January 13th Meeting Highlights
By Kathy Holton
Our meeting started out with lunch. Everyone brought a sandwich to eat and we were
treated to a surprise from Lesley Barfoot; she made the most delicious homemade vegetable
soup. Thank you very much, Lesley. Of course we talked Apple while we ate.
Some of the new announcement made by Steve Jobs at the Keynote from the San Francisco
MacWorld were...
- There is an update to OS 9 http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11904
Available now! This update does not work with OS X. So if you are an OS X Public
Beta User please read all documentation carefully.
- OS X available for purchase March 24, 2001 http://www.apple.com/macosx/
The price will be $129.00
- SuperDrive and iDVD http://www.digitalpostproduction.com/2001/01_jan/features/AppleSuperDrive.htm
a DVD Burner that will be shipping with the high end G4 tower and it will ship with
iDVD, the free Apple software. Price: $3,499.00
- iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Download this free MP3 player today.
- PowerBook G4 - Starting at $2,599.00 G4 processor, 15.2" mega-wide screen,
1" thin, 5.3 lbs., Slot loading DVD, 5 hour battery, AirPort ready and it is
made of Titanium. Stop by and have a look. http://www.apple.com/powerbook/
MicroSoft announced its plans to make Office for OS X http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010110/bs/microsoft_apple_dc_2.html
it should be available this fall.
For the bulk of our meeting Michael demonstrated some applications for OS X. An
application called "Fire" that combines all your chat ID's into one interface.
This can be found on your iDisk in the Software folder under Mac OS X Software; web.
We also looked at OmniGraffle and how OS X uses the color pallet to make all applications
that call on it similar.
We left the next meeting date open. I will let you know when we schedule the February
meeting.
Kathy Holton
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