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Now Available: FileMaker Pro 10
[ http://www.filemaker.com/products/fmp/index.html?sr=hotnews ]FileMaker today announced the availability of FileMaker Pro 10. The new version of its award-winning software features a sleek new interface and intuitive new design. For example, database users can now place frequently used FileMaker features in the redesigned and customizable Status Toolbar, resulting in streamlined navigation, better workflow, and time-saving shortcuts.
(Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:55:23 PST)
Quick Tip of the Week: Selecting multiple email messages
[ http://www.apple.com/business/theater/#tutorial=selectmailmessages?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss ]Ever receive multiple, related email messages that you’d like to file in the same folder or delete? You could delete or drag them into a folder one message at a time. But in Mail, you can save time by deleting or filing all the messages at once. Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
(Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:02:46 PST)
App Store pioneering “a new kind of business”
[ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/technology/personaltech/02apps.html?_r=1&ref=technology&?sr=hotnews ]“The new status symbol,” report Matt Richtel and Laura M. Holson (nytimes.com) “is what your phone can do — count calories, teach Spanish, simulate a flute, or fling a monkey from a tree.” While some “programs can genuinely help productivity,” others are simply “jaw-dropping“ fun. The apps, say the authors, “have become a form of social currency” that is driving “a new kind of business.”
(Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:33:27 PST)
Smashing Research at CERN
[ http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/briancox/?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss ]“The 17-inch MacBook Pro is my main computer,” says Brian Cox. A particle physicist, Cox works at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, which scientists will soon use to try to recreate the “Big Bang.” Cox uses the Mac because it can run both UNIX for research and productivity apps for everything else. And he’s not alone. “When you look around a physics conference now,” he says, “you see more Macs than anything else.”
(Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:13:27 PST)
App Store Pick of the Week: The Weather Channel
[ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=295646461&mt=8?sr=hotnews ]If you’re traveling this holiday season, be sure to take the Weather Channel with you. Yes, everyone’s favorite source for weather now takes to the road on iPhone and iPod touch. The Weather Channel app offers location-based weather, customizable weather maps, and severe weather alerts. You can even share a weather alert or forecast by emailing it from your iPhone or iPod touch.
(Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:22:56 PST)
Interested in Science?
[ http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/wgbh.org.1387053431?sr=hotnews ]Then you’ll enjoy the Forum Network Lectures brought to us by WGBH. In the mostly video lectures, we hear noted planetologists, mathematical physicists, authors, and biologists explore such subjects as the birth and death of stars, the canopy ecosystem of coastal redwoods, and time travel. Come and “entertain your brain” with the Cambridge Forum Network Lectures on iTunes U.
(Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:09:17 PST)
Coming Attractions: Defiance
[ http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount_vantage/defiance/?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss ]In Defiance, the four Bielski brothers (played by Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, and George MacKay) recruit Jewish refugees to the Belarussian forest, where they ultimately build a 1200-person strong force of resistance fighters. The film, directed by Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai), opens in theaters on December 31.
(Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:02:23 PST)
Tapping the power of podcasting
[ http://www.apple.com/business/profiles/ocsd/?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss ]To effectively train and communicate with its 4,000 staff members, 800 reserve personnel, and nearly 20 divisions, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department found a great solution in podcasts. Unfortunately, it could take weeks for the department’s video staff to produce and deliver their podcasts in a variety of formats. Until, that is, Podcast Producer turned weeks of arduous production into mere hours of automated production.
(Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:06:44 PST)
Quick Tip of the Week: Bookmark Multiple Tabs
[ http://www.apple.com/business/theater/#tutorial=multipletabs?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss ]Did you know that in Safari, you can easily bookmark multiple sites at the same time? Or that once you save your new collection of bookmarks, you can open them all at once in separate tabs? Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
(Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:07:40 PST)
David Fincher: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
[ http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/action/button/?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss ]It has already been nominated for multiple prestigious film awards. Yet, one of the curiosities about “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is that so little of the film was actually shot on film. In fact, most footage was captured digitally on HD cameras directly to hard drive. Then, the $150 million dollar film was post-produced in Final Cut Pro using a completely tapeless digital HD workflow from camera to final output.
(Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:37:19 PST)
Mac OS X Pro Tip: Super-clean screenshots
[ http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/screenshots.html?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss ]Yes, you have a number of simple ways to capture screenshots in Mac OS X Leopard. Some may require you to use an image editing application to remove unwanted elements. But one lets you save clean screenshots of Finder windows, menus, and icons. Find out how by reading the latest Mac OS X Pro Tip.
(Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:52:01 PST)
Study Less. Remember More.
[ http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/tamu-public.1449877921?sr=hotnews ]Deep in the heart of Texas, they’ve learned a thing or two about successful study habits. And you can, too. Just by listening to Wired Study Tips. Brought to us by the Continuing and Professional Studies Office at Texas A&M University, the tips are just a few minutes long but offer great advice that, thanks to iTunes U, we can all take advantage of.
(Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:35:00 PST)
Coming Attractions: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
[ http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/thecuriouscaseofbenjaminbutton/?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss ]Ever wish you could grow younger with the years? Then you’ll want to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Coming to theaters on Christmas Day, the film, based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was written by Eric Roth and directed by David Fincher. It stars Brad Pitt as Benjamin and Cate Blanchett as Daisy. Do the two lovers grow old together?
(Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:30:00 PST)
Taking the MainStage with Nine Inch Nails
[ http://www.apple.com/logicstudio/action/?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss ]When Nine Inch Nails went on tour, there used to be “racks of equipment that we had to carry around to reproduce all the different elements,” explains Keyboard and Sound Technician Mat Mitchell. Now all they need is a MacBook Pro and Logic Studio. With MainStage, says Trent Reznor, “I can do all of my synth work, and my guitar rig, and my vocal processing in an understandable graphic interface that’s easy to change.”
(Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:12:20 PST)
Now Available: Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 2.4
[ http://support.apple.com/downloads/Digital_Camera_Raw_Compatibility_Update_2_4?sr=hotnews ]If you use Aperture 2 or iPhoto ’08, the free update extends RAW file compatibility to eight additional cameras, including the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon PowerShot G10, Pentax K2000K-m, Leica M8.2, and four camera systems from Leaf, including the AFi-II 6, AFi-II 7, Aptus-II 6, and Aptus-II 7.
(Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:35:31 PST)
Charity Checks: the Gift of Giving
[ http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2008/12/charitychecks/?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss ]Run completely on Macs, Charity Checks is a giving program that lets you make contributions to any charity while your gift recipient chooses the cause. With Charity Checks everyone comes out a winner.
(Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:28:26 PST)
Dave “Switch” Taylor: Producing M.I.A.
[ http://www.apple.com/logicstudio/action/switch/?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss ]Others might consider his mobile — and home — studio sparse, but producer Dave “Switch” Taylor has all he needs in his ”MacBook Pro, Logic, the Apogee Duet, and a set of Adam S3A monitors.” It’s what he used to record and produce Kala, Maya “M.I.A.” Arulpragasm’s last album, even allowing the pair to “capture open-air, off-the-street vocals, instrumentals, and serendipitous ‘noise’ into Taylor’s mic’d MacBook Pro.”
(Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:41:12 PST)
See the new tutorial in the Science Productivity Lab
[ http://www.apple.com/science/productivitylab/#tutorial=sharingpresentations?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss ]Great for text messaging and video conferencing, iChat offers a new feature — screen sharing — that lets colleagues (in the science lab or the office) collaborate in exciting new ways. For example, you could drag a file from your Mac and drop it on your colleague’s desktop. Or use iChat Theater to give a full-screen presentation in real-time — while you continue to video chat. Take a look.
(Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:51:46 PST)
A great new resource for businesses
[ http://www.apple.com/business/resources/?sr=hotnews.rss ]If you run a business, you know how helpful it is to have one place to go to find most of the information you need. That’s why we created the new Resources page on the Apple Business site. With close to 100 white papers, tech previews, QuickStart guides, user manuals, and tech overviews, it offers a rich collection of information on file sharing, mail services, collaboration services, storage and backup, and more.
(Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:47:10 PST)
App Store Pick of the Week: iBird Explorer Backyard
[ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=297644123&mt=8?sr=hotnews ]If birds are visiting your backyard this winter, your iPhone or iPod touch can help you identify the species coming to your feeders. With iBird Explorer Backyard — a true multimedia field guide — you can hear bird songs, read behavior and identification notes, view range maps, and see both illustrations and color photos of birds. (Want to see all the versions of the iBird field guides available in the App Store?)
(Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:42:01 PST)
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