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CONTENTS

January 2009

9 From the Editors Desk

A$. the Mac rurr"'~~5EJa5Dn Snell looksat howour favorneccrncuter haschanged-eand how it hasn't.

18 Feedback

Readers res-pond.

Z4 SteveJobsHoldsCourt

Surprise appearance on earnings call furmshes information.

z8 Greenpeace Shows a Little Apple Love

NewMac8oQks.:score environmental points

33 DisplayPort:TheNewGame in Town

Here's what.you need to knew about the latest video connector.

34 Hot Stuff

Checkcutthecocl stuffwe're Into rfghr now.

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36 MacBookMakeover

Newcases, screens, trackpads, and grapllic:s.chips accrnepple's updated MacBooks and wecaeeksrcs

44 macworld.com/reviews

Were constantly revlewlngthe lates.tMac hardware and scttware on Macworld.ccrn Here are quick summaries-of this month's online exclusives.

46 App Store Selections

The App Store features thcusands ctappl lcatlons for your fPhoneand iPad touch. Each month, we review the software that's caught cur eye.

48 MacGems

Quickly resizeycurcn-screen windom, make your lpcd headphonesflt better.and mo-e

5Z Top Products

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54 The Mac at 2.5

It's been zyyears smce Apple introduced the Mac. We take a Icoeback-cano.more important, a look forwardtowhat's next,

74 Beyond AirPort

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94 Playlist

Control music around the house with/>f;pJets Remote app for-the iphcne and lpcd [ouch and an AirPort Express-base station or AppleTIJ.

96 RecordingStudio

Learn about the hardware, software, and tips you need to get started with podcascng

98 Digital Photo

Make all your groupshots lcokgreat wlrh Phcroshop Elements 6Js Photomerge Sroup Shctfeature.

100 MobileMac

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By Jason Snell

From 1984 to 2009 ...

25years of Mac history-and the n ext few years of Ap pie's futu re

As I write th.iS. [ have the very first issue of MLlouorid sitting in front of me. It's :;I magazine without a date: it made its debut the same day the Mac did-January :24, 3984, And so with this issue, we mark the :25tb birthday of both the Mac and MaClwrl.d magazine

Steve- Jobs ts on the cover of that first issue, weatlng a 'brown pin-strtped suit, an Image we've reprinted on. some copies of tbis anniversary issue. In front of Jobs are three all-in-one Macs. of course, they're the originals. But I'm struck by the fact that the iMac--an ell-in-one device designed for mainstream computer users=-continues 10 be inspired by those very first Macs.

Inside that issue, Microsoft's Bill Gates a.p'~ears, on page 42, explaining whytbe Macmtcsh is a, "classic" computer .. And two in-depth articles cover MuJt4PJa.n, Microsoft's clever number-crunching program that was thepredecesscrto Excel

A lot of the ideas introduced in that first issue seem remarkably normal today. The very first feature article, "A Tour of the Mac Desktop," includes an illustration of features I can see on my Mac screen now: <L menu bar with an Apple logo in the left comer, a window full of Illes and folders represented by icons and names, and a desktop area.

The difference, of course, is that today these concepts are absolutely common. Back in. 1984, that first article had. to carefully explain tbe concept of the deskrep: its; entire first page was devoted to a complicated metaphor about trying to drive a Gil with <I keyboard instead of a

ffi steering wheel That's the triumph of the ! Mac; it irrevocably changed how people :Ij end computers interact

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L.ookingForward

But Apple, of all companies, is not prone to looking back. With tbe if-hone, espe· dilly, we see the company changing the

That's the triumph of the Mac-25 years ~J our first article had to carefully ex.plain! the concept of the desktop!

way pecpl e use ceil phones and otber handheld devices.And h e re, 2.5 years after it was introduced, the Mac is mor ... successful, than it bas ever been. AppIe sold more MilCS in the last year than :It has ever before sold In a single year, and sales are accelerating.

That's why this issue is about what comes next. Begmnmg on page 54, you'll find previews of where technology could be headed in the next few years, There's also a timeline of Mat history; and a few M ELC notables offer their opinionated picks fer the best (and the worst] the past 25 years had to offer, But the focus is on the future, as it should be.

As [or where Apple goes next, I think we all have a general Idea. TIle company is going to continue using the playbook tbat has served it in good stead since the day Apple was founded; combining innovative hardware and software in a seamless package. Apple has succeeded by realizing that technology companies

fail when they specialize on hardware or softv ... are to till; exclusion of tbe other. ThE;' best products are those that fuse hardware and sollware together to produce just what the user order-ed.

We saw that 25 years ago with the original Mac, which was a quantum leap forward in the usability of personal computers. We saw tt with the iPod In 200l, arid, again with the Iphcne in 2007- 111e people locked. tnstde a development room somewhere on Apple's Cupertino campus know the identity of that.next great product, but the rest of us w:ill just have to watch and wait.

Staying Safe

Mac users are accustomed to looking at their Windows-using friends, with their virus checkers, spyware, and the like, and feeling just a, little bit superior. And with good reason-esc far, the MOIC hasn't been plagued with the security problems

that Windows has.

But things are changing.As till': Mac grows in popularity, it becomes .1. bigger target for hackers and authors of virus progran1S< BUl some of the biggest privacy and security risks a Mac user will face won't occur on the Mac itself They'll happen when personal data moves through the big, wide world of the Internet, where criminals are lurking, trying to steal data, identities, and-cof cours.e-money

That's wby we. created the brand-new Mo:cwor!d Mar;: Scruri!y Si~pcrgllidl:. In one handy 84·prtge volume, we've collecred everything you heed to know to keep the data on your hard drive and the data )lUU send over the Internet safe end secure

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Apple should stay small and focused rKnowYour Limits," FrolU'lhc:

Editor'S D~~k, October 2.00.8). I'm not at all concerned about the company's eclipsing Microsoft in market sh a re. I'm much more concerned a bout Apple losing its wetl-e a med reputation for incredible design while :It tries to figure out how to gmw.

o RyanSmokel'

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o CbadC'5 Gordon

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o Cbrls:t(lpl1Ell· Maundc,·

Apple shouldn't get bigger. It represents the alternative. It's like the small private schools that are innovating and keeping public: schools on thetr toes. Getting bigger is Bscally unsound, It should do what it is doing now, do It very well, and be GlJE'_[uL not to try to bite off mere than it can chew.

It seems rcme that some of Apple's greatest products have come from when. it was a "small" company. The

i Pod started way before Apple became an international success, and the same thing go~s for the Mac operating system. Getting as I.JJg as Microsoft

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Palm T2 and was waiting [or it on the i Pod. Touch. Now, WIth the App Store, I have it. I can download books directly to the tpod. I love how I can now can carry a bunch of novels with me. I've Head e-books on planes, trains, waiting for a meeting, and on breaks. It would be great .if there were mOH" books available in the e-book format.

o FlaydFi5l1cr

Altauugb a touch with ::J s]jgbLly large! screen mjglu be useful, the current H'hone size is perfectly adequate fOT reading, The idea that a usable e-book reader must have a, display as big as a regular book is simply not. true. Lbocks shouldn't tty to ape the old technology (that's what's WIOng with most of the dedicated book readers-they're too big, too expensive, and too functionally limited, all because they're trying to be "[ust like a regular book"). They need to

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App StoreStl!mbles

My biggest problem with the App Store is that most of the applications are lame or are one-trick ponies rApp Store Update Woes, ~ MQr,I]~~:. October ::!Oo8J. I want 10 see some of the old Palm programs ported, to the trhene. How

a bout some real pmducnvny apps. like databases, a decent outline program, or medical textbooks? What passes for a productivity or business app in the

App Store amazes rne. As long as most of the apps an" games, the if'hcne will continue to be viewed 'as nothing mare than an expensive toy.

I? NCamilo

As an ll'hone develnper.I can. reiterate these frustrations, Apple is approving and. pushing out new apps in less than 48 hours, while updates to current apps are waiting many days. Adding a new app of mine took Apple just over 24 hours to app:rove. However; a minor update to another app has now been sitting in Apple's queue for i-3 days. An important update to the' second app has been "pending review" [or nine days. Important update, sit. while the App Store flUs with new appllcations

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Jack of MM S, or Multimedia Messaging Service C'iPhone 2.0;" September 2008), MM S mess.ages have to be viewed. on the:

Internet via AT&T's Web site. I haven't heard of any plans to address this issue. 1'0 me, this seems like even. more basic functionality than Exchange support.

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A pple is doing pretty well these davs. For its fiscal fourth quarter; the cornp.IflY reported i1 $,.'4 billion profit, Apple shipped J.G million M<!C5, a :l.l percent unit growth and l'} percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter, Those 2..6 million units represent the most Moles Apple has sold in a quarter-c-the fifth time Apple has shattered that record in the last six quarters. The compiUiy also sold more than II million il'ods and 6.9 million i.Pl-lOnes in that same period (Apple broke its self-imposed goal of selling a total of ]0 million jPhom:s in :l008 by the time the company announced ita earnings in October).

But perhaps the most i meresting thing about that last quarter is the bel that CEO Steve Jobs appeared on Apple's financial-results phone cal] as a surprise "special guest." And be held court, making some scripted pronouncements.

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parrying with questioning analysts, and offering enough vaguE' tidbits to whip Apple Kremlinologists into a Irenay

Among the biggest issues Jobs addressed was the ongoing global financial climate. Jobs opened by saying, "Some remarkable things are happen ing at Apple, but everythi ng is set against this remarkable economic slowdown." Later, he said, ~We are not economists. Your next-door neighbor ran likely predict what's going to happen <is well.as we (an."

But in general, Jobs was about as optimistic as be could be about Apple, given the global economic conditions He said that Apple customers are the "smartest, most product-aware customers in the market." While they may postpone purchases, he said, they're unlikely to abandon Apple and would more likely just delay purchases rather than switch to a competitor,

MOIl"" irupnrtant, Apple's cash reserves-ethe company has almost $25 billion dollars in (he bank, and .~:s free of debt-will help the company invest its way through the downturn and emerge with better products and a stronger position telative to its competitors, as it did during the last economic downturn.

One analyst suggested that Apple could use the cash to buy back its own stack, but Jobs intimated that tile .money would be better used for funding R&D

and perhaps even acquiring other. companies or talented employees. Or even better, much ofit could remain as a safety cushion. "[The cash] isn't burning a hole in our pocket," he said

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Motion {RIM), tile maker of the BlackBen)! series of smart phones used widely in the business world. But rather than simply glcarmg, lobs actually sounded surprised arid impressed by the news, and even paid RIM a compliment regarding the quality of its products.

"Apple beat RIM/" he said. "ln our most recent quarter, R[M sold 6.1 million Blackberry devices, compared to OUI 6.9 iphones. Apple outsold RIM last quarter, and this is a milestone for us. lUM is a good company that nukes good products. and so lt is surprising tint we could outsell them in any quarter after only I; months tn rbe market."

Jobs went on to 'Point OUE that; purely in terms of revenue (:rather than units sold, since the il'hone is more expensive than most cell phones in the market], Apple is "the world's third-largest mobile-phone supplier," trailing only Nokia and Samsung. That's amazing, though it's important to remember that this quarter's numbers art' fueled in part by the pent-up demand [or the i Phone 3G, including its rollout to 50 countries. "There's no guarantee that sustained sales will equal initial sales," Jabs cautioned. "And who knows about IJu~

category, saying it was just too early to ten what would. happen. On the earnings; call, Jobs went a little runher, dangling the suggestion that. Apple Is watching the categcHY closely: "It's a nascent category and we'll watch while it evolves," Jobs said. "And we've got some pretty good ideas if it dces evolve ..... That last bit should fuel months of endless speculation

fobs bad another interesting response on the subject of Apple's competitors in the smart-phone space. I'll quote it in full here, because I think it both encapsulates A!lplf1s prcdccr pbtloscphy-ct-s the software, stupid-and. ma.n~ges to take a shot at Coogle's Android and other phone platforms that will €'nci up on numerous different hardware devices, ruaking it difficult for third-party software developers to really embrace those platforms as they've embraced the il'hone.

-M software becomes U1e differentiating technology of this product category, people find that a hundred [hardware] variations presented to software developers is not very enticing," he said. "And most companies in this phone business do not have much experience in <I software 'platform business. So we're

"Apple outsold RIM last quarter, and this isa milestone for us."

economic slowdown? But the fact is, we beat RIM. Not bad for being in the market only '5 months."

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for me, the two most interesting Jobs statements came during the questionand-answer period, in which many supposedly sober analysts fell all over themselves to compliment Jobs and ask him some rairJy silly questions

At Apple's event launching the company's new laptops (see page 36 for our reviews of the new Macllocks and Macbook Pros), Jobs was asked about the emergi ng category of so-called n !!tbooks, low-cost and low-feature laptops. At the time, Jobs made skeptical noises about the

extremely ccrrucrtal.le with our product strategy, and we approach 1t as a. software platform company, which is pretty different than most of our competition."

And yes, one analyst practically begged Jobs to return to making regular appearances on the quarterly financial conference: calls. A true showman, [cbs left 'em wanting mnre-c-while also complimenting tbe usual one-two phone-call punch of Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer and COO Tim Cook

"Peter and TIm do such a good lob that I don't think I could add much," Jobs said, Aw, shucks. EJ

Jason Snell is MacworJd'!i editorial clrecror, Bdltor atLarge Jim Dalrymple contributed ro thisstory

Lawsuit Says PowerBook G4SAreOld and Broken

Look, we don't have enythlngagainst older-model M3CS: some of our favorite Maca have entered the world otthe decontinued We're all In favor of keeping them runntngwell for-as long as posslbje. But It"s untortunerewoen yOI.J haveto go etl me way to court to make that happen.

That's [ust what Giorgio Gomelsky has done, though. Tne Newvorkresldent has filed a dassactionlawsult in the Northern Dlstrlct Court of CElli fernla seylng that ApploB fajledtc properly add-ess.issues with some Powerfsook G.;sJ defective RAM slots. Apple did acknowledge t1iat some G4S had the problems and subsequently lssueda warranty eX[Ension-~n 2oo6,Apple debuted what lrcalledthe "PowerBook G4 Memory Slot Repair Exte{'lslon program-to- models made between Januaryand April zoog. But the complatnanrs contend that the range of serial numbers Apple agreed to COVoE!r did nor extend [0 allafhlc:[ed Ur1~[:i-GQmE!I:iky's jnduded.

