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QuickTime Now in one place for your Star Wars: Episode I enjoyment—trailers, TV spots, music video and insider interviews, all in high- Jobs Presents OS Roadmap At the Worldwide Developers Conference May 10, Steve Jobs and Avie Tevanian will present an overview of Apple’s software roadmap, including an in- Id Software’s Quake 3 Test “The first release is going to be the Mac version,” confirms John Carmack in a Quake Arena project update, as the wizards of Id release Quake 3 Test for Mac (with OpenGL 3D driver) ahead of other platforms. You’ll spend lots of time with it, so “Be sure to get some sleep,” the company advises. [Apr 26] NAB Roundup Convergence is the theme at National Association of Broadcasters 99 in Las Vegas, where broadcast pros are turned on by QuickTime, bigtime. [Apr 23] |
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Praise for Final
Cut Pro “We were continually impressed (and sometimes amazed) by Final Cut’s intuitive ease at integrating not only editing functions, but the very different processes of editing and compositing,” writes MacInTouch in a review of Final Cut Pro. [May 6] An iMac for Mom Give your mother a gift she’ll always remember by taking advantage of a special price on a 333MHz iMac with an Epson Stylus Color 740 printer and more from May 1-9. [May 3] Hot Wheels Skateboarding hero Tony Hawk’s Birdhouse Projects, with annual sales of $10 million, creates its unique graphics on Macintosh. Read about it in this week’s Design & Publishing news. [May 3] AppleMasters at WWDC Sinbad, Herbie Hancock, Paul Davis and John Knoll will speak at the Worldwide Developer’s Conference May 10, offering a glimpse of their passion for and use of Macintosh technology. [Apr 26] Go to Media and Analyst Information for more Apple news. |
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South Park Goes Nationwide The colorful citizens of South Park, the popular Comedy Central series, assault the big screen Jun 18 in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Yahoo has the trailers in QuickTime. [May 6] Canon Camcorder Sweepstakes To promote its Elura digital video camcorder with built- Multimedia Encyclopedia Available in a special iMac edition, the 1999 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia contains 15,000 images, 1,200 maps, 163 videos and animations and 15 hours of sound. [Apr 29] The Fast Track In an article recommending Apple’s “zippy, attractive machines,” Worth Online writer Ted C. Fishman, a newcomer to Mac, found that he could set up an iMac and get on the Internet in less than 10 minutes. [Apr 29] FireWire Drives from VST VST Technologies is now shipping FireWire drives for Power Macintosh G3s in three sizes: 2, 4 and 6GB. [Apr 28] |
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