[NPMUG] Apple User Group meeting - Cranberry Twp. at MacOutfitters - Wed Jan 7, 7-9PM

[Dave Sevick]

Lots and lots to talk about:



Changes come to the iTunes Store
January 6, 2009
Beginning today, all four major music labels — Universal Music Group,  
Sony BMG, Warner Music Group and EMI — and thousands of independent  
labels, now offer their music in the DRM-free iTunes Plus format with  
higher-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding. iTunes customers can also now  
purchase and download songs directly onto their iPhone 3G over their  
3G network — just as they do with Wi-Fi today — for the same price as  
downloading to their computer. And in April, based on what the music  
labels charge Apple, songs on iTunes will be available for 69¢, 99¢,  
or $1.29, with most albums still priced at $9.99.Filed under: iPod 
+iTunes. Read more: apple.com/itunes


Apple introduces new 17-inch MacBook Pro
January 6, 2009
The new 17-inch MacBook Pro features a durable and beautiful aluminum  
unibody enclosure and a revolutionary new built-in battery delivering  
up to 8 hours of use and up to 1,000 recharges. It has a high  
resolution LED-backlit display and the same large glass Multi-Touch  
trackpad introduced with the new MacBook family. The new notebook also  
includes state-of-the-art NVIDIA graphics and the latest generation  
Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processors, available up to 2.93 GHz. Filed  
under: Mac.Read more: apple.com/macbookpro


Introducing iLife ’09
January 6, 2009
Apple today unveiled iLife ’09, which includes major upgrades to  
iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand and an updated version of iWeb. iPhoto  
’09 introduces Faces and Places, breakthrough ways to easily organize  
and manage photos based on who appears in them and where they were  
taken. In iMovie ’09, you’ll find powerful, yet easy-to-use new  
features that let you create a movie quickly or add refinements and  
special effects if you have more time. And GarageBand ’09 now offers a  
fun new way to learn to play piano and guitar with Basic Lessons,  
which teach fundamentals, and Artist Lessons (sold separately), in  
which original artists teach you how to play the songs they made  
famous.Filed under: Mac. Read more: apple.com/ilife


Apple unveils iWork ’09
January 6, 2009
Available today, iWork ’09 adds powerful new features to each of its  
popular productivity applications. Keynote ’09 introduces Magic Move,  
which offers an easy way to automatically animate any image, graphic  
or text repeated on consecutive slides. In Pages ’09, a new Full  
Screen view lets you focus solely on your writing while the new  
outline mode lets you organize your thoughts. And Numbers ’09  
introduces a quick way to group and summarize data and a dramatically  
simplified way to create complex formulas. Apple also introduced the  
public beta of iWork.com, a new service for sharing documents  
online.Filed under: Mac. Read more: apple.com/iwork

And we'll also look at some cool iPhone apps --

Pandora, Shazam, Google Mobile and more .....

See you at 7PM tomorrow ....

Nightcap at Primanti Brothers in Cranberry after the meeting.


Dave







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