Mini'app'les Newsletter — July 2000

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This is the first free quality dial-up Internet service for Mac users offered by a leading Internet brand, claims Katherine Eagleton, AltaVista spokesperson. “This new service (available to 2.3 million Mac house- holds) will continue to put pressure on the obsolete practice of paying for dial-up access, as well as providing the untouched Mac market this service," she says. "AltaVista Free Access is cur- tently signing up approximately 10,000 users per day and has more than 2.5 million registered users for its service." AltaVista Free Access is a high- quality dial-up service available for download in North America at http://www.microav.com. Bill Keenan, director of AltaVista Free Access, says that Mac users have been an untapped market for high-quality free Internet access, and "we're excited to bring the value of our free service to this dynamic group." The two companies are providing the service through 1stUp.com, a provider of private label Internet access and web-advertising technolo- gy. 1stUp.com's private label access is currently used by over 100 consumer brands and according to 1stUp.com, "each will soon launch their own ver- sions of the 1stUp.com Macintosh- compatible access offering." AltaVista Free Access provides unlimited Internet usage at no cost in cities across North America through almost 5,000 dial-up phone numbers which cover over 95 percent of the U.S. and Canada, Keenan says. AltaVista Free Access features the world's first microportal, a small desk- Apple's clock speed headaches by Happi McQuirk, happi-macs@maccen- tral.com June 5, 2000, 2:30 pm ET On the issue of clock speed (the G4 SOOMHz against the new PC 1GHz machines), Gene Miller of Apple's Creative Markets division said that, on a couple of things, the PC's are finally faster. But, Apple did some ini- tial tests with Photoshop and found that the G4/S00 is still 25 percent faster than Dell and 37 percent faster than Compaq. These speed tests are still in their preliminary stages Miller added. The whole issue of clock speed is Apple wins Industria by Dennis Sellers, dsellers@maccentral.com June 6, 2000, 7:00 am ET With the introduction of the iMac, Apple placed product design and aesthetics on the "hot list* for personal computers, showing that such machines don't have to be bor- ing, beige boxes. Since then, the com- pany has continued its design innova- tion. For those efforts, it's been hon- ored with five awards in the Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) for a huge marketing headache for Apple. When people are focused on mega- hertz, it's really bogus because that sort of thinking doesn't allow for the differences in architecture and the efficiency in the language. The Apple Performance Marketing Group likened this concept to shopping for.a car based on horsepower. You could end up with a vehicle the size of house that doesn't go anywhere. When asked if Apple could come up with some kind of new standard that would clearly and easily show the superiority of its computers, Gene laughed and said, "We're kind of at a loss in-some regards because we keep top application that provides person- alized, up-to-the-minute news, info and links to AltaVista Network ser- vices, he adds. The microportal takes less than S percent of a user's screen space and contains a rotating adver- tisement within the window (yep, that's why the service is free). The service is compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0 and higher and Netscape Navigator 3.0 and higher. It requires Mac OS 8.1 or greater, and offers sup- port for Apple Remote Access and QuickTime. Free online technical support is available by e-mail at questions- freeaccess@av.com and has a guaran- teed response time of 48 hours or less. Toll-free telephone support in the US and Canada is also available at 1-877- 584-5551. finding that, when we look at it and study it, there's all kinds of advan- tages with Apple." What happened was that a lot of the PC folks focused on MHz because they thought it was measurable. Many of these people are engineers and they get off on identifi- able, quantifiable numbers. Confessing to a sense of frustra- tion, he went on to say Apple is work- ing on the issue. They have a group that's working on doing a lot of the comparison testing. I fervently hope that they will finally come up with a way to clearly show the speed, ease of use and productive superiority of the Apple computers. | Design Excellence Awards 2000, published in the June 12 issue of "Business Week." In both their form and function, this year's IDEA winners reflect a buoyant optimism, said juror Henry Kim of Hill-Rom, in a press release. The entries were judged by the Industrial Designers Society of America. The core group of winners this year are Net-connected, digital, problem-solving devices that are transparent, slim, and light. "They pushed the fulcrum of technology but paid attention to how people used products," says Kim. Apple won gold awards for its Cinema Display and iSub woofer speaker for the iMac. The products were described as being “as elegant as they are functional." A silver award was awarded to the iBook adapter. In the category of environmental design (think innovative, office space design) for its headquarters and Macworld January set-up, the company brought home two more silver medals. There were 1,078 IDEA entries this year, with 110 coming from 15 mini’app’les Newsletter 5 July, 2000 foreign countries. They include