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 The new PowerBook G4 comes loaded with Apple’s famously easy-to-use digital media applications. Developed for Mac OS X, these applications take advantage of the advanced operating system capabilities and powerful graphics technologies of Mac OS X. So you can start pushing the creative envelope minutes after you take your new notebook out of the box.
PixelNhance is a real-time image enhancement application that lets you quickly and easily determine the best image adjustment settings for your digital images. Your image appears in a unique split-screen window with the original settings on one side, and the settings that you are currently have in the Controls window on the other. PixelNhance lets you enhance brightness and contrast, color saturation, tone saturation, sharpness and noise reduction. And as you adjust the settings in the Controls window, the effects are immediately visible on the image.
Art Directors Toolkit is a stand-alone, feature-packed application that lets you do everything from viewing every possible character in a font, to identifying the point size of an 1/8” Helvetica “M,” and capturing the actual color of a pixel on your screen, to converting points to picas, and more.OmniGraffle enables you to draw perfect diagrams, family trees, flow charts, or charts and layouts. You can use OmniGraffle to plan plotlines for a story or movie, create an overview of an organization, show the evolution of species or illustrate the disseminaton of information. OmniOutliner is a great tool for outlining and organizing your thoughts, maintaining multiple to-do lists and tracking items like your books or the DVD movies in your home entertainment library. 
Snapz Pro X is a nifty screen capture solution for the Mac that even lets you record movies. You can use Snapz Pro X to make your training video, complete with your own narration. Snapz Pro X supports saving screen images as .bmp, .pict, .gif, .jpg, .png, .tiff, .pdf and Photoshop files, and also records animated or action sequences as a QuickTime movie.
PCalc 2 is a full-featured scientific calculator with support for hexadecimal, octal and binary calculations, and that also includes a Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) mode.FAXstf X lets you send faxes directly from your PowerBook G4, from any Mac OS X document-based application, including Microsoft Office v.X and Acrobat Reader. And FAXstf X fully supports the 56K internal modem that comes with your PowerBook G4, so you don’t need any additional hardware or software to start using it to send and receive faxes. Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, the leading web browser for the Macintosh platform, has been redesigned to perform perfectly with Mac OS X v10.1. It comes with such useful features as the Auction Manager, Internet Scrapbook, Search Assistant and Show Related Links. 
GraphicConverter is the Mac OS X version of the versatile creative tool that lets you import images from over 100 graphic file formats — and export to dozens of graphic file formats. Now with both advanced and basic image manipulation features, batch conversions and AppleScript support.FileMaker Pro Trial is a 30-day trial version of the database tool that lets you do everything from managing projects to keeping track of customers to compiling a mailing list of likely prospects — and even segmenting them by such factors as profession, geography or income. 
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0, the latest version of the industry-standard software that lets you convert any document to a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. With Acrobat Reader 5.0, anyone can open your document across a wide range of hardware and software configurations, and it will look exactly as you intended it to look — with layout, fonts, links and images intact.EarthLink Total Access, the Internet access software that ships with your PowerBook G4, comes with a 30-day free trial offer. Enjoy unlimited Internet access, chats and instant messaging, and Mac-friendly tech support. 
Mac OS X Mail is an application that goes beyond just sending and receiving email. You can drag and drop pictures, sounds and movies into your email, and use colors, fonts and formatting commands to enhance the look of your message. Moving to Mac OS X Mail is quick and easy — it even lets you import mail and address books from other email applications, including Entourage, Outlook Express, Claris eMailer, Netscape and Eudora. |
