Update:Apple to ship DVD Studio Pro 2 August 18

Apple today announced that DVD Studio Pro 2 , a new application re-designed to simplify professional DVD authoring with what they say is a "breakthrough" user interface, will be available through Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers beginning August 18. Starting today, customers can place their orders on Apple's Web site. New features include Apple-designed, fully customizable templates, an innovative menu editor, timeline-based track editing and a new MPEG-2 encoder. The English language version of DVD Studio Pro 2. Localized versions in German, French and Japanese will be available in September.

Apple AirPort software update

Apple has released AirPort Software 3.1.1, which includes version 5.1.1 of the AirPort Extreme base station firmware. According to the release notes, the update "is recommended for all users with an AirPort Extreme enabled computer or an AirPort Extreme base station." However, the other improvements listed are identical to those provided with the AirPort 3.1 release. Version 3.1.1 is available via the Mac OS X Software Update preference pane.

Macworld Expo may not move to Boston after all

In an article for the Boston Herald this morning, Scott Van Voorhis writes that Macworld Expo's planned return to Boston next year may not happen after all. According to the article, David Korse, the new head of IDG World Expo (organizers of the show), has "launched an in-depth study on the merits of New York vs. Boston." In fact, IDG has already canceled a block of hotel rooms previously booked for the Expo period.

Apple Professional Development Online launched

Apple has launched Apple Professional Development Online (APDO), a new program that offers a "dynamic learning environment" for K-12 teachers, administrators and university faculty. APDO includes a number of online courses, educator resources, and a library of professional articles and research "designed to keep you abreast of the latest developments in educational technology."

Apple 'on target to ship all G5 orders this month

Apple said that it remains on target to ship all Power Mac G5 orders this month, according to Forbes . "Rumor has it that advance orders have been strong for the company's eagerly awaited Power Mac G5... While other rumors about a possible inventory shortage may be unfounded, it wouldn't be the first time Apple has faced such issues during a surge in demand for a popular product... An Apple spokeswoman says the company remains on target to ship all orders for G5 machines this month."
In my opinion will have to wait and see, i still remember that the same thing was said when Apple introduced the G4, and for us in Canada, even on my advance order, they where late by almost 5 month, then we just got our iSight Cam oreder placed 7 weeks ago, and the same goes for the iPod.

Navy Buys Linux Powered X-Serves

"A company that specializes in running Linux on Macs said Wednesday that it has landed a deal to supply the U.S. Navy with 260 Apple Xserve servers. Terra Soft Solutions said the machines will be used as part of a sonar imaging system that defense contractor Lockheed Martin is building for the Navy. Rather than using the Mac OS, the Apple servers will run Terra Soft's Yellow Dog Linux operating system." (Source CNET)

Apple & "Phish" Week End

Apple and Phish recently teamed together at Phish's It Festival in Maine. Apple provided 23 iMacs with CD-R drives allowing fans to burn from 150 live tracks that were on each iMac. Each was greeted with a CD-R and instructions, and the tents had lines practically around the clock. In addition, Phish rented a 100,000 watt transmitter and broadcast the concert live over the radio using iTunes and an iMac.

New Apple Rumour

Apple's new iTunes Car Stereo should debut this fall for holiday sales season

Apple to offer New DVD Studio Pro 2.0 at lower Price

Apple's DVD software aims for wider appeal

Apple has announced that it will release version 2.0 of its high-end DVD-creation software DVD Studio Pro later this month at a dramatically lower price and with a simpler interface.

In need of phone help? Get Phone Valet

Your telephone can be a lifeline to the outside world, and a source of irritation. Instead of hiring a personal assistant, let PhoneValet screen and dial calls, look up phone numbers and maintain phonebooks. With PhoneValet you can focus on the important tasks in life and work.

Built from the ground up to harness the power of Mac OS X, PhoneValet includes all the hardware and software you need to get more out of your existing telephones! The majority of people will be using PhoneValet within 10 minutes of taking it out of the box.

More info at: www.phonevalet.com

A full Test Review of this product is underway; -Will report on it soon in the Digital Dispatch

The Digital Dispatch open Web Site

The Digital Dispatch as open it's own web site.
Pay us a visit, at:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/drhugo/index.html

The new site Was build using Freeway Express.

A review of Freeway Express will be available in the next issue of the Digital Dispatch #30

Much work is still needed, but it's a start.