ThE! s.ujr ~s. asklng for damages, the refunded cost cfthe pcweruccks.and tnt; ;mendant costs and fees that come with laun-chi!1g s.laW5Urt of this kind, Will it pay off for the fjtlgant5~ or just [urn lnto a long and costly legal battle? We:~1 have rostt back and see.-OAN MOREN

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Steve Wozniak Thinks the iPod's Days Are Numbered

To be fair, 'When Apple cofounder Steve WD2:niak tajks 1.0 the press, it's l.JSU~lly OJ rehashilig of the same old, same old. But England's Telegr=ph1iad an lnrerestjngcharwch wczlnwhich he was unusually frank abcut thefuture of Apple's mcstpcpular devlces

"the iPod has sort of lived a long life at number one," Woz 5<1YS. "It's kind of like everyone has go~ one or two or three. You get to a point when they are on display everywhere, they get real cheap.and they are not selling as much,"

SU,It'l .. technotogye constantly evolving. so it's not a question of whether-the iPod will dee but rather when, But you ccn bet Apple wW have something ready when the time

[Pod Connections Expected in 60 Percent of 2009 Cars

A new study by ar;alysi:o firm lSLlppl1 says [i1('1tiI12009,58 percent of new americao cars-that's luxury and low-end models a1ike-are expected [0 have iPoc! imegration. So by the tlme I buy a new car fmaybe in the next five to tell years), it's pre-tty much guaranteed that IJfl be able to dock myiPhone-or whateve r the future lncernatlon will bedirectly into my carwlthcut havlngto futzarcundwlth FM transrnitters.or auxiliary cebles.

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Greenpeace Shows a Little Apple love

With the lmprovemeers in the jetest MiilcBook and Mar::Book pro models, ~U5 Steve Jobs's recent erlVironmencal update 011 Apple's W.eb site (moc\oVOfldcan-V4170), creenpeece isa lircle rncrelmpressedwth Appleln arecent blogpost.rte crgan'zacon wrote therthe elimination of BFRs and PVC from the Apple product line ~-wlll be a firstforacomputer maker and lays down thechalange to ccmpetlrors such:asHp, Delj,Lenovq.N:.er,and Toshiba, ....

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The Case for an Apple Netbook

Speaking about an emergi ng class of ultraportable laptops, Steve Jobs recently said, "We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk" (see "Steve Jobs Holds Court," page 24, for a more in-depth response to netbooks on his part). Maybe Apple needs to take more of a look around at the rest oft he industry, because there certainly are computers in the $soo-and-Iess category that aren't pieces of junk. And Apple could do better than the competition, I'm sure.

I admit that general-pu rpose computers in the sub-Sgoo category leave one hankering for more features and horsepower. Generally,you get what you pay for if you're looking for a desktop machine that costs less than $500. And a replacement for the Mac mini, or an LC-style desktop machine, is not what I'm suggesting.

Netbooks-a burgeoni ng segment of mi ni-Iaptops designed for limited use, such as e-mail, Web surf ng. and light productivity work-increasingly occu py that category. And Apple is sadly absent from the market (iPhone aside).

Companies including Asus, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, and MSI

are popu lating the market with mi ni-Iaptops that use low-power processors, integrated graphics, and small screens and keyboards; that forgo optical drives; and that have very li mited (or no) expansion capabilities. Many of them eschew hard drives for flash-based storage. This entire market has eru pted in a very short time-si nce the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Association's introduction of the XO laptop in 2007- Although these systems aren't effective replacements for a general-pu rpose laptop, I can't hel p but imagine that if Apple

really wanted to, it could make a netbook that would blow these other companies' offerings away.-PETER COHEN

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Microsoft "Photo Booths" Popping Up Outside Appl.e Stores?

Mir.:rosoh and Apple have traded ShO~5 at each ether in ads recently (such as the "Si!ke Sele" spot; plcrured), bur here's a new [aG[I(;. According to reports. the Redmond gram is now pcrnng recording booms outside Apple Stores, asking PC users to make video commernarles about whycheyre a Pc.

Perhaps it's just coincidence: the only one I've seen notice of so far is the installatlon outside the Bullrtngstore in Birmingham, England. Such vtdeoswtllltkelyend up in Microsoft's ~I'm aPe" commercials, the iatest round of which features usersubmitted videos.

So does this mean war? Well, the FAQon Microsoft's "l'm a PC"campalgn web sire S:ilYS that youcan feel free to jump in even if you own a Mac "A Maccan be a PC too, most notably when it runs Wln.dows Vista." -DAN MOREN

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New MacBooks Say Bring On the RAM

Althoug11 Apple specifies that "two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4GB" of RAM in the new MacBoo and MacBoolo: Pro models, lr turns out that the slotsarewillingto accepta bit more. Memory company Ramjet (ww.......ram~et.com) discoveredrhat if you slap in 34GB srkklnstead of a 2GB stlck for one of the pair (lor a total of 6GB)~ your MacBook ""'" both rock and mil.

Thinking of bumping L/ptoSGB~Think :aga1n-it seems th~t PUl'til1g In tWO 4GB RAM modules apparently results in the MacSook or MacBook Pro freaking Out like a recent retiree looking at his or her latest 40~K stare nt._DAN MOREN

Sculley Maintains Newton Ahead of Its Time, the Truth Is Out There

Perhaps best remembered 35 we man who (lusted Steve Jobs from Applein 1985,John Sculley was CEOof Apple from 1983 to 1993. and presided over the inception of products suches the Newton and the pcrrtc the PowerPC platform. Asked about the iPhoneby rechaadar UK recently, Sculley had this to say:

"Steve Jobs's creanve merhcdclcgy hasn't. changed since we worked together agyears ago. It wE!.s,i:1ndls,al1

.. bourexperiaoce and beau[iful design with 110 compromises.' I don't see any mchlle-devlce companywl1o bas figlJred out how to replicate Steve's design prlnoples"

Sculley went on [0 say tharhe seW misses a physical keyboard on the iPhone,and mar the Newton was ahead of Its time but ultimately paid off for App/e.-DAN MOREN

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Microsoft's Mac Business Unit Gets NewGM

Another yea;, another general manager-lor Microsoft's Mac Buslness unit. Last year, "[he MacBU replaced outgoingGM coz Ho with former AQL Wireless genera! manager Craig Eisler. Bur the revolving doorconnn.esro, er; revolve, with Eisler moving on to greener pa.srures<lt Microsoft's. Bnrertalnmeot and Devices division ... which,colnr:::id.enc31Iy>~s where Ho elided up, roo,

Elster's replacemeru is Eric Wilfrid ... a14-year Mlcrosoftveteran ...... he's beenwi[h the Mac:8U slnce lrs humble beginl1il1g5 back-in 1997. Pre-\iiouso/, Wilfrid was') producrunir manager overseeii1g MacBU e·n_gil1.eers;hestiJrt,ed a t Mtcrosoftworkingon Powerpcirrrin 1994and, atter joiliing Mac8U, worked nn seven releases of Office for Mac,as w@ilasMSNandVTrtualPCltcertainlyis tough to doubt his Mac cred Wilfrid said that the Mac8U'sCLJrrent focus is on pl::lnn~ngthe development.cfthe nextverslon of Office fur Mac. tlttlee known about rharverslon.other thantbatit Will include.support for Visual Basic, mlsshg from the currentverslcn.c.eew MORns

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All of Apple's laptops use Intel Cere a Duo (Penryn) processo:rs. There are two new Macfsook models: a 2GHz one lint tomes standard with a .GoG B, 5.400- rpm SATA hard drive; and a :':\,4GHz

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tbO" same speed. TIle Macjsooks USE: 3MB of shared Level a cache and have

a J,066MHz Frcnrslde bus, 'up from 800M Hz in the previous Macjrook iteration" The standard RAM configuration is :l.GB of 1,06 6M Hz D DR)., whkb. is raster than the G67MHz DDR:z RA.M in tbe previous Macbook.

Of the two Macllook Pro models, the 2 AG Hz one is configured like the 2.4GHz Macbook, with 3M B of shared L::! tache; :lGB ofl,066MHz DDR). memory; and it 250GB, 5,4oo-rpm SATA hard drive. The :l.jJ-CHz model tomes with tiM 8 0.[ shared L2 cache,

4GB of 1,o6GM Hz DDR3 memory, and a poG B, 5,'1oo-IJlm SATA bald drive. Beth Macbcok Pro models have a l,066MHz Irontside bus.

All of the MacBooks come standard with 80.2., lin and Bluetocth :1..1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) wireless networking, Gigabit Ethernet, audio line-in and -uut ports, a. pair of USE 2.0 ports, and an 8x slot-loading Superffrfve.The Macflook Pro bas an. ExpressCa:rd/34 expansion sial; the Mac: Book does not. .lIJSiJ. missing from the Macflook is Firewire (see -FUIU:r over Firewire"]. I1]e Mac Book Pre ha.'i one Fire'Wire 800 port. 'With all of Apple's laptops, a

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cf a singl-E' piece of recyclable aluminum. According to tbe company, this eliminates the need for fine-tuning parts and diminishes the possibility of construction failures.

With the Macbcok, Apple di tched the pclycarbonate case, and the- result is a sleeker, more rounded design: when dosed, the new M::IC: Book looks veory svelte, even though it is only 0.13 inch thinner than its plastic prederessm. It's also half a pound lighter than the previous Macflook, which weighed five pounds; tile difference is definitely noticeable and makes the Macllook just a little more portable.

The ry-inch Macllook P ro chassis is slightly larger than that 1)[ Apple's previous professional laptop (14.) inches across compared with 14.1 inches). TIle case Is also a tad wider, though it's a shade thinner and more rounded at the edges. I t's abo about one nunre heavier, but nothing you'd notice if you simply lifted it.

GIQssyScr@ens

Open up a new MacBook or Macgook Pro, and you'll find a bright, glOSSY, widescreen, LED-b:acldit display. Resting over the face of the display is a piece of glass with a black mask that replaces the bezel of old {the overall black-and-silver color scheme gives the Marflock a strong visual kinship with the ijvtac].

The MRCBook bas EL J3,3·j_m::b screen with ii native 1,z8o.by.8oo-pixel resolution c The Macjlock P co has a

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coming off the glass. Still ethers say glossy displays are unfit for high-end color work in graphics or video. Whetl1er or not you like a glossy screen 1S a personal preference, but the backlit LEO display is very bright, wh ich tends to mmgate glare and reflectivity, Also, with a I a prop you can adjust the angle and postdon of your computer to overcome many potenual problems. Hut the lack of a matte option (the: last MacBook Pro did have such an option) is a deal-breaker for- many user.'!:.

Trackpad and Keyboard

You may not be able to tell by touching it that the trackpad on the new laptops is a piece or glass coated with :I textured material to ru a tch the 'look (but not the feel) of the aluminum laptop body. a's smoother than the case, and your fingers glide easily across it, but it has €nough texture to give YOLl some traction.

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There is no button. below the trackpad; the entire pad acts as a button, and }IQU com feel tile ttackpad depress as you push your finger on it to dick. This ell-in-one design allowed Apple

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to make the trackpad Larger overall on both the new M aclsook and the new Macuook Pro. TIle tactile feedback that you get when you press down to click is VeT}' helpful, although the new trackpad t a kes some getting used to. Also, it seems to take a little more force to press down the larger ttackpad than it did to press the separate button of old.

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To test: [lie new MacBooks arid Mac::Bouk pcos for battery life~ WE! performed abatrery-oralo test: by w3i:chinga movie clip saved to the laptop's hard drive. We played the move erfua screen, witM the-screen brlghtness set tu maximum. We played the movi€ repeatedly until the battery drained

The:MO new MacBooks'ba1Iery capacities tire ccmparable to each other. HOWo!N'!;!!,;OlJf resuhsindlcate thattheoew M:<tcBookSbii1Iery llfe Is 300lJlt22CO 24 minutes shorter than that of the older 2:IGHzCore:2: Due

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FIrst, let's discuss the 'new M",Books and how they performed compared with the older Macfsooks theyreplace. Even though it has a slower processor than the previous MacScoks.jhe new 2GHz model beat the older :uGHz model by :14 points and the oklee 2.4Gl-I.z model by 5 points. in OUI Speedmark 5 test suite. 11,e new 2.4GHz Mac Book fared even better.

Now let's take a look <It the new Macgook Ptns and how they dtd against the previous generation. The new a.q Gl-lz MacBook Pro sCOT",d 15 runre points in Speedmark than the older 2.4G Hz model. 'TIu! new 2..S3GHz Mar-Book Pro tumed in the Fastest numbers of anv standard Mac laptop in every test category. In our Speedmark test, the :l.53GHz topped

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its new 2AGHz sibling by 16 points and the pr evicus :L4GHz M a cuock PtO bY)'1 points. Our benchmark tests were run with the high-performance setting (see "Graphics Gams"].

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to note: The nE'W ::.:o..4GHz Macfsook scored only 3 fewer points (:J difference of less than 2 percentj than tile new 2'4GHz Macffcok 'Pro, which costs $400 more.

Environmental Impact

Apple has received a 10t Q r bad press over the last few years regarding the impact its products have 011 the environment. At the event where Steve Jobs announced the new Macflooks,

b e was quick to point out that Apple had put a lot of effort into making its products safer; For the first time, Apple laptops are Energy Star-compliant and they ship with less packaging than before. Apple also reports that il has

Furor over FireWire

One thing you wont find on the new MacBDok-to the dismay of marlY users-cts a FireWire port. Apple markets the Mac Book as a consumer product and says that USB z.o is JiOW being used on most coruumer devices And in true thee mast hard drives and cernccrders n[YIN have USB ccneecncrrs (not to mentlcnthe feet that lphones and ipods nowcharge and sync only vla USB).

Butfcr mose of you witt1lorsoT l-egacy del/ices (Fire Wire-only hard drives, tape camcorders, and audio interfaces, for example), the ~;:jd:-of Fir e wlre cn the Mat800k wlll definitely figure into your buying declslonltyou need to use Fir€Wirl! declces wlth your!~p[Qp', the Macaocklsrrtfor you lrs sao that Apple ~sstartingto abandon a technology-cone it lnvented-cthathas many benefits over USB (driV>e power-and hgher actual speeds.to name a few),but like SCSI and AD8 before it,Fir-eWire has. to give way ec newer technologies. In [he IOiig run, as people rep race their Ftrewlre-based devices with USB·based ones.the emission wi11 become less important For nOW, the Mtll::Bcok Pro ls ycur onlypcrtableoptlcnfrcrn Apple if you need 1J fiieWire port

removed polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and brominated flame retardants from its enclosures, circuit boards, and connectors. The Maclycok's aluminumand-glass shell is highly recyclable, the display doesn't contain mercury; the

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Anotherlmpurtant advancement with the latest MacBooks is the new Nvldla cerorce 94caM graphics processor. Unlike the integrated Intel GMA X3100 graphlcsln the previous Macjsooks, the 940-oM h a 'S its own graphics precessing unit (GPU), giving It a lot more power than the trttel chip, The 9400M doeam have its

own memory, and Instead borrows main system RA.M-butthe Mac Book now uses

fast: DDR3 SDRAM, and the GPU gets 256MB of RAM, a boost from the i.f4l\"1B [nat

the X3100 used.

In tesrlng, Macwcrld Lab found rharrhe 9400M is agccd grapblcschlcfcr tasrpscedgarnes Ilk"'CllIlQfDUW~ Modern WOlrfare; its smooth frame rete-c-dcse.ro 30 frames per secol1d-ls a drastic improvement on the sf-ames per second of the previous:MacBook',s ;n[el GMAX3100

The new Maceock Pros have twcgraphlcs (hips: Nvidi<1's GeFarce9400Mand Gepcrce g600M Gi. The g6ooMGihas.dedicaterl video memoryi the 24GH2' Milc:::Book Pro gets 29'lMB Elf DOR3SD'RAM, aod the "l-53GH..: model has 5~:;!.Ma ofDDR3 SDRAM You can switch between the two cblps ro get either better v loeo performance Dr longer batteryjfe (see "Power Shortage").

On the new MiJcSook Pros, the frame-rate performance takesa dramatic leap wJlefl you switch from the 9400M to the g600M GT. In Doom 3, the frame rare nearlytrlples at ',280 by 900 resclutlon. The boost-in Call of Doty 4 results in about 20 mor-e frames per second

ComparingthelleW2..4GHzMacBookPro iJOO its g.6ooM GT results with [hose of me prBVioushigh·end sys~ern-O! 2..4GJ-11: ct;)nfigt.rra~onwi[h a :t.S6MB NvidiaGiO!Foroli 8600 GTgraphiG~ Cl3rd-yietds:somO'liClterestinginformo.[iori. Only in our'Doomj [est at 1~C by 800 rescutlon ls therea.slgolfkant gain olnearly zcframes per second wlth the new MacBook Pro; with other games we tested, the performance was eithervlrtuallythe same between me [WQ systems, or the older M:acBoak Pro was faster by just a few frames

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111is first-person shooter draws its influence [rem Lorn Clancy novels, mtemational politics, and the realism of modern warfare. You playas several characters w-ith interrelated stories;

the vaned missions get increasingly challenging, especially during the later phases of tbe game. While the game is very linear and the later missions are brutally difficult, the enemy AI {artificial intelligence] is the best we've seen in this type of g;lme, From tts visually stunning beginningto its emcricnally wrenchtng ending, tills game offers a surprisingly deep, rtcb. and unique approach to the genre (macworld .mmI4066).

Maple 12.

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Maple has beenprovldlng scientists, engineers, and students with a broad selection of technical computation tools for more than 20 years. Wlth version aa, Maple builds on jts strengths as a pedagogical tool. The optional MATLI\B add-on toolbox not only provides [Ommunication b€twEofm Maple-and MATLAB (:0. numerical computing environment and programming language), but also allows users to leverage their existing MATL-4.B code by converting it into native Maple Maplehas Improved on the traditional lab-notebook interface, adding Interactive roruponents such as dials, buttons, and gauges thatlet users control and monitor computations (macworld.cOm/4069).

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This program wants to be a one-stop shop Ior managlng all of your digital media-ephotos, videos, even music. It does a good tob as a media cataloger; thanks to its strong support for Image metadata, ratings, and tags. But its audio features are so linuted that you would never use jt as your primary music player, TIle main problem with Medialmpression 1S that ~t doesn't look or act like a Mac application:

tt uses 'Wind.tJ'\.VS ccneenuens f-or sort1l1g and viewing files and for navigation. Despite a few neat tricks, sud] 3S the ability to correct red-eye on import or to gee-tag photos, <I com bination of os X's built-in media browser and Apple's ilife suite will serve Mac users :fi:u better Im.cwoMd.com/407o).

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game, but its implementation lacks sophistication. Spore is- a comical, beautiful, a nd surprisingly fun Journey that will likely s;:!tisfy casual garners but rbsappotn l fans bopj ng LO encounter 9 Wrigbt masterpiece (macworld.com/4072)

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in traditional tools fOT log-file analysts. To USE" 'VisiStal, you must place a special [ave.Script tag on ev~ry 'Web p<lg~ you wish to monitor, V:lsiStat updates its

data continuously, without needing to access Web server logs Iike O1.l1e! analyals products; visitors shew u.p on the analysis pages with only a few seconds of lag time (macwarld.com/40n).

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An impressive degree ofthought went into the design of the Balance Notebook Case. It's a large,

accoutrement without being bulky. However, its

most notable des Ign accomplishment is that it holds all these elements. plus your laptop, while remaining incredibly comfortable and ergonomic. The bag's best feature is that one side is smartly contoured to rest against jour body without straining your back. The look of the Contour Balance is simple, like a cross between a diaper bag and :I tote. The external microfiber material, available in black Dr brown, is tough enough to endure heavy use without showing significant signs of wear (m<lcworld.comI4064) .

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'The Deskjet D2545 color ink-jet 'printer is composed of83 percent recycled plastic; its cartridges are also made from recycled plastic resins. HP claims the 025-15 com produce laser-quality black text, but our lab tests reveal that its speed and quality don't rueet a laser printer's high standards. The D2545's results on th e one-page printout test averaged around 19 seconds, while on the ten-page test it came in at! minute and 48- seconds. Our [ury awarded the D2545's text quality a Good rating; in comparison, we often find that laser printers produce text worthy of a Very Good or Superior rating, In terms

of speed and quality, the 02545 was more en a 'pttt with standard multlfimcticnal ink-jet printers than with laser prtncers (m@C'World.c::om/4o67)·

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This if'od speaker system uses proprio etary 2.4GHz wireless technology to transmit audio from. your ipod to a remote s-peaker. TI1e base station looks a lot like many iPod speaker stands, with an ipod dock situated between a pair of tweeters and a downward-firing subwoofer underneath. The remote speaker units 'hold a, pair of tweeters and a subwoofer. We were able to place speakers within 70 feet of the base station; beyond tlrat, WE had some transmission problems. Aud10 quality is clear, with crisp highs, and there's no noticeable static or burn [rem the wireless transmission. On the other hand, midrange tones were not very warm, and vocals often seemed muted (rnacworld.com/406B)

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This coccer-sze ramcorcer shoots lughdeftnition I,'ldeo,offerir'lg 7.20P rescjuncn at either 60 cr go trames per second, It also takes. still shots at 3 megaphals (interpo"'ui!d),s[Qre~ data on SD cards (up t0J,2G8), and runsofftwc rernergeahle AAbarreri-e:>_ To copy your captured content to the Mac, swttch on the camera, flip euu+euss connector, and jackit into a free USB :1:.0 port. Under the proper shoorlng condlrlons (reasortabte light and a steadyhand, since the Zi6 doesn't have imagestabillzacion), [he Zi6's output looks nlce. The rarrccrder's low-light sheeting ls unlmpresswe .. though, and if YOLlr '5ubjeais inside atnlght and located <l11ywheie but near asrrcog lamp~yOljll see somagrelnlness (ma:r:wor1d.comj4074).

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You activate Mercurytdover by pressing your desired key combo.This brings up Mercurvbdcver's helpful on-screen display which shows the size and position of the active window and the available options. Pressing an arrow key moves the active window one pixel. in that direction Pressing shift-arrowmoves the window 10 pixels," option-arrow moves it 100 pixels; and :3t-aTTOw moves the window all the way to the edge of the screen, Once tbe window is in the desired location, you pre-ss escape to exit Metrurybdover. Irs ii simple and convenient way to reposition a window quickly

Mercurylclover iIIB() lets you resize: windows using similar shortcuts. and it has a few

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Perhaps my favorite feature is {be capabnrtytc create shortcuts fcr paruccl a r window sizes, locations, ot both. After tuoving a window to the-desired location and resizing itto the desired dimensions, if you activate Mercurylclover and then pr€ss i!t·D, you'll see a shortcut dialog OOx. Type your-desired shortrutkey and then choose whether you want it to apply the current size, (be current position, or both. You can use this new shortcut to resize and reposition anvwindow,

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of those patents will S~ the light of day. We doubt, [or example, that Apple is likely to replace the Migllty 'Mouse with a new input device based on filing patent #2007015:l9G6, titled "Mouse with Optical Sensing Surface," whid) spends 35 pages detailing OJ. mouse whose entire shapely body is <I Multi-Touch display,

Still, although patent spelunking may not be an infallible way to divine exactly what products will em~[g~ from OnR Infinite loop, it IS an excellent way to gain insight into what's going on in the minds 'Or Apple's development team. A quick look at Apple's most recent filings shows that interface desjgn is dearly a front-and-center concern.

Take, fOT example, filings fOT hardware devices. The frequently rumored MultiTouch tablet Mac has 'its 0\V1152-p.age filing. mmplEt€' with interface details that include a full-size virtual keyboard and

resizable interface elements. If yml don't want to actually touch your display, Apple also has you covered-a-with a filing for a proximity-sensing display that can tell not onlvwhere and how dose your fingers are, but also how Iast they're moving toward or away from the display's surface.

For people who prefer devices with

<I, physical interrace, Apple has filed a patent for a keyboard with OLED-display keys that change appearance depending on what you're up to" another fOT a 3-D remote control that's intriguingly Nintendc Wii-Iike, and yet another for a holographic display that provides a 3·D experience without geeky glasses.

Some filings seem designed to work together.Take, for example, the inl,riguingly conceptual "Multl-Ibuch Data Fusion" filing, which melds a MultiTouch display with other interfac€

March 1, 1985 >--+-----, laserWriter areaks 'l:I:arriers App!n~llri)' mass-markeelaserprtrcer becomes <.'I ~ey component in oesttop publishing's eme:rg.enC'e. --,-"",

September13, 1985l Apple Lose. Its Core

Afte-r Iosmg'L boardroom batne for eoreror of the company, Apple cotounder Sreve Jobs

reslgns tefound Next

~ " JUly 15,1985

The PageMaker Revolution Along v.tJth t"e Mac,~l1d the Laserwoter; Aldus Pa~M<Jlrer to launches the desktcp-publlsfurg revolution.,

technologies such as an accelerometer, force sensors, facial-expression detecden, eye-trackmg, and puptl-dllarlon and voice-command iecognmon. Pair that filing with an earlier one rOY a "MuJdT Touch Gesture Dictionary, N which assigns different meanings to different hand gestures, and you're headed into a brave new world of computer control-c. one first hinted at by the four-fingered rouchpads on Apple's current laptops.

Most filings are less groundbreaking but still worth noting-e-lor instance, the not-so-eupho-unusly named "Curser fbr Presenting I ufcrmancn Regarding Target," which enables Qutcktook-bke previews when you move your mouse nver file icons and hyperlinks, and the equally wonderfully named "Enhancing Online Shopping Atmosphere," which describes a Second Life-like avatar-based shopping experience, complete with helpful virtual experts (not referred to in the filing, however, as geniuses).

One recent filing that we hope comes to fruition describes giving i'Iunes the ability to use your Mac to broadcast all of its stored tunes to your rpod or i Phone wirelessly, lfthis dream becomes reality, you'b no longer be limited by the storage capacity of your iPod, but only by its ability to connect to the Net.

There are a few holes in Apple's patent-protected future, however; I"VE'n in areas where' other engineers are hard at work. For example, we couldn't find any filings for brainwave-controlled input devices or for acoustically activated virtual keyboatds.c-euc M.YSLEWSKI

March 2, 1987 Applo DosktopBus Apple's'&'OB pcrtsbces up on the Macinmsh'SE,which 011$0 Includes an 1nt.emaJ espanslon port.

'------<I Janl(a,y 16, 1986 On. M"gabyt.

The M"c:il'lto'>i"H p~U$ feenees 1MB of RAM,an 8ooKflapp}, drive,and the M:u:ls firstSCSI lntetfaee

THI NGS OS X COU LD LEARN FROM THE CLASSIC MAC OS

, WindowS hade

Wir.dowSh-ade debuted as a standard operatlng systern featurelh System7.5. (Before chat, i[ was avallable as athjrd-partysysrem estenslon.) The idea was sjmpte double-click in [he [ide bar ofanywlndow and rharwindcw=rolled upvtc show nothing bU[thet:it:leba,.Double·dcr;;~inthe tltlabar agaln.andthewlndcw contents would "roll" backdown.ln 05X, wlndowshadewas replacedbyrhe concept of mlnimlzing.a window to the Dock. That, [hough, IS far inferior to WindoWShade. WindowShade let you get a quickgl'lnceatt,he contents ofthewindow behind [he frcrtrone, ooobie-cnck look, and then Just double-click agai.n to go bilc:k-a~1 without ever mO.llirlg the mOUSE. M1nrmiz.e:a windowill QSX'~andyotiveg0l:1;O move [he mOUSE all [he w~down ro the pock to get tt back

2 Predictable Finder Window Behavior

Before OSX,Applei1ad lnheritedtwc approaches to file maosgemenr 11"1 the classic MaL OS Finder, each folder could be opened as one.and only one, wlndow~ which always remembered Its slze, locaton .. and display optlons.lnthe Nexrvscrkspace Mani3.ger, eechwlndowwes its own file browser:

With the> Mac OSXFillder. Apple tried to lmplernenr borhconceprs ancwounc LJp withajumblethiltdoe:s nejtherwell.

3 File Names Were Just 'NClI11es

The rules for naming files in the classic Mac as were wonderfufyslmple. vouweren't.allowed to use a colon, and that was about it. (And in case you couldn't remember ellen [hat, rule, tlie sysrern wculdrrr IEIyOlJ type acolcn in a filerirlfl1e.) There wer e no weud fI.J~e& to remember or ge-t in the way of ycurworkln OSX, nowever.fnes wlthour file-name extensions sometimes no longer work. More i rri[il.tlr1g_IYtMac OSX automatically treats anyftle whose name starts wirb adct

as "irlvislble"'-"s if ~l;;e OSw.ere a Unix system from 1971. So lr's st.i II harder rc edit arid manage file:s:with nameslike .hU.CCf;SS (common in web development) than It was in

the Mac as of 15years ~gO.-JOHN GRUBER

October 1987 ]

Taking Mac OS to Task

Apple releases itsfitstoffid a 1 mlJl[ir<G~.illg ~JMlril_[i.ngSys"tem, s. y~LE!rI" 4:1., which provides cocperatlve mulrlrasklngvla MultlFinder.

