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In This Issue
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1. QuickTime 4: the Gold Standard
2. The Plot Thins
3. His Art Scales New Heights
4. Musicians Take Note
5. Apple in Education
6. Thanks for the Memory
7. Take a Free Tour of QuarkXPress
8. Quick Takes
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1. QuickTime 4: the Gold Standard
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Over 6 million customers (and counting) have helped to make
QuickTime 4 the gold standard for viewing digital streaming media on
the Web.
And now that QuickTime 4 is out of the Preview or beta stage, we're
celebrating its coming of age with some great new content designed
to show off its capabilities.
For example, we've just added the Fox News and Fox Sports channels
to our streaming Showcase page:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/showcase/live/index.html
We've redesigned our QuickTime Movie Trailers Theater page to make
it easier for you to find those hot, new summertime movies:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/trailers/
We've posted a really neat QuickTime VR movie that will let you take
the new Macintosh PowerBook G3 out for a virtual spin:
http://www.apple.com/powerbook/qtmedia/
And that's just the beginning. We'll be adding more new sites that
take advantage of QuickTime 4 technology in the days and weeks
ahead, so stay tuned and, if you haven't done so yet, download
QuickTime 4:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
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2. The Plot Thins
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Yes, it's thinner. Almost 20% thinner.
Yes, it's lighter. Almost 2 pounds lighter.
You heard right: with two batteries installed, you can work on our
new Macintosh PowerBook G3 computer for up to 10 unplugged hours.
And, yes, it's even faster than previous models--coming at you with
a pulse-pounding PowerPC G3 processor running at 333 or 400 MHz.
Of course, seeing (and lifting) is believing, so stop by a local
Apple reseller this weekend and see just how thin and light and
powerful our new PowerBook is.
http://buy.apple.com/
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3. His Art Scales New Heights
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Many are familiar with his work. After all, Galen Rowell's
photographs have graced the covers and pages of National Geographic
and reams of other magazines, jumped out at us from posters and fine
prints, and dazzled us in over a dozen of the photographer's own
books.
But did you know that Galen Rowell is an avid Macintosh user? Or
that ColorSync plays a crucial role in the production of his
stunning digital prints? Well, now you do:
http://www.apple.com/publishing/design/rowell/
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4. Musicians Take Note
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Just the other day, Opcode Systems announced that it had begun
shipping the MIDIport 32, an advanced USB music interface for iMac,
Power Macintosh G3, and Macintosh PowerBook G3 computers.
The Opcode MIDIport 32, which joins a growing number of similar MIDI
devices recently announced for USB-equipped Macintosh computers,
allows customers to connect keyboards, drum machines, and similar
MIDI instruments and to compose, play, or record music right on the
Mac.
For more information on the Opcode MIDIport 32, visit Opcode's site:
http://www.opcode.com/
For news about other USB MIDI devices for Macintosh, visit:
http://www.apple.com/publishing/music/midi/
(By the way, MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface.)
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5. Apple in Education
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Thanks to the magic of PowerBook, students at Northbrook Junior High
School can transform their classroom into a high-tech laboratory in
less than 30 minutes. But the real magic takes place when the
students put PowerBook to work, using it to watch cell mitosis
through a scope-cam or to analyze information being collected by a
satellite orbiting the moon:
http://www.apple.com/education/k12/imagine/0102/classroom/
. . .
At Brigham Young University, QuickTime has become an essential
educational tool, allowing instructors to explain and illustrate
complex topics and to make learning easier.
Says Dr. Stephen Jones, the assistant dean at BYU's College of Fine
Arts and Communications, QuickTime allows us "to combine the written
word, graphics, audio, video, and images to create materials that
convey a concept more quickly and effectively than a lecture might.
... We see Apple's QuickTime technology as our best overall solution
for delivering cross-platform, web-based interactive media in an
educational environment."
http://www.apple.com/education/hed/aua0101s/teaching/
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6. Thanks for the Memory
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You've finally decided to increase the amount of memory in your
venerable Power Macintosh 7100, but exactly how much memory can it
support? No need to rummage through the attic for the Ouija board.
We've got a better medium. It's the Apple Memory Guide, and it's
just been updated to include information about our very latest
product: the Macintosh PowerBook G3. Download it today at:
http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n10084
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7. Take a Free Tour of QuarkXPress
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Talk about a winning team: QuarkXPress and Power Macintosh G3 bring
you a world-class solution for document production, one that can
help you save hours of production time. Find out how by signing up
for a free, three-hour seminar. You'll find all of the details at:
http://www.seminars.apple.com/series/QuarkXPressTour/
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8. Quick Takes
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Macintosh does double duty for Showtime, helping the cable TV
network create videos more quickly while, at the same time,
curbing production costs:
http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?INW19990531S0038
. . .
In its report on "The Decade in Computing," CNET celebrates some of
the "amazing things" that came to be in the last decade. One of
them, a "Rhapsody in Blue," is iMac:
http://home.cnet.com/category/0-6014-7-287084.html
. . .
So you say you'd like to use a few SCSI devices with your brand new
Power Macintosh G3 computer. Here's how:
http://www.apple.com/publishing/scsi/
. . .
Our apologies to Gene Steinberg, columnist for Arizona Central (the
Mac Reality Check) and author of "Teach Yourself the iMac in 24
Hours." In the last issue of Apple eNews, we called him
David, a nice name, too, but not his:
http://www.genesteinberg.com/
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We'll publish Apple eNews next on Thursday, July 1, 1999.
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