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FYI:"Tiger in Scientific and Technical Computing" webcasts
by billing 02 May '05

02 May '05

Internet May 25, 2005 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM LIVE WEBCAST: Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" for Scientific and Technical Computing For General Audiences Join Apple in this densely-packed webcast on how each new feature in Tiger applies to Apple's scientific customers. For more details: http://seminars.apple.com/goToEvent.html?id=34802&s=300 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Jun 16, 2005 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM LIVE WEBCAST: Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server for High Performance Computing For General Audiences Learn about the technical underpinnings of Apple's latest OS, and how new features and updates will benefit users of Mac OS X-based clusters and grids. For more details: http://seminars.apple.com/goToEvent.html?id=34901&s=300

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OS X Tiger: trade DVDs for CDs
by billing 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

Tiger ships on DVDs. To trade in your DVD for CDs. Apple offers a Media Exchange Program whereby you can return your Tiger Install DVD (along with $10) in exchange for a set of CDs. For complete details of this offer, which expires on July 9, 2005, download this PDF file: http://images.apple.com/macosx/pdf/tigermediaexchange.pdf.

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OS X Tiger Up-To-Date program
by billing 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

...from: http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/ Customers who purchase a qualifying new Macintosh computer on or after April 12th, 2005 that does not have Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" included can upgrade to Tiger at a cost of US$9.95. The program ends on July 22nd 2005. Your order must be postmarked or faxed by July 9th 2005, so order your upgrade now. The list of qualifying computers can be found at: http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/list.html

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Quicktime 7.0 - gotcha's
by William Douglas Hamilton 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

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

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Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" -- Apple Event
by Doug Hamilton 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

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 ------------- 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/

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Strange (but useful) OS X tricks...
by billing 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

...from: http://www.macworld.com/2005/03/secrets/mayosxhints/index.php http://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. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ - 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": --------------------------- 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." -------------------------------- Microsoft WORD summarizing at 1% setting: --------------------------------------- From 1882 to 1889 Proust attended the Lycée Condorcet. Proust suffered from asthma throughout his life.Proust and Bergson knew each other socially. --------------------------------------- Microsoft WORD summarizing at 5% setting: -------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------- 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. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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

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GRASS GIS gone to version 6.0
by William Douglas Hamilton 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Hello, Thought you'd want to know as of yesterday GRASS GIS is now at version 6.0 after two years in development. Mac OS X, MS-Windows, and Linux distributions are available. Oh, for those of you who don't know this product its a FREE (open-source) commercial grade GIS (Geographic Information System). Details can be found here: http://grass.itc.it/announces/announce_grass600.html Cheers, Doug

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INTEREST: Doctors turn to iPods and open source to cut costs
by billing 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

...from: http://hardware.silicon.com/storage/0,39024649,39127655,00.htm Doctors turn to iPods and open source to cut costs February 07 2005 by Jo Best Apple is doctors' orders for storage While Apple is riding high on the sales of the iPod, the iconic music player is morphing into a business tool: radiologists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), are teaming the devices with an open source platform to help the medical community cut costs. UCLA's Dr Osman Ratib, whose background is in medical imaging, wanted to find a way to sidestep the $100,000 workstations needed to view high resolution images that required 3D rendering. With help from programmer and fellow radiologist Dr Antoine Rosset, he created OsiriX, an open source application, to enable radiologists to teleconference with the images on Mac desktop systems. "The platform has similar functionality [to the high-end workstations], it's accessible to the rest of the medical community and you don't have to spend $100,000, $200,000 to view the images," Ratib said. He added that he was a "strong advocate" of the open source development model. The doctors were able to build the software using ready-made components and add the environment and interface themselves. "It took nine months to create... the platform. It very quickly took off," he said. "Before we'd showed it in any meeting, we had hundreds and very soon thousands of users." When it came time to find a way to store the high-res images, Ratib turned to another Apple staple - the iPod. Ratib told silicon.com: "It was difficult finding enough space on the hard disc to keep image sets... They don't fit on discs, they don't fit on memory sticks." "It's amazing - [with iPods] people are carrying around 60GB in their pocket when I don't even have 60GB on my computer," he said. "That's the beauty of adopting consumer technology." As well as using the iPod for storing the image sets, Ratib adapted the software to cope with the iPod photo after its release in December, giving medical staff a "cute, sexy" way to show images to other personnel. Despite warnings from analysts that all removeable storage - including the iPod - is a security risk - Dr Ratib said that using an iPod doesn't present an additional inherent security risk. "It's not the device, it's how you use it... I don't think an iPod has any different risk to any informatics device. We strongly recommended to anonymise the data," Ratib said. "When [users] are outside the institution, they can be compliant or not, depending on their behaviour. It's not different to copying it to CD or memory discs." While Ratib described the medical profession as "a little more traditional in adopting technology," the software is also enabling medical workers to start working remotely; the software is compatible with Apple's videoconferencing software, so physicians can see and share medical images. "We rigged the software to mimic the camera... it basically shows what's on your screen" to other iChat users, Ratib said. "We were that close to having Steve Jobs presenting it as a feature in the San Francisco keynote," Ratib said.