New Books from Peachpit Press

- New from Peachpit Press:
* Final Cut Express Hands-On Training
* The Non-Designer's Design Book, 2nd Edition

- New from Adobe Press:
* Adobe Acrobat Standard 6.0 Classroom in a Book

- New from Apple Pro Training:
* Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Express

- New from New Riders:
* The Photoshop Elements Book for Digital Photographers
* QuarkXPress 6 Killer Tips

- New from New Riders Games (NRG):
* Developing Games in Java

- New Visual QuickStart/QuickPro Guides:
* QuarkXPress 6 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
* WebObjects 5 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide
* Cubase SX for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

Have a look at: www.peachpit.com

O'Reilly/Pogue Press Releases "iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual"

Make Memorable Movies with iMovie 3

-While a car is an essential component of a memorable
road trip, a map--though somewhat smaller in scale and price tag--can
steer you clear of dead ends, intractable terrain, and save hours of
driving in frustrating circles, not to mention your marriage. Likewise,
one handy, inexpensive guide can make the difference between soporific
home movies that take far too much of your life to produce and oeuvres
that your audience actually enjoys watching: David Pogue's "iMovie 3 &
iDVD: The Missing Manual" (O'Reilly/Pogue Press).

Apple's free iMovie software made history by tearing down the barriers
to pro-quality filmmaking. Version 3 of this powerful and popular
software offers audio enhancements, slick new photo effects, and
integration with iTunes and iPhoto. But, notes David Pogue, the
personal-technology columnist for the "New York Times" and one of the
world's bestselling how-to authors, "iMovie may be simple, but it isn't
simplistic. Unfortunately, many of the best techniques aren't covered
in the only 'manual' you get with iMovie--its sparse electronic help
screens."

Kasasoft offer 2 great apps: Translation Service & HTML Character Converter

Translation Service allows you to replace the selected text with a translation in any of several languages—in just one click. It works in any Mac OS X program, so you don't have to copy and paste text back and forth.

HTML Character Converter allows you to encode special characters into HTML. In just one click, it converts accented characters, characters in foreign alphabets, special punctuation marks, and more. It works in any Mac OS X program, so you don't have to copy and paste text back and forth.

Find demos of thes two apps. at: http://homepage.mac.com/azc/

Reviews to be found in the next issue #30 of the Digital Dispatch

iWork for you!

iWork is an easy to use time-billing and invoicing application. It integrates with iCal and Address Book, offers tax support and easily generates custom invoices. This is the most intuitive time-billing application out there. Essential for anyone self employed. Try it, you won't be disappointed.
demo of iwork available at: www.iggsoftware.com/iwork/

Review of iWork to be expected in the next issue of the Digital Dispatch #30

Mac Users get your Machine to Speak!

Speak! .....Convenient toolbar menu: speaks what you've typed
find it at: http://home.comcast.net/~snakeo/

Review of Speak to be found in the next issue of the Digital Dispatch #30

Mac Freelancer: Get Ahead with Konstruktor Pro

Konstruktor Pro is a project management solution for small businesses and
freelancers, who want a simple and effective project management tool. Its powerful
project management features allow users to manage projects, invoices,
customers/suppliers, expenses and much more.

The demo version of Konstruktor Pro is fully functional allowing users to manage up
to 7 projects. It can be downloaded from the following locations:
http://www.application.dk/app2/en/Konstruktor_Pro.zip
http://home1.stofanet.dk/appdk/Konstruktor_Pro.zip

Review of the product to be found in the next issue of the Digital Dispatch # 30

iPod It 2.0.1 Released

Version 2.0.1 of iPod It is now available for download . This release includes a number of fixes, including problems for people that don’t have Entourage, and the ability to transfer iCal To Do items to version 1.3 iPods . It can be found at: www.zapptek.com/

Review of iPod It to be found in the next issue of the Digital Dispatch #30

Deal Alert!: If You own Premiere, Apple will give you Final cut Pro Express In Exchange

Trade in, trade up. It’s free.Get Final Cut Express for FREE when you trade in your Adobe Premiere install CD. Simply send in your Adobe Premiere install CD (Mac or Windows) and the attached redemption coupon to Apple. A new, complete package with the latest version of Final Cut Express will
be mailed directly to you. Offer available through September 20, 2003, by mail only. Even the shipping is Free! This is a Super Deal. Visit Apple at www.apple.com for more info.

@last Software release SketchUp 3.0 - Moving Design Beyond the Napkin!

@Last Software, Inc. is proud to announce the eighth release of their award-winning 3-D design software, SketchUp. Developed with the goal of putting 3-D modeling into the hands of the masses, SketchUp is design software for any one who loves to sketch on napkins.

SketchUp 3.0 adds a multitude of new features designed to help users create superior models and then take them into 3-D modeling, CAD, image editing, illustration and animation applications on both Macintosh OS X and Windows platforms.

Animation and multimedia professionals can quickly create everything from light fixtures to entire cities in SketchUp and then output the models as AVI, MOV or QuickTime files for use in animation and multimedia presentations.

About SketchUp
SketchUp is a completely new way to design in 3-D on the computer due to its unique user interface the enables quick and easy 3-D form creation, viewing and modification. Sophisticated enough for complex projects yet easy enough for beginners, SketchUp allows everyone from Architects to hobbyists to design in 3-D. And it plays well with others! Files can be exchanged with CAD, 3-D modeling, image editing, illustration, and animation applications. SketchUp for Windows and Macintosh OS X is available worldwide in English, French, German, Swedish and Japanese.