Belgium, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Business briefs: by Dennis Sellers, dsellers@maccentral.com June 5, 2000, 2:30 pm ET A former Apple exec has joined the staff of Knowledge.Net, which specializes in next generation e-learn- ing. Adam Hanin has been appointed as vice president of marketing. Hanin most recently led business development and strategic planning for Compaq's Commercial Desktop and Displays Division. Prior to that position, he was manager of higher education for Compaq. His back- ground also includes the position of national program manager for higher education sales operations at Apple." Moving on to other business items, Linksys, a provider of broad- band and networking hardware for the home, home office, small office and enterprise markets has announced the second release in its Instant Broadband Series -- the EtherFast 1-Port Cable/DSL Router. The product offers cross-platform sup- Netherlands and Singapore. The 16 jurors handed out 40 gold awards, 71 silvers and $1 bronzes. You can check port for the Mac, Windows 95/98/2000/NT and Linux using Windows Explorer or Netscape 4.0 or higher. Ksoft is releasing CP_IconEdit 2.1, a visual image editor for editing Mac OS icons and Windows .ICO icons. Plus, CP_IconEdit enables the conver- sion between Mac OS and Windows .ICO icons, In addition to icons, CP_IconEdit will import / create and edit Mac OS pictures and Windows .bmp files along with other file types that QuickTime can import/export. CP_iconEdit is available as shareware for US $20. Cruise on over to http://www. ksoft.net for more info. Bleu Rose Ltd. Is releasing Black & Bleu v2.0, the latest version of the application that lists 4,384 Macintosh OS error codes with Apple's cryptic explanation of each. Black & Bleu enhances Apple's explanation of these Mac OS error codes by providing less cryptic and more detailed explana- tions and remedies for many of these out the entire list of winners at http://www.businessweek.com. Former Apple exec joins Knowledge.Net errors. Want to know mote. Go to http://www.bleurose.com. J2S, a company that specializes in multimedia and asset-management developments, has released PDF StartUp, an "autorun" application designed to automatically open a PDF document located on a CD-ROM when it is inserted into a computer. PDF StartUp first checks the presence of Acrobat and installs Acrobat Reader when necessary. The selected PDF document is then automatically dis- played on screen. The program is intended to invite the recipients of multimedia opera- tions to actually read the content of the documents that are addressed to them, according to the folks at J2S. PDF StartUp consists of two versions so that it can work on computers run- ning Mac OS or Windows. If you'd like to know more, go to http://www. j2s.net/EN/Products/pdfSt artUp.html. Home automation software loves AppleScript, older Macs by Dennis Sellers, dsellers@maccentral.com June 5, 2000, 7:00 am ET Submitted by Bryan Lienke Sand Hill has released version 3.0.2 of their home automation soft- ware "Xtension.” The folks at Sand Hill say that this version rounds out a suite of verbs that control the graphic views used to display dynamic pic- tures of your home or office. “Now, the background pictures in Views can be changed, as with the time of day, and icons can be changed according to their current status," says Sand Hill's Michael Ferguson. "Your graphic views can now reflect a more personal and 'real' appearance. Pipe the video out of your Mac to a chan- nel on all of your TVs. XTension is simply the most powerful home automation software available on any platform." There are many other new fea- tures, as well, including the ability to use AppleScript as the scripting lan- guage. Xtension 3.0.2 is full script- able, attachable and recordable. Plus, you can control any other scriptable application from within Xtension. The new version has a database of up to 1,024 units with separate ON and OFF scripts for each unit. You can control multiple units as a single group and load and save "Snapshot' files. These files can save and restore the current state of the database. Xtension 3.0.2 also has low RAM usage (under 512K) and supports older black and white Macs, including the Mac Plus and SE. A ‘lite version is free at the Sand Hill Web site, and is fully functional except that the database is limited to five units. The Web site is also a good source of info and ideas concerning X10 con- trollers and what your Mac can do with them. The Xtension is featured in the June issue of MacTech Magazine (http://www.mactech.com), which you may wish to check out for mote info. MHGermin Macintosh™ Consulting Individual & Group Training Computer Problem Assistance Mike Carlson (218) 387-2257 (Grand Marais, MN) mbcnve@boreal.org FileMaker® Solutions Alliance Member mini’app’les Newsletter July, 2000 IBM introduces new PowerPC chips Staff Report, emall@maccentral.com June 6, 2000, 11:00 am ET Submitted by Bryan Lienke IBM has introduced new PowerPC chips designed to improve communi- cations and computing across the Internet although exactly which ones will make it into Power Macs hasn't been mentioned. According to a Marketwatch report the new PowerPC products include standalone high-performance microprocessors, as well as complete "systems-on-a-chip" that combine embedded PowerPC processors with other commonly required functions onto a single piece of silicon. These chips can be applied in applications ranging from networking gear that carries Internet traffic, to