Volume 23.01 January 2006
The Official Journal of the
1 Meeting Details
ALL MEETINGS ARE HELD AT: (unless otherwise indicated) Turnbull House, 11 Bowen Street, Wellington When: Monday 30 January, 2006 Time: 7.10 pm till 9.30pm (doors open 6.50pm)
We will start the meeting with a presentation on new internet publishing methods and how they relates to iPods following which we will have a short Mac Help Desk session. We will have our traditional supper and social time.
Kapiti Area Meeting
For those members living at or near the Parapar- aumu area, our next Kapiti meeting will be a din- ner at the Rita King Cottage at St Marks Church in Rosetta Road, Raumati on Monday 6 February 2006.
New Media Users Group
(web and publishing) Check
Digital Video Users Group
7–9.30pm, Monday 20th February 2006 at Turnbull House, 11 Bowen Street, Wellington.
Cover Photo: The new Macintosh models announced at the recent MacWorld in San Francisco as displayed on Apple's web site.
2 3 President’s Report
Hi folks. I hope duction of the first Macintosh models everyone else had a using Intel processors: great Christmas and • iMac with Intel Core Duo processor. New Year. This is almost identical to the recently Apple has updated iMac G5 model, except for some new the new processor, faster memory and surprises better video hardware. It includes the built-in iSight camera, remote control, The MacWorld Front Row software, and no internal Expo has recently modem (Apple are now selling an been held in San external USB modem). Francisco, and as usual Apple has intro- • MacBook Pro. This is a replacement duced several major new products. for the 15” PowerBook G4, with a few The main announcements were: changes: new processor (dual core), • iLife ‘06, which includes iTunes, iPhoto, much faster memory, better video hard- iMovie, GarageBand, iDVD and a new ware, slightly different screen dimen- component called iWeb (used to create sions, even brighter screen, replaced the simple but effective web sites). All of CardBus slot with ExpressCard/34, no the applications have significant im- built-in SVGA/Composite video out- provements. As usual, iLife ‘06 will put (available with an adapter), no be bundled with new machines, and internal modem (external one is avail- there is a cheap upgrade if you bought a able), no Firewire 800 port (still has computer after January 10th and it only Firewire 400), reduced performance includes iLife ‘05. For everyone else, iL- for the SuperDrive. ife ‘06 is only available at full retail price The iMac is already available and ap- (about NZ$155 for a single licence, $190 parently in stock in New Zealand. It is ex- for a family pack). The system require- actly the same price as the iMac G5, and ments have got steeper: you must be both models may continue to be available running Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, and for a while. have a G4 or better processor. (If you The MacBook Pro is supposed to be have 10.2.x or a G3 processor, you will available here in March. The major detail have to stick with iLife ‘05 or earlier.) they haven’t specified yet is its nominal • Enhancements to the “.Mac” online battery life. Compared to the PowerBook service, with even more integration G4, it has a higher capacity battery and with iLife ‘06. bigger power supply, but might have a • iWork ‘06 includes updated versions of slightly reduced battery life due to in- Pages and Keynote. Pricing is the same creased power consumption. as iLife, and there is also a family pack Apple is claiming the iMac Intel is up available. to twice as fast as the iMac G5 given the • A new iPod remote control (for the right software, and the MacBook Pro is Nano and Video models only) which up to four times as fast as the PowerBook includes an FM radio receiver. G4. The real speed will depend very much The major announcement was the intro-
2 3 on what software you are running - see there is no upgrade available, you will below. have to keep a PowerPC Mac around. The big surprise is that Apple released • Many PowerPC applications for Mac these machines so early: they had promised OS X will run on an Intel processor, but Intel models would be available by June. with reduced performance. Develop- Another surprise is that Apple have not ers are gradually releasing “Universal” yet announced Intel-based models of the versions of their applications which low end machines (Mac Mini and iBook). I run at full speed on either Intel or expect these are not too far away. The Pow- PowerPC processors. (When running erMac G5 is unlikely to be replaced by an a Universal application, the new Intel Intel model in the near future, as Apple will machines will generally run faster than be waiting until more powerful processors a comparable PowerPC machine.) In are available and most “Pro” applications some cases this is a free update, some have made the transition to Intel. are charging a small upgrade fee, while Intel or PowerPC? others might be charging a big upgrade fee. Now that Intel models are available, it • PowerPC applications which are is important to consider your options if you dependent on special features of the are thinking of buying a new computer. G5 