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Editor's Notes: December 22, 2000...
* Hess Macworld Events
Page Goes Live - Of course you already knew that Mac/Internet Consultant
and Writer, Ilene Hoffman, has hosted the Hess Memorial Macworld Events/ Party list
for several years. Well, she's posted the site with every party and press function
scheduled during Macworld Expo week in San Francisco, Jan. 8th through January 13th.
__ Ilene wants everyone to know that the list can include
your events if info is sent to ileneh@aol.com or Press@ilenesmachine.com. She's also
looking for any special booth information, such as contests, cool free toys, or book
signings, etc., and she'll include them on the Fun Stuff to See at the Show page.
__ (Ilene Hoffman was the 1998 User Group Academy "User
Group Hero of the Year" Award winner.) - Thanks to: UGNN for
sending this in. File this one under: Macworld Expo For more info go to: http://www.ilenesmachine.com/partylist.html
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Pixelpalooza
2001 Begins - The web's premiere source for freeware Mac icons, The
Iconfactory is proud to announce that its 5th annual icon design contest, Pixelpalooza
has begun and is now accepting submissions.
__ Pixelpalooza offers aspiring icon artists an opportunity
to strut their stuff both for the Macintosh platform and for the icon community at
large. Last year's contest garnered over 126 entries from around the world and awarded
prizes in three categories - 2D, 3D and System Replacement. This year a new, fourth
category has been added OSX. Now icon designers will have a chance to push the envelope
of icon creation for Mac OS X and show the world just what is possible in a 128x128
pixel grid.
__ The contest runs from December 1st, 2000 until February
1st. with winners announced on Valentine's Day.
__ Prizes will be awarded to Grand Prize, Runner Up
and People Choice winners in each of the four entry categories. One lucky grand prize
winner will surf away with the Official Iconfactory Tangerine iBook loaded with every
icon we've ever produced, some never released to the public.
__ Download the latest contest submissions. The contest
entry pages will be updated daily from now until the end of the contest. People's
Choice voting begins on February 2nd, 2001 and runs through Feb. 12th. - Thanks
to: The Icon Factory for sending this in. File this one under: OS: Enhancements For
more info go to: http://www.iconfactory.com
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MP3
the Hit Holiday Treat... Amadeus II is There - You can bet there'll
be lots of MP3 gadgets under the holiday trees this year, and what Mac users need
to know is Amadeus II is the premiere disk-based, Mp3 supporting, visual waveform
audio file editing and analyzing application for the Mac OS.
__ This is the key program for live audio recording,
digitizing tapes and records, sampling from any external source and for editing and
analyzing Mp3, AIFF, QuickTime or WAVE files. With the powerful direct-to-disk abilities,
you can easily and rapidly edit large sounds of sizes up to 2GB (3 hours of CD quality
music!).
__ Amadeus II is $25 US shareware, so all you have to
do is download it, and pay the shareware later. - Thanks to: UGNN
for sending this in. File this one under: Multimedia: MP3 Music For more info go
to: http://mpej.unige.ch/~hairer/Amad2.html
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They'll
build your 3D charts for you! - Here's a great idea for ALL computer
users -- afree service which creates business graphics for you (with correct 3D effects).
As a graphic designer I know how tough it is to create really nice charts based on
data. Generally it takes a lot of time to build something 3D with Illustrator, even
after exporting the tacky charts generated by Excel and the like. Everyone can't
be an information/data illustrator. Then there's always the typical customer who
wants the data changed (again) 30 minutes before printing deadline.
__ Konstantin Pribluda has produced tool that creates
pie and tower charts online. Key your data in, select colors, lighting effects and
in one minute it's ready. This is very, very cool. - Thanks to: Konstantin
Pribluda for sending this in. File this one under: DTP Helpers: plug-ins, filters,
enhancements, etc. For more info go to: http://www.pribluda.de/povray/
Fred Showker
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