,

'-------I March 2, 1987 Macintosh See-9 Colors

WIth six.NuBussloI:$'OIr1d the .. bility to prodcee color grapblcs, the Madntcsh II representsadrastk sl1lftln Apple's;S,trat~.

Mtcroprccessors and GP Us evolve in two primary ways: chip makers shrink the distance between transistors {that distance is known as a drip's Pl'occss), which leads to faster and more-efficient chips; and they change processor architecture to improve how processors manage data and instructions, which increases overall performance.

CPU.

Most oftcdays MOles are powered. by the Penryn familyof chips, which are built using a qy-nanometer (rnn) process and Me based on Intel's Con: architecture. They're fine chips, but Intel's new 45nm Nehalem architecture features a host of improvements th<lt should significantly boost overall performance. Expect to begin seeing Mace with Nehalem chfps In ,zoo9.

Nehalem's po\ v 'er is especially appar~ ent when you're running software that takes advantage of multithteadmg-cthe

sa Mac:vmrld JIUIIIUy100,

a bllity to split processing tasks into multiple concurrent parts (threads]. Nehalem microprocessors will have two, four, or eight cures, and will be able to simultaneously work on two software threads in each core, using a scheme called hvpertlireading. Theoretically, an eight-core Nehalem chip can simultaneously process up to .6 threads-a capability that should make your next

M Ole quite snappy.

Unfortunately, most software can't yet take a dvantage of such extreme multitbreading-----but fear not First, Nehalem's Turbo Mode senses when some cores <II,," idle because software can't take advantage of multithreading and it will both shut down the unused COH'S and increase the clock speed of the ones that are hard at work, Second, the ne;..'t version of OS X, Snow Leopard. will include Grand Central, a technology that \ v -ill enable developers to better exploit multithreading.

GPUsandtheFuture

Multithreading is a trick that GPUs have already mastered-c-rheir multicore structurea USE" shader instructions designed for highlyparallel tasks sum as those required for rendering 3~D game frames, Traditionally, there have been three types of shaders-evertex, geometry, and pixel-e-but manyGPUs are now moving 1.0 a unified shader system that offers more Ilexfbility and. better performance.

GP Us are fast, but their powers have m ainly been reserved for drawing graphics. With the Op e nCL t e chnolcgy of Snow Leopard, however, the unused dock cycles in their speedy COTes will serve your Mac's CPU. Adobe has already built this; trick into Photosbop CS41 enabling tile ilpp to perform same amazingly swill image transfermancns. When OpenCl arrives, more apps will have access to the power of YOU[ Mac's GPU.

Septernberao, 1989 J The Port'able Macintosh

AJthough it:'~ farfrorn perfect; the Madn~05h portj!.bref1na!~

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WORST APPLE PRODUCTS OFALL TIME

1 Macintosh llvi and IIvx 06g'in-lll[y Introduced 1,11 199~ <'IS reptecernenrs ror the popular Madntosh lid, the uvl and Uvxfeatured a new case destgn and an internal CD·ROM dr've. Untorrunately, the 11 ..... 1 was powered by a measly l6MH;:: 68Q30 CPU, whlle the uvx connected "3~MH;:: 6"8.Q30 1;'0 i;I, 6MH:i: bustboth were slower than the threeyears-older, 2SMHz 1Ir:1. The lfvl lasted cnfyfcur months; while the 11v;.: held cut Tor ayear. the significalitly faster 6Bo4Q-b:;.sed Cerrtrts !Sso went on sate lust four months after the llvl and llvx were released

2Madl1to~TV

Apple's first foray into [h-e worldef television wasn't the Apple TV~ It was the 1993 Macintosh TV, <I blackatl-In-cne Mac with a 14·im::h CRT rncnucr.Ir wasn't all awtul compur€r, bur despltelts-nacne.tr couldn't: display TV from Its cable-ready Tv tuner card in a window. Apple made cnjy 1 0,000 before canceling [he weaksel!l ng product.

One of Intel's most interesting multicore projects, code-named larrabee, Is a hybrid architecture with the prcgrammabillty ora. CPU and tile parallelism 0[<1 GI?UT Intel isn't saying how many cores Larrabee processors will have, but it has shown projectedperformance graphs describing

October1990 Extension Cord The AppJe EJ!:tended Keyboard S&1St:i1e standlilrd for sound, feel,

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mom TV Wiil~ the Pippin. DESigt1l;'d byAppleandimroduced by Bandel lnme Unlred Sratesjn 1996 as a videogameconsojefor m1..lldmedia CD.ROMgames,itwas underpowered, overpriced, arrdtlrle-poor ccmpereo with tile Sarr; PlaySt:3;tion,Sega Saturn, and Ninrendo64-

4 Po-wer Macintosh 4400 Released in 'I997t the Power Maclrrrosh 4400 was Appte's feeble <lnempt"<tt a cheap Mac knockoff. lr had a sharp-edged metal case.and more lndusrry-srand a rc comp0nllmC,S than other Macs, and it W<lS horrible, It crashed <III the rlme, nad a panicuiarly laud fan, and (oddly) had ks floppy drive on the left sldec-coovenlent for maybe 10 percent of [he population,

Larrabee pran_"ssms with up to 64

cores. The first Larr abee (hips will be tuned for high-performance graphics and vldeo, and they'll appear in 2009 or aorc--ciusr in time far Snow leo-pard.

After Nehalem and Larrabee, Intel plans a pn.rn process named Westmere in 2010, a Sandy Bridge architecture in

5 Twentieth Anni;vars:ary Mac

Released in lQ!nthe Twentieth Anniversary Mac (TAM) feemred an-eJegaf'l~,lJpright design that Apple would revve )iE!iUS later with the flariMac. BLltln a triumph ofform overbothfuncrlonend common sense, App~e priced the ul"lderpowerl;d TAM;:I~

PowerMacintosh 5,500. Wrrhil"layear, Apple knocked ther downto SI,99S·

6 Apple USB ,Mouse

Perhaps noeppeprocncr has been as rer.riledastl1e "hockey puck mouse, wllich shfpped with'the original iM.ac iii 1993. ~ts Srrr<ill slzernace i[;awkward to_grasp_,

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:1.011, <J aanm pmc._..ss named Ivy Bridge around 20]:2., and a Haswell architecture alter that; later, Intel plans tc shrink processes to 16run and then Tlnm, and to develop new architectures that add mere-s-and more-specialized+cores. If I ntel sticks to its-public plans, the future should be bright.-RlI( MY5UW5KI

OctoberZl,1991 Powel'Books TUm Heads C a nd 'fr.Ickbal.s) Apple's Powerflcok 100, 140, and 17orevitillilE! no[ebookc:omptJtingwi[fl their clever, compact, and stylish designs.

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We now have USB 2.0, Firewire 400, and (on many systems) Firewire 800 connections, as well as fast internal Serial ATA (SATA) connections for hard drives. US B 3.0, scheduled to arrive in late 2009 or earl}' 2.0]0, packs a theoretical top speed of600 MBp~. Fire\Vire 800, in comparison, maxes out at 100 MBps (but despite the FireWile community's emerging standards for FireWire ifioo

and 3200, and plans for a future 125c·MBps version, neither Apple nor storage vendors are biting). External SATA (eSATA) currently tops out at 300 MBps, although a Soo-Mgps version is also in the works,

USB 3.0 will have nine times the power-supplying capability of USB 2.0, and it will be backward-compatible with earlier USB devices, even though its

October 19, ,992 Dynamk.Duo TI1I;! Power8ook Duo 210 (plUs.

DlJo Dock) Is Apple'sf1r.s.t attempt at illaptapldesktop hybrid.

cables are noticeably chunkier (USB 3-0 requires Iive more wires than earlier versions). IrUSB j.o-c-also known by the marketing moniker of Super Speed USB-is broadly adopted by the PC industry, FileWire will sink even further into irrelevance.

\;Vire-Less US B devices are also beginning to appea.r. At up to ten feet away from a, computer; they're about as fast as your current Mac's USB :2.0 ports;

at up to 30 feet away, they're about :1-5 ffi

percent as fast. Wireless USB won't ~

replace high-speed cables, but it will be a i welcome addition for flash drives, media i

players, sruart pbones, and more, iii

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tinue to take over the midr a nge ~

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sion of the venerable SCSI, the Mac's first~<md notoriously finid"'Y~to[ageconnecnom.

Up in the tanfied "<til' nfprofesslcnal content creatlcn and medla-distrfbution systems, intelligent switched fabric links such as lnfinibandwill rnnnect tomorrow's pro Macs with top-speed storage systems that may consist of components that comply with the Intel-supported Storage Bridge Bay standard.

Devices

In addition to these ch .. nges in storage connections, there are blg changes on the horizon for storage devices. Ever since the first disk drlve+-l BM 's r-tcn, gc-disk, 5MB R._AMAC-r:mdom-access storage bas required spinning stuff: hard-drive platters, floppy disks, or optical media. nJO:;;~ days HIe ending with the rapid rise ora. new class or solid-state drives (SSDs), which are more,' rugged, and which potentially consume less power and work faster, than any spinning disk.

Intel, for example, recently announced two families of SS Ds, one designed for consumer use and one for high-end data-center use. 111e first employs what's called multi-level cell (M LC) technology, tbO" second, singlelevel cells IS Lq. M LC 5S Ds are slower and l"S::5 expensive than SlC SSDsIntel's first commercial MLC drive, the 80GB X-::5M, sells for around $600 (Keep in mind that ten years ago a 9GB bard drive cost about $2,000, and the -X-25M should outperform today's

T),e M~c~ thinkof'mO"itfQildly remajrrs myM:lI:intosh SE/30, While we wt;~ undergraduates.my now-wlte and I bought [as a dDuble-floppySE,and I bujlrlt ii30MB external harddrlvefrom parts_ Laterwe upgraded to the Sr:/30 logic beard, and i)"lstalling avldec card ln it'lsingle slot introduced me [Orne wonders of mulrtple monitors When I Finally bought anNlMac,.lga\letlleSEl3o an Ethernet cardand made lr a Web and mailillg jlsr server: it ran for [en years, until MOt NOw it sits on a bookshelf. remlndmgus of just how wonderful the MeU::: has been.-.llOAM c. ENC;;ST

The M'adntosh SE'/3ow.as the pi" n a cle of thecrlginal M a c hardware deslgnltfooked much likelts predecessors, but It was far ras~er-tfle first all-in-one Mac that could make software reallyslng The specs seem silly by modem standards-such as the 40MB hard drive i.i;(1d the a-loch black-and- w hlte screenwlrh onlY512 by 342 pbels.sur like anygreac Mac, the sE/3:o wasn't a rerrjtc systernc-ayar the time ofi[:i-deblJ[~i[ remained emjnerajy usable fcryears tc rome whenl think of the origin::>1 Macera, the machine in my mind istheSE/3oc-JOI-IN GII"U"~1l-

There was a ti me wfl@nev@ryC1!;!wMilcilltosnequ::Iledorbetter.,d all aspects of every previous model. The MacintDsh SE/30 carne along _ very dose [0 the end ofrhet era, represenrlng the apex of [he orlgl nal , Macintosh form factor. Sporting every b't as much horsepower as

the phenomenajly espenslve Macintosh Ilx, the SEl30 was like a VI2 ,.mgiC1€ shoehorned into iI Honda Civic. Though future rncdels wlth the original upright shape were released, they were <III tagged with the derlslve rncruker Classic. The SEl30 bare no such sharne.Jt was and is the ulldisputed king of rhe orlglnal, lconlc Macs and therefore, of all Macs for all trme.~OHN SIRACUSA

snappiest bud drives when reading Iiles. It also has faster spen; than drives Irom SSD manufacturers such as Samsung and Tcshiba.] Unfortunately, the 12.8GB SSDs that Apple offers as options for Mac Books aren't from

I ntel-c-that company doesn't make d. 128GB SSD.

TIle;" days of the humble bard

drive Me not numbered-c-ite perfcrruance, speed, and reliability will continue to improve, and its cost-pergigabyte advantage will be tremendous for U1E,' foreseeable future-but it's about to share the stage with hot new SSDS.-RIK M'f5LEINSKI

August7,1997 gill Gates Leomstarge GaI;.~";; sianttalking_ head 'and Sr!:-VE' Jcbs amoencea !andmark Mkro50fr:-Apple software and lnvestmertt deal at M3CWorld conference & :E>:po;n Boston

Tcdays Gjgabit Etbemet is well over 4,000 times faster than Local'Ialk, and even-faster Ethemet prutccols already exist. The rc-Gigabit Ethernet standard was established in 2.002, and compliant hardware is readily available-albeit pricey. A standard with botb 4o-Gbps and ico-Gllps modes is on the horizon.

Just don't expect faster-than-Gigabit Ethernet on. your Mac, because there's Little need for such performance outside of high-end data centers and supercomputing environments. The real action on the networking front today is in the area of connecting to the Internet faster, more reliably, and en-the-go

For: example, Wl-Fj is- all well <Ired good, but in a few years we'll wonder how we ever put Lip with having to be

so close to a wireless arrzss point. Breadband is about to go long-range, with signal distances measured in miles, not feet. TIle only question is \ v hicb technology {or technologies) will take us into that future.

The Players

The competing technologies can be divided into two camps . .FlTsL there ate those that an;" evolving from DUH"nt mobile phone technologies, such ,,-S EVDO (Evo]uti-on Data-Optimized] and

HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) e Then there are the new kids

on the block, built from the ground up to he data carriers, such as WlM.1\.X (World-

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wtdel nretcperablllty for Microwave Access) and LTE {Long-Term Evolution).

Wh:lle EVDO, HSPA, and their ilk are currently about as fast as WiMAX and L1'E {on paper. atleast), the new guys have more room to grow, "WiMAX r.c, the current version, rnaxes out at around 60 Mbps: version J.5 is scheduled to reach lJ5 Mbps in late 2009, and version J.O will exceed 300 Mbps in late JOlO or early 2011. ITE will match those speeds but will lag behind by a year or two.

Wbrch will dominate? According to projections from. Intel (3 W1MAX champion and chip-set maker], the anSW~T js neither, Both will coexist for Q:

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fiber-namely, FiOS (fiber optic: service) from venzon.

'Iodays predominant DSL protocol.

ADSL2+, maxes cut at around 25 Mbps. U1e next flavor. VDSL (very high speed digital subscriber line), promises to double that, but irs not quite rea_dy. DSl, however, is and will continue to be cramped by broadband-limiting phone lines.