new infor- mation appliances and other devices used to access the Internet, says the article: According to Marketwatch, the new products include: The PowerPC 7SOCX and 750CXe microprocessors. Ranging in speeds from 350 to 700 MHz, they use IBM's advanced 0.18 micron copper wiring technology and incorporate 256K of high speed on-chip L2 cache, designed to enhance system perfor- mance and reduce system costs. New “superstructure” products. They integrate onto a single chip a high-performance PowerPC processor, the CoreConnect on-chip bus archi- tecture, and additional functions nor- mally requiring separate chips. New “superstructures" include: a higher- speed 266 MHz PowerPC 40SGP and new packaging options for smaller form factor designs; the 40SCR oper- ating at 200-266 MHz and providing up to 375 MIPS of performance; and the new PowerPC 440GP, one of the most advanced, highly-integrated sys- tems- on-a-chip available in the industry, running at 400-SOOMHz with up to 900 MIPS performance and integrating PCI-X bridge, DDR SDRAM controller, 128-bit on- chip CoreConnect bus, on-chip SRAM, Superscalar 440 core; two ethernet ports and more on a single die. The availability of the PowerPC 40S as a "core" for use in custom ASICs using IBM's advanced copper technology. Expect more info on the products to be unveiled at the Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, CA. IDC: Apple tops U.S., worldwide education markets by Dennis Sellers, dsellers@maccentral.com June 6, 2000, 10:45 am ET Submitted by Bryan Lienke International Data Corp. (IDC), a market research firm, reported today that Apple is still top dog in sales to the U.S. and worldwide education markets. IDC's "QICY'00 Worldwide Education Market Report" notes that Apple captured 26 percent of the U.S. education market and 14 percent of the worldwide education market. "We consistently listen to our cus- tomers and work hard to design the best products that meet both class- room and administrative needs," says Mitch Mandich, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Sales, in a Life in the Mac Lane By Scott Kelby Submitted by Bryan Lienke WHY I WOULDN'T DEVELOP SOFTWARE FOR THE MACINTOSH PLATFORM (there are many reasons why pc software/hardware developers have it made by only developing for the windows platform) I used to be one of those crazed Mac fanatics, where every time I'd run across a soft- ware developer who had a great pro- gram that wasn't being developed for press release. "Only Apple provides the innovative hardware, software and Internet offerings that together provide unparalleled solutions for the education market." Besides such education-friendly products and services as the iMac, iBook, AirPort, iTools and iMovie, Apple is focusing on the education market with sites such as the Apple Learning Exchange. You can learn about Apple's educational services at http://www.apple.com/education/. You can also expect the company to have a huge education presence at NECC 2000 in Atlanta, June 26-28. NECC is the National Educational Computing Conference. It's described as the country's most comprehensive and longest-lived educational-tech- the Mac platform, I'd have to send them a letter trying to convince them of the error of their ways and how much money would come rolling in if they'd just create a Macintosh version. It used to really keep me up at night, but now, I totally understand that I was in the wrong. I was looking at the whole thing from one side. My side. The side of a Macintosh user (OK, Mac maniac), who was angry because there was some cool software that I couldn't get, and I was whining. But nology event, bringing more than 12,000 educators from all over the globe. There'll be a variety of keynote speeches and special sessions, and exhibits, all focused on the theme, "Connecting@the Crossroads." For more on the conference, go to http://confreg.uoregon.edu/necc2000/ By the way, the upcoming Macworld New York will offer MacBeginnings, a brand new series of introductory conference sessions offering basic educational content to novice Mac and Internet users. when I finally took a step back, a deep breath, and looked at it from the developers point of view, I realized that developing for the PC has a ton of advantages that just aren't there on the Mac platform. I'm not talking sheer numbers here (that's too obvi- ous - the PC platform has millions upon millions of more potential cus- tomers). I'm talking about people. PC people. They have some distinct advantages (as customers) that actual- ly make them a far more desirable tar- 5S mini’app’les Newsletter 7 July, 2000 get market than Mac users. For exam- ple: (1) pe users are very patient A patient customer is an ideal customer, and PC users are famous for their patience. For example, they don't mind sitting on hold for hours waiting for tech support. They're used to it, it's a part of their lives, and they don't seem to mind one little bit. You don't have to waste money hiring a huge tech support staff and then try- ing to train them - just throw a couple of Kelly Services temps in a room with two or three phone lines and a print- ed reference manual, and you're in business. (2) pe users are thrifty shoppers Since a PC user's main concern is buying a product at the absolute cheapest price, you don't have to worry about creating a high-quality product; you only have to be con- cerned with making a cheap one. You can cut all kinds of corners in produc- tion and quality control, because your products will sell as long as they're cheap. You