The new LED Cinema Display features a stunning 24-inch LED-backlit widescreen display with built-in iSight video camera, mic, and speakers in an elegant, thin aluminum and glass enclosure.
Available in November for $899, the LED Cinema Display includes an integrated MagSafe charger, three USB 2.0 ports and a new Mini DisplayPort.
The new MacBook family redefines notebook design while dramatically lowering the entry price for advanced notebook features, including all-metal enclosures, pro-performance notebook graphics, brilliant instant-on LED-backlit displays, and new large, glass Multi-Touch trackpads.
The industry’s greenest notebooks, the entire MacBook family meets stringent Energy Star 4.0, EPEAT Gold, and RoHS environmental standards. Starting at $1,200, the new MacBook and 15-inch MacBook Pro are shipping now.
When you enter a participating Starbucks with an iPod touch, an iPhone, or a computer running the latest version of iTunes, you can access the iTunes Store and the Starbucks Now Playing content. To see if iTunes has arrived at your Starbucks, consult our list of participating Starbucks locations.
Connecting with an iPhone or iPod touch
Before attempting to connect to the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, be sure that the iPhone or iPod touch software is up to date. Learn how to update your iPhone or iPod touch software.
You will also need to sync your iPhone or iPod touch with a computer that has an iTunes Store account set up in iTunes. Doing so will sync your iTunes Store account to your iPhone or iPod touch. All subsequent purchases you make with this device via the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store will be charged to this iTunes Store account.
When you are in a participating Starbucks, select tmobile from the list of Wi-Fi networks on your iPhone or iPod touch. To find the list of Wi-Fi networks, tap Settings and then tap Wi-Fi. Then, on the Wi-Fi Networks screen, tap tmobile to join the network.
Once you have joined the T-Mobile network, you can connect to the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store. Press the Home button to return to the Home screen and then tap iTunes. You are now connected to the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store and will be able to buy and download music.
To access the Starbucks Now Playing content, simply tap the Starbucks icon. From this screen you can purchase the currently playing song, any of the last 10 songs played, or songs from featured Starbucks Collections.
Connecting with a portable computer
Before attempting to view the Starbucks Now Playing content, make sure you have the latest version of iTunes installed.
When you are in a participating Starbucks, select tmobile from your computer's list of Wi-Fi networks. If you have a Mac, you can learn how to join wireless networks here.
Once you are connected to the T-Mobile network, you can open iTunes and access the iTunes Store to see the Starbucks Now Playing content as shown below.
For all Mac Users, have it ever occur to you after you upgrade your Mac iTunes to version 8.0.1 ?
After updating to iTunes 8.0.1 and connecting iPhone or iPod touch an error message may occur:
MacBook Required
At the University of Maine, all students training to be teachers in the College of Education and Human Development have their own MacBook.
“With the MacBook,” explains Tim Hart, “we’ve removed any barriers to adoption.”
Flexible and stable, the Mac notebooks require minimal support and allow future teachers to concentrate on becoming truly innovative professionals.
"The Technology Committee … really settled on the Mac platform because of its flexibility. It’s so easy and seamless for students to move between all of the Apple applications, like the iLife suite."
— Tim Hart, Instructional Technologist, College of Education and Human Development, University of Maine
Our Store. Their time to shine.
Give your students an out-of-classroom experience they won’t forget by signing them up for a Field Trip at an Apple Retail Store.
On a Field Trip, your class can either use the store as their computer lab, creating fun projects on a Mac. Or they can bring in projects they’ve already created and delight parents, classmates, and teachers with their talent.
Ready to plan your Field Trip?
Create amazing projects.
Your students can use the Mac computers in our store to create photo albums in iPhoto, edit video in iMovie, build websites in iWeb, make Keynote presentations, or even compose their own songs in GarageBand.
Showcase their work.
If your students have already created amazing projects on Macs or PCs in school or at home, they can share them with others in our store and get the recognition they deserve for their talented work.
If you’re using Mac OS X Leopard, you know exactly where to find downloaded files.
The Downloads folder.
But did you know that Mac OS X Leopard can also help you remember whether you acquired those files from the Internet, an email, via iChat, or some other source?
Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
About RSS Menu
A systemwide menu that allows you to read and organize your favourite RSS or Atom feeds.
The articles are automatically updated and you will get a notification when new articles are available or when some other event occurs.
In addition to visual notification, you can also enable speech notification and choose one of the many built in voices.
It is also possible to integrate iTunes (for podcasts) and Safari (for RSS bookmarks) with RSS Menu.
Key features include:
- background application (doesn’t get in your way and is accessible from anywhere)
- very fast parsing engine
- importing and exporting of OPML files
- Growl and speech notification
- many options to customize the menu
- support for grouping feeds in submenus and adding seperators
- support for using RSS Menu as an external reader in Safari (or any other application)
- support for integration with iTunes and Safari
- support for favourite icons (aka page icons)
What’s New in this Version
- fixed a long standing bug that would prevent updating the feeds
Using Spaces — one of the great features in Mac OS X Leopard — you can stay organized and avoid desktop clutter by putting applications in their own Spaces:
Pages and Numbers in one; iTunes in another; Mail, iChat, and Safari in a third Space.
But what if you want to use Mail and iChat regardless of the Space your working in? Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
Did you know that your Mac can read aloud to you?
Mac OS X Leopard includes a cool Text to Speech function that makes the Mac speak selected text in text-based files — including web pages, email messages, spreadsheets, calendar entries, PDFs, text documents, Finder windows, and even iTunes.
Note that Text to Speech differs from VoiceOver, which provides more comprehensive control of speech and enables the blind or those with low vision to use a Mac.
Also, some applications that come with Mac OS X Leopard — including Mail, Calculator, and Chess — and some other Mac programs, such as FileMaker Pro, are “self-speaking” and provide speech capabilities that you can configure independently of the Text to Speech System Preference.
You don’t have to be a magician to make your Mac speak. In fact, the ability to speak text in email messages, Pages documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, and other text-based files is built in to every Mac. You turn it on in System Preferences, where you’ll find all the Text to Speech options made available to you in Mac OS X Leopard. You can read about them in the latest Pro Tip.
On a Mac, you can drag a file from Location A to Location B, moving the file from its old residence to a new one.
But what if you wanted two copies of the file: one at Location A and a second one at Location B? Or, here’s another option, what if you wanted the file to live at Location A but have an “alias” live on the Desktop?
Learn how you can drag yourself to all three outcomes by watching this week’s Quick Tip.
Check out their cool clips below:
