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The fun begins even before you finish importing your photos. Double-click thumbnails in the Import window to view images, play videos, and hear audio files before they’re fully imported. If you’re on a deadline, you can begin adjusting an image even if it’s still being copied from your memory card to your Mac.
While the files are importing, Aperture 3 grabs data like shutter speed, aperture, lens, and focus points and starts sorting it right away. You can even add your own keywords and automatically apply an adjustment preset on import.
For extra flexibility, Aperture lets you store your images wherever and however you like — directly in Aperture 3, on external drives, or in their original folders. Choose to import RAW and JPEG images together or as separate images so you can work with them individually. The photos you import can also be added to your Photo Stream in iCloud.* And Aperture 3 can automatically back up your master images to a second drive during import.
If you have ever photographed a high contrast scene, you know that even the best exposure will typically have blown out highlights and flat shadows. The solution is High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography processing:›Take multiple photographs at varying exposure levels›Merge the photos into an HDR image that reveals highlight and shadow details›Adjust the settings to get the look you want: from natural-looking with Exposure Fusion to painterly or surreal with Tone Mapping
Photomatix Pro and Photomatix Essentials are stand-alone programs running on Windows and Mac OS X.A free Lightroom Plug-in makes it possible to access Photomatix Pro directly from Lightroom, if desired. Some of the features of Photomatix are also available as a Filter Plug-in of Photoshop CS2 or higher and an Edit Plug-in of Aperture 2 or higher.
Benefits for professional photographers:›
Saving on lighting equipment
No need to acquire expensive lighting equipment -and carry it- when you shoot high contrast scenes. Just enable the Auto Exposure Bracketing feature of your camera, and let Photomatix merge your photos into an image with extended dynamic range.›
Great pictures on cloudy days Shadowless hazy sunlight or an overcast sky usually results in dull-looking photographs. The tone mapping tool of Photomatix can turn them into great-looking images. Check out this image as an example.›
Saving time in post-processing
Photomatix Pro is designed for productivity -- automatic blending, unlimited stacking, easy comparison of results and batch processing save hours of masking and layers work in image editing programs.›
Well exposed panoramas
A panoramic scene is almost always a high contrast scene -- you can't limit your view to areas with the same brightness when shooting a 360° panorama. By taking views under several exposures and processing them in Photomatix Pro, you can create a panorama that will show details in both the dark and bright areas of the scene. Photomatix Pro offers both exposure fusion (also known as exposure blending) and HDR tone mapping.
MyThoughts brings you mind mapping the Mac way
Create unique, meaningful, brain-friendly mind maps that comply to the best-practice techniques for effective mind mapping.
MyThoughts for Mac OS X offers colour, shape and images along with flexibility and freedom to produce mind maps that suit any mind mapping project.
MyThoughts for Mac has powerful features, yet the user interface is clean, uncluttered and easy to use.
MyThoughts has been designed and developed from the ground up for
Mac OS X and takes full advantage of what makes a Mac such a pleasure to use.
MyThoughts for Mac Version 1.3 is Mac OS X Lion compatible, bringing users Full Screen Mode and Autosave with Versions.
iLife '09 makes it easier than ever to get the most out of the photos, movies, and music on your Mac. Organize and search your photos by faces and places in iPhoto. Make a great-looking movie in minutes and edit with precision in iMovie. Learn to play piano and guitar, or compose and record your own songs with the new guitar amps and stompboxes in GarageBand.
iWork, Apple’s productivity suite, is the easiest way to create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Writing and page layout are easy using Pages. Numbers gives you simple ways to make sense of your data. New cinematic animations, transitions, and effects in Keynote will keep your audience captivated. And iWork is compatible with Microsoft Office, so sharing your work is even easier.
Catalog, browse, and share all your books, movies, music, video games, gadgets, and even clothes - rediscover your own home library.
“You've never had so much fun with software... it's just so cool! And it just might buy you some time for more important things.” –David Pogue
“The best of the home inventory managers I tested.” -Farhad Manjoo, New York Times
Just hold the barcode of any of these items up to your Mac's iSight and Delicious Library does the rest. The barcode is scanned and within seconds the item’s cover appears on your digital shelves filled with tons of in-depth information for items from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, France, and Germany.