processor will not run on an Intel The key points are: processor. In particular, most “pro” • Both Intel and PowerPC Macintosh image, video and audio editing appli- models are running the same operat- cations are currently dependent on the ing system (Mac OS X) with the same G5, so new versions will be required for user interface. As long as you are run- Intel. Apple have announced that Final ning applications which work on either Cut Pro etc. will be Universal by March, processor family, you won’t be able to with a reasonable upgrade price. tell the difference between the Intel and • There is no way to run Windows appli- PowerPC other than speed. cations on an Intel Mac yet (Virtual PC • PowerPC processors (G4 and G5) will won’t work, and Windows won’t boot be phased out over time, but will con- directly). I expect this will be solved, but tinue to be supported for a few years it might be a few months away. yet. You don’t need to worry about As the Intel machines have only just your computer becoming obsolete been released, I haven’t had time to get a overnight if you buy a new computer feel for initial reports on their reliability with a G4 or G5. Support for the older and real world performance. If you are G3 processors is starting to disappear interested in these sort of details, I recom- in new applications. mend keeping an eye on Mac news web • If you need to run any software in sites such as www.macintouch.com. the Classic environment (applications written for Mac OS 9 and earlier), you That’s all, folks! will not be able to run them on a Mac If you wish to contact me, your best with an Intel processor. (This might option is to send E-Mail to
4 5 Apple Computer Inc. involved in new Communications Phenomena There is a new phenomena taking place Podcasting as a medium is not limited in the world of electronic communications to audio data. Podcasting of video data is and although Apple Computer was not called, among other things, “video blog- the originator, it is playing a large part in ging” (see vlog), “video podcasting”, its rapid growth. Since producing the first “vlogging”, “vodcasting”, or “vidcast- iPods in 2001 and the iTunes Music Store ing”. shortly thereafter, Apple has had a big im- Mechanics pact on the way we can acquire our music and more lately, video content including Podcasting is an automatic mechanism TV programmes. by which computer files are transferred The new electronic communication is from a server to a client which pulls down “Podcasting”. Rather than explain it my- XML files containing the addresses of the self, I’ll let the web site Wikipedia
6 7 He demonstrated, publicly, how it would Webjay audio feeds. In September of that work by enclosing a Grateful Dead song, same year, Winer created an RSS-with- January 11th, 2001. enclosures feed for his Harvard Harvard The use of the enclosure element to Berkman Center colleague Christopher push audio files originally had slow ac- Lydon. In his announcement of Lydon’s ceptance among webloggers and tool audio-enclosure feed, Winer challenged developers. Winer incorporated RSS other aggregator developers to support enclosures into the Userland weblogging this new form of content and provide en- product, Radio. Since Radio had a built- closure support. Not long after this chal- in aggregator, it provided end-to-end lenge, Pete Prodoehl released a skin for the podcasting support, though the term Amphetadesk aggregator that displayed most used at the time was audio-blog or enclosure links . audioblog . A month later, in October of 2003 at In June 2003, Stephen Downes dem- the first Bloggercon weblogger confer- onstrated aggregation and syndication of ence held at Harvard, Harold Gilchrist audio files using RSS in his Ed Radio ap- and Kevin Marks demonstrated a script plication. Ed Radio scanned RSS feeds for to download RSS enclosures and pass MP3 files, collected them into a single feed, them to iTunes for transfer to an iPod. and made the result available as SMIL or Following the conference, Curry offered
6 7 his blog readers a RSStoiPod script that casters, Internet Age Broadcaster I and II. would do the same. He assigned an open Author: Peggy Miles and Dean Sakai source license to the script (which he Many other jukeboxes and websites called ‘iPodder’), and published it online in the mid 1990’s provided a system for at ipodder.org; encouraging other devel- sorting and selecting music or audio files, opers to build on the idea. talk, sequeway announcements of dif- Possibly the first use of the term “pod- ferent digtal formats. There were a few casting” was as a synonym for audioblog- websites that provide audio subscription ging in an article by Ben Hammersley in services. The Guardian on February 12, 2004. The The development of downloaded mu- name wasn’t widely adopted until that sic did not reach a critical mass until the fall. In September of 2004, Dannie Gre- launch of napster.com, another system of goire also used the term to describe the aggregating music, but without the sub- automatic download11] and synchroniza- scription services provided by podcast- tion of audio content; he also registered ing or video blogging aggregation client