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Given the popularity of Macs in the arts, it’s not particularly unusual to make a music video using a Mac. It is however very unusual to make one exclusively from video screen captures of the Mac OS X user interface itself.
And that’s exactly what filmmaker Dennis Liu did for the song “Again & Again” by the group the Bird and the Bee.
The Finder, Stickies, Dashboard, Word, Fast User Switching, even screen savers; they’re all there and more. So check it out:
Just thought members might be interested in checking out Bean an interesting little freeware word processor. It is not nor is it intended to be a replacement for any full featured application like Microsoft Word or OpenOffice. It is however a compact, very capable, easy to use editor that can probably handle the bulk of your typical word processing needs. And it’s free.
Straight from its author, here are a few reasons you might want to use Bean:
And for the true control freaks, you can even download the source code and build your own version of Bean if you wish.
And did I mention that it’s free?
Not long ago I got an interesting email from an old friend: he was planning to take the plunge and buy a Mac! Well he did it and after a slightly rocky start Bob seems to be really getting into his new toy.
Of course I told him the tradition of “unboxing” photos for Apple products and here’s the result:
Now you might not think this is exactly a rave review but from a guy who once had to evaluate a piece of commercial software when we worked at Franklin Computer together and who, on a scale of 1 to 10, rated it a -35, trust me he really likes his iMac so far.
And by the way, the ACAMUG web site spent its first few years on Bob’s servers at Waterwheel Systems. And he didn’t even charge us for it!
If you run Software Update now odds are good you might find a firmware (internal non-volatile software) update for something you’ve got. Here’s what Apple’s released:
Taking up the gauntlet thrown down by Dennis a while back, Gerre has graciously sent us photos of his iWork 08 unboxing experience and they are now available for your viewing pleasure in the ACAMUG Photo Library or directly on Flickr if you want to see the photo descriptions.
NOTE: In the future if you notice that the Photo Albums link is not working please use the Contact the Webmaster link to drop a note to me so I can fix it.