Version 3.0 o-f a new cable protocol with the numbing acronym DOCS IS (data OVEr cable service interface specification) has the potential of uio-Mbps downloads and rao-Mbps uploads, Even better, rrs already being tested in Mtnneapolis-Satnt Paul, with an implementation. that tops out at 50 Mbps for downloads and 5 Mbps for uploads, for a coo] $1)0 per month

Best Guess

Our money is on optical fiber. Verizun's FiOS, for example, is already available in multiple markets for monthly fees ranging from $43 [or rc-Mbps downloads and a-Mbps uploads to $'140 for 50 Mbps and. 20 M bps, respectively. One reason fbt our fibrous preference is that optical fiber, being thin and light, is easier to install than traditional cable.

So how fast will your Internet access be, and when will it be that fast? Well, 81£ Fiber-to-the-Home Council has asked Congress to set a goal of universally available rco-Mbps downloads and loo-M bps 'uploads by 2015, Our advice: don't hold your breath. Your Internet access will get faster, but not tbat qukkIY.-III,IK MYSLEW5KI

THINGS APPLE NEEDS TO DO RIGHT NOW

1 R~thi"kth@ Rt'id~r

It rnayhavebeen the epitome of file-system graphical navlgatlcn lntheearly 1980'S, bur come Oil: its Flock of Seagulls haircut.ls showing. Apple,you've had more thanzc years rothlnk of the rlnder's next evoluttcn.Sc evolve lt already

2 DonttJust TeD Me 'You Can'Jt Ejea the Media je!l me whlchdamnedfile is in use by whichapplic<ltion. 'Eitherth"r" or gllle me" neme.anaddress, and <H. appointment so I can slap the as engfneer responstble for the behavlcr.rcr a mlelmurn of ao mjnures

3 Fjx Back to M.y Mac

This feature is way too cool and useful to be 50 unreliable Once this thjng starts rowcrkas acvertlsed.screen sharing shared l'lunestlbrerles, and atoad of otherfearnreswlll beeome exponendailycooler and more useful as well.

4 Add ReadableMediatoiTune,s' Portfo60

I can use Apple productstc I~st e n to music. vl e w photos, and ward Tvshows and movies. So whardoe:;;Appl€ have against r8'ading? Third-party Mac and lPhon ... reader epps+eve aleeadyprcved that Apple has builrsomewcnderful readingdevkes... Sowby can't I sync and read desktop documents on mylPh.one and iPod us easily as I can-sync and enjoy muslcandvldect Andwby can'[ 1 buy re a dingmate'lialjust35 easily? Books, comic books,college-[e-x[S-App!eshould be selling them .a~1 in the iTunes Store. Do i[ all well enough end people rnigr.t even P~$5Qoforan Apple e-bock reader.

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We totally promise Ii or to make stcp-morlcnvlceos of the "I'm A O' l Mac" and "I'm A PC" dolls getrlrru cn, . __l

6 Give the Mac: Mini and Apple TVa Soul (On", Each)

_ Appl€ excels in pan: because when it releases anew product, ltrnakes an emphatic and aggressive argument rhatcorwlncesyourhat rhere was: a [name ofpraducrJrshaped hole lnyocr-heart atl along.andyou never knew it. BtJtflle oompEiny hasjrryetmade that cese fcr.the jaec minior- Apple iV.C'man, ApplE':ifyau don't bejlevelntbesetwoprcducts.upgrade them until you dQ.~DYIHNATKa

Octoberig, 1998l

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AuguSt15,1998

i.Ma,c Rewrites the BookofMac F~.turing USB porn, no floppy erive,a G3 Processor, andanlnnovative all-ln-onedesigr1', the flrstlMac L':ilLJSe:; tdalweves jnthe PC IrldLJ"ltry.

July 21, 1999 iSoak Cuts the Wires WtthAtrPort(on thecclcrful clamsherl iBook), Apple starts the wire less-neteorklng revolution

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October 5, 1999 AppleGoesto the Movies IMQVle'1,o repres;ents. a breakthrough ofeesy-to-cse vlceoediting :ooftwarefor the rnesses

Compare the 2'75·pound lead-acid battery in the Macintosh Portable to the half-pound lithium-polymer power source in the Macflock Air-an admirable improvement, yes, but even the latest and greatest battery technologies run down and need significant lime to recharge. Imagine Ifwhen your laptop's battery

moo you simply squirted some fuel into it, much like you refill your car's gas tank, and then immediately gOI back 10 work. That's exactly what you'll do when fuelcell technology finally comes of age.

Power-Generation Safe, portable, and reliable laptop fuel cells have been "coming soon" far a long time, but recent teclmol-

Thegreatest Macever'? tt's the first one yell owned. Anybody who answers differently is [ust going for style points. Mine was a Macintosh 512Ke. E"IIen at the tlme.jt was oldand out of date. But a kld working asummerjob in a department store could afford one-provided that the kid knew about the store's policy of continual automatic markdowns on dlsconrinued merchandise. And provided that this kid disconnected the power lead from the logic board to ensure that the machine remained unsold "II summer, until its original $2.495 price tag was gradually ground dOWI1 toe very agreeable $99.47.-ANDY IHNATI(Q

January 9, 20011- Beautiful Music rlunes 1.00 seemsbo-hum at First,

but Itcleve~ setstht stage fer the i~ alnd the rrures Store empire.

agy improvements, along with diminishing laptop power requirements, are bringing them closer, Another driving force is the military's increasing use of electronic devices: for you, extra batteries are merely a nuisance to carry; for a soldier, ther're a mission-limiting load.

Other laptop-power improvements include nanctube-based capaotance deViCES that don't rely on the chernlcal interactions of batteries, can be recharged in seconds, and never wear out, E.lfperimental plastic-based solar cells not only are Less expensive than current silkenbased ones, but also (all be painted onto a laptop. And even the holy grail of wireless pow~ transmission is getting closer. with the successful demonstration at M IT ora short-range device based on resonant inductive coupling.

Power Savings There's a lot more to yOUT portable future than new power sources-ethete's also, for example, tbe

October 23, 2001 TheiPod Rock.the MU5icWorid

Of the IPod, pundits '<lslc, "Who would ..... ant such a thing?" The answer. "Everybody."

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All Hail the Cubt!

The styRshbutlmpractical Power Maclnt!Y..h G4 Cube makes its debut to critical excitement and ccnsumer-embfvatence.Appleeses ltwlthlna year;

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ability to use powe,r wisely. The Macbook PrO can now switch between power, saving Nvidla GeFOTce 9400M integrated graphics and power, hungry bur better-performing Nvidta GeForce 9600M GT discrete graphics. Wbl;'ther Apple will. eventually incorporate this option into the more affordable Macllock, however, is anyone's guess.

Other potential 'power·silvers include the latest iteration.of OLEO (organic light-emitting diode) displays, known as AMOLEO (active-matrix OLEOt displays. AMOLED technology has the same advantages as OLED dlsplays=nc need for power-hungry backlfghts, nice brightness, the a bHHy lO bend and Hex, and a wide viewing angle=but provides better resolution, faster refresh rates, and the potential for larger sizes. AJVIOLED displays haw been commercially manufactured onlyingnmrt-pllOn@sizessofur, but look for them in your laptop's firture,

Security Since laptops are now as popular as desktops. laptop security is becoming more important. To help you sleep 'better at njght, Intel has developed security technology that, when notified that your laptop bas been stolen, will remotely encrypt the- files on that laptop's drive, us", the built-in Web C:;i3.1l1 (or is:lght, of course] to take a photo of the miscreant, track the location of the stolen laptop by means ofits built-in GPS, andthenallow you to decrypt jhe Illes after you get your laptop back All. Apple needs to do is add a GPS chlp to its laptops and implement Intel's technology, and this peacE" ol mind can he YOUIS.-RIK MY5LEWSKI

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The iCO. n for-the Fnderls JUSt <I simplified drawing ofthe oornplJter ltsef What the hecks tharsupposedco rneani I n System l.o,[his lconwasacteelly used for most files lnthe System Folder. Over-the years, eachof those system rile!; got Its

awn dsrlnctweicon=exceptthe Finder. Fer-more tl1i'1~ a decade anda half, the Finder held such primacy in the Macuserexpedence tharlrseon alone represented the thing itsE!~f:theFinderw<tsl:t1e computer. Those days have passed, but cheoriglnal Flncertcon rerralns a powerful emblem of a !"eV1JIur.loniu't changein me computer interface,

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pevetcpertoos+eve historically been given shon shrittwhen ltcornes totcons,

. end ResEdi, is ncesceptcn.ttstccn hastoo many elements fer the av,iI,bl.

. spaceandts not.parttculerlyattractlve.Butlrs got one thing in spades: character; Macdevelopment has never beena staid.serious endeavor; The [ndependen[spirit (and mild il1sanity) of the piorleerilig Mac developers ~sperfealy captured in the icon for thls once-indispensable classic Ma.L O'sdeveloper tocl

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Wher1. €ve.rtheMac Platform. set off in a "" dlrectlon, 1[3 visual metaphors: usually followed The move to color graphics in Sy-stem 7 was on€. such momenc.Sysrem 7 reconsidered e~ry element of the user Interface, from thelowly folder Oil up. It'S easy IO take the subdued, tastefut lookfcr-granced, bolt things COLJld have beenvery different. Many computer lnrerfaces abuse 00 I Dr; the MOle: didn't Why pale blue? Whynocthe bejge of a real-world manllafclder? The Mae: userfntertace W<I:'i slgnalloguslndependencefrcm the real-wcrldanachrcnisrns it was replacing,

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- - - Oncest:arrupcommenced,th~s.wiI5[hefir.;ticon-coappeilronthescreenaf the original MiiC.intOS-h~"'ndOri'EiVEiry MlIdnt~sh thereatter for 1~yea~.I[ set the tone for-all aspects ot the platform. YolS1lt prornlsed a qLlirky,flJl!, friel1dty experieC1l:€ Fur the user.Butlt.also reveaied epple as <I companywlth an

endeertng selt-awareness.Apple didrrtjusr mindlesslycreOite an odd, upright compLlter that looked like an adorable little person with;a screen for a face; It dld so knowingly and it wanted [0 be die firsr to pcuu It cue The Happy Mac has been replaced bythe corporate: logo, but its spirit endLires.-JOHN SiRAC1J:iA

[May142002 MiJcona Rack

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With Microsofr"s Internet sxcore-ror the Mat;: gonHAWOL~Apple HlJe::lS!3":iI leanand,~tWf'b broVfter~Snf;;rl.

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TIle answer is "Not much beyond what we: have now," OS X is Apple's core technology, and it isn't l ikely to change significantly ln the near future.

Snow Leopard

Apple has already announced that with the next version of Mac OS X-Snow Leopard-cit will focus on improving reliability and performance. Snow Leopard will add support fOT Microsoft Exchange and nrulticcre computing, faster lava Script execution. higher RAM ceilings, and access to the computing power in graphics chips, but it really represents a time-cut in Apple's quest to add major new features to each nE'W release of its OS.

In previous releases of OS X. wf!ve gotten Time Machine, Spotlight, Dashboard, Automator; and male. But those features have often suffered. from rough edges and-Spot1ight and Time Machine

in particular-have caused performance slowdowns. Lids hope Snow leopard will make using a Mac feci snappier, without requiring that we buy new Macs.

Looking b€yond Snow Leopard, we can do little more than make educated guesses. As long as the basic Mac hardware remains familiar, it's difficult to imagine the OS changing too much. ~

can't see Apple making more than incremental changes-along the lines of the gestural support recently added to Apple's laptops-etc the graphical interface we're all accustomed to.

Will we see additional integrated apps such as Safari, Mail, idlat, ieal, and Address Book? Perhaps, but only Hsome computer capability-like Twitter-style

Myinner ccntrarlanfcrres meta suggesrthatthe best Mac rve ever owned ls one that Apple had no hand in de:sig.ningm manufacturing. That would be rrrj beloved 1995 Powf"r Computing ?owerTower ,80e. As its name lmpltes, this Mac-compatible [ower bore a lSoMHz PowerPC 604e processor, 32MB of RAM, a 2GB hard drive, and an 8x CO-ROM drive. and it offered expansion ill the form of three PCI slots and two drive bays. Forhs time, it was a hell ot a workhorse, providing more bangfor the buck than any SImilar Apple-branded compurer.--cHIiISTOPHER BREEN

January 11,2005 Not the Cube, We Swear A new, low-end, C0l'15Umer headless Mac.thl'l MiK"millif<lr~much better thanfts cubic: predecessor,

April 29. 20051

Whoa, 'there,

Tiger Apple sends Jaguar back tothejungle and releases OS X ,04-

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30 IncMso, Bust Apptecalls its 3O-inch Cinema Dil>play "the largest high resolution display ever created,"

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August 2, 2005 Pushing Buttons 1\'(enty years of one-button historyendsa!.Apple Introduces lheMlghtyM~.

mlcroblogging-e-becomes so ubiquitous that Apple feels it has to take control. as

it has done fo:r the Web, e-mail, instant messaging, and so on. Ylrtualizarlcu would seem to fit that bill, but with VMW:H~, Parallels, and others solving the virtualiaation problem, don't expect Apple to go much beyond Boot Camp. I suspect that seei rig Windows applications within OS X offends Steve jobs's sensibilities

Mac AppStore?

The success of the i Phone App Store has ted man)' people 'LO speculate that Apple might try to do the same thing for Mac software, building a Mar. App Store into iTunes and OS X."lnt could make it easier for everyday users to add capabilities to their Macs. And given the 30 percent cut Apple takes on App StOT~ sales, it could prove lucrative for Apple.

However, a Mac App Store isn't nearly as obvious a move for Apple as the

i Phone App Store now seems. Steve Jobs said that Apple would just break even

on the Iphcne App Store, due to server and bandwidth costs; the vastly larger size of Mac applications would drive Apple's bandwidth costs through the roof Developers might stay away, too, 'if the technical and policy restrictions fOT

<I Mar. App Store were similar to those that currently cause angst among if'hone developers. Unlike with the il'bone, developers have plenty oflndependenr ways of selling Mac software-assuming Apple doesn't try something draconian like tweaking OS X soit runs only applications that have been digitally

signed. My take? Don't hold your breath for a Mac App Store.

IntheClouds

Apl)le has yet to fully embrace "doud computingt-c-really just another term for tbe Internet gussied up with modern concepts like social, networking, open APls, and software as ~I service. Apple is approaching the cloud conservatively, utilizing Internet connectivity and services to extend its platforms and applications, but not to radically open them up.

MobUeMe's syncing, fer instance, mostly just helps you manage YO\.I[ own information among multiple Macs, but it doesn't provide notable new ways to connect to other Mac users. And compare Mobilebte's G-allery feature. where your photo sets are disconnected islands, to Flickr; where tens of millions of users have created an interconnected continent of 2 billion photos.