Publish your collection to the web with one click, and simply drag an item onto on of your contacts from Address Book to loan an item out and NOT forget who has it.
Sandvox 2 empowers anybody, even non-experts, to create a website with contemporary looks and features, in minutes.
Only Sandvox — winner of an Apple Design Award — features a user experience that lets you combine and spotlight your own drag-and-drop content while automatically creating a modern, feature-rich, standards-compliant website as you go. See your website come alive before your eyes! When ready, just upload your site to your favorite host directly from within Sandvox. It’s that easy.
TOP FEATURES
• Express yourself by choosing from among dozens of stylish site designs
• Over 20 different, customizable content objects help you build the site of your dreams
• Easily add text, images, or movies
• Super easy blogging, with built-in archiving
• Instantly add connections to Facebook, Twitter and more
• Showcase your images with Photo Grids and lightbox-style Galleries
• Syndicate your blog or podcast and offer easy-to-grab RSS feeds
• Incorporate content from other websites such as weather and news headlines
• Show selected products from Amazon.com
• Feature YouTube videos
• Include a Contact Form for feedback
• Automatically generate a sitemap
• Comment support via Disqus, IntenseDebate and Facebook Comments
• Insert custom features with Raw HTML
Organize contacts, track projects, plan events, and manage things – all in one easy to use iPhone personal database! Bento for iPhone is one of the top iPhone apps and the most popular personal database for iPhone. Use it standalone or synchronize with Bento 4 for Mac, sold separately at http://store.filemaker.com
TOP USES:
Use Bento for iPhone to organize contacts, track projects, plan events and manage things – the fast, fun and easy way! Bento for iPhone helps you do all this and more:
• Organize contacts and customers
• Track projects and task lists
• Plan events and meetings
• Manage things and much more
TOP FEATURES:
• Comes with 25 ready-to-use database templates that can be easily customized for whatever you need to organize.
• Supports a variety of field types so you can store text, numbers, dates, times, durations, locations, pictures, sounds, video clips, voice memos, pop-up choices, check boxes, prices, rates, addresses, phone numbers, ratings, web sites, email addresses, instant messaging accounts, and more.
• Includes iTunes-style searching and instant sorting to help you find things fast.
• Integrates with other iPhone apps so you can simply tap on a Bento field to call a contact, view a web site, send an email or display a map.
• Use as a standalone app or synchronize with Bento 4 for Mac, sold separately at http://store.filemaker.com
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Watch and record HDTV live on your Mac or PC with EyeTV One, a digital TV tuner for antennas. EyeTV One could not be easier to set up and use; simply connect it to a USB 2.0 port and to your TV antenna to get the great TV shows that are available over-the-air for free. Enjoy crystal-clear digital TV on the high-resolution display of your Mac or PC. The quality of digital TV that is available with an antenna looks spectacular on your computer’s high-resolution display, particularly the many shows that are broadcast over-the-air in full HDTV.
Watch, pause, and rewind live TV on your Mac. Search two weeks of Program Guide listings, and record one show or create Smart Guides to record an entire season. Edit out unwanted content and export recordings to iTunes automatically for playback on an iPad, iPod or iPhone. Stream live or recorded TV to an iPhone with the optional EyeTV app.
Things is a beautifully focused and amazingly intuitive task manager. Other todo applications either oversimplify or are too difficult to use. Things instead offers the perfect balance between ease of use and powerful features.
Effortlessly manage to-dos, notes, due dates, and projects with Things' easy-to-use features:
• Focus on what's important: Smart task lists let you conveniently track today's work, what's next, upcoming tasks, and your ideas for the future.
• Have it your way: Use Tags to assign contexts, priorities, time – whatever fits your personal workflow. Quickly find exactly those tasks that have the most benefit now.
• Keep organized: Projects and Areas of Responsibility let you master complex tasks and stay on top of your responsibilities in life and work.
• Out of your head – into Things: Enter new ideas the moment they hit you. Things' Quick Entry window lets you add new tasks without interrupting your work. And thanks to the amazing Autofill feature, the Quick Entry window can be automatically pre-filled with the currently selected text, along with a link to the email you are reading, the webpage you are currently viewing, or the document you are editing. (Works with most applications.)
