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Capital Apple Jan 2005 Volume 22.01 January 2005 The Offi cial Journal of the 1 Meeting Details PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF MEETING VENUE Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce Level 9, 109 Featherston Street, Wellington When: Monday 31 January 2005 Time: 7.10 pm till 9.30pm (doors open 6.50pm) This is our fi rst meeting of 2005 and already change is in the wind. About two weeks ago we discovered that TUANZ were shifting their (e)-vision operation to new premises and combining with the Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce. We were advisied that we could still meet at the old address for our January meet- ing, however this changed the day prior to this magazine being prepared as all the furniture had been sold and we would have no seats to sit on. The committee is investigatingall our options regarding fi nding a new meeting venue and in the meantime we have accepted the Wellington Chamber of Commerce’s offer to hold our January meeting in their premises. Whether or not this will continue is dependant on whether we can fi nd a more suitable or less expensive venue. The committee has decided to try a new format for our monthly meetings and we will present a number of topics covered in less detail than the previous single topic. This month we will be looking at an iMac G5 from Magnum- Mac, MacWorld announcements, iPod photo, Freeware/Shareware download sites. Regular Other Group Meetings Dates and venue will be advised once we can confirm meeting venue(s). Cover Photo: Members of our Kapiti Branch enjoying the Christmas Dinner at the Waikanae Golf Club at the end of last month . Photo: Graeme Moffatt 2 President’s Report Happy New Second prize of one year’s WelMac Year! membership went to Rob McMillan. Meeting Thanks to everyone who participated in the raffl e, and those who returned their Venue Change unsold tickets. Your support and assis- In case you tance is much appreciated. didn’t see the de- tails, please read the MacWorld Expo Summary notice of meeting on For those who haven’t seen the full the inside cover. TU- details from the MacWorld Expo, here is ANZ is moving out of the (e)-vision cen- a quick summary of the important an- tre, so we have been forced to move the nouncements and new products. Most end of January meeting at short notice. of these should be available in New At present, we don’t know when or Zealand during February or March. where we will be holding subsequent Mac OS X 10.4 (“Tiger”) is on sched- meetings (including the Mac Help Desk ule to ship some time in the fi rst half of and speciality group meetings). We will this year (which probably means April advise everyone as soon as possible, via through June). You may want to factor the E-Mail announcement list and web this into any decisions about the timing site. of purchasing a new computer , as you If anyone has any suggestions for po- won’t get an automatic/cheap upgrade tential meeting venues, please contact a to Tiger if you buy a computer before committee member. Our main require- Tiger is released. ments are cost, convenience of access, The Mac Mini is a new entry-level and access to an Internet connection. For Mac, intended as an alternative to the some meetings it is also useful to have eMac for those who want to use their several computers available. If necessary, own monitor, keyboard and mouse. See we may hold some of our meetings in later in this issue for details. different venues. The iPod Shuffl e is a new entry-level iPod model which uses fl ash memory Christmas Raffl e Winners instead of a hard drive. See later in this The WelMac Christmas 2004 raffl e issue for details. was drawn on Friday 17/12/2004 by See below for iLife ‘05 and iWork. Felicia Elliot (a staff member at Mag- Also in the pipeline from Apple: Final numMac), under supervision of David Cut Express HD. Empson and Graeme Moffatt. There were a lot of new third party First prize of an iPod Mini went to products introduced as well. A good Fay Panckhurst. overview can be found at: 3 http://www.macintouch.com/ iWork mwsf2005products.html This is a new product which is the iLife ‘05 apparent successor to AppleWorks. It The new release of iLife has major includes an updated Keynote and a updates to most of the components. If new application: Pages. iWork should you previously purchased iLife ‘04 or be cheaper than the previously avail- received it with a new computer, you able version of Keynote, but there is will have to buy iLife ‘05 to get the new no upgrade path from AppleWorks or versions. There may be an “up to date” Keynote. programme for very recent purchases: Keynote 2 has many improvements, check with your Mac dealer. including support for dual monitors, All the components have the usual more transitions, animated text and in- claims of performance improvements. teractive and self-play features. iTunes has had a minor update (which Pages is a new word processor, ap- can be downloaded separately): version parently derived from an earlier NeXT 4.7.1 fi xes a security problem and adds product of the same name. For the most support for the iPod Shuffl e. part it is a functional superset of the iPhoto 5 adds a lot more editing AppleWorks word processor, and is able features, but most of them are only to import (but not export) AppleWorks available on a G4 and G5. It also has documents. It can also import and ex- a calendar view (makes it easier to see port Microsoft Word documents. From when photos were taken), more search- the descriptions I’ve seen, Pages may be ing and organising tools, adds support capable enough to simple page layout for working with RAW photos from tasks, more than just word processing. many digital cameras and the ability iWork is not a complete replacement to import movies from cameras (which for AppleWorks: there are no spread- previously had to be done manually or sheet, database, paint or drawing com- using Image Capture). ponents. We can only hope that Apple iMovie HD supports high defini- will eventually extend iWork to include tion video, MPEG-4, 16:9 video and some of these features (particularly the improved editing tools. spreadsheet), as AppleWorks 6 is getting GarageBand 2 has eight-track record- rather long in the tooth! ing, music notation while recording, That’s all, folks! correction for pitch and timing, and the If you wish to contact me, your best ability to create your own loops. option is to send E-Mail to <president iDVD 5 adds high defi nition video @welmac.org.nz>. You could try ring- and wide screen support, simpli- ing me at home (04 475 9755), but I’m fied DVD creation (in conjunction not there very much at the moment, so with iMovie HD) and adds yet more leave a message and I’ll get back to you themes. when I can. 4 Twenty One Years of Age The Macintosh computer has now of- have already cautioned that both men fi cially come of age as it turned twenty might be mistaken about the impact that one last week. Up until now it has been the iPod and Mac mini might have on the behaving as a spoilt teenager and can industry. In a posting on his blog, Jupi- now genuinely claim adult status. What ter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg does this mean for the future? called Wong Hoo’s comments ‘foolish’. Apple Computer with its recent push ‘Creative doesn’t get it and is going to into digital music with the introduction dismiss Apple to their own peril. … You of the iPod and iTunes Music Store is now can see why [it’s] going to get beat up in seeing its fortunes in the digital world this market pretty bad’.” soaring and this must be good for the Adam C. Engst of the electronic Macintosh platform. It has been recently newsletter tidBits attended the San Fran- reported by Ian Betteridge of the eWeek cisco MacWorld and noted “Apple’s an- magazine that two of Apples largest nouncements of the iPod shuffl e and the competitors have claimed that they are Mac mini mark a sea change in Apple’s unfazed by the success of the iPod and demeanor. You could sense the glee in the likely impact of the new Mac mini. He Steve Jobs’s voice as he introduced the states “It’s a truism about the computer iPod shuffl e by showing fi rst the iPod’s industry that when your competitors market share in 2003 (about 31 percent, are talking in public about how they’re compared to the 62 percent share of the not worried about you, they’re doing a less-expensive fl ash-based MP3 players), lot of worrying about you in private. So and then the iPod’s market share today perhaps Apple should take it as a huge (about 65 percent, compared to the 29 compliment that within the space of a percent share of the flash-based MP3 week, senior executives of both Dell players). and Creative have taken time out of In short, the iPod’s market share their busy schedules to mention how doubled in 2004, almost entirely at the they aren’t concerned by the announce- expense of the fl ash-based MP3 players, ments the company made at this year’s and with the iPod shuffl e, Apple is basi- Macworld Expo in San Francisco.
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