several ‘podcast’ related domains. His or system software. and Hammersley’s use of ‘podcast’ were Independent of the development of picked up by leading podcasting evange- podcasting via RSS, a portable player and lists such as Winer and Curry and entered music download system had been devel- common usage. oped at Compaq Research as early as 1999 By October 2004, detailed how-to pod- or 2000. Called PocketDJ, it would have cast articles had begun to appear online, been launched as a service for the Personal and a month later, liberated syndication Jukebox or a successor, the first hard-disk libsyn launched what was apparently the based MP3-player. See appropriate section first Podcast Service Provider, providing in the Personal Jukebox article. storage, bandwidth, and RSS creation Popularization tools. Precursor The word about podcasting rapidly spread through the already-popular we- Prior to the Internet, in 1970s, RCS, blogs of Curry, Winer and other early pod- Radio Computing Service provided casters and podcast-listeners. Fellow blog- music and talk related software to radio ger and technology columnist Doc Searls stations in a digital format. Prior to on- began keeping track of how many “hits” line music digital distribution, the midi Google found for the word “podcasts” format as well as the M-Bone, Multicast on September 28, 2004, when the result Network was used to distribute audio and was 24 hits. There were 526 hits for “pod- video files. The M-Bone was a multicast casts” on September 30, then 2,750 three network over the Internet used primarily days later. The number doubled every few by educational and research institutes, but days, passing 100,000 by October 18. As there were audio talk programs. Source: of November 24, 2005 Google reported Publisher: National Association of Broad- 103,000,000 hits for “podcasts”.
8 9 Capturing the early distribution and from the audience, reviews and discussion variety of podcasts was more difficult than of other media (in this case books), musi- counting Google hits, but before the end cal interludes of podsafe (noninfringing) of October, The New York Times reported songs, light banter (sports and recreation podcasts across the United States and in talk), even limited soundseeing from on Canada, Australia and Sweden, mention- location. ing podcast topics from technology to By mid-2005, the medium had ac- veganism and movie reviews. USA Today quired a bittersweet form of validation: told its readers about these “free amateur a backlash. Some experienced Internet chatfests” the following February, profil- users declared podcasting to be either ing several podcasters, giving instructions nothing special (just a variant of blogs and for sending and receiving podcasts, and mp3s), or already past its peak (because including a “Top Ten” list from one of the of growing exposure, and/or adoption by many podcast directories that had sprung unsavvy Internet users). up. The newspaper quoted one directory In June, 2005, Apple added podcast- as listing 3,300 podcast programs in Feb- ing to its iTunes 4.9 music software and ruary, 2005. iTunes Music Store, staking a claim to the Those Top Ten programs gave further medium. The iTunes software downloads indication of podcast topics: four were and organizes podcasts, and loads them about technology (including Curry’s Daily on the iPod, taking the place of a sepa- Source Code, which also included music rate aggregator application. In addition, and personal chat), three were about mu- iTunes 5 interfaces with the online Music sic, one about movies, one about politics, Store, which compiles and distributes the and—at the time number 1 on the list— content. As of October 2005, the Music The Dawn and Drew Show, described Store is free of charge to both the listener as “married-couple banter,” a program and creator. format that USA Today noted was quite A little over a month later, U.S. Presi- popular on American broadcast radio in dent George W. Bush became a podcaster, the 1940s. Such “couplecasts” have since when someone added an RSS 2.0 feed to become quite popular among independent the previously downloadable files of podcasts (those not derived from a preex- the weekly radio addresses at the White isting radio show). House website. In March of 2005, John Edwards be- As is often the case with new technolo- came the first national-level US politician gies, pornography has become a part of to hold his own podcast. (He may be the the scene - producing what is sometimes first major politician to have a podcast; called podnography. Other approaches in- given the nature of podcasting, we may clude enlisting a class full of MBA students never know.) Within a few episodes, the to research podcasting and compare pos- show had all the features of a major pod- sible business models, and venture capital cast: a web site with subscription feeds and flowing to influential content providers. show notes, guest appearances, questions
