, we'll look. —M.JC.P
World traveller
if | purchase a 3G iPhone in the USA, will it
be the same as one purchased in Australia
(apart from the charger plug)? Will it work,
and will all the functions work?
Rob Herweynen
Vie e-mail
Itwon't be exactly the same as one
purchased in Australia, but very very close.
The specs of Phones sold here are ever
so slighty different. Nonetheless, a phone
purchased in the USA and legally unlocked
over there will work on the Australian
network. The function set available is partly
dependent on the carrier you choose over
here. —MJC.P.
Podcast feedback
A unny thing happened the other day
when | was listening to my iPhone mp3
collection, | realised (after hearing the
same song too many times this week
and wondering if the Shuffle function was
broken) that | had 22 editions or so of the
AMV podeasts that | had been automat-
cally downloading and synchronising to my
iPhone and they were all unlistened to.
So | played them for something different
and apart from being shocked by MJCP's
quaint mixture of accents | never would
have expected (I've been accused of
having a twang in my voice after spending
only 2 1/2 years in Calgary) was very im-
pressed with the content. I've never been
involved with a MUG but | am guessing
that i | were | may become engrossed in
the sort of conversations that you guys do
‘on the Podcasts. The irritating part was
that | found myself trying to butt in and
add my two cents worth before I realised it
was recorded conversation, and | was just
talking to myself (thankfully in the privacy
of my car)
The oddities like MJCP sometimes
pretending he is not in some way a geek,
when clearly, everyone who is on the
PodCast is — and being one myself |
have to suggest that there is absolutely
nothing wrong with that. Other imagina-
tive responses to the simple question
“How are you today" show just what an
interesting mix of people we have work-
ing behind the scenes.
| have to say the technical content as well
as the interplay is a great combination
and | am now determined to listen to the
remaining 12 | haven't made it to yet and in
future | will keep up to date each week
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Problem screening
recently used a brand new MacBook
I was shocked to find that when you
closed the lid the keyboard left indents on
the screen. This was also the case with
another MacBook | used. Is it a design flaw
ors it a manufacturing mishap?
Nicholas Bosch
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The screen of a MacBook should end
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and gunk from the keys finding its way onto
the screen, which looks unsightly. You can
prevent this by covering the keyboard with
a light cloth when closing the MacBook.
—MJCP
iPhone conundrum
| don't get it. What's the big deal about the
iPhone? OK, it's well-designed, like a lot of
Apple things, but is it any better than other
phones? What can it do that any other
‘smartphone can't do? Given what a small
share of the computer market Apple has.
why does anyone care that it's also going
to have a small share of the phone market?
‘Theo Deisel
Adelaide, SA
It's an interesting question and one that
quite a few people are asking. In truth the
iPhone is missing a lot of features you'll
find on other smartphones. What it does
well (like web browsing) it does extremely
well though, I'm sure we'll be having this
discussion for some time yet. — MJC.P
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High-fives and t-shirts. I's smiles all round at the
opening of the Apple Store, Sydney.
Not a slow news month
he 07.2008 issue of Australian Macworld went
to the printers the day Steve Jobs announced the
iPhone 3G at the WWDC keynote. Almost unbe-
lievably, it's only been a month since then.
In that time Australia offici:
ly joined the fraternity of
countries that have an Apple-owned retail presence with
the opening of the Apple Store Sydney on the 19th of
June. The day before that opening Ron Johnson, Apple's
Vice President responsible for retail, told AMW that “by
having the Store opening before the iPhone 3G launch
we get to have two big events”.
The first of those two was the Store itself, which doz-
ens of people slept in front of overnight in order to be
among the first through the doors. By the time the Store
actually opened, thousands of people had queued on
George Street, up King and onto York Street — many of
them with no intention of actually buying anything.
At least you got a free t-shirt. They popped up on eBay
days later selling for upwards of $100.
The second event was of course the iPhone 3G launch
on the 11th of July. The first place you could go to buy an
iPhone in Australia was the Optus “Yes” Store in George
Street, Sydney, a few blocks from the Apple Store. Hun-
dreds of people lined up around the block in the middle
of a rather chilly Sydney night in order to obtain Apple’s
new wonder device. Luckily Optus provided scarves.
None of them have yet turned up on eBay.
Of course if you didn't want to get an iPhone from Op-
tus you could also line up at a Telstra or Vodafone outlet.
Some even lined up outside the Apple Store overnight.
But wait, there’s more. The other changes in tan-
dem with the release of the iPhone — the transition from
-Mac to MobileMe and the launch of the App Store for
iPhone applications — were also of significance to Mac
users this month.
At time of writing the MobileMe transition was go-
ing other than entirely smoothly, with users reporting
problems synchronising contacts and other information,
as well as new iPhone users finding that the push e-
mail functionality didn’t work effectively. Hopefully by
the time you read this those teething problems will have
been solved.
What won't have changed is the features that have
been dropped from .Mac, such as iCards and HomePage
editing using iWeb. While the discontinuation of these
services had been announced at WWDC many users
still reported disappointment once the transition had
taken place.
