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Brand new episode came out today: The iphone is coming out on June 11 along with buddy Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard coming out sometime in June. Best Buy finally decides to sell Mac’s at 200 stores. A Russian Lab finds the first virus in the ipod, sort of. Mac Office 2008 is almost here, as it hit a private beta. Apple’s Mac OS X may gain multi-sized icon interface. MacNN reports on the latest Apple patents, published today by the US Patent & Trademark Office. The new patents include a centralized printing queue, a variable-sized icon GUI, a thermal-contact arrangement between chips and heat sinks, and an audio battery status patent. Does your five-year-old watch in fascination as you work with Photoshop? Encourage your child’s interests by turning your retired Mac into a digital art station. Apple Upgrades Boot Camp With Windows Vista Support. All of this on this special friday edition of Apple Universe!

I have started my own podcast about Apple called the Apple Universe with Daniel Brusilovsky. Please check it out! I already did my first pilot episode about the new Mac Pro 8-core. Enjoy!

Optimized for the Mac

Built for Mac OS X and optimized for Intel-based Macs, Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium is the designer’s dream toolkit, combining all-new versions of essential tools for designing engaging websites, interactive experiences, and mobile content in a unified design environment.

Experience the ultimate creative toolset on the Mac with Adobe InDesign CS3 for page layout, Photoshop CS3 Extended for specialized image editing, Illustrator CS3 for vector graphics creation, Flash CS3 Professional for interactive design, Dreamweaver CS3 for web design and development, and Acrobat 8 Professional for Adobe PDF workflows. Design Premium also offers visual asset management, effective file management for collaborative creative teams, mobile content previewing, and access to additional services.

Integrated for efficiency

With the unprecedented integration between the applications that comprise Creative Suite 3, you can use native files more easily than ever in different design workflows: Import Photoshop and Illustrator files into Flash, and copy Photoshop files into Dreamweaver. And enjoy a unified, integrated design experience with shared interface elements.

Designed for creativity

Like Creative Suite 3, your Mac is designed for creativity. Mac OS X knows when to get out of your way, allowing you to work or create without distraction. It also knows how to spring into action when you need it. Spotlight, for example, is always there to help you find that elusive file hiding somewhere in your computer. It shows search results literally as you type — in emails, contacts, PDFs, images, calendars, and applications. And with a single keystroke, Exposé lets you display all open windows as thumbnails, view windows of the current application, or hide all windows to quickly locate a file on your desktop.

And with support for RAW-format images, iPhoto helps you manage up to 250,000 photos using keyword tags, ratings, dates, and albums. You can even designate Photoshop CS3 as your image-editing application that opens when you double-click an image in iPhoto. It’s that easy.

Plus, you don’t need to buy any extra software to manage your calendar, keep track of your contacts, or video chat with clients. iCal helps you organize your schedule by letting you create as many separate calendars — for work, school, personal — as you need. View all your calendars separately or in a single unified window. Working seamlessly across the entire system, Address Book offers your contacts in Mail, iChat, iCal, and Spotlight. You can automatically sync iCal and Address Book with your iPod or Bluetooth-enabled devices, too. And iChat AV brings multi-way video and audio conferencing directly to your desktop with stunning, true-to-life picture and crystal-clear conversation. Everything you need to be productive is all there at your fingertips from day one. Seamlessly integrated into Mac OS X.

With an Intel-based Mac and Creative Suite 3, the possibilities are endless. Create beautiful and engaging content, collaborate effectively, push design further, and ultimately equip yourself with the tools to design for tomorrow as well as today. Wait no longer — make your creative studio dreams a reality.

Apple® today announced that EMI Music’s entire digital catalog of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com) worldwide in May. DRM-free tracks from EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding, resulting in audio quality indistinguishable from the original recording, for just $1.29 per song. In addition, iTunes customers will be able to easily upgrade their entire library of all previously purchased EMI content to the higher quality DRM-free versions for just 30 cents a song. iTunes will continue to offer its entire catalog, currently over five million songs, in the same versions as today—128 kbps AAC encoding with DRM—at the same price of 99 cents per song, alongside DRM-free higher quality versions when available.“We are going to give iTunes customers a choice—the current versions of our songs for the same 99 cent price, or new DRM-free versions of the same songs with even higher audio quality and the security of interoperability for just 30 cents more,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think our customers are going to love this, and we expect to offer more than half of the songs on iTunes in DRM-free versions by the end of this year.”

“EMI and iTunes are once again teaming up to move the digital music industry forward by giving music fans higher quality audio that is virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings, with no usage restrictions on the music they love from their favorite artists,” said Eric Nicoli, CEO of EMI Group.

With DRM-free music from the EMI catalog, iTunes customers will have the ability to download tracks from their favorite EMI artists without any usage restrictions that limit the types of devices or number of computers that purchased songs can be played on. DRM-free songs purchased from the iTunes Store will be encoded in AAC at 256 kbps, twice the current bit rate of 128 kbps, and will play on all iPods, Mac® or Windows computers, Apple TVs and soon iPhones, as well as many other digital music players.

iTunes will also offer customers a simple, one-click option to easily upgrade their entire library of all previously purchased EMI content to the higher quality DRM-free format for 30 cents a song. All EMI music videos will also be available in DRM-free format with no change in price.

The iTunes Store features the world’s largest catalog with over five million songs, 350 television shows and over 400 movies. The iTunes Store has sold over two billion songs, 50 million TV shows and over 1.3 million movies, making it the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store.

With Apple’s legendary ease of use, pioneering features such as integrated podcasting support, iMix playlist sharing, seamless integration with iPod® and the ability to turn previously purchased songs into completed albums at a reduced price, the iTunes Store is the best way for PC and Mac users to legally discover, purchase and download music and video online.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and will enter the mobile phone market this year with its revolutionary iPhone.

Professional velocity.

8-core or quad-core Mac Pro workstation

Meet the latest addition to the Mac Pro family: The world’s first 3.0GHz, 8-core Intel Xeon-based Mac Pro. Consider the bar officially raised.

Performance standard

No matter which Mac Pro model you choose — 8-core or quad-core Intel Xeon — each delivers advanced performance, workstation graphics, and unparalleled expansion in so many possible configurations, your imagination has finally met its match.

 

Eight cores or four

Opt for the 8-core Mac Pro and you get the power of two Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Clovertown” processors running at 3.0GHz. Or choose a quad-core Mac Pro featuring two Dual-Core Intel Xeon “Woodcrest” processors and decide how fast they fly: 2.0GHz, 2.66GHz, or 3.0GHz. At 3.0GHz, the quad-core Mac Pro runs up to 2x faster than the Power Mac G5 Quad.¹

 

Unparalleled expansion

Mac Pro accommodates up to four drives and 3TB of storage, offers eight DIMM slots to fill with up to 16GB of RAM, and provides up to two SuperDrives. It also gives you four PCI Express slots and lots of I/O options for ultimate flexibility.

 

Killer graphics

Looking for high-performance workstation graphics? You’ve come to the right place. Three graphics card options let you choose the card that meets your specific needs. And every one lets you connect up to two displays, including at least one 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display.

More than 33 million possible configurations

You’re the expert. With build-to-order options available for processors, graphics cards, memory, hard drives, optical drives, and other features and components, the über-configurable Mac Pro lets you build your personal dream machine. The Mac you’ve been waiting for.

http://www.apple.com/macpro/