Visit http://www.sketchup.com to download a free trial of SketchUp and to purchase or upgrade to 3.0

Keynoteuser.com has released their much anticipated "Frames" presentation

Frames was designed with business professionals in mind, so it has a clean
neutral grey color, yet is still flashy enough to remind the viewer that
this is not PowerPoint.

Because of the way Frames was put together, the layouts can be mixed and
matched, and you can use the included building pieces and tutorials to
create your own custom slide layouts.

Frames comes in 3 flavors, and each "set" of slides comes in 4 styles.

Frames Standard contains 26 slide layouts (set 1) and a few extras.
Frames Pro comes with 60 slide layouts (Sets 1 &2) and 14 pages of extras.
Frames PowerUser comes with 96 slide layouts (Sets 1,2, & 3), 30 pages of
extras, additional slide overlays and tutorials on making your own photo
cutouts.

According to Brian Peat (Keynoteuser.com) The PowerUser edition comes with
so many extra objects, bullets, overlays and construction pieces that you
can't compare it with a standard Keynote theme.

"Frames took over 3 months of development to finish. We spent lots of time
focusing on refining the look and checking all the settings and alignment.
Every slide has it's own set of default table settings, chart style and font
and shape settings. Once that was done, we decided to include a set of
tutorials so that users could build their own slide overlays using
Macromedia Freehand or Adobe Illustrator. With this product you can create
your own fully unique slide layouts and photo cutouts that never shipped
with the original."

All sets include both 1024x768 and 800x600 layouts, and require Keynote 1.0
or higher to function.

Check it out:

http://www.keynoteuser.com/prothemes/frames.html

MAXTOR, VIA INCREASE SERIAL ATA INTEGRATION OPTIONS FOR WORLDWIDE PC MARKET

Validation of Maxtor's SATA Hard Drives with VIA's New VT8237 South Bridge Brings
Highest Capacity, Performance and Added Data Protection to Mainstream and High-End
PC Market

Maxtor Corporation, a worldwide leader in hard disk drives, today announced that the company's DiamondMax® and MaXLine™ Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives have been validated by VIA to work with
its new VT8237 South Bridge chip. Featuring the world's first integrated multi-configuration
Serial ATA/RAID, VIA's VT8237 chip gives PC OEMs, white box manufacturers and
system builders a choice to integrate one or two high-capacity, high-performance
Maxtor SATA drives in a RAID for added performance, capacity and data protection.

"The validation of Maxtor's SATA hard drives with our new VT8237 South Bridge
is key to driving Serial ATA technology mainstream. Our new South Bridge will
be incorporated into a broad array of VIA and other manufacturers' motherboards
worldwide. Having Maxtor, a leading hard drive manufacturer, on our compatibility
list aids in driving SATA technology into the PC marketplace,” said Richard Brown,
associate vice president of International Marketing, VIA Technologies, Inc.

Intel's Senior VP and CTO: 'Steve Jobs has made the wrong CPU choice for 20 years'

Steve Makris of The Edmonton Journal has posted a conversation with Intel's Pat Gelsinger, Intel's Senior VP and Chief Technology Officer. Some of the parts of the conversation touch upon Apple Computer:

Edmonton Journal: "Did Steve Jobs make the right chip decision, choosing IBM for his upcoming G5 processor, or will Apple be missing out on some pretty hot Intel technology?"
Intel's Gelsinger: "I think Steve Jobs has made the wrong CPU choice for 20 years, he just added a few more years to the life of his bad decisions. Steve's not an illogical guy, he's passionate and opinionated about the directions he wants [but it] is a poor path for the company as well as a poor path for the users."

Apple Future: According to BusinessWeek Online

BusinessWeek Online has posted a story, Where "Think Different" Is Taking Apple , in their Apple Special Report section examining the new direction that Apple is taking in becoming a high-end consumer-electronics company akin to Sony. Through the incredibly popular iPod, 304,000 units of which sold in Apple's third quarter recently (four times analysys' expectations), Apple is seeking to expand its revenues and profits—and the future does look bright, what with the recent opening of the iTunes Music Store and the expected late '03 release of iTunes for Windows. But as the article points out, Apple is not forgetting it's core product, the Macintosh, as illustrated by the recent roll-out of the 64-bit PowerMac G5 which is arguably the worlds fastest desktop computer

Windows: 30 Billion Crashes Can't Be Wrong

30 Billion Windows Crashes Can't Be Wrong

Dvorak fired up the old Windows calculator recently, and
tried to estimate how many times Windows crashes in a year.
He came up with a nice round 30 billion number -- which
oddly enough is equal to the amount of money lost by Enron,
and the global cost of SARS -- among others. What does it
all mean? Only John knows for sure -- but you can at least
follow his reasoning by reading his column.

Ouch -- Windows Crashes Multiply:
http://eletters.wnn.ziffdavis.com/zd/cts?d=75-43-1-1-166450-1915-1