And yet more. Late on the afternoon of 24 June, some
astute iTunes Store users noticed something new: TV
shows had been added to the Australian store, complete-
ly absent any degree of fanfare. Apple didn’t even issue
a press release about it until 5am the following day, and
that was sent out without a header in the e-mail.
Perhaps the low-key approach was in line with the mod-
esty of the offering: 21 programs were available at launch,
from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Ameri-
can ABC network, MTV, Channel Nine and Disney.
Also virtually unheralded was a price reduction in the
solid-state disk option in configuring the MacBook Air.
That option now costs $769, quite a reduction on the
$1409 premium it attracted at launch in January.
I think that's everything. One very busy month in the
life of Apple and the Mac, — Matthew JC. P
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The App Store cometh
t's the not-so-secret weapon that turns the 3G iP-
hone into a utility powerhouse. It's the App Store,
and Apple unveiled it on the night the iPhone went
on sale. Which was great, if you happened to have an
iPhone by then, which means that those who queued up
in Sydney's chilly climes outside the Optus store could
jump right in straight away. That also applied to those
who had early access to the iPhone. I fit into that cat-
egory, and spent some time perusing the App Store at
length. Canny AMW forumites (aren't they all canny?
Well, maybe not all the time) also spotted at around the
same time that the iTunes 7.7 (which came through as
an update yesterday) gave access to the App Store, albeit
only for browsing purposes at that stage.
I've used a lot of smartphones over the years, and tried
to install applications to many of them. Typically, this
process can be described as insanely painful, involving
downloading an application on a computer, then sync-
ing the phone, then installing the application, then hop-
ing like crazy that it’s not a virus or doesn’t just crash
the phone and wipe the SIM.
By comparison, the App Store is almost stupidly
simple. Hit the App Store button, and you're taken to
a “Featured” page, similar to that you could already
get via iTunes on an iPod Touch. The bottom menu al-
lows you to quickly flick between Categories, the Top
25 applications, search for Apps and check that you're
running the most current version of each of these ap-
plications. It's an effortless procedure, and everything
is clearly laid out — almost.
There are, predictably, a few launch quirks. At first, I'd
presumed that there were only 15 games on offer (and at
the time of writing, Games make up about 75 percewnt
of the Top 25 applications, so there's definitely interest),
because the Games category lists that many. In fact, there
are many, many more games — including some free ones
— but the vast majority are located in the “Entertainment”
category. Clearer guidelines might be in order there.
It's also tough not to be somewhat overwhelmed by
the sheer number of applications on offer. Apple’s claim-
ing over 500 applications available at launch, which is
far more than I'd ever thought of running on any other
smartphone I've ever come across. Checking via the iP-
hone, there's a total of 725 applications listed via cat-
egory, although that
example, all 15 of the “
somewhat deceptive —- as an
ames” turn up again in “Enter-
tainment” as mentioned above.
Up and running. Installing an application is remark-
ably simple, either from the Phone (and later, the Touch)
itself, or via iTunes. As with the iTunes Store, you make
your selection by clicking on the price, at which point it
swishes away to become an “install” icon. You tap on that
icon, and i
di
2G), although WiFi is by far going to be your quickest bet
Il begin downloading the application imme-
ely. This works on either WiFi or 3G (and presumably
in almost any situation, and you also won't run foul of
the 3G limitation of 10MB per application.
The application sets itself the next available icon spot
on the Phone, and a small download bar across it lets
you know how quickly it’s progressing. Once it’s in-
stalled, you're by default dropped back out of the App
Store, but you can click on your application of choice
and start using it immediately.
From iTunes, it’s not much different, although you will
d to sync with the iPhone to actually get the appli-
cation running. Synchronising also backs up applica-
ni
tions, although this can mean if you've downloaded an
application from iTunes and subsequently deleted it
from the iPhone, it'll reappear by default the next time
you synchronise.
In terms of pricing, Apple seems to have largely left
that up to the application vendors. There's a swag of free
Apps (we'll let you do the maths there) along with appli-
cations that start at $1.19 (including some games and a
raft of public domain e-books). The typical top-end price
is $12.99, mostly for games, although at least one appli-
cation, TravelTracker, will set you back a meaty $36.99.
One factor that I found interesting was that it’s a lot
easier to just browse the App Store from within iTunes
than it is on a 3G iPhone. There's a certain amount of
inevitability about that, simply due to screen real estate
issues, but there’s a couple of key areas that Apple really
should address to make things simpler for iPhone/iPod
Touch users. There's no way to quickly browse for free
applications (there is on iTunes), although you can view
the top 25 free applications at any given time. Search
functionality is rather rudimentary; while you could
search for “Free” (and it will return free applications),
it'll also return any application with that in the title.
Must-have. Speaking of Free applications, one of the
really nice aspects of the App Store is the breadth of free
software on offer. This ranges from the very silly (Moo,
PhoneSaber) to the more serious, such as VoiceNote,
EasyNote, AIM and Facebook, as well as the very use-
ful Remote, which lets you remotely control iTunes on
a Mag, or control an Apple TV outright. A quick Remote
tip, by the way. When I first installed it, there was no way
it would work for me — I kept getting told that “an un-
known error occurred. Please check your library and try
again.”
