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	PC Magazine concurs. Singled out as an “editors’ choice,” the 24-inch iMac garners 4.5 (out of 5) stars from Joel Santo Domingo, writing for PC Magazine. “Powered by Intel’s zippy Core 2 Duo processor, it’s a system that photo, video, and music enthusiasts—even graphics professionals—could love.” Domingo tells us that the “screen is about as bright as that of the standalone 23-inch and 30-inch Apple Cinema displays, so the iMac could easily work for a layout editor or other midlevel graphics pro.”
	The new 8GB iPod nano received the same high praise—4.5 stars (out of 5) from Mike Kobrin (PC Magazine). “When all is said and done,” he concludes, “the second-gen iPod nano is an excellent product. It is slim, attractive, sturdy, and easy to use, not to mention the excellent integration with iTunes. But more important, the sound quality is very good.”
	Ryan Faas (Macworld UK), meanwhile, believes that “Apple has released the finest set of iPods to date and it has done so by listening to the needs and concerns of its customers. This new generation of video iPods,” he reports, “has raised the bar for many types of portable entertainment devices.”
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Tomorrow, the new season of Battlestar Galactica gets underway, but who can wait that long? Especially when you can download Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far right now. The free episode, available on the iTunes Store, recaps the past two seasons. You can even gift the free show to a sci-fi aficionado.

Redline, a new game from Ambrosia Software, lets you take some pretty spectacular vehicles out for a spin. We’re talking Lamorghini, Maserati, DeLorean and a few other roadsters most of us don’t get to drive every day. Think you can take that Corvette?

Lots of us depend on iPod for in-flight entertainment. But Anousheh Ansari took the concept to new heights. The International Space Station to be exact. There, in geosynchronous orbit 220 miles or so above the earth’s surface, the first female space tourist—now safely returned to Earth—conversed with school children, learned how to cope with weightlessness, and hung around with her iPod.

Podcast Pick. This very minute, college students all across the country are creating movies for the very first time. They’re empowered by the Mac and iMovie and inspired by the Campus Moviefest, the world’s largest student film festival. You can learn more—and catch some cools flicks—by downloading the free CMF Podcasts.

How can you promote your photo business? Robert Seale creates portfolios in Aperture. “I’ve gotten great reactions from art directors and photo editors who’ve seen the books. Usually, I show my full-size portfolio and then use the photo books as a “leave-behind.” I have made first contact by mailing them to potential clients in lieu of the traditional postcard, and that has also worked out well.” You can read his entire account in Promoting your Photos, one of the first articles to appear on our new Pro Photography site.

You’ve seen what Leopard will deliver when it leaps onto the scene in the spring of 2007. Now take a look at what’s coming soon from .Mac. It’s a totally new version of .Mac webmail that you’re already totally familiar with. Insprired by Mail, offers drag-and-drop email management, a handy message pane, a new Quick Reply option, and lots more. Take a peek.

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Apple eNews
October 5, 2006
Volume 9, Issue 20

We hope you thoroughly enjoyed reading today’s issue of Apple eNews. Because we’re taking a small publishing hiatus, you can expect your next issue on Thursday, November 2. See you then.

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Aperture 1.5 focuses on flexibility/extensibility.

Already discovered the RAW power distilled in Apple’s popular all-in-one post production tool for photographers? Then you’ll want to download Aperture 1.5. A major update that’s free to existing customers, Aperture 1.5 delivers more than 20 feature enhancements touching every phase of the photo workflow. Providing increased flexibility, extensibility, and compatibility, they include:

•	A new open library system that provides flexible options for photo storage
•	Tight integration with iLife ’06 and iWork ’06
•	Automatic export of metadata as XMP sidecar files
•	Support for 3rd-party applications and services via new export plug-ins
•	Advanced Color controls
•	An Edge Sharpen tool offering luminance-based sharpening
•	Metadata presets
•	New Loupe options—including onscreen controls
•	Adjustment presets

Aperture 1.5 also runs on every Intel-based Mac—from the Mac mini and MacBook to the Mac Pro. And it’s available today from the Apple Store, Apple retail stores, and Apple Authorized Resellers for just $299. You’ll find more details about Aperture 1.5 on our What’s New page. And throughout the expanded Aperture website.

“I’ve dedicated my life to making images,” Bill Frakes tells us. A Sports Illustrated Staff Photographer, Frakes has captured hundreds of thousands of photographs over a 25-year career, and he wants to know where each and every one of them lives.

“I need to be able to find them, not just the ones I made this morning—and I made several thousand this morning—but the hundred important ones I made 20 years ago.” That’s why Frakes is moving his entire life’s work into Aperture.

“It’s important to me on a visual, personal, professional, and financial level to be able to have all these materials organized, available and sorted. Now I integrate everything I’ve shot previously into Aperture, and Aperture makes sense of it.”

Wouldn’t it be great, if it were drag-and-drop easy to take those beautiful images you’re managing in Aperture and use them in your iLife and iWork projects?

Now you can.

Thank to its recent update, Aperture 1.5 makes its library accessible to iLife ’06 and iWork ’06, letting you use the Media Browser in iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD, GarageBand, iWeb, Pages and Keynote to browse through photos in albums, Smart Albums, or your entire Aperture Library.⁽¹⁾

After you find images you’d like to include in iWeb photo galleries, Keynote presentations, or iPhoto calendars, just drag them from the Media Browser and drop them into place. The iLife or iWork application you’re using automatically imports full-resolution JPEG versions of the chosen images, resulting in outstanding finished work.

⁽¹⁾ You’ll need to install Aperture 1.5 and the latest versions of the iLife ’06 and iWork ’06 applications.

American Photo may consider him “perhaps the most versatile photojournalist working today,” but Joe McNally knows there are a thousand photographers looking to shoot right past him.

So how does he keep them all a stop behind?

“To be a pro and to attract high-end clients, you have to be on the cutting edge. Using Apple and Aperture is a tremendous resource—it’s technology that is more and more crucial to your success” he points out. With Aperture, “you’ve got all these possibilities: stacking, editing, archiving, organizing. Aperture opens so many doors.”

In fact, in High-Flying Images, McNally offers a look at some of the doors Aperture has opened for him.

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