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Your ticket to a great mobile development experience at WWDC

For the first time ever, this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco offers a track designed for those developing applications and optimized web content for iPhone. In fact, we’ve already listed 80 sessions and hands-on labs essential for iPhone development. The conference offers developers a great opportunity to speak with Apple’s own iPhone engineers and user interface experts, and if you sign up now, you can take advantage of early registration pricing and save up to $300. [Apr 17, 2008]

At MIT, the Mac helps scientists learn the language

Deb Roy and his wife Rupal Patel have turned their house into a high-tech observatory and live-in laboratory. With the aid of their young son, the pair of academics are collecting data for the most ambitious study ever conducted on how children acquire language. So far, their Human Speechome Program has amassed more than 200,000 hours of audio and video recordings — more than 250 terabytes of data — and they’ll depend on a Mac application called TotalRecall to help them make sense of it. [Apr 17, 2008]

Macs Trounce PCs in Popular Mechanics “Ultimate Lab Test”

In what columnist Glenn Derene (popularmechanics.com) billed as the “Ultimate Lab Test for New Desktops & Laptops,” both the iMac and MacBook soundly outperformed Vista-running PCs. “In our speed trials,” reports Derene, “Leopard OS trounced Vista in all-important tasks such as boot-up, shutdown and program-launch times. We even tested Vista on the Macs using Apple’s platform-switching Boot Camp software—and found that both Apple computers ran Vista faster than our PCs did. [Apr 16, 2008]

Leopard’s Preview “a superstar”

Preview, says Bob Levitus (chron.com) has “always been a gem. But in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, it’s turned into a real powerhouse with many new and useful features.” For example, Preview’s “Mark Up icon provides a drop-down menu with highlighting, strike-through and underlining tools, all fantastic for editing text. “ And, Levitus points out, you’ll find tools for annotating PDFs, reordering pages in a PDF, and several other new and highly useful features. [Apr 16, 2008]

Academy Award-winning Juno now available on iTunes

Twentieth Century Fox today released Juno, the critically acclaimed comedy that took home an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. If you’d like to make Juno part of your movie collection, you can purchase and download it from iTunes immediately. Or you can visit a store and purchase it on Blu-ray Disc or a Special Edition DVD. Since both feature iTunes Digital Copy, you can easily transfer Juno to your Mac, PC, iPod, or iPhone and enjoy it at home or to go. [Apr 15, 2008]

Bento’s “simple, uncomplicated and really, really useful”

Bento, the personal database application for Mac OS X Leopard, “harkens back to what software once was: simple, uncomplicated and really, really useful,” recalls Mark Kellner (washingtontimes.com). “Need to create a super ‘to-do’ list? Done. Ditto for inventories, donations, expense tracking, even a membership list for your book club.” The highly approachable application allows users to “be more organized, more easily, and that’s a good thing,” he says. [Apr 15, 2008]

Quick Tip of the Week: Leopard’s Powerful Dictionary

In Mac OS X Leopard, Dictionary has evolved into an even more valuable resource, letting you not only quickly search the built-in Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Apple Dictionary on your Mac but also search Wikipedia, the expansive online encyclopedia. There’s more. You can now access the Dictionary from Mail, Safari, iWork, and most other Mac OS X applications. Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week. [Apr 15, 2008]

Enjoy PBS programming on iTunes U

From The War: A film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick to The Jewish Americans: A Series by David Grubin to Meet the Author, featuring more than 40 interviews with top children’s book authors and illustrators, WETA — Washington D.C.’s Public Broadcasting Station — delivers a rich assortment of educational programming for students, teachers, and parents alike. And they’re not alone. Educational programming from four other PBS stations, including KQED, WGBH, thirteen, and ideastream can also be seen and heard on iTunes U. Take a look. And enjoy. [Apr 11, 2008]

Time Capsule “makes wireless backups a snap”

“I’ve been using Time Capsule for a few weeks now, courtesy of Apple, and have found it to be an ideal backup for anyone with a Mac — especially a MacBook, MacBook Air or MacBook Pro,” relates Ken Mingis (computerworld.com). “Not only does it serve as an 802.11n Wi-Fi router, beaming the Internet throughout the house or small office, but it also marries that router with a server-grade Serial ATA hard drive spinning at 7,200 rpm.” [Apr 11, 2008]

Apple TV “simplest and best designed” home theater media player

Calling it “a small, thin, unobtrusive box that fetches music, photos and videos from your home network using either a wired or a wireless connection,” Walt Mossberg lauds Apple TV in a response to a question submitted to his “Mailbox.” Not only does it work “with any computer, Windows or Mac, that has Apple’s free iTunes software installed and running,” but it “also allows you to access YouTube and to purchase music and TV shows from Apple, and rent movies from Apple, without the use of a computer.” [Apr 10, 2008]