don't have to concern yourself with trivial matters, like com- patibility or ease of use. Just make sure it's dirt cheap, and they'll buy ‘em by the truckload. (3) pe users will listen to you You have to admire PC users, tell them something, and they'll believe it. For example, I remember seeing Intel ads on TV, and the ads kept touting how it was going to complete- ly change the users Internet experi- ence. I remember thinking to myself, "Hey, it's not a cable modem; it's just a slightly faster chip than their last chip," but it didn't stop millions of PC users from upgrading their Pentium Ils to Pentium Ills. That's my kind of customer - you tell them what you want them to do, and they do it. (4) pe users are incredibly forgiv- ing If you're a company like Microsoft, you can sell them products packed full of bugs and compatibility problems. You can have them jump through hoops to perform simple tasks like installing a program. And you can create software that causes them to spend more time trou- bleshooting their system than using it, and they'll still line up at midnight outside the store that's selling your new upgrade/bug fix and pay for the honor to buy it. That, my friends, is one forgiving customer and the type of consumer you want as a registered user. (S) pc users are diligent These are not lazy people. They think nothing of staying up all night trying to track down a virus or two or hunting down which driver is causing the system to crash over and over again. Nothing stops them. Crashes, viruses, bugs, conflicts 0 they don't give up; they keep going and going and going. These are the types of people who make great customers. They're willing to do their share of the work, so you don't have to. (6 pc users aren't easily swayed You don't have to worry too much about losing your customers to anoth- er superior platform; you've got these guys hooked. Even though many industry experts will readily admit that there is a significantly more reli- able and easier to use operating sys- tem out there, you don't have to worry about them jumping ship and switching to something better. It's like they're blinded, brainwashed if you will, and you're the lucky benefactor of their shortsightedness. Don't worry about someone changing their mind; it's already made up - they're PC users for life - have your way with them. (7) pc users are followers PC users live their lives by a gold- en rule: If their friends and co-workers buy it, it must be good. When it comes time to make a serious pur- chase, many people start researching, comparing models, looking at specs, and analyzing their personal needs. Not PC users. They look directly to their peers to find out which PC sys- tem they should buy and will often consult people who actually know substantially less than they do. Seriously think about it. How many times have you heard one neighbor ask another neighbor which PC they should buy? That's because they don't trust their own judgment, and look- ing at what their previous choices have been, I don't blame them one bit. This indecisiveness is your gain. Don't worry about spending millions to "get to the customer." Get to their neighbors, get to their co-workers, and you've got a customer for life. (8) pc users have a short memory If you have a product that isn't selling well, give it a name that sounds similar to a product that is selling well. For example, Apple's iMac has been breaking sales records for the entire computing industry, so if you create a PC with a name that's somewhat similar, like the iPaq (from Compaq) or the eOne (from eMachines), there's a decent chance a PC user will make a mistake and think yours is that top-selling computer they've been reading about in Time and Newsweek, and they might actu- ally buy one. They just don't remem- ber trivial details like names and col- ors - the only thing PC users have been programmed to remember is Megahertz. They know they need a lot of them, but they're not exactly sure why. Face it, if PC usershada good . memory, they never would've upgrad- ed to Windows 98 once they remem- bered the nightmare they had with Windows 95. (9) pe users don't need variety Thinking of creating a new prod- uct in a wide variety of colors? Don't waste your money. PC users love beige. It's the color of their lives. Everything they use is beige - their computers, mouse, keyboard, joystick, you name it. A number of PC manu- facturers have tried to follow Apple Computer's iMac success by coming out with computers in different col- ors, but not one has a hit on their hands. Why? Because PC users don't need variety. They like order, unifor- mity, a controlled environment. They like to be told what to buy and in what color. Save development costs and create your product in beige, and no one will complain. Remember, things that are repeated become pleas- ant. (10) pc users have a sense of humor Sure, they may seem humorless on the surface, but you can pull a trick or two on them, and they'll just shake their heads and laugh. For example, when a reporter for one of the big PC magazines got hold of an internal Microsoft document that tevealed that Microsoft was aware that Windows 2000 had over 63,000 bugs but shipped it anyway, the PC community just laughed, shook their heads, then got in line to buy their copies. Nothing rattles these PC users; they just laugh it off and hand over their checks. They obviously know how to take a joke, and obviously, some companies know how to tell one. If you're looking for a customer who you can tell "The jokes on you!" then