Library files were on the MacBook I was trying to control,
My gut feel was that this was because my iTunes
but the music files resided on my NAS, and for whatever
reason, Remote didn’t like that.
I discovered the fix, however, if it strikes anyone
. First of all
el |, try quitting out of Remote. Start play-
back on your Mac, then connect Remote up again.
It should spot that something's playing. Pause that,
and from then on, you should have full remote control
back again.
Getting back to the App store, there’s also a certain
quantity of free software on offer that’s essentially
adware — either front-ends for business applications
such as Salesforce.com, or just advertising, such as the
Carling-sponsored iPint. Although in the case of iPint,
it does at least offer a virtual beer for free; there's also
iBeer, but that will cost you $3.99.
At the time of writing, Apple has announced that the
2.0 software will cost $12.99 for iPod Touch owners.
That's still a kick in the teeth, but it's at least a lighter
bit of dentistry than the previous upgrade.
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The iPhone as music machine
ith the iPhone now a local reality, it's worth
thinking about the musical applications it
can be put to, The WWDC announcement
covered one significant application available from the
App Store at launch: Band from Moo Cow Music. It's
a feature-packed application that allows you to record
drums, bass, guitars and keyboards onto the one song.
The 12 Bar Blues option gives you the option of playing
a guitar solo with full backing band and seems to be one
of the more immediately fun aspects of Band. There’s
also more esoteric instruments like DJ scratching and
one called “Audience” which allows you to record ap-
plause by pressing in sections of a large crowd.
Band is no one-finger data entry slouch either — up
to five-fingered chords can be played and the lack of
physical feedback is partly compensated for by the ani-
mation of the instruments being played. Press a string
and it plucks,
Band also has a number of features you'd normally
only find on a more full-featured application: overdub-
bing, configurable metronome and undo options are
three that caught my eye. There’s even a decent mixing
capability to polish your final product. I can already see
the iPhone song sharing that'll be occurring as people
try to outdo each other — it’s extreme air guitar.
Moo Cow Music has created another great application
also available from the App Store. Pianist is a full 88-
key piano. This would be my first purchase as a keyboard
player — I just love the idea of being able to explore
chords or create melody lines simply and on a “proper”
keyboard. Like Band it has multi-finger chords, a con-
figurable metronome and the ability to overdub.
I'm making one fairly safe prediction for the coming
few months: lots more music applications will be ap-
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Capturing and editing video footage is only half the job when
creating a great movie. The rest of the post-production — like
adding effects and titles — is often where the true genius in
movie making lies, and it’s often the hardest to get right.
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ow often have you seen a movie that was re-
ally great, but you can’t remember what it was
called and who it was produced by, because the
titles were so bad? I've even seen movies that had me
asleep before the movie began, thanks to a long and
boring title sequence.
Adding titles to your own movies is easy, and, in the
final analysis, adds value to the viewing experience.
Title sequences can give your viewers lots of informa-
tion about what they're about to see, or what they've
just seen. Information like the name of your movie, who
made and produced it and the actors’ names gives your
audience the chance to better appreciate the effort that’s
gone into the production.
You can also use titles to give your audience clues
about other important details, like where and when the
story took place. And if required, sub-titles can be used
to help your audience understand the movie if it's been
filmed in a different language.
In broad terms, title sequences can be broken into
s. Opening credits, as the name
suggests, should be shown at the beginning of your
opening or closing credii
movie and list the most important cast members. Clos-
ing credits come at the end of the movie, and should
include a list of all the cast and crew involved in mak-
ing the movie.
Before jumping into the deep end, it’s worth thinking
about some of your favourite movies and trying to recall
the titles they used. One example that always sticks in my
mind is Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho title sequence by Saul
Bass — the combination of music and jolted title makes
for a chilling opening, well before there's any sign of a
shower curtain. Another more recent favourite of mine is
the title sequence for the Pixar movie Monsters Inc.
According to Big Film Design, a New York-based
consultancy that specialises in title production, “A title
sequence is more than just a list of credits. It can be
a mini-movie which sets up the film that it's a part of.
It can establish mood, period and style. A title sequence
can take care of back story. It can soothe the audience
or get them agitated. Title sequences are an art form
of their own”.
Big Film Design would know, it’s been involved in
producing title sequences for many big-budget Oscar-
winning movies like No Country For Old Men and
Michael Clayton, and also TV series like Sesame Street,
30 Rock and Six Degrees.
Another expert in Title Sequences, Deborah Allison
says that great title sequences forge a “contract with the
audience at the outset, instructing them of the param-
eters within which the film operates, alerting them to the
tonalities of the film to come, and encouraging them to
approach that experience in a frame of mind where they
will be receptive to the pleasures it has to offer’.
t 08
How do you do it? We all know that creating title
sequences like those found on the silver screen isn't
something that iMovie ‘08 can do, but with a little bit
of tweaking, and some patience, adding proper title se-
quences can even make your home movies look better.