Apple's conservative attitude toward the cloud also shows in its focus on paid services-e-the Hlmes Store, the App Stare, and Mobilejvle. ,I could imagine Apple embedding some additional free tnremet capabilities into OS X. (off-site Time Machine backups to ather computers, a la Crashl'Ian, farinstance]. But l can't see Apple doing much more than that, given tile company's current rnanagement style.

In sum, although I'd expect Losee refinements and some new applications in Snow Leopard, tile as itself isn't likely to see any revolutionary changes in the next few years, Now, Mac as II? That's another storY.-ADAM c. ENGST

MILESTONE MAC GAMES

1 The CDIDny Four years before Wolfenstein 3D, Mac gamers had The Colony. Minimal texture mapping. andyoucouldn'r look up or down. but it was 3D.

2 Crystill Que~ Ma'gamlng dlstllled to its essence: eccentric. irmovetlve.and hIghly addlctlve.

3 Dark Castle The Mac's original 512bY342 screen was a razorsharp canvas for exquisite animation and a rrnschlevcus sense of humor.

4 Esr:ape V~.ocity Ambrosia

_ Software's "shareware epic" with beau"!ifully re ndered sprites. great sound, andan cpen-endedstcryllne.

5 M,;nafho., The Mac resp<Jnsem Doom had sharper graphics, beuer netwcrking and a deep.enthrsjllng sel-f storY-JOI-INSIRACU5A

Abo<lt the Authors

Adam C. Engst is the publisher of the TidBIts (db.tidblts.com) newsletter and the Take Control e-booksertes. Rik Mplew§ki has.been writing ebout rhe Mac: since 1989-his blog can befound at www.myslewski.com.

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Gigabit Ethernet has. ten times the throughput of the fastest real-world wireless connection. You can back up your Mac, the kids can download movies, and your spouse can stream music From the [<unity Hunes library, all at the same time, without bogging down your network, Two kinds of devices particularly benefit from wired connections:

Desktop-Computet'S If you store a shared i'Iunes Library, videos, or family photos on <I desktop Mac, or if you s11Me peripherals such as printers or DV D burners from it> and if that shared computer is in the same room as your Airf'ort base station, you. should connect it to that base station via Ethernet Even if the Mac and the base station aren't In the same room, you should.still consider wired Ethernet; room-to-room cabling isn't that hard to set up or messy.

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Alii ntel Macs, iM<lcsreJ_easec:! since mid-acce, Pow~TBOQks since late 2001J and POWoE;l; Macs since mid-acco have Gigabit Ethernet. (To see if your M3-C:: qualifies, select Apple: About TI1is Mac, click on MOI'e Info, select Network in the Contents sidebar and. Built-in 'Ethernet in the Active Services subwindow, and then lookup Media Subtype in the subwlndcw below] Routers have come late [0 the Gig;lbit party: Apple bas offered Gigabit on Us AirPort base stauons since mid-::,oo7, when it irttroduced the Gigabit AirPort Estreme.

If you already have a Gigabit router and enough empty ports on it for all the devices you want to wire up, you're all set. If you don't have enough empty ports on your router, or 'if you're using the Mac 'itself as your wireless base station, you can add more ports with an Ethernet switch, A switch is just a 'box equipped with a bunch or Ethernet ports that manages the network traffic among the devices connected to it

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i="lXed Devices If you don't transfer a lot of big files to or from. your desktop Mac, or 'back up over the network, Wi·Pi is fine for less-demanding connectivity.

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to video streaming and the other to computing traffic. Some third-party routers are specifically tuned for online g.aming, with port triggering and fast processors. Many support advanced networking tools such as Dynamic DNS (DDNS). which makes it easier to access yam LAN remotely from the lntemet, Several let you connect add-on antennas, which (all solve wireless coverage issues.

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inner nerd. (Belkin and Linksys are notable exceptlcns.] And using a rhlrd-partv wireless router means that you have to call two vendors. not one, ! Fvou encounter problems.

If you do apt for <I third-party router, be prepared for a bit more work than you'd face with Apple hardware. Although Belkin and tjnksvs offer excellent Mac setup utilities, the configuration software for most non-Apple routers-e-if they come with cunfiguratton software at al.l-ls Windows-only. But you CilTI still configure mOS'1 such routers from your Web browser.

The usual setup mutine is this: Plug the router into your Mac via Ethernet Enter the router's default LP address in your browser. {Make sure your Mac's Ethernet porl is set to Using DHCP in the Advanced window of the Network preference pane.] Enter a user name and password to access the router's conliguration screens, They are typically crude compared. 'With Apple's, but you can usually find what you, need quickly,

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or 19,2 . 168 . .2 • "'I) and password (often admin, pas:S.1ftiol'd. or blank) should be, but aren't always, specified in. the user documentation. If there are no printed. docs, look for iii PDf file on the instill

CD, or browse the support area of the vendor's web site.

After entering the password, you'll be at the configuration utility's home screen, and from here on you can follow the same directions in the manual as [or PC users.

If you buy a simultaneous dual-band router, sum as the Dvl.ink DJR.8S.5 or the Linksys WRT610N, you call use that setup screen to create two separate networks-cone on the 2c4GHz band,

the other on the 5GHz- JU-5t make sure that the devices you want to put on the 5GHz network support this setup. Mast new Hp-capable streamers with built-in Wi-Fi-e-induding the Apple TV and Windows Media Center Extenders-c-dc.

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Compared wltb Wi-R, powerlme reaches anywbere in. the house and gives you consistent bandwidth with no dropouts. But it's also more expensive: starter kits go for around $]5.0 Lo $]8.0, and additional adapters coot about $80 to $100 each, If your wiring is "noisy" [meaning the wires are subject to superfluous signals from other electrical equipment] or made of'alumlnum. or if you have multiple breaker panels and cutlets that create distinct circuits, powerline mav not work in your house at all,

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The leading standard, which [ recentmend, is HomePlugAV. HomePlug AV products are rated at :100 Mbps and are available from Belkin, Linksys, Netgear,

ZyXei, and several other vendors, I'ONIRlIKE I//JAPfEH (/(1f'I)

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Also, be sun~ to buy from a store with a good return policy, in C3S~ your home wiring is notup to snuff. Wben powerline works, it's great, but until, you test it in your house, there's no guarantee it will operate at all. Finally stckwith one manufacturer. Home-Plug AV hardware is supposed to be interoperable, but if you buy from one vendor, it'll 'be easier to troubleshoot any problems you run into.

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Most HOIDE'Plug AV adapters are plugand-play. One adapter plugs into YOUT router (via Ethernet) and a nearby electticai outlet {us:lng a provided cable). You then plug another adapter into another outlet on that same electrical circuit for each peripheral you want to connect. That should be .it no setup

or software involved. TIle connection will appear as a standard ioo-Mbps Ethernet connection to your Mac or other attached devices

Scme pcwerline gear requites software setup of end) adapter from a Windows Pc. If that's the case, don't Jet it stop you Irom using pcwerline, you'll need to borrow a PC just this OJ'lI:C.

To work-properly, powerline adapters should be plugged directly Into the wall, rather than into a power strip or extension cord. E2

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CONFERENCE: JanU31Y 5"9, 2009 EJ(PO: January s-s, 20G9

Over 140 educational sessions taught by renowned industry experts. Macworld conference programs feature content on Mac industry trends and developments for Mac enthusiasts at all levels.

The Macworfd Conference programs Jncfude:

• Power Toels - 2-day, in-depth training on popular Mac scttware applications and tools

" MaclT® Conference - Targeted topics for IT professionals

• Users Conference - Skill development across Mac~enabfed solutions

• MacLabs - Hands-on, interactive focused training classes "Market Symposiums - Analysis and deployment of Mac technology in key markets

• Creative Safari - Hands-on field work on shooting and editing techniques using key Mac creative toots "Supersessions - Quick' hits to get you up to speed on key Mac technology

• Feature Presentations - Deslqned to entertain and inform all Macworld attendees on a broad range of topics by industry leaders and ~sionaries

• Birds-of-a-Feather meetings (BOFs} - Networking discussions for all Macworld attendees, on key Mac topics

Conference Attendee Loungs Exclusive to conference attendees, the Conrerence Attendee Lounge will give you a chance to escape the crowds. relax enjoy fun activities and meet up with ather like minded attendees.

Dot .. rr MISS THE MACWORLO BLASTI

Tuesday, January 6, 8:00pm, LIVE @ BBB Brannan St.

Save the date for the Macword Ocrference & Expo attendee

party! Mix and mingle with fellow Mac\.vond attendees, speakers and staff as you enjoy live entertainment and the oppornmity t.o win great prizes.

TIle Macwo~d Blast! is one of the most memorable and talked-about activities of the entire week. Macworld Blast! is a great way to celebrate an amazing week at Macworld. A Macworld Blastl ticket is included in all platinum pass rsgistrations or can be purchased separately tor only $40!

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MAC USERS

The 2009 event is focused on creating a Macworld experience based on your interests and training needs!

A sampling of sessions we've created just for you 1nctude:

Power Tools

!!!! Getting the Most Out of Office 2008 for Mac

II Telewot1<ing 2009. A Technical Guide to Being & Managi I1g a Remote Work staff

MacLab

Iii Runnfng Your Wireless Network Safely 8. Reliably-Tips on Bast Tools

Users Conference II Back to My Mac

II Bugs & Fixes Real World Mac Troubleshooting

• Mobile Me - Inside Apple's New Online Service

• The Complete Guide to Backi ng Up Your Mac

• Rve Ways to Work More Efficiently in Photoshop

• Using Visual Thinking & Design to Transform Your Next

Presentation

• iWork and iljfe for Small Business

• Best of Mac OS X Hints

• Runnrng Your Mac lean, dean, and mean

EXHIBITOR LIST

Spanning two full halls, and featuring over 500 exhibitors, the Expo Hall is the place to see the latest products from the hottest companies in the industry.

Expo H 811 Hours Tuesday, January 6 Wednesday, January 7' Thursday. January 8 Friday, January 9

11 :00 AM- 6:00 PM 11:00AM- 5:00PM 10:00 AM- 6cOO PM 10:00 AM- 4:00 PM

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Solutions. IT IPROFESSIONALS

A sampling of sessions we've created just for IT Prcresstonee frtcjude:

Macworld offers all levels of IT professionals the opportunity to increase their skills and learn from the best instructors in the field.

Mac IT Conference

e ln-depth training tor enterprise and IT professionals who

work In installations running Mac client and server products.

Power Tools

• System Imaging & Deployment

• Apple-Script

• Mastering Directory Services

'. rel.working 2009; A Technical Guide to Being & Managing

a Remote Workstaff

• Total Network .Awereness: Tools & Techniques '. Mac as x Server - Behind The Box

II Mastering the Adobe CreaTIV8 Suite

• Leaming Flash CS4

'. FileMaker

MacLabs

• DNS Management

• UN IX Scrip~ng

• Running Your Wireless Network Safely & Reliably- lips On

Best Tools

• Using InstaDMG

II Automating Active Directory Integration • MacForensic8

Users Conference

• Real WDr1d Mac Trcubleshootinq

• Mobl1e Me -Jnslde Appl e's New Online Service

• The Complete Guide to Backing Up Your Mac

• Creating Dynamic Interfaces with Flash & Databases

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GRAPHI'C DESIGNERS

Top professionals in the field present the most effective techniques to expand your library of design concepts.

A sampling of sessions we've created just for Grapl"Jic Designers include:

Power Tools

• Drearnweaver

• Final Cut Studio 2 - In-Depth

• Photoshop

• Mastering the Adobe Creative Suite

• Learning Flash CS4 Meet.abe

• Make Your Color Behave

• Final Cut Studio 2 - Studio Work~ows Iii Final Cut Studio Overview

Users Conference

• Ask the Editorsl

• Creating Dynamic Interfaces VJil:ll Flash & Databases

• The Designers Role In Sustainable Practice

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6 ,_ Graphic Secrets lor Creative Pros: Photoshop CS3

& Beyond!

• Exploring Panoramic Virtual Reality (VRJ Photography

Market Symposium

III New Media Artists

Private Expo Hall Viewing Hours

With so much time spenl rn conference sessions during the week we want to give conference attendees some extra tme to meet with exhibitorS and see the show flool Wednesday moming at 1 D. au am conference and Expo Ru. attendees will be able to vI,,;t ~le expo halls an hour before me crowds begin set your aloml clock and gel an early start on all that Macworld has to offer.

Platinum Pass Includes:

- Two Power Tools, One Market Symposium. Full Access to Users 8( MaclT® Conferellce

Keynote Priority Seating based on availabllity - Unlimited access to Expo Halls. with private

early morning access on Wednesday ~ One Macwof'1 o Biast Party Ticket

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PHOTOGRAPH,ERS

Whether you're a professional or hobbyist Macworld is the place to learn the latest editing, printing and sharing techniques for digital photography and shooting video.

A sampling of sessions we've created just for Photographers lncfuce.

Creative Safari

• Beginner Digital Photography

• Advanced OigitaJ Photography Day Powertools

• Aperture

• Adobe Photoshop Ljghnoorn 2

• Photoshop Macl.abs

• Final Cut' Studio 2 - Studio worknows

• Build a Better we-know with Photoshop

Users Conference

• The Art &. Craft of D~gital Photography

iiiii Five Ways to Work More :Efficiently in Photoshop

• The Passionate Photoqrapher-Embraclnp Aperture 2.l For Your Photographic lite

• Adobe Photoshop Ughtroam 2 - Workflow tor Digital

PhotographerS

• Aperture in Nature & Landscape Photography

• :Exploring Panoramic Virtual Reality (VR) Photography

• Ask the Editors!

• Creating Digital Portfolios

• OVD Montage on the Go

VIDEOGRAPHERS

Creative Safari • Djgita~ Video Power Tools

• Introduction to Final Cut Studio

• Final Cut Studio 2 - ln-Dspth

!!II Mastering the Adobe Creanve Suite • Leaming Hash C84

Macl.abs

• Make Your Color Behave

• Flnal Cut Studio 2 - Studio Workt1ows

• Final Cut Studio Overview

Users Conference

• Hegain Features of iMovte HD In iMovie 'oa

• Hollywood Tricks for Home Movies

• Ask the Editors I

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Computer Using Educators (CUE) has partnered with Macworld to create valuable learning programs for K~ 12 educators. These sessions explore the latest developments and technologies to help educators improve their knowledge of classroom tools.

