Below we have collected links to some of the most useful
Macintosh related information you'll need if you have to make
the 'Mac argument' in your place of work, school, home or
social gathering. Use this information wisely!
Why
Mac, Why not Windows? - Apple Toots Its Own Horn
Pilots
Document Vietnam - the movies these pilots shot during
the most exciting and horrifying time of their lives have
been integrated into a new two-hour documentary, produced
by Storyteller Films, edited on a Power Macintosh G4 with
Final Cut Pro, and presented by the History Channel
Kroger
- Kroger works with Cincinnati photographer Kim D. M. Simmons
of Si Onecall studios, who relies on his digital cameras
and Apple¡s ColorSync to do the job. ColorSync is a patented,
color-matching technology built right in to the Mac OS that
helps Simmons shoot images of Kroger ice cream that are
consistently true-to-color † and realistic
K-12
Imagine - Wildwood School - Thanks to its integration
of Apple technology, says Wildwood Library Media and Technology
Coordinator Karen Percak, Wildwood has been able to do an
enviable job of addressing its students¡ wide range of educational
needs, and has maintained an unswerving standard of academic
excellence.
Science
& Technology - USC Radiation Oncology - the University
of Southern California (USC) Department of Radiation Oncology
began developing, in house, its own treatment simulation
software in the mid-1980s. Using the Macintosh, one of USC¡s
top radiation physicists created a state-of-the-art 3D virtual
simulation and pre-treatment planning system in his spare
time, at very little expense
Education
- Stanford Academy for New Media - Could this Desktop
Movie be an escapee from ÀMike¡s Twisted Festival of Animation”?
No, it¡s just your (not so) average end-of-class project
at Stanford University¡s Academy for New Media. And it was
all made possible by Schoen¡s fertile imagination¸ with
some generous assistance from Power Mac G4 computers and
Final Cut Pro
The
Orphanage - The Orphanage was asked to beta-test Apple¡s
new authoring tool, DVD Studio Pro. At last, they had a
chance to create the DVD portfolio they¡d always dreamed
of. There was just one catch: They needed the portfolio
for the Sundance Festival † and that meant a production
schedule of a mere five days
Science
& Technology - The Advanced Computation Group -
Not everyone realizes that Apple continues to focus on cutting-edge
research in computation. To help satisfy the curiosity of
our many technical customers, we are proud to present this
overview of the Advanced Computation Group. We hope this
will prove a useful reference for interested researchers,
teachers, students, and programmers
Science
& Technology - Designing Maks on a Mac - There was
a time, not long ago, when Yuri Petrunin built opto-mechanical
devices for nuclear power plants in the former Soviet Union.
That is, until one day, he walked right out of his homeland
and into the United States. Eventually, he built a healthy,
growing company in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains,
building finely crafted Maksutov astronomical telescopes.
And he does it all on his Macintosh
Apple
(UK and Ireland) - Newstec 2001 - Newstec 2001, the
UK¡s largest dedicated news publishing event, which takes
place at the Metropole Hotel in Brighton from May 21st to
23rd, will see Apple underline its commitment to one of
its most important marketplaces. We¡ll be demonstrating
the Mac as the hub of a newspaper workflow and showcasing
our industry-leading solutions for the print, pre-press
and advertising industries
Final
Cut Pro at Kent State - With its combination of Power
Macs, PowerBooks, digital cameras, giant plasma screen,
and high-speed wireless networking, Kent State¡s Carl E.
Hirsch Media Lab provides all of the tools young journalists,
videographers and producers need to cultivate skills for
a new era of electronic communications
Apple
- Hot News - Evan and Jaron - The Evan and Jaron touring
PowerBook is equipped with Digital Performer for recording
audio, iMovie and Final Cut Pro for editing footage shot
on the road and iTunes for making MP3 copies of their newest
songs to send to their friends via email
Apple
- Hot News - Sifl N Olly's Liam Lynch - I started making
up stories and songs at a really young age. I think it actually
started with GI Joe dolls when I was 5 or 6 years old. I
would get into extremely elaborate plots that would go on
for days. It was kind of like a soap opera,” explains
Liam Lynch, the creator of MTV’s hit series “Sifl
N Olly,” who now tells his stories with Final Cut Pro.