8 9 The growing popularity of podcasting 2005 to BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time. Also introduced a demand for music available in January 2005, CBC Radio began a trial for use on the shows without significant with its weekly national science and tech- cost or licensing difficulty. Out of this nology show Quirks and Quarks, which demand, a growing number of tracks, by has offered listeners Real Audio, MP3 and independent as well as signed acts, are OGG downloads since February 1996. The now being designated “podsafe”. (See CBC trial also included CBC Radio 3’s also Podcasting and Music Royalties.) Canadian Music Podcast as well as lim- In September 2005, the first podcast ited podcasting of CBLA’s popular Metro encoded in full Dolby 5.1 Surround Morning Toronto show. United States Sound, was created by Revision3 Studios National Public Radio member stations with their 14th episode of Diggnation. WNYC and KCRW adopted the format The Dolby encoding lasted for only a few for many of their productions. March saw minutes of the podcast. Virgin Radio become the first UK radio On October 12, 2005 Apple Computer station to produce a daily podcast of its CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPod popular breakfast show. In April 2005 the with video capabilty. In his keynote speech BBC announced it was extending the trial he demonstrated the video podcast Tiki to twenty more programs, including music Bar TV. radio and in the same month Australia’s On December 03, 2005 Sony Computer ABC launched a podcasting trial across Entertainment America unvailed that the several of its national stations. PSP would have Podcasting using the RSS In May, 2005, the trend began to go Channel feature. The PSP is able to use the other way, with podcasts becoming a Podcasting by upgrading to 2.60. Sony source of content for broadcast radio pro- Adoption by traditional grams by Adam Curry, Christopher Lydon broadcasters and others. The entire format of KYOU Ra- dio, a San Francisco radio station, became Traditional broadcasters were extreme- based around broadcasting Podcasts. That ly quick to pick up on the podcasting for- summer, when the Canadian Broadcasting mat, especially those whose news or talk Corporation locked out more than 5,000 of formats spared them the complications of its regular on-air and technical staff, they music licensing. The American syndicated responded by creating their own unof- radio show Web Talk Radio became the ficial podcast of original programming, first to adopt the format, in September CBC Unplugged , which also appeared 2004, followed within weeks by Seattle on some campus and community radio news radio station KOMO and by indi- stations, including CIUT in Toronto and vidual programs from KFI Los Angeles CFRU in Guelph, Ontario. and Boston’s WGBH. Coping with growth The BBC began a trial in October 2004 with BBC Radio Five Live’s Fighting Talk. While podcasting’s innovators took These trials were extended in January advantage of the sound-file synchroniza-
10 11 tion feature of Apple Computer’s iPod and dio and video feeds. As well as public iTunes software -- and included “pod” in broadcasting made possible by Participa- the name -- the technology was always tory Culture Foundation . compatible with other players and pro- Other uses grams. Apple was not actively involved until mid-2005, when it joined the market Podcasting’s initial appeal was to allow on three fronts: as a source of “podcatcher” individuals to distribute their own “radio software, as publisher of a podcast direc- shows,” but the system is increasingly tory, and as provider of tutorials on how used for other reasons, including: to create podcasts with Apple products 1. A way for people and organizations GarageBand and Quicktime Pro. to avoid regulatory bodies, like the The podcasting selection views of British Ofcom, that would not allow a iTunes 5.0 program to be broadcast in traditional When it added a podcast-subscrip- media. tion feature to its June 28, 2005, release 2. A way for news organizations to dis- of iTunes 4.9[25], Apple also launched tribute audio as an addition to their a directory of podcasts at the iTunes existing text (or mostly text) news Music Store, starting with 3,000 entries. products. For example, Wikinews Apple’s software enabled AAC encoded began to podcast its News Briefs in podcasts to use chapters, bookmarks, 2005. external links, and synchronized images 3. Education. Musselburgh Grammar displayed on iPod screens or in the iTunes School, Scotland began podcasting artwork viewer. Two days after release of foreign language audio revision and the program, Apple reported one million homework, possibly becoming the podcast subscriptions. first school in Europe to launch a Some podcasters found that exposure regular podcast.. Some of the early to iTunes’ huge number of downloaders classroom podcasts from America threatened to make great demands on their include The Room 208 Podcast from bandwidth and related expenses. Possible Wells, Maine , Radio WillowWeb from solutions were proposed, including the Omaha, Nebraska, and Room 613 Talk addition of a content delivery system, from Columbia, CT. The online ency- such as liberated syndication ; Podcast clopedia Wikipedia has begun podcast- Servers ;Akamai; a peer-to-peer solution, ing encyclopedia articles. BitTorrent; or use of free hosting services, 4. Politics. In the U.S., both major politi- such as those offered by Ourmedia, Blip- cal parties have various podcasts, as do Media and the Internet Archive. several politicians. As of September 2005, a number of 5. Religion. Podcasting (or in this context, services began featuring video-based Godcasting) has been used by many podcasting including Apple via its iTunes religious groups. Many churches pro- Music Store and Loomia. Known by some duce podcasts of talks and sermons. as a vodcast, the services handle both au-
