Hi,
Some of the very technology savvy people on list will have realized
that Apple has posted the next major revision to Quicktime (QT), now at
version 7.0.
There seems to be consensus on the web regarding four accepts of the QT:
1. The video quality to absolutely phenomenal - High Definition video
over the web ... who would thought it possible so soon.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/hdgallery/
2. If you purchased the upgrade to QT Pro 6.0, your release key will
not work to enable the pro functionality in QT 7.0. However, the
upgrade price has not changed from version 6.0. Please bear this in
mind if you are running FinalCut Pro in a production environment, as
you might inadvertently disable your workstation until you pay to
obtain the QT 7-Pro upgrade.
3. QT 7 includes the new video codec H.264. Okay so you're thinking
"what does that mean" ... see point (1) above. This kind of modern
mathematical compression technique requires significant CPU power to
drive H.264 video at full frame rate (24 frames/sec). Specifically a
high speed G4, 1.5GHz or better to see full frame rate.
4. For content creators H.264 also requires significant CPU power to
encode video in H.264 (e.g. G5 processor).
That said, QT 7.0 looks to be a excellent product for video
professionals and regular users of video content. However, you might
want to pause for a second a review your use of QT and how the new
version will run on your equipment BEFORE downloading the update.
Regards,
Doug
Good Morning,
Please find the attached invitation to the Apple Canada OS X 10.4 Tiger
Technology seminar. The Winnipeg event is on May 10th from 8:30 AM to
5:00 PM at the Sheraton Winnipeg, 161 Donald Street Winnipeg, MB R3C 1M3.
Please feel free to invite anyone who you feel would be interested in
this session.
You can register on-line at:
www.apple.ca/go/tiger_education
Regards,
Doug
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Doug Hamilton, BA, MA, APP
Senior Apple Computer Consultant
Computers-on-Campus; Univ. of Manitoba
204-474-6196 (Ph.)
204-474-7556 (Fax)
http://www.umanitoba.ca/bookstore/
...from:
http://www.macworld.com/2005/03/secrets/mayosxhints/index.phphttp://www.newmediamanuals.com/podcast/OMT-Summarize-Services-
OSX_030.mp3
http://www.acqyr.com/home/2004/02/summarize_your_.html
- Sherlock's Lost Translation:
Sherlock has a built-in translation function (it actually uses the
SYSTRAN engine http://www.systransoft.com/index.html). Launch it. Click
the Translation "flag" button. Enter the text you want translated.
Click translate.
Here's an example:
By far, there's too much information surrounding us all. It's close to
impossible to absorb everything! After all, we live in the "knowledge
economy" so reading reports, articles, emails and documents is a part
of our every day life.
Serlock's translation:
French:
De loin, il y a trop d'information nous entourant tous. Elle est près
d'impossible d'absorber tout ! Après tout, nous vivons dans l'"économie
de la connaissance" ainsi les états, les articles, les email et les
documents de lecture est une partie de notre chaque vie de jour.
Greek:
Κατά πολύ, εκεί πάρα πολλές πληροφορίες που περιβάλλουν μας όλοι. Είναι
κοντά σε αδύνατο να απορροφήσει όλα! Τελικά, ζούμε στη "οικονομία
γνώσησ" έτσι διαβάζοντας τις εκθέσεις, άρθρα, τα ηλεκτρονικά
ταχυδρομεία και τα έγγραφα είναι ένα μέρος της κάθε ζωής ημέρας μας.
...and back:
By far, there is too much information surrounding us all. It is close
to impossible to absorb all! After all, we thus live in the "economy of
knowledge" the states, the articles, the email and the documents of
reading is a part of our each life of day.
By far, there very a lot of information that surround us all. It is
near impossible it absorbs all! Finally, we live in the "economy of
knowledge" thus reading the reports, articles, the electronic posts and
the documents it is a part of our each life of day.