• Your tasks on the go: You can sync your to-dos wirelessly with the iPhone and iPad versions of Things using Wi-Fi (sold separately).
• And much, much more: Create repeating tasks, add due dates, schedule tasks for a later date, sync with iCal, review completed tasks in the Logbook, create lists for your teammates.
As you might imagine from its name, NoteBook is great for taking notes .If you’re in a meeting or lecture, NoteBook’s voice annotation feature guarantees you’ll never miss a detail. Click the speaker icon next to any note to start playback from the point in the recording you began taking that note. Or send your voice annotations to your iTunes music library and from there to your iPod or iPhone, to review the recording while in the car, jogging, wherever is convenient.
Words aren’t always enough to capture an idea, so NoteBook lets you add diagrams, flow charts and sketches to any page. Build your diagrams using NoteBook’s pre-built collection of shapes and line styles, or use your mouse or tablet stylus to sketch. If you’re using a tablet, NoteBook varies the line thickness based on the pressure you apply to the stylus. It can even convert your tablet writing to text, using OS X’s InkWell technology.
You can even take notes right on top of your PDF class notes or lecture slides. When you drop the PDF on your Notebook and choose the annotate option, NoteBook adds each PDF page as a separate page in the Notebook. From there you can add text notes, create diagrams, circle important points, and generate a new PDF that includes all of your mark-up. Your PDF and mark-up stay organized within your school notebook.
If part of your note-taking involves research, with NoteBook you can easily “clip” selections from web pages and other apps straight into your Notebooks, without leaving the app you’re working in.
Just configure one or more pages for clipping, and then start researching, reading your mail, or whatever. When you see something related to your research, select it and clip it to store it in that page. If you clip from a web page, NoteBook saves the URL with the clipping, so that you can easily return to that page at any time. Then review, edit and annotate your clippings when you’re ready to work with your research.
Organize your information
Growly Notes lets you capture everything you’re interested in, all in one place. Organize research projects, trips, to-do lists, or journals. Scrapbook your images, web links, and video clips. Your imagination is the only limitation.
Pages can contain almost anything: formatted text, images, movies, audio clips, PDF files, tables, lists, web and file links, and drawings you create in Notes. There are no rules for where things have to go: put an image beside text or under it. Draw shapes on top of other notes. Put two snippets of text right next to each other. Click anywhere and start typing. It’s really that simple.
Notebooks are organized into sections (the larger tabs on the left in the image above), each of which contains as many pages as you like. All the open notebooks are shown in one window, for easy navigation and quick jumps.
Appearances are (almost) everything
With Notes you can change the appearance of everything on the page, from the color and font of text to the background color of the page and whether it has rule lines -- even put a picture behind all the notes like a watermark.
But you can also change the look of the Notes program itself! We prefer the colorful tabs shown above, but if you find them distracting you can change the tab colors, remove the tab colors, or just give up on the tabs altogether and use a traditional Mac interface:
Find it again, Sam
Creating a notebook is one thing. Finding a specific note a week later is another. Notes lets you search all open notebooks for any text, and shows you the results in context. A single click on a result takes you to that note.
You can also tag notes using built-in categories and search for tagged notes with one click. For pinpoint searches, look for tagged notes that contain specific text. Create your own tags for personalized categorization. Or bookmark a specific place in text.
Create links to anything in your notebooks (including bookmarks) so you can jump back to them in a flash.
Tables and lists
Notes makes it easy to organize information into tables. Each table column can contain formatted text, images, or an active checkbox for marking off to-do lists. You can add columns or rows at any time, change the column names, and rearrange columns.
If tables are a little too structured for your needs, create bulleted or numbered lists just by typing a special character in a new text note. For example, click on the page and type the number 1 -- you’re instantly working in a numbered list.
Don’t reinvent the wheel
If many of your pages look the same, you can easily create a template from any page. Then create new pages using that template with a single click. Or use one of the dozens of built-in page templates that come with Notes. Notes also provides several useful templates for new notebooks, and you can easily create your own notebook templates.