There are two different styles of titles: Overlays (where
the words appear over the moving image); and full-
screen (where the titles appear against a black back-
ground). Full screen titles are generally found at the be-
ginning and the end of a movie, while overlays are more
common in the middle. That's not to say however, that
you can’t throw a full-screen title in the middle of your
movie — and in fact, some do, as a way of breaking up
a movie into several parts.
Often home movies have many titles in them that are
used to tell the audience where you are, the date the
movie was taken, and who was in it. My latest home
movie for example, consisted of movies from the first
twelve months of my son's life, and at the start of the
footage for each month I added a short title sequence
that explained to the audience what and who they were
about to see.
If you've had experience putting together PowerPoint
or Keynote presentations some of the techniques are rel-
evant when creating movie titles too. The general “less
is more” rule applies well for instance. Titles should be
kept as brief as possible, making it easy for the audience
to read and absorb. As in all written material, spelling
mistakes should be quickly eliminated.
Also, white text on a black background is easiest for
the brain to proces:
for light characters on a dark background, but in some
instances dark characters on a light background can also
be effective.
Choosing a font is also important when designing
your titles, If the font you choose is too thin interlaced
displays, like TVs, can cause lines to flicker — caus-
ing strain on your viewers’ eyes. That’s why it’s gen-
erally recommended that thicker fonts are used in title
sequences. In the same vein, the size of the font should
be appropriate to view from a distance. The bigger the
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title, the easier it will be to read. While both of these tips
sound like common sense, you'd be amazed to discover
how many people make these fundamental errors.
Finally, from a technical perspective, if the movie
you've made will be watched on a TV (as opposed to a
flat-screen or computer display) you'll need to consider
overscan. Overscan is when a video image is cut off at
the edges of the screen. If your title is on the edge it
might well be cut off when viewed on a TV set. Most
video editing programs allow you to see these borders,
and design your titles accordingly.
Another good habit to get into before you begin de-
signing your titles is to create a list of the text you
want to add to your movie in a text document. That
way, you can lay out the sequence of titles, check for
spelling errors, and get a feel for the number of titles
you'll need.
Creating titles in iMovie ‘08. Adding titles in
iMovie ‘08 is easy. To access the titles menu either go
to Window > Titles, or click the Titles button in the iM-
ovie toolbar. Bringing up the Titles window gives you
a list of different titles styles. You can choose from any
of the styles, but my favourites are Centered or Lower
Third for the title sequence. It's important to note how-
ever, that you don’t need to choose just one sequence
per movie — you can drag in multiple sequences any-
where in your movie.
Once you've selected the title sequence you prefer,
click and drag the sequence to the position in the time
line where you want the titles to appear. If you're build-
ing your opening sequence, click and drag the title and
drop it in front of the first clip. Adding the title sequence
to the front of a clip tells iMovie that you want to create
the clip over a black background, rather than overlaying
the title on the movie.
If, however, you want to overlay your titles on an
existing clip, simply drag the title sequence to the posi-
tion of the clip where you want the title sequence to be-
gin. You'll notice as you drag a title sequence over a clip
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iMovie highlights either the first third of the clip (to in-
dicate that the title will overlay only a third of the clip),
the whole clip, or the last third of the clip. This feature
makes it easy to build your title sequence quickly.
Once you've dropped your clip into the timeline
you'll need to start adding text to the title sequence.
You'll notice once you've placed your clip that iMovie
shows you text boxes within the title sequence. This is
where you place your cursor and start typing. If you
added a simple Centered sequence all you need to add
are a title, and a subtitle if you've got one. An example
for the title might be My Family Holiday and the sub-
title May 2008.
If your title sequences are over black you can always
create multiple different title sequences and link them
together using transitions. For instance, you might start
to use the Centered theme, but want to add a number of
centered titles. To do this, drag in the Centered theme
as many times as you need, and once in the timeline
add the text to each frame. You can then add transi-
Choosing the right font
Choosing the right font for your title sequence can
have an effect on how your audience views your
movie. Some fonts, for example, aren't suited for
use on screen — they are too difficult for the brain
to interpret quickly. Instead, stick to fonts that are
easy to read and legible.
The same rules that apply to selecting a serif or
sans serif font for your web site or presentation
can be applied when adding titles to your movie.
Typically serif fonts (like Helvetica) are easiest to
read but often look formal and serious. Sans serif
fonts (like Times) are often more informal and can
be easier to read in captions.
If you want to have a bit of fun with the fonts in
your titles sequences try downloading some of the
samples at CoolText (see “Hotlinks”).
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Openers, Closers and Lower
Thirds
tions between the frames to add some motion to the
opening sequence.
Each pre-built title sequence that Apple includes comes
with a default font. In my experience these generally
look good, however you may want to customise the font
that you use in your movie. To customise the font your
title uses click the Show Fonts box in the top of the
viewer window to bring up the standard Mac OS X font
dialogue, with a few differences.
As well as standard Collection, Family, Typeface and
Size options, the font dialogue also gives you some
iMovie-only options. These give you more control, and
are especially important when designing titles. For ex-
ample, the Outline option means you can use coloured
titles, and still make them easier to read by adding an
outline. Also, if you want to change the colour of the
text in your title remember to highlight the text first
and then click on the Text Colour button at the top of
the Fonts dialogue.
