When 4 Isn't Enough

Apple is getting sneaky these days, and so the company just happened to have release its 8 core Mac Pro silently on morning. Yes, I said 8 cores! Confused as to why you might need so many cores? Well it does come in handy when you are running the new CS3 For those of you that are still working off of one chick, or for all of you new Mac users that love two chips, try and wrap your head around 8 of them running at 3Ghz. With all of this you still have up to 3 Terabytes (3,000 GB) of storage and up to 16GB of memory. Mind boggling? Well for the power hungry of you out there, go and check it out, it will amaze you. Have fun! Click here to see the new quad and oct core Mac Pro.
Upcoming Events / Dates

Jan. 8--12 ~ MacWorld San Francisco

Jan. 23 ~ Apple Tech Update @ JMU 1-4 p.m. Festival Ballroom B

Jan. 27 ~ JMU Basketball @ 2 (apple event)
Windows Media Player?
Do you need to run Windows Media Player documents on your Mac? Well
Leopard Delayed
hopefully you don't, if you do there is a solution. Flip4Mac makes a WMV player that converts these files into QuickTime. Problem solved! Download it for free.
In a statement on April 12th, Apple said that its' work on the iPhone has taken some people from the OS X team and that this will lead to a delay in the release of Leopard (Mac OS 10.5). How long of a delay? Well it looks like the rumors were true and that the delay will set Leopard back to October. Ouch? Well just look at it this way, the current builds of Leopard are still showing bugs abound, so at least they aren't rushing things. On the other hand, most folks buy new machines in the summer and it will be a hassle to pay for an upgraded OS come October. One thing is for sure though, the iPhone - not to mention devices such as Apple TV - are taking the forefront on Apple's product lineup for the time being.
Got Wireless?
Have you figured out how to work wireless internet on campus? If not, don't worry, its really easy. Just download the correct VPN client from the JMU computing web page. Make sure and select the Intel Mac one if you have a new Mac.
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The AirPort Radar Widget shows the signal strength of all of the wireless access stations in range of your
Another Cut Above
Final Cut Studio unveiled at this years NAB conference in Las Vegas. Along with new versions of Motion, Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Compressor, and DVD Studio Pro Apple also anounced a new program called Color. This application allows you to manipulate your image to get the exact coloring that you want; the unique thing here is that you can see the color in a 3D graph space, and you have an amazing amount of control over it all as you flow with your project in and out of the different - yet seemlessly integrated - applications. Along with all of this new software something called Final Cut Server was announced. This program allows you to stream work on and off of a server in real time high definition using Final Cut Studio; it allows a group of editors to collaborated simultaneously on a project no matter their locations around the globe. In the end all you have to do it think asset management with the server and assest manipulation with the studio.
machine. Instead of guessing or switching between all of the stations on your menu bar, just look at everything at a glance.
! Battery Recall !
This recall is for specific iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 models. Please go to Apple's Battery recall page to see if you qualify for the recall. If you do, the replacement of your battery is of course at no cost to you.
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iSquint is essentially compression software, but really what it does is to make QuickTime videos the correct size and resolution for a Video iPod. You can do this in QuickTime Pro as well, but that costs $29.