the PC market is an audience that needs no warming up. SR mini’app’les Newsletter 8 July, 2000 Well that's it. If you're a develop- er, the choice is pretty obvious. If you're developing for the Mac market, you're going to have to spend a bun- dle on silly things like quality control, testing, industrial design, and (God help you) color. You'll have to waste time and money with things like seamless compatibility, style, plug and play, and you'll have to follow May Digital Imaging by Jack Ferman, 19 May 2000 The May DI SIG was devoted to a piece of photograph enhancement software entitled PhotoGenetics by Q- Research of North Bend, WA. PhotoGenetics uses a so-called "eye doctor" approach in which one ranks successive image alterations by click- ing on a scoring bar at the base of the operational window. The program started out using picture files supplied by Q-Research and the results appeared reasonable. One of the files was an optically dis- torted picture of a knick-knack shelf affair. One might get such distortion by shooting with a very short focal length lense - one would expect cylin- drical distortion in such a case. PhotoGenetics "dewarp" function did correct the distortion, but it did not do so by referring to any artifact in Apple's guidelines, so your customers don't have to waste time learning how to quit, print, and other seem- ingly easy tasks. What's up with that? The good news is that apparently developing PC software/hardware is not about customers; it's not about quality service; it's not about choice, color, or creating a great product that people will really love - it's about SIG Report the picture. This was established by noting that continued application of “dewarp" introduced distortion in the opposite sense. In the later part of the program, pictures having deliberate errors con- fronted PhotoGenetics. One set involved erroneous white balance camera settings - for the purpose a picture shot in sunlight used a tung- sten white balance. The picture natu- tally had an‘obvious bluish cast. PhotoGenetics was totally unable to detect and correct the results of the white balance error. Another set invloved colored illumination sources and the picture scene was a Kodak gtay card with splotches of actual artists color paints (red, green, blue, white, and black). The illuminations were yellow, green, blue, and black- light, all incandescent, and the colors in the picture were skewed. Pyro products setting a Fire Staff Report, email@maccentral.com June 5, 2000, 2:30 pm ET Submitted by Bryan Lienke ADS Technologies apparently loves IEEE 1394 (better known to Mac users as FireWire). The company's Pyro 1394 ORB Drive is now available. It integrates the hot-swappable performance of FireWire connectivity with the ORB removable drive's magneto-resistive (MR) head technology. The Pyro 1394 ORB Drive provides 2.2 GB removable storage utilizing rewriteable media disks. The high-bandwidth of FireWire allows the maximum throughput of ORB's data transfer rate of 12.2MB per second. To use it, you'll need a FireWire-enabled Mac or G3 with Pyro 1394 PCI host card installed and Mac OS 9.0. ADS' Pyro 1394 Port is also ship- ping. Once available as a component of the digital editing solution, Pyro Digital Video 1394DV, the Pyro 1394 Port can now be purchased as a stand- alone product for the estimated street price of US $59.95. The OHCI-compliant IEEE1394 PCI card connects Macs and PCs to FireWire devices such as storage solu- tions, printers, scanners and digital camcorders. Pyro 1394 Port also money. Maybe that's why many PC developers stay right where they are - where the money is - and where mil- lions of those funny, patient, loyal, forgiving, diligent customers stand teady for your next buying instruc- tion. Gees, those guys really have it made. PhotoGenetics was unable to correct the illumination errors. In the sequel, it became apparent that PhotoGenetics cycled colorations into the picture without reference to the spatial color array in the picture itself. The last picture introduced to PhotoGenetics was an interior shot of Gavlidae Common in which the inte- tior support columns were severely bent. Part of the bend artifact arose from the compositor's pasting of two shots together. PhotoGenetics would not be expected to repair the patching error but was nonetheless unable to correct optical curvature in the two halves with its "dewarp" feature. By this time most of the audience had retired to the outer hallway, so the SIG was terminated 15-20 minutes early. Pie SIG went down at Baker Square and was poorly attended. includes Ulead VideoStudio 4.0SE, and works with Apple's iMovie, which can be downloaded free from Apple's Web site. The Pyro 1394 Port provides three FireWire ports with throughput at 400 Mbps/sec for the high-bandwidth demands of digital video transfer, CD- ROM, DVD and hard drives, VCR decks, and other 1394 peripherals on the horizon. Mac requirements are a Mac G3 with a PCI slot and Mac OS 9.0.4 and QuickTime 4.1. Drivers are downloadable from the Apple Web site. Apple eNews June 15, 2000 Volume 3, Issue 13 In This Issue 3. A Big Space 8. Quick Takes 4. Now Available: Final Cut Pro 1.2.5 1. Ever Had One of Those Crazy 5. More Products, More Places If you'd like to read this issue on the Dreams? 