After you've added your title sequence to your time-
line you'll notice iMovie adds a cartoon-style bubble
above your clip to indicate the presence of a title
sequence. To change the time the title sequence runs,
simply click and drag either end — the time (indicated
in the middle of the title bubble) will change as you
drag. You can also click and drag the entire sequence
to move it anywhere else in your timeline.
To finish off your masterpiece you can add another title
sequence at the end. An appropriate theme for the end
of your movie might be Scrolling Credits. As the name
suggests, this theme will let you scroll your credits from
the bottom of the screen to the top.
You can add as much text as you want to this theme, and
can format it any way you prefer. By default, this theme
is set to keep the text centred, but it’s easy to left- or
right-align the text by deleting the tabs in front of the
text (to get the text centred again place your cursor to
the left of the text and press the tab key).
You can control the speed of your scrolling credits by
clicking and dragging the bubble above the clip. If you
only want to scroll the credits over a black screen you
can extend the black frame by clicking on the small
clock icon that appears if you mouse over the black
frame, and changing the length of time the black frame
is on screen.
Once you've added your title you'll need to preview
it. Do this by playing the movie as you normally would,
or by pressing the spacebar. It’s also important to re-
member that you can't change the style of the sequence
once you've added it to your timeline — if you later de-
cide you prefer a different style you'll need to delete the
existing sequence and drag in a new one. Deleting the
sequence is as easy as selecting the title sequence and
pressing the Delete key.
LiveType 2. While iMovie ‘08 lets you create great-
looking title sequences easily, the flipside is that there’s
not a huge amount of flexibility. If you need more flex-
ibility, and more options when building your title se-
quence you may need to consider upgrading your movie
editing program to either Final Cut Express, or Final
Cut Pro (now part of Final Cut Studio). Both Final Cut
Express and Studio include a standalone title program
called LiveType 2.
LiveType 2 lets you create professional and sophis-
ticated title sequences — the sort of stuff you might
see in movies or on TV. In a traditional workflow,
creating title sequences is very complex, but Live-
Type 2 lets novices create stunning titles using Alpha
channel technology.
Because LiveType 2 is tightly integrated into both
Final Cut Express and Final Cut Studio, learning the
technology means you can easily move between the
two applications. You can also use LiveType 2 in DVD
Studio Pro (now part of Final Cut Studio).
Once you've created your LiveType sequence you
import it to your project and add it to your movie
timeline. You can still edit the LiveType sequence even
if you've added it to your timeline as Final Cut Pro
and Express actually maintain a link to the original
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Software at the start of 2001. | had
just finished my computer science
degree and desperately wanted to
write Mac software. Peter gave me
that opportunity,” he said.
According to Pokolbin, NSW-raised
Drayton, Interarchy's target customer
is anyone who needs to transport files
around the internet; web developers,
system administrators, power users
and the like.
“Our mission is to write great Mac
software that is a pleasure to use,”
he said. “We are looking to expand
into the image editing market with a
new program called Iris. Iris has been
created for previously overlooked
Mac owners who simply wanted an
accessible and easy to use image
editing application that provides
professional results.”
Iris 1.0 should be available by the
time you read this. Nolobe has also
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just released a major revision to
Interarchy — version 9.01. But
Drayton says the most important
factor is the customers, without
whom Nolobe couldn't exist.
So what's with the name? “| wish |
had a good story about what Nolobe
means but! don't. It is just a short
punchy name like Kodak or Pixar; it
doesn't mean anything,” Drayton said.
He wanted something short and
punchy, and his wife came up with
the name.
“There has been a fair bit of
conjecture from our users as to what
Nolobe means. | think my favourite
theory was that our software is so
easy to use you don't have to use
your brain. Hence, ‘no lobe’.”
At the moment, Nolobe is just
Drayton and his wife. His brother
worked with them for a while but has
moved on. Drayton’s sister is also a
business owner. Her Mint Marketing
& Design does a lot of design work
for Nolobe.
“My passion is programming. It has
been ever since my dad introduced
me to BASIC on the Apple Il. It is
what | enjoy most,” said Drayton.
“[ also like being in control. It is my
company; | get to steer it in the direc-
tion | want. | guess | have my dad to
thank for that too.”
That said, Drayton is currently
looking to expand and is aiming
to hire one or two staff to help with
maintenance and development of the
Interarchy and Iris applications by the
end of this year.
Opportunities in Australia and glob-
ally exist and are growing, especially
with the popularity and convenience of
online sales. Although the Australian
market for Nolobe product is currently
rather small — accounting for about
three per cent of Nolobe’s total sales
— other English-speaking markets
add to it to form the greatest portion
of its customer base, followed by
French-speaking, German-speaking
and Japanese-speaking markets.
“We sell online. Anyone with a Mac
and an internet connection can buy
our software,” Drayton said. “The
future is bright. Apple keeps selling
com.au
more and more Macs. Our potential
customer base keeps going up. |
don't think there has ever been a
better time to be a Mac developer.”
For Drayton, the advantage of Apple
product is in the attention to detail.
“You can't get away with anything on
being pixel-perfect and | think this
reflects positively on user experience,”
he explained.