Rich, rich data
Of course Notes handles text and images, but you can also capture a print job from any application and send it directly to Notes. Many applications can send data to Notes using the Services submenu of the application menu. You can also record audio or video notes right in Notes. Add web links, file links, or links to pages or notes within your notebooks, so the information you want is just a click away. Scribble on your pages with the built-in drawing tools. And anything can go anywhere.
Sharing notebooks
If you copy a notebook to a remote location, such as a network server, a MobileMe iDisk, or a removable drive, you can work on it remotely and then easily update the local copy when you get back to your desktop. Or do it in reverse: work on the notebook locally and then publish it to the server.
Protecting notebooks
For protecting your private information, assign a password to any section. No one can see your text, not even the page titles, until the correct password is given. The data is hidden on the screenand encrypted on the file for maximum safety. If you feel your own computer is secure but you want to protect copies of your sensitive data, Notes will store your password on your Mac’s secure keychain, so you don’t have to type it in every time -- security plus convenience.
Take notes while working in other programs
Open a floating window to take notes while you’re doing something else -- watching a movie, working in a spreadsheet, or chatting with a friend. The text is stored in a special location and can be moved to any other notebook when you’re done.
Somewhat like Microsoft OneNote® -- but Macintosh
If you’ve used Microsoft OneNote®, Growly Notes will feel familiar. You can put notes anywhere, resize them at will, and layer them. Notebooks are organized into sections and pages. Pages can contain almost any content you can create. But Notes works on your Mac. Beautifully.
Koku is a flexible financial manager that can handle it all. Keep track of your money using Direct Connect to automatically and safely download your transactions as they occur. You can even have your transactions automatically tagged for you, so you never have to lift a finger.
Innovative smart tagging capabilities allow you to assign multiple tags to every transaction, providing a more descriptive and insightful picture of your spending and income.
And no financial manager would be complete without colorful reports that allow you to visualize your spending habits like you've never seen them before.
Features
Direct Connect
Automatically connect to hundreds of banks to safely download your transactions.
Smart Tagging
Add multiple tags to a transaction and take advantage of more insightful spending and income reports.
Importing
Import data from OFX, QFX, OFC, and QIF files directly from your financial institutions.
Flexible Reporting
Generate colorful, revealing reports on spending and income.
Quick Search
Locate transactions instantly with built in search capabilities.
Dashboard Widget
Get an up to date financial picture right from your dashboard whenever you need it.
iBooks Author is an amazing new app that allows anyone to create beautiful Multi-Touch textbooks — and just about any other kind of book — for iPad. With galleries, video, interactive diagrams, 3D objects, and more, these books bring content to life in ways the printed page never could.
Give your book a great beginning with templates.
No need to let the blank page scare you. Just start with an Apple-designed template. Each template has a variety of page layouts to choose from — or create one of your own.
Building a book is as easy as dragging and dropping.
iBooks Author makes it simple to flow in text, graphics, movies, and more, so your book looks exactly the way you want. Drag and drop a Pages or Microsoft Word document to the Book navigator to add it as a new section. Then, when you drag and drop in images, your type automatically flows around them.
Customize with a click.
iBooks Author has everything you need to create a great-looking book. Add text, shapes, charts, tables, and Multi-Touch widgets anywhere on the page with a single click. Mask images, use alignment guides — even add reflections and shadows. It’s as easy as using a word processor, but powerful enough to design more advanced layouts.
Add widgets. Add interest.
Widgets add Multi-Touch magic to books with interactive photo galleries that bring images to life, engrossing 3D objects you can’t help interacting with, animations that burst off the page, and more.
Add beautiful, interactive elements to your book with just a few clicks. See all widgets
Accessibility built right in.
iBooks Author lets you create books that people with disabilities can read and experience. The table of contents, glossary, widgets, main text, and more are built to automatically take advantage of VoiceOver technology. Add accessibility descriptions to any widget or media — including movies and quizzes — so even those with vision impairments can use them.
Get the word out.
As you're building your book, check out how it looks by previewing it on your iPad. When it’s just the way you want and you’re ready to publish, iBooks Author helps you submit to the iBookstore for purchase or free download. You can also export it in iBooks format to share on iTunes U or to give to anyone with an iPad.