6. Get a Sneak Preview of QuarkXPress web, go to: 2. "Now There's Just No Excuse Not to 5.0 http://www.apple.com/enews/2000/06/1 Go and Make a Film." 7. Technically Speaking... Senews1.html miniapp’les Newsletter 9 July, 2000 1. Ever Had One of Those Crazy Dreams? Lots of us have. And we've found a place that not only accepts but . encourages them. A company that expects the unexpected of itself and delights in delivering the unanticipat- ed to its customers. Crazy dreams? They're the stuff that iMac is made of. Next week (June 20 and 21, 4 to 8 pm, Pacific time), we'll be hosting the first-ever Apple Career Open House--right here on the Cupertino campus--and we'd love to speak with you about joining our lit- tle dream machine at Apple. So dust off your resume and come tell us how you could help us make some crazy dreams come true. http://www.apple.com/jobs/open- house/index.html 2. "Now There's Just No Excuse Not to Go and Make a Film." So says Jonathan Wells, the director of RESFEST, the first international film festival to showcase digital con- tent in a theatrical setting. Wells waxes enthusiastic because he has seen the wealth of material talented people are creating, finding "little nuggets of creativity, new animation techniques, really interesting music and digital video content--sometimes done by one person in a basement somewhere. "RESFEST 2000 celebrates that creativity, a creativity made pos- sible by a new generation of digital video production tools: http://www.apple.com/creative/sto- ties/resfest/ 3. A Big Space That's what most convention centers offer, and certainly the cavernous 40,000-square-foot area that accom- modated the booths, classrooms, meeting areas, Internet cafes, and attendees of Apple's recent Worldwide Developers Conference fits the defini- tion of a big space. This particular big space also happens to be filled with copious amounts of concrete and steel, but that didn't stop any of the wireless warriors at the event from picking up their email or logging on to the New York Times to catch up on what the rest of the world was up to. From one end of that 40,000-square-foot space to the other, AirPort served up the Internet— continuously and without interrup- tion-so that "a person could walk a TES July, 2000 minl’app’les Newsletter from one end of the convention cen- ter to the other and not lose the wire- less connection.” http://www.apple.com/hotnews/arti- cles/2000/06/airport/ Already an AirPort fan? Then be sure to schedule a landing at our site to download AirPort 1.2. http://www.apple.com/airport/ 4. Now Available: Final Cut Pro 1.2.5 The newest version of Final Cut Pro is available for immediate download from our website. What new features make Final Cut Pro 1.2.5 a must-have update? Make Reference Movie— allows you to reduce rendering time and conserve disk space by minimiz- ing file sizes and using pointers to source files YUV Processing-lets you preserve the color values of original source material Widescreen Support means you can create a movie with a wider (16:9 format) digital canvas in mind Existing owner of Final Cut Pro can opt to receive the update to Final Cut Pro 1.2.5 on a CD for a nominal handling fee (plus appropriate tax). For complete information or to down- load Final Cut Pro 1.2.5, visit: http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/ Considering the-purchase of Final Cut Pro? Then you may want to take advantage of a "suite deal" currently available at the Apple Store, Apple Store for Education, and participating Tesellers. It offers special pricing on Final Cut Pro and Terran Interactive's media Cleaner Compression Suite (Broadcast Edition). http://www.apple.com/store 5S. More Products, More Places We couldn't be happier about the growing number of hardware and software products that our friends and partners in the developer community are creating for PowerBook and Power Mac computers. Search the Macintosh Products Guide nowadays, and you'll find over 17,000 products. Astounding. What's more, more places than ever before are selling Macintosh products. For example, if you like to walk or drive to a store, you can do your Mac shopping in a Sears, CompUSA, The WIZ, Fry's Electronics, Micro Center, Computerware, Wolf Camera, or any one of the thousands of authorized Apple resellers around the world. You can also visit a growing number of online resellers. The Apple Store, for 10 example, (http://www.apple.com/store) carries not only our own products, but a large number of hardware, software, and accessory products from third parties. To make it easier for you to find online resellers, we've recently modified our online locator-- http://buy.apple.com—adding a cate- gory for Internet & Catalog Resellers. Looking just for games? One of the top Internet sources for games, Babbage's & Software Etc.'s "gamestop!com" recently added a Mac button that takes you to its "one-stop shop for the best Mac games*--cur- rently featuring over 150 gaming titles for Macintosh. And Amazon has recently made it even easier for its Mac customers to find books, soft- ware, hardware, and accessories by creating a Macintosh specialty shop (www.amazon.com/macintosh). Anyone in the mood to go shopping? 