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MacBook Air now shipping; Apple TV Update coming soon
The world's thinnest notebook is now shipping, Apple announced today. MacBook Air measures an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest point. And at it's maximum height of 0.76-inches, it's less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks.
Quick Tip of the Week: Using Data Detectors
Data detectors"a new feature in Leopard Mail"lets you quickly create a new contact in your Address Book, map an address, or create an iCal event. How does it work and how can you take advantage of the data detectors in Mail? Watch the latest Quick Tip of the Week to find out.
Folding the Mac into Origami
A physicist by trade, Robert J. Lang also has a quite unique claim to fame as one of the world's foremost origami artists. In fact, he has a Pteranodon with a 14-foot wing span at permanent display at the Redpath Museum of Natural History and a long list of commissions and commercial projects waiting in the wings. And he uses his MacBook Pro, two software programs he authored, and Wolfram's Mathematica to help him conceptualize and map out each new creation.
Apple posts 2008 proxy statement online
Apple today made its 2008 proxy statements available online at www.apple.com/investor. The move, complying with the US Securities and Exchange Commission's new Notice and Access rule, allows Apple to significantly reduce the environmental impact of producing and delivering printed materials.
Doing extreme business on the Mac
"It's easy to ride, it's exciting, and it's dynamic." That's Frank Aguilar, waxing enthusiastic about Snowcycle, the snow-shredding board bike his company designed on a Mac. In fact, the Mac performs a pivotal role at the company. Slopecycle depends on virtually every phase of its business, including accounting, marketing, scheduling graphic design, and both audio and video production using Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro. "Most of us have never had any formal video training, but Final Cut Pro is so straightforward and powerful that we didn't really need it," says Aguilar.
Tickled pink over new iPod nano
With "Valentine's Day around the corner" Marc Saltzman (usatoday.com) tells us that "it pulled on my heart strings enough to report that Apple has added a pink iPod nano to its line-up, just in time for you to buy it for your sweetie." The new 8GB iPod nano "costs $199 and includes free engraving on the back and free shipping when purchased at Apple.com's web store."
Exciting updates make iPhone, iPod touch even more web savvy
"This week," reports Katerine Boehret (allthingsd.com), "I've been using an iPhone and iPod touch with" the recent Apple updates installed, "and I must say that both devices are much more useful and fun with these improvements." In particular, Boehret likes Web clip: they "give these gadgets a new sense of instant gratification because they direct users to specific Web pages seconds after the device turns on." And the iPod touch "now has the same stellar Mail program that is found in the iPhone, a real plus," she says.
Apple reports best quarterly revenue and earnings in its history
Announcing financial results for its fiscal 2008 first quarter, which ended December 29, 2007, Apple today posted revenue of $9.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.58 billion, or $1.76 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $7.1 billion and net quarterly profit of $1 billion, or $1.14 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. In attaining its highest revenue and earnings in company history, Apple shipped 2,319,000 Macs, a 44% unit growth and 47% revenue growth over the year ago quarter; sold 22,121,000 iPods, representing five percent unit growth and 17 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter; and sold 2,315,000 iPhones in the quarter.
Apple adds pink iPod nano
Just in time for Valentine's Day, a gorgeous new pink iPod nano joins the lineup of the world's most popular music player. The much-requested pink iPod nano features a stunning two-inch display for watching music videos, TV shows, or movies rented using the brand new iTunes Movie Rentals. Available immediately in an 8GB model for $199, the pink iPod nano can play up to 24 hours of audio or 5 hours of video on a single charge. In addition to pink, 8GB iPod nano models also come in silver, black, blue, green and a (PRODUCT) RED special edition.
Paul van Dyk: Digital Spin
DJ cum live music producer, Paul van Dyk weaves his own music on stage in real-time on a pair of 17-inch MacBook Pro computers running Logic Studio and Ableton Live. "Ever since I basically began making music, I've worked with Macs," he says. "They're in the studio as well as on the road. I've always had my Macs with me. They're an essential part of my music."
Apple introduces MacBook Air"the world's thinnest notebook
Apple today introduced the world's thinnest notebook: MacBook Air. It measures an unprecedented 0.16 inches at its thinnest point while its maximum height of 0.76 inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks. In addition to a stunning 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display, MacBook Air offers a full-size and backlit keyboard, a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing, and a spacious trackpad with multi-touch gesture support, letting users pinch, rotate and swipe. The new notebook is powered by a 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache, and it includes as standard features 2GB of memory, an 80GB 1.8-inch hard drive, and the latest 802.11n Wi-Fi technology and Bluetooth 2.1. Starting at just $1,799, MacBook Air begins shipping in two weeks.