Apple
- Small Business - Defying Gravity with the Mac - Bream’s
business, Gravity Skateboards, sells skateboards, accessories,
and clothing into over 600 accounts. With help from Macintosh
computers and software such as Final Cut Pro and MYOB, Gravity
Skateboards continues to cruise at top speed
Apple
- K-12 Imagine - Hawthorne Option School - Hudson calls
Apple’s introduction of the wireless technology a “godsend”
for Hawthorn Option. By placing six AirPort Base Stations
around the building, Hudson and his team were able to create
“zones” in which teachers could instantly access
the Internet
Apple
- Hot News - Mixing via Rocket - Although Rocket Network
works on both Mac and PC platforms, Trott, Crow and Tickle
chose Macs when it came to recording and mixing “Kiss
the Girl.”
Apple
- Hot News - Jordan Miller - “Most kids his age
are playing Nintendo. Jordan’s at this huge editing
bay at home, playing Apple Final Cut Pro,” says Brian
Wimmer, former “China Beach” star and X-Dance
organizer who saw Jordan’s work and invited him to
participate in the festival
Apple
- Hot News - Motion Theory - Mathew Cullen, who studied
graphic design at Loyola Marymount, and Javier Jimenez,
who was a communications and film student at UCLA, doubt
it would have been financially possible for them to set
Motion Theory in motion without the Mac
Apple
- Science & Technology - Webcasts: Visual Communication
Via the Web - Right before each webcast begins, the
webmaster activates QuickTime Streaming Server and Real
Media encoding software on two PowerMac G4s that digitize
the audio and video signals for streaming on the web. Using
Picturetel videoconferencing units on both ends, the remote
location is connected to the museum floor — and the
show begins.
Final
Cut Film Pro: Bob Sarles - I've been editing on film,
video tape and on non-linear editing systems dating back
to Lucasfilm's non-linear EditDroid in the mid-'80s,' says
Bob Sarles, filmmaker, producer and editor for Ravin' Films.
ÒI have seen many changes during my 21-year career. The
advent of Final Cut Pro means that there is finally an affordable
editing system that really works.'
Creative
- The Sacramento Bee - ÒMy very first video took two
days to shoot, but only because we'd never done video before,
so we were feeling our way through. Then it took me a day
to edit it in Final Cut Pro, and we had it on a loading
dock that night. It was a piece of cake. We basically paid
for the entire system with the first video we made.'
Snow
Hill: Making videos for the greater good - ÒWith our
old digital editing system, we used to have to digitize
in low res, and then res up when we were making our final
output,' says Thomas. ÒAnd this never looked as good as
the uncompressed video. It's great to use Final Cut Pro,
which allows us to work with the uncompressed original video.'
Breaking
New Journalistic Ground - Equipped with a digital video
camera, a PowerBook G3, and a translator, Fox captured a
powerful set of stories about a retired widow forced to
sell heirlooms on the street; a family of refugees who fled
Kosovo after NATO's victory; a Serbian rock group formerly
banned from the state media; and two leaders of a resistance
youth organization who played a role in bringing down Milosevic
Mac,
Music & Mac - Since he bought his first Mac more
than a decade ago, Kurtis Mantronik has owned virtually
every kind of Mac. He's also discovered that the Macintosh
has become a critical tool in overall creative process
Small
Business - The Norm - Michael Jantze, creator of the
comic strip ÒTHE NORMª,' is anything but normal. Using his
Mac, Jantze developed a digital brochure that inspired a
major syndicating company to not only take on his comic
strip, but also develop its own Internet presence
A
Mac On Every Desk - how big of a support staff does
it take to manage and integrate 115 processor-intensive
computers in three different time zones for a high profile
branding and design consultancy? Before answering, throw
in a dozen printers, including a $100,000 30-page-per-minute
color laser printer. And then add managing a robust phone
system
Creating
The Digital Highschool - Fremont High School Advanced
Placement Biology teacher John McGee used to spend most
of his class time tied to the blackboard, lecturing. Now
he strolls around the classroom, answering questions, elaborating
on a concept in his PowerPoint lecture slides, and directing
students to web movies and simulations on iBook computers
International
Music Products Association - For a Mac user the show
spotlights a plethora of tools for learning, composing,
performing, mixing and producing music, even if you've never
touched a musical instrument before.