Top pros put Aperture 2 to work in Two-Views Tour

Beginning this month, two of the best wedding photographers in the world — Joe Buissink and Yervant — visit multiple US cities as part of the “Two Views” seminar tour. In addition to offering marketing strategies and demonstrating camera techniques, the two award-winning and trend-setting photographers — both of whom use Aperture 2 — will discuss the value of Aperture in their capture-to-output workflow. Apple representatives will also be on hand to demo Aperture 2 for attendees. [Apr 10, 2008]

Time Capsule offers easy — wireless — data backup solution

Many of us don’t back up our computer because we think it’s too much trouble, suggests Hiawatha Bray (boston.com). But, thanks to Time Machine and Time Capsule, “data backup is easy for devotees” of the Mac, says Bray. “Without bothering the user, Time Machine preserves all the data on your computer, constantly updating any changes to your files.” And Time Capsule automates the process even further. Offering a “spacious place to store backed-up files,” it partners perfectly with Time Machine to “painlessly and wirelessly” back up one’s otherwise irreplaceable files. [Apr 10, 2008]

MacBook Air one Hot Green Product

“Apple’s new MacBook Air makes an impressive eco-conscious statement,” writes Paula Lehman (businessweek.com). “The new ultra-thin computer has a recyclable carrying case and was given a silver rating by the new Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) standard from the Green Electronics Council.” [Apr 10, 2008]

Uncovering the amulets of Seramon

Egyptologists have extracted amulets from the remains of mummies in the past. But before Dr. Samuel Mérigeaud made the amulets of Seramon the subject of his doctoral thesis, no one had done so non-invasively. Embalmers interred the ancient Theban priest with multiple glass, stone, and beeswax figurines placed inside his thoracic and abdominal cavities. And though they remain there still, X-ray tomography, VGStudio MAX 1.2.1, a Mac Pro, and two Apple Cinema displays have revealed them in spectacular fashion. See for yourself. [Apr 09, 2008]

Apple celebrates Tribeca Film Festival

For the fourth year in a row, Apple celebrates the Tribeca Film Festival and the spirit of independent filmmaking with a series of free events at the Apple Store, SoHo. From Filmmaker Talks (featuring such speakers as Paul Haggis, Tony Gilroy, and other actors, screenwriters, and directors) to filmmaking workshops (at the SoHo, West 14th Street, and Fifth Avenue Apple Retail Stores) all the events are free and open to the public. If you’re in New York later this month, be sure to drop in and enjoy the festivities. [Apr 09, 2008]

“Everyone can benefit from Time Capsule”

Though many people equate backing up with “doing taxes or changing the oil,” Dwight Silverman (Houston Chronicle) wants us to know that “Apple has come up with a hardware and software combination that makes backups almost effortless.” Silverman’s talking about Time Capsule — which offers high-speed wireless backup to a 500GB or 1TB hard drive — and Time Machine. An automatic backup utility, Time Machine is built right into Mac OS X Leopard, and Silverman considers it “the simplest backup solution available, bar none.” [Apr 09, 2008]

“Recording my first music album”

Macworld editor Jim Dalrymple has “been writing about the Mac for more than a decade.” The long-time guitarist also likes “to write and play blues-based hard rock.” Now, marrying the knowledge he has of Mac products with his love of music, Jim Dalrymple’s decided to write an album he plans to release worldwide on iTunes. “I’ll start with writing songs in GarageBand,” and he’ll keep us apprised of the process — and the Mac applications and peripherals that help him get the job done — in the Creative Notes blog he writes for Macworld. This is the first installment of those posts. [Apr 08, 2008]

Now Shipping: Final Cut Server

Apple today announced that it has begun shipping Final Cut Server, a powerful software solution for media asset management and workflow automation. A scaleable server application, Final Cut Server automatically catalogs large collections of assets, allows searching across multiple disks and SAN volumes, and enables viewing, annotation and approval of content from anywhere using a PC or Mac. “With the introduction of Final Cut Server, collaboration just got a whole lot easier for millions of editors, producers and clients who work with Final Cut Studio,” said Rob Schoeben, Apple’s vice president of Applications Product Marketing. [Apr 08, 2008]

Quick Tip of the Week: Exporting Keynote presentations

You created a great presentation in Keynote ‘08, and now you’re ready to hit the road with it. But before you go, take a few minutes to save your presentation in multiple formats. You may not know what equipment or conditions await you at your next stop, but Keynote lets you prepare for just about anything. Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week. [Apr 07, 2008]

Aperture 2.1 the “perfect digital image management program”

“At the end of the day, I don’t think you can currently do better than what Aperture has to offer,” concludes Erik Vlietinck (it-enquirer.com) in his review of Aperture 2.1. “It has a strong management system, excellent adjustments, a near-perfect RAW engine that gets basic corrections right in 99.90% of the cases as far as I can see, and support for plug-ins.” In awarding the application a five-star (out of five) rating, he applauds its “ vastly more streamlined” interface and its “dramatic speed boost.” And he points out that the quality of Aperture’s “built-in RAW adjustments — even in automatic mode — is simply stunning.” [Apr 07, 2008]

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