New software update enhances revolutionary iPhone
iPhone Software Update 1.1.3, a free software update available today via iTunes 7.5 or later, brings significant new features to iPhone. After installing the update, iPhone customers will be able to automatically find their location using the redesigned Maps application; text message multiple people in one message; create Web Clips for their favorite websites; customize their home screen; and watch movies rented from the new iTunes Movie Rentals right on their iPhone.
Major software upgrade available for iPod touch
With the installation of this major software upgrade, the best iPod becomes even more: the world's best Wi-Fi mobile device. The upgrade"available from iTunes for just $19.99"adds five more great mobile applications to iPod touch: Mail, Maps, Stocks, Weather, and Notes. It also includes such new features as Web Clips, a customizable home screen, and the ability to watch iTunes Movie Rentals on iPod touch.
Apple announces new software for Apple TV; lowers price to $229
Available as a free automatic download later this month, the new software announced today lets movie fans rent movies on the iTunes Store directly from their widescreen TV. With iTunes Movie Rentals and Apple TV"and with no computer required"customers can effortlessly rent movies just by clicking a button on their remote. By the end of February, they'll be able to choose from a catalog of more than 1,000 titles, including over 100 titles in stunning high definition video with 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound. DVD-quality iTunes Movie Rentals cost just $2.99 for library titles and $3.99 for new releases. High-definition versions are just one dollar more with library titles at $3.99 and new releases at $4.99.
Introducing Time Capsule"wireless backup for all your Macs
A backup appliance that works seamlessly with Time Machine to automatically and wirelessly back up everything on one or more Macs running Mac OS X Leopard, Time Capsule combines an 802.11n base station with a server grade hard disk in one small package. "Bring Time Capsule home, plug it in, click a few buttons on your Macs and voilà"all the Macs in your house are being backed up automatically, every hour of every day," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. When it ships in February, Time Capsule will be available in models featuring 500GB and 1TB hard drives for $299 and $499, respectively.
Introducing iTunes Movie Rentals
Available today with the free download of iTunes 7.6, iTunes Movie Rentals allows customers to rent movies for as little as $2.99 and watch them on their Macs or PCs, all current generation iPods, iPhone and Apple TV. Featuring movies from all the major movie studios"20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Lionsgate and New Line Cinema"iTunes Movie Rentals is expected to offer more than 1,000 movie titles by the end of February, including over 100 titles featuring stunning high definition video with 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound. Movies can be rented directly from a widescreen TV using Apple TV.
Introducing iTunes Digital Copy
Twentieth Century Fox and Apple today announced iTunes Digital Copy for iTunes, which provides customers who purchase a DVD of a Fox movie title with an additional Digital Copy of the movie. The iTunes Digital Copy can be transferred effortlessly to iTunes and then viewed on a PC or Mac, iPod with video, iPhone or on Apple TV"just like a movie purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store. In fact, the first DVD to debut with iTunes Digital Copy is being released in stores today. It's the Special Edition DVD premiere of the Family Guy "Star Wars" parody, "Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest," and the first of many more to come.
Drew Wharton: A Day in A Seal's Life
Together with his intrepid film crew, documentary filmmaker Drew Wharton often found himself within feet of enormous bellowing 4,500 pound alpha males clashing mightily over females in estrus. It is A Seal's Life, after all. The film (which debuted at the Monterey Bay Aquarium) tells the story of the world's largest seal species"the northern Elephant Seal"behemoths that come ashore once a year to give birth, molt, and mate. "Apple technology saves me a ton of time and money," notes Wharton, who edited the film in Final Cut Studio. "Our whole workflow is based on Macs, from field acquisition to post production. A Seal's Life was made on a Mac from start to finish"for me, it didn't make sense to do it any other way."
Articulating the Wisconsin Idea
From iTunes U, which lets students take educational podcasts on the road; to the computational tools running on Xserves, which allow students to see and explore the structure, function, and behavior of molecules; to the Digital Academic Television Network, which delivers live TV via a network connection using QuickTime as a client), Macintosh computers, servers, and software help educators articulate the "Wisconsin Idea." Erasing completely the "borders of learning," they depend on the Mac to let learning go on"for students and teachers alike"anywhere and at anytime.
"Great games" available for iPod
Marc Saltzman (usatoday.com) offers another reason to love your iPod: "great games. More than 20 downloadable digital diversions are now offered including Ms. Pac-Man,Sudoku,Texas Hold "Em and soon, Pole Position: Remix, based on Namco's early '80s arcade racing game." In his CyberSpeak column, Saltzman also takes a close look at two of the latest games for iPod, "Peggle" and "Phase."
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