6. Get a Sneak Preview of QuarkXPress 5.0 You've heard the buzz from others who use it. QuarkXPress offers a superb set of features for creating dynamic publications and managing the digital workflow. And they've probably told you that they just can't wait to crack the shrinkwrap on the new version of this publishing power- house: QuarkXPress 5.0. Want to see what makes them so enthusiastic? Then come to a free two-hour seminar that Apple and Quark are hosting in more than a dozen locations around the US and Canada over the next few months. But, hurry, slots are already filling up fast: http://www.quark.com/news/tier3/ 7. Technically Speaking... FireWire 2.4--the latest version of this important system software compo- nent--offers a number of advantages to those using FireWire-equipped Macintosh computers. It: Improves the performance of most hard disk drives (especially when the computer is writing data to the disk) Extends battery life on the new PowerBook with built-in FireWire Adds support for the FireWire 2 Go card from Newer Technologies (which lets one connect FireWire devices to earlier models of the PowerBook G3 comput- er) Fixes an isolated issue that occa- sionally causes a system crash when some digital camcorders are discon- nected while iMovie is running For _ -_ ay more information or to downloa FireWire 2.4, visit: . http://asu.info.apple.com/swup- dates.nsf/artnum/n11719 Have questions about FireWire? Be sure to visit our FireWire site. It contains lots of information about this industry standard for connecting fast, multimedia peripheral devices (like digital audio and, especially, video): http://www.apple.com/firewire/ 8. Quick Takes Apple's Think different campaign, cre- ated by TBWA/Chiat/Day Los Angeles, was honored with the grand award at the 2000 EFFIE Awards Show. The EFFIEs recognize the most effective national advertising cam- paigns. http://www.effie.org/2000.htm We received some great news the other day. As part of its Worldwide QuickTime News Ju In This Issue 1, What's on QuickTime TV? 2. Live QuickTime Events 3. It's Your Movie! 4. Tools of the Trade 5. QuickTime Moment in History 6. Trailer Park 7. QuickTime Hot Picks 1, What's on QuickTime TV? The first place that many of us turn for breaking news is CNN. Did you know that the Atlanta TV super- station is also one of the most prolific creators of streaming QuickTime content for the web, producing and delivering a minimum of 20 to 25 hours of original video programming per day? On the CNN website, you'll always find QuickTime movies of breaking news stories along with clips from CNN's most popular talk shows, including "Crossfire* and "Burden of Proof." And be sure to check ~ out the highlighted Video on Demand clip in the upper-right cor- ner of the CNN home page. http://www.cnn.com/ 2. Live QuickTime Events By the time you read this, the largest music and performing arts festival in the world will be under way. From June 23 to 25, Great Britain's leg- endary Glastonbury Festival will Education Market Report, International Data Corp. (IDC), a leading market research firm, con- cluded that "Apple continues to be number one in sales to the U.S. and worldwide education markets," cap- turing 26% percent of the US and 14% of the worldwide education mar- ket: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/200 O/june/O6idc.htm! Macworld is coming to New York's Jacob Javits Center on July 19--a little more than a month from now. If you're thinking of attending--and you should!—register early and save money. An Exhibits Only pass is only $10 until June 19: http://www.macworldexpo.com/regis- tration-html RealNetworks has licensed Apple intellectual property for streaming digital video and audio over the Internet in QuickTime. RealServer 8 ne 23, 2000 Volume music, magic, circus performances, cinema, theater, crafts, and cabaret. For the first time ever, Glastonbury invites you to a series of live webcasts, starting today. With entertainment ranging from interviews with featured artists to performances on multiple Stages, this is one live webcast you won't want to miss. For up-to-the-minute information on performances and profiles of all of the artists at Glastonbury please go here: http://www. playlouder.com/glaston- bury/ And for the big picture on the world's largest festival, be sure to visit the official Glastonbury website at: http://www. glastonburyfestivals.co.uk / We're sure you'd prefer to attend the live webcast, but in case you can't, you can view the archived QuickTime videos at your leisure for about three weeks after the event. For information on upcoming live QuickTime events and archived QuickTime performances on-demand, be sure to visit the Hot Picks page at: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/hot picks/ 3. It's Your Moviel delight its audiences of all ages with If you've ever watched a movie and 2 now supports delivery of QuickTime content to QuickTime players. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/200 O/june/12realnetworks.html Learn more of the story of the X-Men in the newest trailer, a QuickTime exclusive offering broadband users full-screen immersion in the forthcoming movie. http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/x- men/ They've taken Macs into orbit before, and now SkyCorp intends to include an "Apple Macintosh G4 com- puter in an experimental satellite it is planning to deploy from the space shuttle during a flight next year,” according to this article in SpaceViews: http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/06/ 11a.html Issue 10 thought, "I can do much better than this!", then here's your chance to put your popcorn where your mouth is. Head on over to the world's first interactive motion picture website at www.itsyour- movie.com, where you--as part of the viewing audience—actually help devel- op the story. Visit now, and you'll cut your directo- tial teeth on an edgy thriller con- ceived by Simon Beaufoy, who wrote the hilarious hit film, "The Full Monty." From episode to episode, you'll make decisions for KJ., a pretty and feisty bike courier living in London. You can tell her what to do, who