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Guy Kawasaki, has written to tell us about this new book. It is written by thirty three authors, including Tom Peters, Malcom Gladwell, Mark Cuban, Robyn Waters, Dave Balter, Red Maxwell, Randall Rothenberg and of course Guy.
He says that "The Big Moo is a simple book that tells stories that stick to your ribs and lights your fire. It will help you to create a culture that consistently delivers remarkable innovations."
Additionally this is a work for charity with the authors turning over royalties to three organizations: acumenfund.org, jdrf.org (juvenile diabetes), roomtoread.org ... ... see the full story...
Have you written a new song? Like to distribute your music to other musicians? The makers of Finale!, long the premier music package for the Mac but also available on PCs has announced a new versoin of Print Music. It is specific for producing scores. There is a free 30 day demo at the web site, that will function fully for that 30 days. Additionally, they have a program for free, (registration required) that will led you open and pring other people's scores. It appears however, that you will need to find a music font to get it to work. I haven't had time to look for it on their web site or elsewhere, but I bet it is available.
Get the demo and more information at: finalemusic.com
Bob Rankin of the Internet Tour Bus newsletter has an article with the above title. Apparently, the Federal government has convinced some of the laser printer companies to embed a code that show the serial number of the printer. That way a specific print job can be tracked back to the printer's owner. He also has a link to a follow up article that specifies Lexmark printers. Read the full story at: Bob Rankin's Tour Bus
Join the Fox Valley Computer Group on Thursday, November 3rd, 2005 to see Stephen A. Singer, President of Micro Format Inc., who will be presenting creative ways to make and send your holiday greetings, design custom gifts and decorate your home or office for the season ahead. Visitors are welcome to attend and all FVCUG events are open to the public. FVCUG meets at the Messenger Public Library at 113 Oak Street in North Aurora, IL beginning at 6:30 p.m. and ending, all too soon, at 9:00. fvcug
Helen Nersesova writes in to tell us about the Win iPod Nano with BeLight Halloween Contest! BeLight Software's Halloween Contest invites you to send your cool Halloween flyer, photo, drawing or story to dracula@belightsoft.com from October 17th till October 31st, 2005. All participants will get 15% discount on Swift Publisher. Dracula says:
"Spending my eternal life in a haunted castle I got very lonely and bored. No phone calls, no Christmas cards for the last 500 years -- when the guys from BeLight gave me a chance to start enjoying my life again. Halloween is coming! So, guys, cheer me up with your emails to dracula@belightsoft.com
! The one who manages to bring light into MY life will get an iPod Nano!" belightsoft.com
... and if you want to see them, then download this PDF from Jefferies and Company. They have torn down the video iPod, revealing the various component manufacturers, and estimating a gross margin for Apple Computer on the device at 52 percent. Read more...
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Apple Computer over the iPod nano's suceptibility to scratches. The Red Herring reports that Jason Tomczak has filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple Computer on behalf of all iPod nano owners, demanding that customers get their money back as well as a share of the company's profits on the music player's sales." The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California in San Jose on Wednesday, October 19, 2005, according to the report. (See: Scratches Mar New iPod's Beauty by Walter Mossberg; and Macworld's "Apple Confirms" ) Matthew Peterson had set up the "Flawed Music Player" web site when the complaints started to fly, but the site has now been taken down. ... see the full story...
Another Windows vs Mac article -- what is interesting about this article is that it comes from a vendor of white boxes. He admits it was written on a Mac. He says that Vista will require most Windows users to upgrade their computers to run the new Windows OS. However, he was able to buy a 3 year old Mac for $200 that was capable of running Tiger. The beauty of Oh-Ess-Ten over Windoze
Eskape Labs has announced the release of myTV.PVR, which is a combination TV tuner and MPEG video encoder that works with the Mac. It is cable ready and works via the USB 2.0 port. The box includes a remote control, cable, radio antenna as well as the expected software and docs. It requires a 500 MHz G4, Quartz Extreme-capable video and Mac OS X 10.3.8 or later with at least 3 GB of hard drive space available. Eskape Labs
Well, it has started to happen. Self appointed gurus are saying that you should wait for the new Intel machines to get a new computer. While that advice may be good for a few people, it really doesn't make much sense for most. The Quad G5 is a professional machine. The professional level Intel machines probably won't be out in any numbers before 2007. (Apple has said they will switch the consumer level machines first.) The speed increase can undoubted show a positive ROI for most professionals in that time frame. (See: G5 Quad) Read the contrary article that sez: Don't Buy A Quad G5
Last week, along with its hardware announcements, Apple announced the release of Aperture ($499), which they call "The first all-in-one post production tool that provides everything photographers need after the shoot." It is designed to work with RAW images as well as JPEG. They are saying that it is to photography as Final Cut Pro is to video. What is scary about this, is what will be Adobe's response. When Final Cut Pro was released, they dropped production of Premier on the Mac. I don't think they will drop Photoshop Mac production as long as sales continue to be strong. But I am sure they are studying Aperture to make sure that Photoshop's continues to be the primary application for photo editing. See full article
This is a fix for s possible synchronization issue in Entourage. There can be data lost when Entourage tries to sync with Exchange. Download here
In a Macworld UK article Jonny Evans writes, "Sites from the dark side of the Web are already rushing to buy QuickTime Pro licenses so they can create viral transmissions intended to pounce down the broadband pipe into Apple's new media players... embracing this new iPod-driven, portable-video gold rush." See full article
Get the upgrade for Ambrosia Software EasyEnvelopes 1.0.1 -- free! This free envelope printing widget for MacOS X Tiger (10.4) does all kinds of cool things for your printed envelopes in several languages. EasyEnvelopes
The bookshelf is overflowing with great books as we approach the holiday, gift-giving season. Here are free articles and excerpts from our top listed books... 0510-24_book_news
This new series features hundreds of full color images, tips, tricks and techniques to provide everything the Photoshop user needs to retouch, create effects, use blending modes and much more
Here comes a great lineup of books designed to guide readers through Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 and Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0, Adobe's newest digital image and video editing tools for Windows See full article
What's hot in the world of professional music production? Daniel M. East reports on the 2005 New York AES Conference, Jacob Javitz Convention Center, New York City AES Conference Wrap-Up
In the interest of keeping this newsletter short we're listing only the most important content items in the UG Network. Each department has numerous new items, all linked on the front page... UGNN Home Page
"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."
- Dwight David Eisenhower
"Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble."
- Frank Tyger
"Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement."
- Christian Slater
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