Macintosh Products Guide - New Arrivals

Toon Boom Animate

Toon Boom Animate is a leading stand-alone animation software solution that combines advanced animation tools with a user friendly interface to build creative animations fast. Animate works with QuickTime, Final Cut Pro and the iPod, and offers creative and professional users access to powerful vector-based drawing tools, superior timeline with symbols, a robust library, lip syncing, interactive camera tools, special effects and compositing conveniently set in one flexible application at a low cost. [...]

SiteGrinder 2

Forget about the difficulties of building a professional quality website; Media Lab's SiteGrinder 2 plug-in converts Adobe Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) into a powerful, intuitive website development system that makes it easy. SiteGrinder 2 and Photoshop are everything you need to create gorgeous websites that look exactly like your Photoshop designs. With the click of a button, SiteGrinder 2 effortlessly transforms Photoshop files into professional quality, CSS-rich webpages. SiteGrinder 2 gives complete control over every aspect of your website's design and functionality ... all without leaving Photoshop. SiteGrinder 2 writes the HTML, CSS and other web programming code so you don't have to. [...]

Bob the Builder: Can-Do Zoo

Animals are on the loose! The delivery train has come to town, dropping off all of the animals for the Bobland Bay Zoo. Unfortunately, there is no Bobland Bay Zoo! Monkeys have moved into the school playground, alligators are in the swimming pool, and the lion has taken over the Mayor's office! Work doubletime with Bob and his Can-Do Crew to get the zoo built and make homes for all the animals. Complete fun and educational activities. Earn stickers for your building achievements, and create your own scenes in the bonus sticker book mode. Can-Do Zoo teaches creative thinking and problem solving skills by encouraging children to think about screative solutions. Three different skill levels. [...]

Try Apple’s New MobileMe in Bulgaria

Apple’s New MobileMe Service in Bulgaria allows you to have a computer at home in Bulgaria, one at work, and an iPhone or iPod touch. And it can be hard to keep them all up to date. But now, there’s MobileMe. Wherever you are in Bulgaria, your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC is always current and always in sync. And with a suite of elegant new web applications, you can access your data anywhere around the world.

Check your email, change your calendar, edit your contacts, and more at me.com in Bulgaria. Accessible anywhere in the world, me.com is an ad-free suite of web applications — Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, and iDisk — that are elegant and easy to use.

Download, setup and Try MobileMe in Bulgaria now.

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More Apple News and Events

Changes come to the iTunes Store

Beginning today, all four major music labels — Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group and EMI — and thousands of independent labels, now offer their music in the DRM-free iTunes Plus format with higher-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding. iTunes customers can also now purchase and download songs directly onto their iPhone 3G over their 3G network — just as they do with Wi-Fi today — for the same price as downloading to their computer. And in April, based on what the music labels charge Apple, songs on iTunes will be available for 69¢, 99¢, or $1.29, with most albums still priced at $9.99. [...]

Apple introduces new 17-inch MacBook Pro

The new 17-inch MacBook Pro features a durable and beautiful aluminum unibody enclosure and a revolutionary new built-in battery delivering up to 8 hours of use and up to 1,000 recharges. It has a high resolution LED-backlit display and the same large glass Multi-Touch trackpad introduced with the new MacBook family. The new notebook also includes state-of-the-art NVIDIA graphics and the latest generation Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processors, available up to 2.93 GHz. [...]

Introducing iLife ’09

Apple today unveiled iLife ’09, which includes major upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand and an updated version of iWeb. iPhoto ’09 introduces Faces and Places, breakthrough ways to easily organize and manage photos based on who appears in them and where they were taken. In iMovie ’09, you’ll find powerful, yet easy-to-use new features that let you create a movie quickly or add refinements and special effects if you have more time. And GarageBand ’09 now offers a fun new way to learn to play piano and guitar with Basic Lessons, which teach fundamentals, and Artist Lessons (sold separately), in which original artists teach you how to play the songs they made famous. [...]

Apple unveils iWork ’09

Available today, iWork ’09 adds powerful new features to each of its popular productivity applications. Keynote ’09 introduces Magic Move, which offers an easy way to automatically animate any image, graphic or text repeated on consecutive slides. In Pages ’09, a new Full Screen view lets you focus solely on your writing while the new outline mode lets you organize your thoughts. And Numbers ’09 introduces a quick way to group and summarize data and a dramatically simplified way to create complex formulas. Apple also introduced the public beta of iWork.com, a new service for sharing documents online. [...]

Now Available: FileMaker Pro 10

FileMaker today announced the availability of FileMaker Pro 10. The new version of its award-winning software features a sleek new interface and intuitive new design. For example, database users can now place frequently used FileMaker features in the redesigned and customizable Status Toolbar, resulting in streamlined navigation, better workflow, and time-saving shortcuts. [...]

Quick Tip of the Week: Selecting multiple email messages

Ever receive multiple, related email messages that you’d like to file in the same folder or delete? You could delete or drag them into a folder one message at a time. But in Mail, you can save time by deleting or filing all the messages at once. Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week. [...]

App Store pioneering “a new kind of business”

“The new status symbol,” report Matt Richtel and Laura M. Holson (nytimes.com) “is what your phone can do — count calories, teach Spanish, simulate a flute, or fling a monkey from a tree.” While some “programs can genuinely help productivity,” others are simply “jaw-dropping“ fun. The apps, say the authors, “have become a form of social currency” that is driving “a new kind of business.” [...]

Smashing Research at CERN

“The 17-inch MacBook Pro is my main computer,” says Brian Cox. A particle physicist, Cox works at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, which scientists will soon use to try to recreate the “Big Bang.” Cox uses the Mac because it can run both UNIX for research and productivity apps for everything else. And he’s not alone. “When you look around a physics conference now,” he says, “you see more Macs than anything else.” [...]