Previsioning
Special Effects - Behind the closed doors of JAK Films,
movie makers are deploying a new force for pre-planning
visual effects sequences in films. This method is pre-visualization,
and the prophecies are written on Macs.
The
Florida Educational Technology Conference - Vedoe, one
of the featured speakers at the conference, described Apple's
solutions in the areas of student achievement, teacher professionalism
and administrative leadership
Desktop
Movies Help Business Students Strike The Right Notes
- Professor of Economics Jeffrey Weiss now, as a supplement
to his in-class lectures, his honors MBA students at Baruch's
Zicklin School of Business are watching Desktop Movies of
the presentations. And in their professor's estimation,
their retention levels just may be higher than that of their
pencil-wielding colleagues.
Michael
Phillips Finds Creative Freedom - A neuromuscular disease
may have robbed AppleMaster Michael Phillips of the use
of his arms and legs, but it hasn't kept him from fulfilling
his potential as a straight-A student, digital artist and
source of inspiration to people with physical disabilities
Recording
in the Outback ...Mix via the Internet - Behind the
scenes of America's current favorite "real-life' program,
which begins its second installment Jan. 28 on CBS, some
of the hottest technologies in the world have just recorded
and beamed the new Australian "Survivor' theme song
across the worldÑfrom Australia to HollywoodÑvia Macs on
the Rocket Network
Joseph
Cartright - FireWire was the only way to go.All other
cameras other than those that use FireWire use a big, bulky
cable that have a certain limit to them, about 12 to 15
feet. FireWire is a thin cable, it's flexible, and you can
go up to 200 feet with it. That's the real day-to-day use
advantage
Apple
Masters Asia - At an inaugural event in Singapore, Apple
celebrates 18 leading athletes, musicians, artists, educators
and civic leaders from five countries Ñ Hong Kong, Singapore,
Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines
Why Mac, Why not Windows? - General
The
Death of a Thousand Stings - What I am going to talk
about are the day-to-day annoyances of Windows 95 -- the
grab-bag of glitches, quirks, and nuisances that make my
typical Wintel PC workday feel like an eight-hour struggle
with a temperamental mule.
What's
Mac Got To Do With It - The Apple Creative markets team
went backstage to find out how Macs drive one of the most
exciting stage shows in the biz today.
From artists and teachers to aerospace
engineers, everyone agrees: you don't have to be a rocket
scientist to use a Mac. But in the case of independent research
scientist Andrew Santangelo, it doesn't hurt.
Defending
Apple - Apple has managed to relight its fire based
on nothing more than a pent-up demand for hot-looking computers.
We cannot deny this. The sad part about this is that the
PC world has been unable to counter any of this with advanced
designs.
A
new Mac: Not only has Apple recovered, but it's thriving
- a few years ago, I stated my shaken faith publicly. I
was quoted in the New York Times in April 1998 - the darkest
time for those of using the One True Operating System -
saying, "I bought my last Macintosh last year
Army
Bombs NT, Buys Mac - Because of a wave of cracker attacks,
the Army has at least temporarily replaced Microsoft's Web
server software with an obscure Macintosh server on its
flagship Web site.
The Apple Online
Museum - The Apple Online Museum is dedicated to the
history of Apple Computer, Inc. The Apple Online Museum
is a comprehensive database of historical facts and information
on the company and their products
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