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iLife ‘05 and Beyond & Audio Production Seminars
by Doug Hamilton 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

Sign up for one or both of these FREE seminars from Apple. iLife ‘05 and Beyond Apple has begun 2005 with an explosion of new revolutionary technology solutions. Attend this half-day seminar and discover all the amazing new software and hardware announcements made recently at the MacWorld Expo 2005. In this in-depth seminar learn about iLife '05, iWork, iPod Shuffle, and the all new Mac Mini. Attend this fun and informative seminar to discover how to supercharge your digital lifestyle. What You Will Learn ---------------------- • Why the Mac is the best computer for organizing and sharing digital photos • How easy it is to make movies with music, video and your digital photos • How to create your own music with amazing built-in realistic software instruments and record your next opus • How to enjoy a life ‘more random’ with the new iPod Shuffle • How to achieve new levels of style and flair in your next word processing document or presentation • That you can switch to the Mac or add to your Macintosh family for less than ever before Featured Products ------------------- • iLife '05: iPhoto 5, iMovie HD, iTunes 4.7, iDVD 5, and GarageBand 2 • Mac OS X "Panther" • iWork • iPod Shuffle • Mac Mini • Power Macintosh G5 • Apple Cinema Displays Who Should Attend -------------------- • Anyone who wants to capture and share exciting moments and create lasting memories • Beginners as well as individuals who already have some basic familiarity with digital media • Aspiring or recreational music hobbyist • PC users looking to an alternative to Windows Dates and Locations* ----------------------- Calgary, AB March 3 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Edmonton, AB March 1 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Markham, ON March 1 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Markham, ON March 22 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Saskatoon, SK March 10 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Winnipeg, MB March 8 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Seating is limited, so register today! Register online at: http://www.seminars.apple.com/goToSeries.html?id=5244 Audio Production Ecosystem Apple has become the premiere platform for Digital Music Creation. Learn how Mac OS X Panther provides an incredible platform for the audio professional with technologies such as Core Audio, Audio Units, and Native Midi. Enjoy a rare behind-the-scene look at various audio technologies unique to Apple and how to take your music making experience to whole new level. Learn about the Audio Production Ecosystem - the environment which combines Mac OS X, Power Macintosh G5, Logic Pro 7, and a host of incredible third-party audio technologies into the most powerful native music making system. Gain an understanding on how audio design on the Mac connects to video, film and DVD as an incredible tool in any production workflow. What You Will Learn ---------------------- • Why the Mac is the ultimate platform for digital music creation • About Core Audio, Audio Units, and other technologies built into Mac OS X for the audio professional • The power of 64 bit processing via the Power Macintosh G5 for digital music creation • How Mac OS X connects to the most popular third party hardware and software solutions to expand your music pallet • How to pump up your next jam with the popular Jam Packs 1,2,3,4 • How to use your Mac in the broadcast workflow or to score your next motion picture • Why it is a perfect time to switch to the Macintosh for music creation Featured Products ------------------- • Mac OS X "Panther" • Logic Pro 7 • DVD Studio Pro • Final Cut Pro • Motion • Logic Express • GarageBand 2 • Mac Mini • Power Macintosh G5 • Apple Cinema Displays • Popular third party products featured: FXpansion, Arturia, Native Instruments, Spectrasonics, Edirol, RME, M-Audio, Brian Moore Guitars Who Should Attend -------------------- • Aspiring or professionals in audio/music creation • PC music making users looking to an alternative to Windows • Broadcast, or Film Composers Dates and Locations* ----------------------- Calgary AB March 3 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Edmonton AB March 1 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Saskatoon SK March 10 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Winnipeg MB March 8 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Seating is limited, so register today! Register online at: http://www.seminars.apple.com/goToSeries.html?id=5243 ------------- *Date, time, location, speakers, and content may change without notice. Copyright © 2005 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved.

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FYI: Apple online seminars: Application Performance and High Performance Computing Solutions
by billing 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

In March, Apple is giving two online seminars (you may need to install a small application to participate if you have not been part of one of these seminars in the past). More details and registration information can be found at the URL given. Internet Mar 10, 2005 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM LIVE WEBCAST: Maximizing Mac OS X Application Performance For General Audiences In this webcast, you'll learn the basics of optimization, including how and why every developer should turn a critical eye to the code they've just written. For more details: http://seminars.apple.com/goToEvent.html?id=32726&s=300 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Mar 29, 2005 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM LIVE WEBCAST: Third-party HPC Solutions for Mac OS X For General Audiences Apple will be joined by representatives from companies who develop their software or hardware for the platform to talk about their products. For more details: http://seminars.apple.com/goToEvent.html?id=32748&s=300 Wayne

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