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Mon, 19 Jul 2004
Mac presentation flair for Microsoft Office 2004
Have you waited for Microsoft's 2004® upgrade for the Mac and finally gave Bill's grovelers their due? Well now you can look just as good as a PC widget! Thrilling isn't it? Don't dismay, here is something that will put a smile on your face and the Apple back in your eye. Powerbacks® from BlueWorx, a trend setting template library for PowerPoint® and Keynote, has just added its 3,000th template. Designer Gary Blue has put together a phenomenal package that in its essence is very Macish at heart.
Powerbacks® gives you the ability to stand up there and blow the rest of the swaggering PC filled agenda away. The downloads and CDs are filled with glorious graphic environments that would make Steve grin in glee and Bill gnash his teeth in envy. They will ripple off your laptop with a digital art suave creating waves of adulation from your audience and remind you why you bought a Mac in the first place.
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New photo host built on Macs
New photo host with many image processing tools built 100% on Mac's. The [url=http://www.onclickpix.com]OnClickPix.com[/url](OCP) system allows you to edit your photo's in so many ways its almost like having a professional photo editing application installed on your computer! We have spent several months developing the tools you need to resize and touch-up your photos though an online interface. You can resize, manipulate RGB colors, adjust quality, rotate/flip, enhance, adjust brightness/contrast, adjust Hue/Saturation/Luminesence, add your own watermarks, add text with transparency, and add borders. Version two will support image cropping, red eye removal, DPI adjustment, and a few more tools and enhancements. OCP is 100% mac compatable using Cold Fusion and Safari. Come by and try out a free account!
Apple Introduces 4G iPod
Apple® today introduced the new iPod®, the fourth generation of the world’s number one portable digital music player, featuring Apple’s patent pending Click Wheel, which combines the smooth and continuous scrolling of a touch-sensitive wheel with five push buttons for superior one handed navigation. The new iPod also features up to 12 hours battery life and Shuffle Songs, a new command in the main menu which gives users instant access to one of the most exciting new ways to listen to their music library. All iPods work effortlessly with Apple’s iTunes®, providing music fans with the best digital jukebox on either a Mac® or Windows computer and access to the iTunes Music Store, the number one digital music service in the world. The new iPod is available immediately in a 20GB model for $299 and a 40GB model for $399.
“The best digital music player just got better,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The fourth generation iPod features Apple’s amazing Click Wheel for superb one handed control, 12 hour battery life and the new Shuffle Songs command in the main menu—all in an even smaller design that puts up to 10,000 songs in your pocket.”
“HP has chosen iPod and iTunes as the best products to integrate in to our digital entertainment strategy,” said Carly Fiorina, chairman and chief executive officer at HP. “We decided to wait for this amazing new fourth generation iPod, as it will offer our customers an even better experience. HP’s version of the new iPod will be available in September.”
iPod features Apple’s patent pending Auto-Sync technology that automatically downloads an entire digital music library onto iPod and keeps it up-to-date whenever it is plugged into a Mac or Windows computer using FireWire® or USB. Users can transfer two songs per second from their Mac or Windows computer and can now conveniently charge iPod with either the included FireWire or USB cable.*
Pricing & Availability:
The new 20GB and 40GB iPods are available immediately for a suggested retail price of just $299 (US) for the 20GB iPod and $399 (US) for the 40GB iPod through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. Both iPods include earbud headphones, 1.2m 30-pin to FireWire cable, a 1.2m 30-pin to USB cable, and a CD with iTunes 4.6 for Mac and Windows computers. The 40GB model also includes an iPod dock.
Optional accessories with the following suggested retail prices include the iPod Dock for $39 (US) and in-ear headphones for $39 (US). Laser engraving is available for iPod for $19 (US) and can include two lines of text with up to 27 characters per line.
iPod requires a Mac with a FireWire port and Mac OS® X version 10.1.5 or later (Mac OS X v10.2 or later recommended); or a Windows PC with a FireWire or USB port, or a Windows-certified FireWire or USB card and Windows 2000, XP Home or Professional.