Conversely, the few times he has
sat down and worked on a PC have
mostly left him frustrated and annoyed
— longing for the pleasures of the
iPod and the Mac. There's “nothing
major” he doesn't like about Mac
product and, arguably, some of the
things he doesn’t like are relatively
new and a function of the increasing
trend to ‘lockdown’ in much modern
information technology, particularly if
targeted to consumers.
“[However] from a user perspective,
| don't like how | no longer have full
control of my Mac,” explained Drayton.
“Some things | understand — like
the removal of user-customisable
themes — but others | don't. There
is no good reason why | shouldn't
be able to customise the behaviour
of $8-Tab. Nor should | not be able
to delete the Movies folder. It is my
Home folder — | should be able to
do what | want to it.”
What's more, as a developer,
Drayton says he can be frustrated by
the successful promotion of technolo-
gies by Apple that really don't matter
to the majority of users.
“Take 64-bit for example. It is only
important to a small segment of the
Mac user base but, thanks to Apple's
marketing department, a lot of people
are asking for it without really knowing
why. I'd much rather devote develop-
ment resources to something more
useful,” he said.
Meanwhile, Nolobe is looking at
creating a boxed version of Iris for sale
in Apple stores following an approach
by Apple to do so — a prospect
Drayton finds thrilling albeit somewhat
foreign. The developer is also starting
to branch out into advertising but up to
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this point has pretty much survived by
word-of-mouth and press coverage.
“Although Interarchy has been
around for 15 years it has been exclu-
sively sold electronically,” he said
Also, Interarchy 9 introduces a
new file transfer protocol based on
SSH and Perl that will allow users to
do some “very powerful and unique
things" in the future. “| am very excited
about it,” Drayton said.
Drayton is also watching the latest
iPhone evolutions and revolutions with
interest, like many Mac users. “The iP-
hone SDK is very interesting but | fear
some of the heavy-handed restrictions
will stifle innovation. I'd reallly like to
do a mobile version of Interarchy so
people can administer their web site
‘on the run but the SDK as it currently
stands is too limiting,” he said
He also worries about Apple being
the exclusive provider of applications
via the App Store, because, he says,
there's no guarantee Apple will actu-
ally publish a developer's application
“We will be taking a wait and see
approach with iPhone apps. | think it
would be foolish to commit heavily to
developing an iPhone app when there
are so many unanswered questions,”
Drayton said.
The biggest challenge, Drayton
says, is finding time to do everything.
On top, of course, of making enough
money to survive. “Very few indie
Mac programs make enough money
for their developers to work on them
exclusively. Often it is a labour of love
— they will have a regular job to pay
the bills and come home each night
and work on their program.”
Recently, Drayton hasn't had much
‘spare time to do other things he en-
joys — such as basketball and mak-
ing models. He has a large remote
control model plane he is looking
forward to finishing and he also likes
to garden — which provides much
amusement for his family.
“My wife would say | am never not
at Nolobe. But I'm lucky — | love
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CLONES:
You can run Mac OS X on an Intel PC — but should you?
or a few years in the mid-’90s, there were Mac
iz clones, computers that ran the Mac operating
system but weren't made by Apple. Shortly after
Sieve Jobs's return, Apple shut down official Mac clon-
g for good.
\day’s Macs are really Intel-based PCs. And any-
a little bit of know-how can assemble a PC out
milar to those that Apple uses to build Macs.
work of a group called the OSx86 Project,
id OS X to run on PC hardware, and Mac
again a reality.
(? Probably not, because the license that
OS X specifies that it be installed only
filed hardware. However, Apple hasn't gone
@ fo prevent hobbyists from installing OS
juilt PCs. And a couple of months ago,
amed Psystar was selling an Intel PC with
version of Mac OS X. (It’s entirely pos-
though, that by the time you read this Psys-
if will have received an unpleasant letter from
pple’s lawyers.)
‘Although most Mac users won't want to cross
yer to the dark side and run Mac OS X on non-
Apple hardware, we here at Macworld are a cu-
Tious lot. Which is why we set out on a journey
to discover whether a Mac really is more than
otras the sum of its parts, by building a Mac clone,
-psystar.com: buying a Psystar Open Computer, and testing
tentially illegal cloner them both in the lab.
www.macworld.com.au
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It’s Alive! There's a gap in Apple's desktop lineup. The
Mac Pro is overkill, and the Mac mini isn’t expandable.
While the iMac has become a strong option for many,
a lot of Mac users would prefer having a system with
much more room for expansion.
I'm one of those people. So that’s what I decided to
build. I call my creation the Frankenmac.
Picking out parts. To create my dream Mac system, I
set myself a budget of $US1000 (about $A1050 — not
including a keyboard, monitor, and mouse), and started
shopping for computer parts.
When you build your own PC, you must decide ex-
actly what goes into it. You must choose the moth-
erboard, processor, cooling system, video card, hard
drives, CD/DVD burner, memory, case, and more. And
if you're building a Mac-compatible PC, you have to
limit yourself to hardware that’s compatible with Mac
OS X. I spent a lot of time searching on the web to find
out what would work and what wouldn't. As you can
see in the table “Frankenmac parts,” the total parts cost
was just over $US980 (and the same parts purchased in
Australia would cost $A1451.26, not including ship-
ping — of course if you shop around you may be able
to beat that price).