...and, of course,
English->Japanese->English->French->Greek->French->English:
Very, they are there of many data elements which surround us whole. It
is roughly impossible thing which absorbs of all! Very back, we lived
in the <economy of knowledge>, consequently the State of the book, the
article, the ELECTRONIC MAIL and the document it is a part of our
everyday lifes.
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- Summarize Proust:
"By far, there's too much information surrounding us all. It's close to
impossible to absorb everything! After all, we live in the "knowledge
economy" so reading reports, articles, emails and documents is a part
of our every day life."
So begins one description of Apple's OS X "Summarize Services". To
summarize, "Summarize Services" is a service which will summarize a
large body of text attempt to distil out the essence - you get to
choose how much distillation takes place.
Here's an example where the text has been taken from:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/proust.htm. This entry has 13 paragraphs and
nearly 2000 words (according to Microsoft WORD).
OS X's "Summary Services" at summarize to setting 1 and "Paragraphs":
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Remembrance of Things Past does not have a clear and continuous plot
line. The narrator is Marcel. He is not Proust but resembles him in
many ways. Marcel is initially ignorant - only slowly does he begin to
grasp the essence of the hidden reality. At the end he is preparing to
write a novel which is like the one just presented to the reader.
Marcel's childhood memories start to flow when he tastes a madeleine
cake dipped in linden tea such as he was given as a child. "And as
soon as I had recognised the taste of the piece of madeleine soaked in
her decoction of lime-blossom which my aunt used to give me (although I
did not yet know and must long postpone the discovery of why this
memory made me so happy) immediately the old grey house upon the
street, where her room was, rose up like a stage set to attach itself
to the little pavilion opening on to the garden which had been built
out behind it for my parents (the isolated segment which until that
moment had been all that I could see); and with the house the town,
from morning to night and in all weathers, the Square where I used to
be sent before lunch, the streets along which I used to run errands,
the country roads we took when it was fine."
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Microsoft WORD summarizing at 1% setting:
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From 1882 to 1889 Proust attended the Lycée Condorcet. Proust suffered
from asthma throughout his life.Proust and Bergson knew each other
socially.
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Microsoft WORD summarizing at 5% setting:
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From 1882 to 1889 Proust attended the Lycée Condorcet.(Proust inReading
in Bed, selected and edited by Steven Gilbar, 1995).
From 1895 to 1899 Proust worked on an autobiographical novel that
remained unfinished. Proust suffered from asthma throughout his life.
Proust is generally considered a pioneer of the modern novel. Proust's
work widely influenced authors in different countries, among them
Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. One biographer mentions that Proust
liked tight underwear.
A prolific writer, Proust also was an avid letter writer.
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You can access OS X's "Summarize Services" by selecting a piece of text
(email, text document, web page) and choosing "Summarize" from the
Application>Services menu. Changing the settings will dynamically
change your summary.
WORD provides an AutoSummarize... tool in the Tools menu.
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Use iTunes to Organize PDFs
Looking for a different way to organize a massive collection of PDFs?
Use iTunes. That’s right, iTunes. When Apple released The Complete U2
digital box set last year, it distributed the collection’s liner notes
as PDF files. To make sure people found them, Apple modified iTunes to
handle PDF files in its library. The side effect was that iTunes
(thanks to its Smart Playlist feature) also became a good way to
organize large PDF collections.
To test this out, just drag and drop a PDF (or several) onto iTunes. It
will show up in your library, with its Finder name listed as its song
name. To organize your PDFs, use smart playlists. Create a new smart
playlist (File: New Smart Playlist) and set the conditions to Kind
Contains PDF. Select the Live Updating option and click on OK. Now you
have a playlist that contains all your PDFs. If you name your files
following a certain pattern, you can add rules to the smart playlist to
further sort your PDFs. Make a Recipes smart playlist that gathers all
files whose names (“song” names) start with Recipe. Or create a
medical-journals smart playlist that gets all the files with the prefix
"Med_".
Double-clicking on the iTunes entry for this document will open it
using OS X's Preview.
Wayne
