Mac OS X Tip of the Week: Erasing a Disk
If you ever need to erase a disk (a hard disk, CD-RW, DVD-RW, etc.) in Mac OS X, do you know what to do? If not, read this week’s tip to learn everything you need to know. [Feb 16, 200
iPod shuffle: “tiny, inexpensive and ever so cool” Bob Levitus writes for the Houston Chronicle, “It’s no secret that I think the iPod is a life-changing device and that anyone and everyone who cares about music even a little bit should experience the joy of iPod-ness. But until this year, the least expensive model cost $250, making an iPod more a luxury than a necessity. Now there’s iPod shuffle. Smaller and lighter than a pack of gum, the new littlest iPod sounds as good as or better than other iPods. And its simple controls make it as easy to use as other iPods.” [Feb 15, 2005]
A Merger of Art & Engineering
“Like just about anything Apple touches, iDVD is a merger of art and engineering,” writes Dave Nagel on Consumer Electronics Net. “Its interface and workflow are immaculate … iDVD is is pleasure to work with, and it does what you want to do in the easiest way possible.” [Feb 14, 2005]
Channeling Sundance
At the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, the Sundance Channel set up a postproduction facility — powered by Power Mac G5s, Xsan and Production Suite — in just over 4 days to broadcast the nightly festival news show “Festival Dailies.” The results, says the Sundance Channel’s president and CEO Larry Aidem, were “a quantum leap ahead of where these daily shows were the last time we did them.” [Feb 11, 2005]
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