10 11 When Granny Got on LSD by Phil Shapiro fine idea. And it works like a charm. The whole extended family was gath- Since my mum is new to web surfing, ered around the Thanksgiving table with I wanted to make sure she has the most delicious crumbs of dessert still on our modern browser possible on her Mac OS plates. Minutes earlier we had gone around 9 iMac. So during the Christmas vacation, the table giving thanks, when granny, age while visiting her, I went to Microsoft’s 83, sighed happily and declared, “And I’ve web page to download Internet Explorer been telling all my friends that I’m getting 5.1.7. Microsoft has discontinued support on LSD for Thanksgiving.” for Internet Explorer 5.1.7 and is even re- “Mum, you’re getting DSL,” I whis- moving it as a download from their web pered across the table. “Oh, is it called site. It’s clear to me that Microsoft doesn’t DSL?” she asked, a touch embarrassed. care whether my mum is on LSD or not. My mum’s experience getting on LSD But I do. So I downloaded and installed was a trip, so I ought to share some of it IE 5.1.7. here. Mom has an Indigo iMac from circa Then it occurred to me that mum 2001. She has been using dial-up Internet ought to have an alternate browser. So I access since getting her first Mac in 1995. went to the Netscape web site to down- She uses Mac OS 9 and is not about to move load Netscape 7.02. Wouldn’t you know to Mac OS X unless absolutely necessary. I it, Netscape has no links on their web site support her in that choice. to older browsers. It’s clear to me that When she told me she wanted to get Netscape doesn’t care if my mum is on onto LSD, I told her she could count on LSD or not. But I do. me for support. Living a few hundred So I searched the good god Google for miles away, I can only do so much to help. “Netscape Archive,” and found a nice web Thankfully she has an outstanding Mac site with downloads of all older versions of consultant, Andrew Falco, who is only a Netscape. I threw an alias of Internet Ex- phone call away. Andrew treats my mum plorer 5.1.7 and Netscape 7.0.2 in the Apple as I would -- gently, patiently and with a Menu of mum’s iMac. I told her she now lot of listening to what she wants. has a choice of browsers, because in life it’s My mum opted for Verizon’s $15/ always better to have options available. She month LSD package, which is easily concurred, having taught me that lesson purchased in any dark alley. In New York, about 40 years ago, when I was 5. Verizon doesn’t support Mac OS 9 with Next, I decided to install QuickTime PPPoE (Point to Point Protocol over Ether- 6.x for Mac OS 9. If you’re on LSD, you re- net.) That’s okay. I know there are ways of ally want to have QuickTime 6.x, because making Verizon LSD work with Mac OS 9. Quicktime 5.x is a bummer. So I went to Ap- Andrew Falco suggested buying a Linksys ple’s QuickTime download page and could Router with PPPoE. That sounded like a find no link to it. It’s clear to me that Apple
12 13 Computer doesn’t care whether granny is mum. That’s what getting on LSD is like. on LSD or not. But I do. So I searched http: My last task was to switch my mum’s //www.apple.com/support/downloads/ AOL price plan from unlimited dial-up to for QuickTime 6.x for Mac OS and found bring-your-own access. AOL has removed the download. (QuickTime 6.0.3) the capability of doing this online in AOL I then ran into a small hitch on another 5.0 for the Mac. So we had to call AOL’s bill- issue -- and figured out a good workaround. ing department. The happy news is that by My brother regularly posts photos of the bringing her own Internet access she now grandkids on Shutterfly.com. The links he pays $8.95 per month for her AOL account. sends to my mum are not active hyperlinks Adding that to her $15/month LSD ac- in AOL 5.0, the highest version of AOL for count from Verizon, and the total adds up Mac OS 9. Copying-and-pasting long hy- to the same as what she was paying for perlinks is not granny’s favorite activity. So AOL dial-up alone. That’s like getting free I set up a free Yahoo Mail account for her LSD. Can you dig it? Free LSD. and told my brother to courtesy-copy her The next step is to tell all her nieces, Yahoo Mail address when sending her links nephews and grandkids that granny is on to family photos. LSD. Knowing that, they’ll be able to send Mom is now able to easily access family her audio and video clips to support her photos via the slideshow in Shutterfly. She habit. You know what? She’s going to love tells me that surfing the web is like seeing that. And all the effort of getting granny on the world in millions of hues of color. Yes, LSD will have been worthwhile.