When I set out to configure my machine, | wanted to
make it reasonably fast, with the best video card I could
fit into my budget, and lots of room for expansion. (I
plan on using it for cross-platform testing and for run-
ning key Windows productivity software such as Half-
Life 2, Crysis, and Microsoft Flight Simulator.)
Building it. After all of the parts arrived at my home,
it took me a few hours to build the machine. If you've
never built your own computer before, it’s an inter-
esting experience — there’s something quite satisfying
Frankenmac parts
Part Description Cost
Motherboard Asus PSK-E $152.99 [8223.94]
Intel Core 2 Quad
cru 06600 2.4GHz $219.99 [$4293.37]
CPU Heat Sink Zalman CNPS7700-Cu | $48.00 [$A69.00]
4GB DDR-2 B00MHz
RAM Pc6400 $94.99 [$488.00]
MSI NxB800gt
Video card 512MB OC $189.99 [$4368.95]
Case Antec Sonata ill 500 $119.90 [$4239.00]
UGHLDT-ST
Optical drive GSA-H62N $40.00 [$459.00]
Seagate 5006B
Hard drive SATA2 93,00 [$4110.00]
Other Shipping Charges $23.45 [SAunknown}
Total $981.41 [$A1451.26]
about putting it all together, powering it up, and hear-
ing that first “beep” that lets you know you haven't just
turned your collection of parts into a collection of junk.
Of course, if you don’t hear the beep, you'll have an
entirely different reaction, one that borders on panic.
Thankfully, | heard the beep.
Next, I installed Vista on the PC, just to make sure
everything functioned. From there, I spent several hours
getting OS X to work right; while the process is straight-
forward, there are a lot of steps involved and a number
of BIOS settings to tweak. To install both Windows and
OS X on one drive, I had to jump through even more
hoops. Finally, after many hours of reading, assembling,
disassembling, screaming, installing, uninstalling, re-
installing, cursing, pestering friends, and generally not
having much fun, I was done: my machine was up and
running, and capable of booting into either Windows
Vista or Mac OS X 10.5.2.
Getting started. From the outside, my machine doesn’t
look anything like a Mac. The case from Antec is a glossy
black, with a door that hides the externally-accessible
drive bays, along with two USB ports, one external
SATA port, and audio jacks on a shiny metallic strip on
the front. And when it starts up, the BIOS-loading screen
and black-and-white text-based boot loader (which lets
you choose between Vista and OS X) is a dead giveaway
that this is not your normal Mac.
However, if I were to hide the case and set you
down in front of the monitor when the system was
already running, you’d be convinced you were using
a “real” Mac. It ran all the OS X programs | tried with-
out problems.
On the hardware front, everything also seems to
work fine. The onboard Ethernet, audio, USB, external
SATA, and FireWire ports all function. My Wacom tablet
worked without a hitch.
After a week or so with the Frankenmac, it was time
for me to transfer it from my own personal mad-scien-
tist lab to Macworld Lab, where it could be speed-tested
against real Macs and the Open Computer clone from
Psystar. The results were pretty good — see the sidebar
“It came from the lab!” for all the details.
I've created a monster! Given the positive result
of my tinkering, you may be tempted to build your own
Mac clone. Before making such a d
need to consider the pitfalls of building or buying your
own Mac clone — and there are many.
Parts is parts. Building a computer from parts isn’t a
simple thing to do — to put everything together, you'll
need patience and the ability to follow poorly-translated
instructions. To get the best pricing on the various parts,
you have to be willing to shop around, | wound up buy-
ion, however, you
ing parts from four suppliers, and by doing so, | saved
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It came from the lab!
While Rob was assembling his home-built Franken-
mac, we were ordering a Psystar Open Computer for
testing in the Macworld Lab. The system we bought
features a 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of
667MHz RAM, and a 250GB hard drive with Mac OS
X preinstalled. Though Psystar’s base model includes
Intel’s integrated graphics, we splurged and pur-
chased an Nvidia GeForce 8600GT for $US110. We
also purchased a FireWire add-on card. Total cost for
the system we ordered was $US715 (Psystar quotes
an additional $US ~ ~ ~ for shipping to Australia).
It was obvious right away that product packaging
is one area where Psystar is not following Apple's
lead. When the box arrived, we found it stuffed with
white foam packing peanuts, which made the un-
packing process a big mess.
When we tried to start up the computer, it made
a noise like we’d turned on a garbage disposal.
It turns out that one of the internal power cables
was getting caught in the fan. After we rerouted the
cable, the crunching sound disappeared, but the fan
was still loud.
We also couldn't get Time Machine to run properly,
though Psystar released a fix. (Of course, if Psystar
were to disappear, future fixes would also vanish
— scary.) The Open Computer also can’t handle
FireWire Target Disk Mode, Safe Boot, zapping of
PRAM, or startup drive selection via the option key.