A sampling of aesaiona we've created just for Educators include"

Macl.abs

.. iMovie 101: Video Production for Educators

• GarageBand 03 in Education: Remix Your Media

• iChat and Video Streaming: Open Student'S Eyes and Ears to the World

• Hey, 1 Have Something Important to Say! Using Podcastinq in the Classroom

'. Create a Global Learning Perspective with Google Tools in Education

Images, Impact. and lnteractlcn

Expo Plus

New tor 2009, Macworld is offering an expanded program to enhance the expo experience - the Expo Plus program.

Special sessions have been created that no offtar attendee gtoUP will have access roo Andy Inllati<o, Oa\oid Pogue and Martill Sitter v¥ill inform and entertain Expo Plus attendees ('luring these sessions.

Ezpo Plus attendees can relax and network in the Expo Plus LDunge, and enjoy private viewing hours on the expo floor on Wednesc!ay moming before the crOVIJ(Js begin.

There are a limited number of Expo Plus packages avallable. so don't delay on taking advantage of all this r,a..xciting program has to ofter!

Users Conference

.1 Mac OSX Leopard .. "the Pumrrrfect Cat tor your

C~assroom

• Mabile Learning; iPad and iPhane in Education .1118 Google Universe: Tools for Educators

.,21 st Century Literacy; ILi!. and Digital Storylelling in the

Classroom

.' Staying in Control of Leopard at School Market Symposium

., K-12 Education

Register now

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Be Your Own Assistant

Keep yourself on track with digital reminders and alerts BY JOE KISSELL

, n were a high-powered executive, I'd have an assistant to manage my schedule and remind rue about deadlines and appointments. But I'm not, so I rely on my Mac and a new breed of online services ins lead.

You may already schedule meetings and to-do items. with Apple's JCa1 OI WJlh an online service such as Coogle Calen-

dar ( .... , macworld.corr/3643i' both provide alarms you can use to notify yourself of impending events. But just 11t"l:<LUSfi" your schedule starts on i3_ Mac doesn't mean you have to stay tethered to one. You «ill receive alerts via e-mail, SMS text messages, RSS feeds, phone calls,

and more. Here are some effective ways to remind yourself about important tasks and events-without hir.ing.an assistant.

Creating Calendar Alerts

Even if you meticulously schedule appointments and tasks, you scm need to remember them. Both iCrtI and Coogle Calendar "provide multiple types of reminders that Call reach you wherever you are, on all kinds of devices.

Sf'f'~tOll Scree!1 The most common

I type oiremindet is the standard Bon-screen POP'-LlP alert+ To set 'One lip in ~ iCaL double-dick on the event, dick on i: Edit, choose a reminder type from the

~ Alarm pop·up menu (for instance,

g Message or Message With Sound), and ~ specify when you want the alarm to

~ appear-.a set rime before the event, On a

specific date, and so on. You can SEt LIp multiple types cf remlnders, or ones that go off at different times, by repealing this 'procedure+ [lf you don't Iike the standard reminder window, see "Spice Up Alerts" for 3, way to customize ,it.)

Similarly, Coogle Calendar can display pop-up alerts, but only when you're logged. m. Select an event and click on. Edit Event Details. Under the Options section, you tan customize and add alerts, To create a new one, click on the Add A Rernmder link, choose Pop-up, set <I. time, and did: on Save.

Sfoo.,d Y¢o u Js~lfaf.liE-mail I r you're net cOllstimtly sitting in front 'Of your Mac, e-mail alerts can be very useful, whether you check messages on your mobile phone, en another portable device, a]' on a Windows machine at work.

LO setup an.e-mail alertin Kal, choose Email from the Alarm cpop_up

menu, select a lime, and then select the e-mail address you want to use (if you have more than Ol'11;' fer yourself in Address Book); iCal wilI include the event's title in the subject of the message, and the note {if there is one) in the body. jCaJ can send e-mail alerts only when your computer is awake and connected to the I nternet; and it works only 'With Mail. If you use mother program. :'IS your default e-mail client, you'll have to set up an account in Ma il

In Google Calendar, choose Email from the Reminder pop-up menu. and the program will send a mesaage to the address associated wlrh your account [typically )'our Gmail address). Google Calendar sends messages even when you're not logged in.

5endYourselfaTextMessage T11cIe's no reason to miss a rem inder just because you're out of tbe office. If you've got yOUT mobile phone in. your pocket, an SMS message can be a quick and much-needed prompt.

In Coogle Calendar, vcu'll Iirst have to tweak the settings. Click on theSeulngs link at the top of the page, and then select Mobile Setup> Choose your country, enter your mobile phone number and carrier, and cl.i:ck on Send Verification Code. An SMS message containing a six-digit number should pop up an your phone. Type that number into the Verification Code field,

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click on. finish Setup, and then click on Save. From now on, whenever you warn Coogle 1:0 send an SMS alert, choose SMS hom the Remtnder pop-np menu.

Unlbnunarely, iCa! cannot send an SMS text message directly to <I mobile phone on its own. For that, you'll need the help of another progr:mL such :l3 Alec BI[)m and Rene Laterveer's SM S Mac ($10 per {'ear and '10 cents per message; \WJw.smsmac.com). You'll have to download the SM S Mac Scripting program and then set an alarm that triggers an App1eScript (as described in the next section), which sends the message vta the scrtpttng appllcarton. You can find. tnstrucucus for doing this- on the SMSMac Web site (macworld_com!4079). Depending on your carrier, you may be able to have iCa1 send an e-mail message to <I special address so you receive it <IS an SMS message=-check with yoUl: service provider Ior details.

Spedali.ed iCalAlerts

One COOt feature of iCal is Its <tbili!:y to lrlgger certain actions when an alert goes off [rom. opening a me to playing your favorite tune.

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Open Documents You can easily set an iC,J alert to open a document or program-s-useful if you're takutg your laptop to a meeting and you want your M::I.e to automaucally open the agenda, a presentation, or another associated document, Choose Open fil~ from the Alarm pop-up menu, select Other from the second menu, and navigate to the relevant document or program. Then set when you want it to open.

Run an Ap.pleScrtpt An iCaJ alarm can also trigger an AppleScript to run when your scheduled event occurs (see "Script Runner"). Suppose you want to play a particular track in qunes 'to set [be mood for an important meeting, Open Script Editor (/A:ppl±cations/Apple~ Script) and type in the following script, customizing it with the name of a song and a playlisu

te 11 application ~ iT unee ij

play track ~T"(lcI':Name~

of playl1st ~Playl.istNilme-ii end tell

O,r let's say you've set a reminder to purchase a birthday gilt and you know you'll be shopping at Amazon.com.

I nstead. of bavmg an alert that tells you

-lot

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Pick an AIIrt CI'lOOS4i: <Ii typE-Cif alE-it-:Efilail, SMS,ot Pop-Up-for .anyGooglE: Ci!1E:c1dcrr~nt

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to go to Amazon.com, you can cre-ate a script-that tab:s you there:

tell app l.Lcat.t en "Safari· make new -docl.ment at end of doclIn:e-nts

set IJ Rl of document 1 to http://www.amazon.com

end tell

Once you're finished finessing your script, save it. In .leal, choose Run Scrrpt from (be Alarm pop-up menu, select Other from the next pop-up menu, and navigate to your saved script.

Beyond iCaI'and' Google

I n. the past few years, many online reminder services have sprung up. These services allow ,'OU to create and receive notes and alerts with nearly any Internet-enabled device, or even via a telephone call. Here are three cool services-c-all free-that let you keep on top of your schedule, even when you don't have access to your 'main calendar program.

Jott 1110" idea behind [ott Networks' [ott (free [ad-supported]: lott.com) is simple: Register a telephone number wlth the service, call in, and dictate anything you want, Jndudtng e-malls to yourself quick reminders, and to-do items. You C3Jl alse add events to [ott via the Web site, e-mail, or SMS [using a special lett address or text number)

Whenever you call jott from your registered humber, the service :recog-

reminders and notes at 'me Web site, or the

service can send reminders via e-mail

or SMS. It can even put items on your Coogle Calendar (YQU'U 'have to add GOQg1~

Calendar to your [ott links: first]. Eenail reminders include a link 10 the original

.. 'oice recording, which is handy if there are transcrtprton errors.

reQ:li1i Llke Jott, Q'Iech's free reqall service (www.reqell com) lets you phone in notes and receive reminders via e-mail or SMS. You can also send and receive alerts with an 1M client such as iChat.

and notes.

Jolt Jott's W~ rnterface displays reminders, to-do ftems.,.

nizes who you <He (using caller I D) and asks you to choose a recipient

(for instance, yourself a list you've set up. a Web·based service like Twitter [wwwtwttter.rorn], a contact, or 3 group]. Use keywords to specify what sort of information you want to "j ot" down {such as a reminder or a to-do item). Once you've gotten all the specifics down. you can dictate a short message (up to 30 seconds),

[ott uses a combination or computetized speech recognition and human transcription to rapidly turn spoken meas:ag<"s into text. You em check all of your

connections to Twitter or a way to add events via e-mail or SMS, though there ts an Ij'hcne version 0 f the program, as well as a Fuefcx plug-ln that csu grab clippings front Web rages and add them

to your list of notes.

Remember The Milk With Remember The Milk On beta at press time: www .remembertherrulkcom], you em create reminders via a Web interface, e-mail, Twitter, or SM S (using your Twitter account-for more, go to macwor!d COm/40S0). Though the service doesn't have its own speechreccgntnon inter-

r a ce, you, can configure Jon to direct spoken reminders to your Remember 111e Milk account.

The service dE'1iv€IS alerts via €--mail.

Twitter, instant message, SM S, OT Atom news feed. To-do items also go into

all iC:lll"'nd.u feed that you can access

Online reminder services let you create and receive alerts from any Internet device.

The service turns your to-do items into a feed that you can subscribe to in leal (but not Coogle Calendaru 'it also offers an RSS feed in case you want events to appe3I in your news aggregator, Unlike [ott, reQalI does not currently provide

Spice Up Alerts

When iC;1 displays an alert (using the Message or Mess a ge with Scundalerrtype), [he boxatays cnscreen andfloats infrOJ'lt of all ocher wji1dows urrrll ycudemtss it If that Interferes with your workstyl-e, try Growl alerts instead.

GrowlTeam'sfree Growl (growl,lnfo)'workswith dozens of programs to provide systemwtdenotlncetlcns .. .Afrerin-stallingrhe sottware.you launch System Pretereeces.select Growl.andchocse a lookfnr notices (aJiything frcma tlflY,unabtrLJsive transparentwlndcw in the corner-or the screen to-a huge alertwith cbnoxlcus grsphlcs-c-ycurcholce). You can else pick the pcsltlcn of your alerrs andcboose the amount ottlrne they stayonscreen.along with orber oprlons.

Though leal doesrrtsupport Srowl.joe can gaarOlJnd thls by usingirnJilGrisfree Growl It (www.irnilgfl.rlE't/softwan~)AppleS!.::rtpt.. Simplyset Kal to run this AppleScdptas theelertfcranyevenr.ano Grow! wIll dlspley norlfleetlonsthe wayyou mnfiguiRd them

To achieve [he sam-e effect with Google catencar.you must lnstaf rwo free pieces of software (lnaddirlon to Growl jrself). GoogllI!! NoUfier (macworld.~onVz752), which informs YDU of impendingappouurnents and newGmail messi:lges, and waffle Sottware's Goog:ll!+Growl (mal:world.t-mn/403t ill beta <It pre-ss tltne). Onceycu configure both.you'tl get Growl·b<lsed alerts foryoor Google Calendar events-seven when you're not legged i11. To dlsab!e Notltler alerts and receive only Growl reminders, goto Notffler-s Preferences (underftsrnenu-barttem), select the Calendar tab, and deselect the Display UpoomjngEvec1t Reminder Pop-Up option.

wrth jeal, .~ Pro account ($25 per ye;;u) includes access to a special, H'hcne version that lets you view and manage upcoming tasks.

You can keep tasks private or share them, either publicly Of with specific people, and thOSE' contacts Gill make d13TW"S to shared tasks. If you use Firefcx, an offline mode provides browser-based access to all your tasks, even when you're on I), plane OI otherwise disconnected from (be Internet (TIllS offline mode requires (he free Coogle Gears software, which adds numerous capabilities to supported browsers, including a database for storing dati locally]

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WjthiCai and Google Calendar alerts, along will] online services, you can manage appointments and to-de items on almost any connected device, from your Mac to your mobile phone. So you no longer have an excuse for missing yOUT appointments and. deadlines. ~

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Playlist

Control M sic Throughout the House

Ap p Ie's Remote app puts powe r in yo ur hands BY CH RlSTOPHER BREEN

The days when a hou~ehold had one ster-eo in the living room are long g.one. Today you'll lind receivers a nd speakers scattered throughout-send scmeumes o!llsjde------tbe bouse. Wouldn't it be nice to route the samemusic to different rooms so you can enjoy it as you mow- around the house?

rr you're starting from scratch, you can lust buy <I whole system-cthere

ace some excellent ones out there. But you can also cobble together a bang-up system with equipment you might already have silting around your house,

Too.sandSetup

A simple setup includes a Mac that houses your i'Iunes library one or more AirPort Express base stations m Apple TVs running the latest software, and an iPod touch or il'bone onto which you've installed Apple's fre .. Remote application ( .... '; macworldmm!3;><;u),

Start by opening [Iunes B's preferences and clicking on the Devices tab. In this 'lab, enable the Look For Remote Speakers Connected With Air'Ilmes and Look F'OT rphone And iPod Touch Remotes options and dick on OK. The first enabled option causes a Remote Speakers pop-up menu to appear in

the bottom right corner of the i'Iunes window. Tbe second option tells Jfunes

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Remote Speakers .Ask rrunesro lnokfcr speacers.enetne pemote speaeers pop-upmenLl Hppe:ars

to let rts existence be k-nown to any copies of Apple's if'bone and iPod touch Remot e application as they seek out available ccmput e rs ,

If you have;" an Airport Express base station, string a minijack audio cable between its audio port and an input port on a stereo receiver or powered speakers. Launch AirPort Utilit), (found in JAppli· caLions/ULilItiesj. select your AirPort Express, configure it so it's part of your network, and. dick an the Musk tab. On this tab, select the Enable Alr'Iunes option, giye the Express a useful name (for example, Living Room Music). i3.11d click en. Update. Your Airport Express is now reedy to- receive music streamed to it from Jflmes.

If you haven't already, download Apple's Remote app Ircm the App Store, You can do so from your Jr'hone or iPod touch, or from wlthin Ifunes

Launch Remote on YOID jpbone 01. iPod touch. In the Settings screen that appears, dick on tbe Add Library entry, I n the resulting Add Library screen,

you'll see a four-digit passcode. Move to YOUl Mac, and in rlunes' Source bst, you'll. SE e til" rrame of you:r iPbCln~ or iPod touch with the Remote icon next to it. Click on this icon and you'll be prompted to enter the four digits that appear on Remote's Add Library screen.