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Apple Reports Record and net income that was nearly twice Revenue & Earnings the year-ago level,” said Peter Oppen- heimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead Apple announced on January 18, 2006 to the second quarter of fiscal 2006, we that financial results for its fiscal 2006 expect revenue of about $4.3 billion. We first quarter ended December 31, 2005, expect GAAP earnings per diluted share reporting the highest revenue and earn- of about $.38, including an estimated $.04 ings in the Company’s history. Apple per share expense impact from non-cash posted revenue of $5.75 billion and a stock-based compensation, translating to net quarterly profit of $565 million, or non-GAAP EPS of about $.42.” $.65 per diluted share, in this 14-week Apple will provide live streaming quarter. These results compare to rev- of its Q1 2006 financial results confer- enue of $3.49 billion and a net profit of ence call utilizing QuickTime, Apple’s $295 million, or $.35 per diluted share, in standards-based technology for live and the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was on-demand audio and video streaming. 27.2 percent, down from 28.5 percent in The live webcast will begin at 2:00 p.m. the year-ago quarter. International sales PST on Wednesday January 18, 2006 at accounted for 40 percent of the quarter’s http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ revenue. qtv/earningsq106/ and will also be Apple shipped 1,254,000 Macintosh available for replay. The QuickTime computers and 14,043,000 iPods dur- player is available free for Macintosh ing the quarter, representing 20 percent and Windows users at www.apple.com/ growth in Macs and 207 percent growth quicktime. in iPods over the year-ago quarter. “We are thrilled to report the best Band Not So Happy with quarter in Apple’s history,” said Steve Apple Ad Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Two highlights of The alternative rock band, The Postal an incredible quarter were selling 14 mil- Service, isn’t pleased with Apple’s new lion iPods and getting ready to launch commercial that advertises Intel-based our new Macs with Intel processors five Macs. The ad features a shot-for-shot to six months ahead of expectations. We similarity to the band’s video for Such are working on more wonderful prod- Great Heights. Both were created by the ucts for 2006, and I can’t wait to see what same film makers, but apparently The our customers think of them.” Postal Service was not consulted about “We’re very pleased to report year- Apple’s commercial. over-year revenue growth of 65 percent 14 15 From the band’s Web site: version for US$50 at that time. This is It has recently come to our attention important because current Final Cut Stu- that Apple Computers’ new television dio apps won’t run at all on Intel-based commercial for the Intel chip features a Macs; if you buy an Intel-based iMac shot-for-shot recreation of our video for today, you’re out of luck for working ‘Such Great Heights’ made by the same with pro video until March (realistically, filmmakers responsible for the original. you probably won’t be buying an iMac We did not approve this commercial- to do pro video, but you get the idea). ization and are extremely disappointed But Apple is offering a great upgrade with both parties that this was executed deal: if you own the stand- alone Final without our consultation or consent. Cut Pro 5, you can buy the entire suite -Ben Gibbard, The Postal Service for US$100. If you own just one of the Elite Productions has taken the time other pro applications or Final Cut Pro to put together a side-by-side com- 4, you can upgrade for just $200. And if parison of the video and commercial. you own a version that’s two revisions Comparing the still images and video or older, the suite costs US$700. footage, the two certainly look similar, Get Lost in Google Earth but it does not appear that they use the Technology has finally caught up exact same footage. with the movies. In plenty of suspense Pro Video Apps Now Only In films, powerful government agencies Final Cut Studio spy on villains (or vice-versa) using satel- lite imaging technology that zooms in on Apple is no longer offering their pro any location on Earth. Now, so can you - video applications as stand-alone prod- mostly. Google Earth is a new application ucts. Since the majority of customers for the Mac that accesses satellite photos are buying the $1,300 Final Cut Studio and mapping capabilities to show you (which includes Final Cut Pro 5, Motion nearly anything on the planet. Type a 2, Soundtrack Pro, and DVD Studio Pro city, address, company name, whatever, 4), only the suite is now available for pur- and if it’s in Google’s database, Google chase; standalone versions will remain Earth provides an speedy animated trip available in stores only until supply to that location. Once found, you can runs out. explore the surrounding area by drag-
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