Open Computer. Overall, the Open Computer’s
performance ranked somewhere between a 2GHz
Mac mini and a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo iMac. Speedmark
5 results show the Open Computer to be quite a bit
faster than the high-end Mac mini, but slower than the
low-end iMac. However, the upgraded graphics card
we bought enabled the Open Computer to blow away
the iMac in our tests of 3D game performance.
couple of hundred bucks. But finding the cheapest parts
takes time and effort.
Once you've built your machine, the end product isn't
something you'll be able to get serviced at your local
Mac store. It doesn’t even have a sing
warranty — each
part has its own, which means you'll be in for a service
nightmare if you have problems. You'll have to diagnose
the cause, figure out which part or parts are involved,
negotiate a return approval from each involved supplier,
and then ship those parts out for replacement. One of
the companies I bought parts from went out of business
shortly thereafter, so I'm unlikely to get service if any of
those items fail.
The Frankenmac. Rob Griffiths’s Frankenmac sys-
tem performs like a higher-end iMac, with a few test
results rivaling Apple’s fastest Mac Pros. The Fran-
kenmac earned a Speedmark 5 score of 222, slightly
slower than that of the 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo iMac.
One area in which the Frankenmac failed to
live up to expectations was in our series of hard-
drive tests. Rob configured the Frankenmac so that
three operating systems were running on separate
partitions on the machine’s 500GB drive, which
probably slowed things down a bit. In more proces-
sor-based tasks, such as MPEG compression
and 3D rendering, the Frankenmac’s four process-
ing cores helped it beat all our other reference
systems handily.
Macworld Lab test
Speedmark 5 test results
Psystar Open Computer Core 2 Duo/2.2GHz 213)
FrankenMac Intel Core 2 Quad/2.4 GHz 222}
Cinema 4D XL 10.5 test results
Psystar Open Computer Core 2 Duo/2.26Hz 64
FrankenMac intel Core 2Quad/2.4GH2 2
‘Mac mini Core 2 Duo/2GH2 67}
20-inch iMac Core 2 Duo/2.4GH2 (April 2008) 54
For Speedmark scores, longer is better. For Cinema 4D XL scores
and results are in seconds. Reference systems are in ital
felative to those of a 1.5GHz Core Solo Mac mini, which is we
systems were running Mac 0S X 10.5.2 with 2GB of RAM.—macworld lab testing
by Brian Chen, James Galbraith, and Jerry Jung,
shorter is better,
5 E
Even if your machine is running fine, you may experi-
ence odd hardware issues. When I shut down the Fran-
kenmac, Mac OS X itself shuts down and the screen goes
blank, but the fans and hard drive continue to run until
I press the power button.
Future s
stem updates may cause prob-
lems with the Mac OS X installations on both the Fran-
kenmac and the Open Computer. Since Apple obviously
doesn't test for compatibility with these systems, the next
software update could very well wreck everything. Though
Psystar released a version of Mac OS X 10.5.3 for the Open
Computer, the lack of support for software updates di-
rectly from Apple makes us extremely uncomfortable.
Frankenmac vs. Mac Pro
The Mac Pro (top) certainly boasts a much more
elegant and functional internal design than the
Frankenmac.
Legal matters. Perhaps most importantly, to make your
machine run Mac OS X, you have to violate the OS X
end-user license agreement — and perhaps copyright
law, depending on how you go about building it. That's a
big issue for people who might take the build-it-yourself
route, and of course it calls into question the future of
any company that attempts to make a business out of
building Mac-compatible PCs.
There's nothing inherently wrong with making a PC that
happens to use components known to work in Mac OS X,
but whoever installs Mac OS X on that computer — you
or the company supplying it to you — is entering an area
that is legally grey at best and flat-out illegal at worst.
Design and aesthetics. Beyond the functional,
legal, and moral issues, there are aesthetic and design
concerns, While the Frankenmac’s case is attrac-
tive, it’s clearly not in the same league as the case
on the Mac Pro. The back has some rough edges, the
front door feels flimsy, and opening the case requires
removing a couple of thumb screws and wiggling a side
panel loose.
If you open the cases on a Mac Pro and the Franken-
mac, you can really see the difference (see the illustra-
tion “Frankenmac vs. Mac Pro”). On the Mac Pro, all
the cables are hidden, the slide-in drive bays are cov-
ered with numbered doors, non-user-accessible parts
are hidden behind aluminium covers, and the entire
thing has the look of the engine bay in a high-end
automobile. The inside of the Frankenmac, on the other
hand, bears a striking resemblance to the engine bay
in my first car, a 1973 Chevy Vega: loose wires every-
where, sharp edges just waiting to cut an unsuspecting
arly shouldn't be touched sit-
ting right there in the open
finger, and parts that cl
The Mac Pro has function going for it as well as form
Both machines let you mount internal drives in slide-in
bays; but on the Mac Pro, the drive and bay slide right
into the SATA connector. On the Frankenmag, I have to
dig into a bundle of cables and fish out a SATA connec-
tor, and then thread it down to the drive bay. The Mac
Pro provides eight RAM slots on two easy-to-use slide-
out cards, while the Frankenmac has four slots located
on a hard-to-reach portion of the motherboard
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