If you. have an Apple TV, you can set it up now. Navigate to jts Add Remote screen (Selti ngsJGenera:l./Remotes). Wilhin the Remote application on }'our

i Phone or i Pod touch, tap Add Library, Again, you'll see 3. four-digit passcode on the Add Library screen. TIle name of your .if'hone Of if'od touch will appear on the TV screen. Select it and pres.:;! the play I pause, button ou the Apple Remote. In the succeeding screen. enter the [our-digit passcode usiug tile remotes plus (+) and minus H buttons. select Done, and press the play/pause button to pair the Apple TV with the Remote application

Before leaving the Apple TV; go to Settingsj.Audio/Air'Iunes and make sure AirTunes is switched on. Th1S allows your computer to stream music

to the Apple TV and through .any speakers anached to it.

MakingltWork

With yO\J,t Iphone or trod tOUd1 in hand, bunch the Remote application and make SLU@ it's connected to YOUl i'Iunes library (you'll see 3, check mark next to the nanl€ of your computer in the Choose A Library list). Tap on Done. From the bottom of the display, choose Playlists, Artists. Albums, Search, or More (and then one of the selections in More, whtcb Include Audlobnoks, Composers, Genres, Movies, Music Videos, Pcdcasts, Songs, and TV Shows). Tap on. an item to play jt.

speakers attached to an AirPort Express and Apple lV. Your audio should be p'la.ying through the speakers that ha .... e a check mark next 1.0 their name. To mute speakers, tap their name "rid the check mark will disappear. To start more speakers playing, tap their nam-e in the list The number of currently connected speakers wiU be reflected m ifunes' Remote Speakers pop·up menu-c-MrdI!'ple; Spe~hrs (3)/ for example.

From this Now Playing screen. you can control the volume coming from speakers attached to your computer, AirPort Express, or Apple 1V. TIle previous, next. ll'llIYlp<lu'ie. repeat, and shuffle features work ex a ctly as you'd expectthem to.

One setup includes an iTunes library, one or more AirPort Expresses or Apple TVs, and an iPhone with the Remote application.

Tap the Now Playing screen that appears on your jPbone or ipcd touch. You',11 see the additional controls sheet that normally appears/ as well OIS .. Speakers entry lust above the play controls. Tap on Speakers and you'll see a list of all the audio devices that can. be connected to the computer's Ilbnes library remctely-c-this includes the computer's own speakers, as well as any

p~~(:-odE: Enter a passcooe provided by tile Remote app to establlsh a connection wlthrrunes

WhatYo"M;ghtNot.Know

Wilen you've configured everything, pht}'lng your music from multiple speakers is pretty e3SY, but there ate 3 few subtleties you, nught miss.

The GeJ1ius Factor When you t3P a Now Playing screen. the additional controls area contains the Genius icon. Tap it and you'll create a Genius playlist on your .ifvhone or iPod touch based on the currently playing song. IIunes will display tbe contents of tbis Genius playbst shortly altervcu tap the Genius icon. If you'd like to save this playlist, tap Edit. in tbe upper right corner of the display and then. tap the SayCO' icon that app(~'3T.5 in the upper left comer.The playlist will he saved. to the rphone's or iPod touch's list of playlists. as well as to yout i'Iunes library. k; with all Genius playlists, it will bear the name of the source track Irom which you cleated the Genius playlist. Note that these Specific Genius playllsts will appear only \ v hen >'OU choose the Remote application They won't be listed among the playlists found In the Musk area en the lphone oriPod touche

uve Ratings Just as saved. Genius playlists will show up in i'Iunes, so too will ratings. With a track playiug; tap

iPhOl1e.sp~::I"~I"Settings. wltb the Remote applcarlcn.you canturn sets of remote

spe .. kers an and off.

the Track list 'iCOD, and in tlie resulting track list screen, tap a star rating-that rating will almost nnmediately appeu in i'Iunes.

TrackLi5'!:fromAlbum W:ben you play 3 track, the Track List icon will adopt the album artwork of the currently playing track. Tap the Track List icon, and you'll sO"(" the contents of the album from which that track cernes, rather than the contents ora play.List you may have chosen. This makes it easy to move to a long- forgotten album when you happen to shullle through one of its tracks

Accessing Multiple ubrasles TIle Remote app lets you add multiple hbraties=one [rom. your desktop MOlC. another from your Macaook, and yet. another from your Apple 'TV, for example. Before switching libraries, however, make sure that you stop playback in the current library If you neglect to, the first library will likely continue playing lts track on the source device while remote speakers pla.y tracks from. the newly selected library, E3

Senior Editor Christopher Breen ls the author-of TheiPad ilndiTones Pocker Guide/ fourth eomon.and The/Phone Pocket Gui'de, third edltlcn (pe<tchpi[ Press, 2008)

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Recording Studio

Podcasting Guide

Start broadcastingyour ideas to the world BY ALEX UNDSAY

P odcasting means many things to many people: self-expression, self-prnmcoon, or even a career, Regardless of what you. plan to do with your POdCOIst, YOll must produce a quality show Hycu expect anyone to listen.

Ge3r

To start a podcast, you need a mic and your Mac For software, you can record your voice with Apple's $,2'9 QukkTime Pro or Garagegand '08 { ..... ; part or the $19 iUfe suite; macworld.com/308S). But you need a mit that YDU can position dose to YOUT mouth. Your Mac's internal nne picks up too much of the sound around you to be useful. I suggest picking up a USB audio interface and

an XLR microphone [ruics that use the XLR connector offer more Ilexibility and potentially higher-quality audio than

US B mica do).

My two favorite starter USB Interfaces are- M·Audio's SI}O F'astTrack USB (\N'1A'w,m·audlo.corl1) and Centrance's $200 Mkl'crt Pro (ce-rtrance.coro], which is particularly great for uavel.

Either option lets you choose from the literally hundreds o[XLR microphones on the market so you can findthe right mic for you. Frankly, you are looking fer something that makes you sound good. The best thing to do is to go to a store

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and try a bunch of them. Hyou don't know where to start, yOL.lI safest bet is Shure's SMS8 Vocal Microphone (about $100 online; www.shure.com).1 rs relahvely inexpensive, has solid sound, doesn't require phantom power {a method of sending pow~r through mic cables], and is nearly indestructible. 1 have six of these mics and use th e m often for remote recordings. If your budget allows, you can try Heil's P R 40 ($325' online; www.beilsoondcomj. \ v bleh has a clean, warm sound.

lfYQurpOOC<LSI is going to include more speakers than Just you, you'll need to mix everyone together. I like Mackie (w\,fiH.m<ldde.com) meers=they are solid, reliable.and quiet.

You'll need to buy a n1.iX!:'I with at least Om' auxiliary output (mere on this uteri. The size of the- mixer depends on the number of mics you need to mix together. JfYO~l get a mixer with six XLR Inputs, you probably won't ever need mere. I f you're thinking about having more than six people talking, 1 suggest reconsidering that idea (the optimum number is three Dr four people). On the road, I've taken to using M:~Audio's $450 fast Track Ultra

US'B interface, which supports individual inputs that you can capture separately into Apple's Soundtrack Pro 2 (U .. ; part of the $.1,>99 Pinal Cut Studio; macworld.com/29'l3), GarageBand, or even Quick'Time. By recording the tracks separately, you can address any individual problems later.

Production

Generally. mlcs sound best if you are within about four inches of the recording surface and speaking across them (if you speak directly into the mics, you will tend. to "pop" your P's) , By getting up dose, }'OU can turn down the input volume and reduce ambient noise. I r you are not using a limiter [which protects your audio Irom peaking), your averagepeak: should be around -1:ldB to be safe. On the otber hand. if you make your recording 100 soft, you"ll mix in reo much of what is often referred to as the nris(": J1.o-or, the spectrum that all the ether sounds inhabit-egenerally sounds you don't want,

Reum:l1ngLDca.tfon You also must consider your location. If t'm looking at a new location to record, 1 will. often. bang out there for 30 tc Go minutes to hear

what kind of ambient sounds occur. People, footsteps. cars, water pipes, and air ccndlticrung can all Jmd their way into your recording if you're net careful. You can't get tid cfall of them: but the fewer you have, the easier it will be to get a clean recording. Room, !illflil1!".S!i is also a consideration. Clap or make a clicking sound in :J. mum you ate considering. lf you bear an echo, your mic w.il..l, too. If you don't have a choice of location, consider mics that have a high level of oJJ-a;o..-is rcjeClio~ such as the SM58 and l?R4o-they will ignore much of-the ambient sound around you.. (My team and I record. on. the show floor at Macworld Conference & Expo with SM58 r-ues, and. the speakers' vcic e s rnme through clearly]

Rem,ote Recording Oftentimes, you might have on e or more people in dif ferent parts of the country or different parts of the world. How do you bring them all together? The easiest way to do this is via Skype, using Ecamm Network's S15 Call Recorder (www.ecamm .corn]. Wlth it, you record yourself and everyone else on. Skype to a QuickFime file. With a, good connection, Skype can provide acceptable quabty The key is to mak e SUIE that the host islocal and sounds good. If, hOW€V<'"IJ you don't have enough bandwidth to do this effectively, you have two options. You ['30 US"" a box

such as J K Audio's $"'70 lnline Patch (IJ'IAvw.Jkaudto.com), which Lets you record phone calls dheclly. Or you can create what is called a do:tble.ti1det=---essentially everyone records themselves locally and uploads the files to you to mix together later. Double-enders lend to produce higher quality, but if participants don't properly record themselves or-upload the m~, your podcast js in trouble

office but not themselves, while you are still recording everyone, everswhere.

Post .. Processing

So now that you have your law mix. the next step is to cle-an it up. FOT UJi;. the (irsl thing we do is ncrmaliae the trad::(s). Normalization looks at the entire track, finds the peak areas, and then increases the volume so that the

Generally, mics sound best if you are within about four inches of the recording surface and speaking across them.

If you need to mix, and match local and remote guests. you need 00 send 'the 'local guests' output to the remote guests. But-if you send the raw output back to Skype, yom remote participants will h e ar themsE1v£5. SOl how do you send only the local folks' output to the Skype folks while ignoring the Skype audio? We call this a mix·mi,I"J.U!.', which means "the mix minus the remotes.v To set one up, you use the auxiliary out of your nnxer=essenually a separate track that you have independent control over. Making changes here won't affect the final mix. So you can. tum the Skype track down in the auxiliary but leave it at full volume forth!': main mix. The people- on Skype hear e-""'eryone in the

IIiQ S.ttinp U§lngan appllcatlon such il.'l Soundtr-.:!.::k;,you om adjustthl'! f'iqu<!liuttlon settings of audio pcdcast recordings to make voice,', elearer and easerto listen roo

peaks are at the maximum level. TNs doesn't really change the audio-cit basically just makesit loud enough to fill the range you have. You can normalize (and perform the oth e r adjustments listed here) in Garagelsand or Soundtrack.

The next step 15 equalization, to improve listenability Women. sometimes sound better r-ecorded with a little more bass, while :men often need a little less bass and a little more volume around. ik {],oaol-fz) [0 make their words sharper.

The final step is corupressicn-c-reduc-mg the variance between the highs and lows. Compressing brings Everyon e together in volume and makes the sound more intelligible, Generally, you want to sgueez.e the- audio together and increase the volume proportionately 10 make 'LiP for the adjustment. Two-to-one Lip to Jour-to-one are pretty good ratios.

From there. you should expert the file to AIF'F to create araw, full-resolution version for archiving. Then use ifunes to convert the AIFI' Ble to MP3 or AAC. The benefit. of A.A.C is that it allows you to add chapters and images for listeners by using software such as Lemonz Dream's $30 Podcsst Maker :i.3 (version r.t, •• ""; rn:acworktCQrn/4Q8S)c You C,Ui add chapters in Gnragenand or Soundtrack but Pcdcast Mazer is much faster and mote predictable. E3

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Digital Photo

Get Better Group Photos

Merge the best from multiple shots with Photoshop EI ements 6 BY JEFF CARLSON

ME:rgE:d Photos' I prefer the babys posltlon in [he photo atlett.so I'v€ dra\'IITI'OI squiggle over her tolnolcarethar twaorto merge tbaterea wkll thefjnal image. E~t:'m~nt;; eutcmattcarycarcutetes heM' rnuchos th ... a~::r to mcfud e, which I;; indjC<lr...dwith:a btu e regon in thf'.Fil11!llm~l:'cn the right

Y au love your family, but trying. to capture a good group photo for __ your annual greeting card can be enough to squelch anyone's holiday spirit Is everyone looking at the camera? ,Are lhey all smlllng? Are their eyes open? Before you ditch the whole endeavor; learn how to get a good shot and improve on it with Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 (U ~.!; $90; m,cworld.comllsos). Its new Photomerge Group Shot feature lets you quickly merge the best p.M1S of multiple.photos to work around these issues.

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Set Up the Shot

Hements ran do a lot to improve a bad photo, but you'll. save postproduction time by getting as good a photo as possible a! the outset You may have little control over certain aspects, such as tlae weather or the attention span of your subjects (especially if you're wrangling energetic kids); how-

ever, a lnt offcrethoughtgoes a long \Vdy.

eol1siderYour Light Source First, find a location with good light II you're ouulnors, avoid shooting in the middle of the day when the sun creates dark shadows or causes people to squint. One way to work smund bdght outdoor light is to shoot in the- shade, I Fvou're indoors, position the group near windows that let in natural light Consider adding <In inexpensive thin white curtain on a spring-loaded curtain rod to diffuse the incoming light.

The goa! is to avoid relying on your camera's built-in flash, which often throws harsh light and gives photos a slapdash,

snapshot look. If you have an advanced ramera, a much better-choice is to use an external flash U1<~t attaches to the hat shoe (or that can be triggered remotely]. Willen indoors, for example, aimingan external flash upv· .. 'ard, to bounce light off the ceiling, creates far more pleasing light Hthe built-in flash 15 your only option, see if yom camera lets you. reduce its flash output.

Cheddar Distractions When setting up the shot, be mindful of anything else that may disrupt the composition. Plants and 1;1"(':[" branches an: easy to overlook at tile lime but become all too dear when it appears that vegetation is growing out of scmecne's ear

Cho(lr~theRight.SI'!tti!"igs Now, turn to the camera itself Check that the 1S0 and white-balance settings are correct. AlJ too often these are left unchanged from a pre~ vious shoot. 111en turn on your camera's burst mode, which lets you shoot several frames in quick succession. People, espe-