The London interactive agency Hi-ReS! builds intriguingly imperfect, immersive experiences with the help of Mac applications such as Adobe Creative Suite, Final Cut Studio, Logic, and Autodesk Maya. "The Mac puts everything in one place," says Hi-ReS! Creative Director Florian Schmitt. "Especially with the new MacBook Pro. For the first time, we have the power to do anything anywhere."
In it's annual tribute to innovation, Businessweek invites us to meet the "world's 50 most innovative companies." Foremost among them is Apple. "Our repeat winner has rocked the wireless handset world with the iPhone, spurring rivals to imitate the touch-screen design. After just nine months on sale, it's already No. 3 in the global smartphone market." Indeed, Apple not only leads the overall rankings but also tops the Consumer Products and Technology categories and comes in second in the Entertainment and fourth in the Retail categories.
While Mother's Day will be here before you know it, you still have plenty of time to get Mom something really special. Simply use the photos you have in your iPhoto or Aperture library to create a gift she'll treasure for years to come. If you place your order by May 11 and use our special offer code, you can even save 20% on the cost of your custom photo book. (Order by May 4 if you'd like her to receive it in time for Mother's Day.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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."
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.
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.
"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."
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.
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.
The version of Preview that comes with Mac OS X Leopard is "more than just a fast and efficient program for reading PDFs," writes Kirk McElhearn (macworld.com). Using the latest version of Preview, you can "enhance your images, annotate and merge PDFs, print multiple images on one page, and more"all without opening a specialized (and often expensive) image editor or PDF tool." Take a look.