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- Live From Abbey Road: Recording History You won?t see ? or hear ? anything else like it on television. And to deliver a series of such uncompromising quality, the seven-person creative team that brings us Live from Abbey Road depends on Final Cut Studio to edit, color, correct, and export the entire show. ?If I put myself in a time machine and went back ten years, I?d never have believed I could do this,? remarks editor Keith Mottram.
- Quick Tip of the Week: Setting backup options for Time Machine Time Machine makes it easy to back up everything on your Mac?s hard drive. But what if you have items you don?t want Time Machine to back up for you? Watch the latest Quick Tip of the Week to find out how you can set up Time Machine to skip files you don?t want to back up.
- Publisher makes major move to the Mac ?One of Europe?s largest newspaper publishers, Axel Springer AG, has announced plans to migrate its 10,000 employees and 150 newspapers in 30 countries to the Mac,? reports Jonny Evans (macworld.co.uk). The migration ?will make Axel Springer Apple?s second largest corporate customer, after Google.?
- A tip sheet for switchers from Walt Mossberg ?Sales of Apple?s Macintosh computers have been growing much faster than PC sales overall, with many new Mac buyers switching from years of using Windows computers,? admits Walt Mossberg (allthingsd.com). And to help those who have made the switch, he?s assembled ?a quick tip sheet explaining a few of the most common differences? between Mac OS Leopard and Windows.
- Fastest way to master Aperture 2 Aperture 2: Professionally Manage Digital Photographs, a new title from Ben Long, Richard Harrington, and Orlando Luna, guides you step-by-step through the entire Aperture workflow, even providing hundreds of sample images to experiment with. Download the free Aperture 2 trial, work through the book?s in-depth tutorials, and you?ll see how far Aperture 2 can advance your photography.
- MacBook Air takes laurels in three-way usability competition Of three ultrathin portables ? MacBook Air, Toshiba Portege, and Lenovo ThinkPad ? which is the most usable? To find out, Computerworld turned to usability experts and 20 impartial testers. Those testers, David Haskin relates, found MacBook Air the most usable, the most fun, and the best value of the three. In fact, they made MacBook Air ?the clear winner when asked which laptop they?d purchase.?
- Pro Tip of the Week: Become a Spaces Cadet When open windows start piling up on your desktop, Mac OS X Leopard provides a great way to establish control. Spaces. How can Spaces help you get more organized? Find out by reading the latest Pro Tip of the Week.
- iTunes U now home to K-12 educational curricula Thanks to a new educational initiative, teachers and parents can now access a wealth of K-12 educational curricula on iTunes U. Delivered by state and district agencies in Arizona, Florida, Maine, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Utah, the free content provides ?global access to educational content, curricula, learning materials, news, best practices, and other resources,? reports Dave Nagel (thejournal.com).
- Now Playing on iTunes U: THE WAR THE WAR, the most watched PBS series in the last decade, now serves another tour of duty as an excellent online educational resource. WETA, Washington D.C.?s public broadcasting station, provides film clips, lesson plans, and additional educational resources for students and teachers. Watch ? and enjoy ? them today on iTunes U.
- “All I can say is ‘wow.’” Bob LeVitus (Houston Chronicle) considers the 17-inch MacBook Pro ?the fastest, most powerful, and most capable notebook I?ve tested.? And he?s particularly taken with its display. ?All I can say is, ?Wow.? With its bright, deeply saturated colors and rich, dark blacks, full-screen HD video is mind-boggling.?
- Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control now on iTunes Get Smart introduced us to Bruce and Lloyd. Now the two, played by Masi Oka (Heroes) and Nate Torrence (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) appear in their own film: Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control. A hilarious treat for the holiday weekend, it?s available online exclusively on iTunes for purchase or rental. Enjoy.
- Quick Tip of the Week: Drag-and-drop PDF merging Ever wished you could drag the contents of one PDF into another? You can ? using Preview in Mac OS X Leopard. We show you how in the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
- Science Productivity Lab opens on apple.com As a scientist, your Mac can be a valuable asset, especially when it comes time to share your research findings with colleagues. To find out how you can use tools on your Mac to create research posters, websites, and dynamic presentations, visit the Science Productivity Lab, where you?ll find tips and tutorials created with the needs of the scientific community in mind.
- Did you Get Smart last weekend? Then you?ll want to download the free Making of Bruce & Lloyd Out of Control. The short, now available on iTunes, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the hilarious new film that parallels the Get Smart movie. It features Bruce (Masi Oka of Heroes) and Lloyd (Nate Torrence of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) as they conjure up inventions for use by unsuspecting CONTROL agents.
- 6.9 million searches for iPhone in April ?comScore has today released the results of a study into iPhone related searches? during the month of April, reports Davey Winder (itwire.com).The study ?reveals that there were 6.9 million searches on related keywords during that period.? Of the 6.9 million searches, 1.5 million of them were for the term ?iPhone? and Google delivered 88.4% of the search returns.
- Yankee Group says 8 in 10 businesses now using Macs After surveying ?more than 700 senior IT administrators? and executives, Yankee Group Research Inc found that ?nearly 80% of businesses have Macs in-house, nearly double the percentage that said they had users running Mac OS X two years ago,? reports Gregg Keizer (computerworld.com).
- Now playing on iTunes U: 92Y - George Carlin New York City?s 92nd Street Y has been serving community interests for more than 133 years. And, now ? thanks to iTunes U ? it brings its programming to a really large community. For example, ?92Y: George Carlin,? just one of the many programs available from 92Y: Online, lets us spend some time with Judy Gold and George Carlin, the renowned comedian who died this week.
- Take a free online business seminar If you?re a business customer anxious to get off to a great start with your new Mac, you?ll want to sign up for a free, online seminar. It?s called ?New to the Mac for Business Users.? Watch it, and you?ll find out how you can run Windows applications on a Mac, download your email from a corporate Exchange server, give presentations to clients using iChat theater, exchange files over a network, and much more.
- MacBook Pro earns “Best in Class” from Maximum PC When Maximum PC pit the MacBook Pro against the Dell XPS M1530, Apple?s pro notebook walked away the clear winner. Awarding MacBook Pro an impressive score of 9 (out of 10), editors praised its thinness (calling it ?impressive next to other notebooks in its class?), its fast GeForce 8600M GT graphic processor, its ?top-notch? Intel processor, and its battery life. It also found Mac OS X ?really, really slick.?
- Snow leopards, Steve Winter, and Aperture at 12,000 feet When National Geographic photographer Steve Winter reviewed his snow leopard images in Aperture, he was literally seeing them for the very first time. Knowing Snow Leopards to be notoriously camera shy, Winter set up 14 camera traps to capture remotely the photos selected for the recent National Geographic article and gallery ? just a small sample of the 30,000 he edited and processed in Aperture.
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