to trust--even who to fall in love with. You also give your thoughts on which of the film's characters should live or die. You decide. After all...it's your movie. http://www.itsyourmovie.com 4. Tools of the Trade Mark your calendars: Apple will hold its second annual QuickTime Live! Conference October 9-12 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. In this four-day conference, you'll get professional-level training on the development, production and deliv- ery of QuickTime content in all its forms. You can attend up to 48 sessions on mini’app’les Newsletter 11 July, 2000 content development and deploy- ment, along with nine full-day work- shops covering the most popular authoring tools, deployment tech- nologies, QuickTime VR and QuickTime Streaming, as well as a product showcase. To register and for more detailed information, go here: http://www.apple.com/quicktimelive/ An important subject worth repeat- ing: Recently, we told you about an exciting new technology that can help your existing network architec- ture work more efficiently when delivering streaming media, including QuickTime. Network Appliance's NetCache technology distributes streaming content from the edges of the network, providing enhanced quality for streaming media at a far lower cost than adding more servers and increasing network bandwidth. Network Appliance is holding a series of free seminars to help you learn more about streaming media and net- work efficiency. Visit the Network Appliance website for more informa- tion and to find out when its semi- nars are coming to your part of the world. http://www.netapp.com/seminar/qt/ 5. QuickTime Moment in History Anthropologists still don't know what brought groups of Caucasian European settlers to the deserts of Star Wars Episode II Submitted by Denis Diekhoff We've been sitting on this one for quite some time awaiting more cor- roboration between reports...and that time has come. Numerous sources and good friends throughout Lucasfilm and the infamous Skywalker Ranch have reported on some very interesting developments their with regard to their use of unre- leased Mac OS technologies. Apparently, rendering of "moving storyboards" and early versions of var- ious scenes throughout Star Wars Episode II is being done with proto- type multiprocessor PowerMac G4s using Alias|Wavefront's as-yet unre- leased Maya rendering software. Reports conflict to varying degrees on the operating systems used; most indicate a mix of OS9 and OS X Pre- China in the third or fourth century. B.C., or why their colonies eventually disappeared. We definitely know they existed, though, because these men and women left behind irrefutable proof--their well-preserved, mummi- fied remains. Discovered in the 1970s and 1980s, the mummies of China's Takla Makan desert offer an intriguing glimpse into the lives of humans who lived 6,000 years ago, including evidence of surgi- cal techniques that these Europeans may have introduced to China. The Discovery Channel brings you QuickTime movies of this important anthropological find: http://www.discovery.com/stories/his- tory/desertmummies/desertmum- mies.html 6. Trailer Park In the fall of 1991, a freakish conflu- ence of weather conditions spawned a killer storm in the North Atlantic, endangering anything unlucky enough to stand (or float) in its path. In "The Perfect Storm," George Clooney handles this maritime emer- gency as Billy Tyne, captain of a swordfishing boat caught in the mael- strom. "The Perfect Storm” arrives in US. theaters on June 30. Bring your umbrella. http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/per fect_storm.html Jim Carrey returns to his signature brand of extreme slapstick comedy in being rendered with DP4 builds, but some stress a purely OS X environment. Some reports suggest that Skywalker Ranch may even hold pro- totype caseless PowerMacs with V'Ger "Me, Myself, and Irene," written and directed by Peter and Bobby Farrelly-- the same duo that brought you "Dumb and Dumber" and "There's Something About Mary." Carrey plays a man whose multiple personalities compete for the affections of one ‘woman, played by Carrey's offscreen girlfriend, Renee Zellweger. http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/m. mi/ 7. QuickTime Hot Picks Enjoy vicarious thrills by "riding" on the world's top roller coasters, cour- tesy of CNN and QuickTime. Scream from your desk while experiencing Japan's "White Cyclone," Ohio's “Magnum XL-200," Coney Island's "Cyclone," and more. www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/DESTINA- TIONS/9706/roller.coasters/coasters.ht ml Already nostalgic for pro basketball? Go into overtime by watching scenes from some of the greatest NBA playoff games in history, featuring clips from 1953 to 1998. http://www.nba.com/history/play- offs_moments.html Got a great example of QuickTime to show us on the web? We'd love to hear about it. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/hot picks/tellus/index.html Maya on MP G4s? "G4e" processors at up to 700MHz, but these are of less certain nature. What's most interesting from these reports is that unlike with Episode I, Lucasfilm is seriously considering moving many of the tasks that it per- formed on high-end Silicon Graphics (SGI) workstations to this potent new combination of Velocity Engine, OS X, and Maya....imagine one of the biggest releases of next year (if the current schedule holds) being created almost entirely on the Mac OS.... A Boe 591 N. 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