<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">CONTENTS:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">____________________________________________________________________________________</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">1. MEETING UPDATE</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">2. ITUNES STORE TOP MUSIC RETAILER IN THE US</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">3. MERGING PDFS AND IMAGES IN LEOPARD'S PREVIEW</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">4. APPLE ONLINE SEMINARS COVER VARIOUS TOPICS</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">5. RECENT APPLE UPDATES</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">6. QUICK TABS IN SAFARI 3.1</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">7. CARBON COPY CLONER 3.1 RELEASED</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">8. PHOTOSHOP EXPRESS OFFERS FREE PHOTO EDITING ON THE WEB</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">__________________________________________________________________________________</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">This email news and updates newsletter will be sent each month to all WelMac members who have requested to receive such messages when they applied/reapplied for membership. To subscribe, go to <<FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><A href="http://welmac.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/news_welmac.org.nz">http://welmac.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/news_welmac.org.nz</A></SPAN></FONT>>.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">************************************************************************</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>MEETING UPDATES</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>WelMac Kapiti Meeting</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">For those members living at or near the Paraparaumu area, our next Kapiti meeting will be held at our normal time on Monday 7 April 2008. It will be at the Rita King Cottage at St Marks Church in Rosetta Road, Raumati and will take a look at Apple’s iWork 08 software package.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>WelMac Basics Meeting</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">The next basics meeting will be held on Monday 14 April 2008. This meeting will be held in the Turnbull Room on the First Level of Turnbull House, 11 Bowen Street, Wellington from 7.10pm until 9.30pm. (parking should be available on The Terrace and further up Bowen Street, past The Terrace intersection)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">This meeting is a seminar style meeting and will concentrate on the basic operation of Macintosh computers. This months meeting will concentrate on using basic applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, databases and basic graphics software.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>Mac OS X Special Interest Group meeting</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">The next Mac OS X Special Interest Group meeting meeting will be held on Monday 21st April 2008, 7 to 9:30 pm in the Turnbull Room at Turnbull House, 11 Bowen St, Wellington.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">It is open to all WelMac members (and prospective members) and the main goal of this meeting is for those "early adopters" who are already running Leopard to compare notes and experiences, and for anyone else who wants to run Leopard soon to come along and see it in operation, and ask any questions they might have.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>WelMac Main Meeting</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">The next main meeting will be held on Monday 28 April 2008. This meeting will be held in the Ante Room on the Ground Level of Turnbull House, 11 Bowen Street, Wellington from 7.10pm until 9.30pm. (parking should be available on The Terrace and further up Bowen Street, past The Terrace intersection)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">The first part of the meeting will be a questions and answers session and this will be followed by supper. The main presentation will cover Backup Strategy including Time Machine & Time Capsule.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">************************************************************************</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>2. ITUNES STORE TOP MUSIC RETAILER IN THE US</B></SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Apple announced on April 3 that the iTunes Store (</SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.itunes.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">www.itunes.com</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">) surpassed Wal-Mart to become the number one music retailer in the US, based on the latest data from the NPD Group*. With over 50 million customers, iTunes has sold over four billion songs and features the world’s largest music catalog of over six million songs.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">“We launched iTunes less than five years ago, and it has now become the number one music retailer in the world,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. “We are thrilled, and would like to thank all of our customers for helping us reach this incredible milestone.”</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">*Based on data from market research firm the NPD Group’s MusicWatch survey that captures consumer reported past week unit purchases and counts one CD representing 12 tracks, excluding wireless transactions. The iTunes Store became the largest music retailer in the US based on the amount of music sold during January and February 2008.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">************************************************************************</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>3. MERGING PDFS AND IMAGES IN LEOPARD'S PREVIEW</B></SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">by John Martellaro</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Preview is a powerful application that can do many things. One of the new features introduced in Leopard is the ability of Preview to merge several files of different types into one, say, PDF document.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">This can be particularly handy when you want to add a graphic or an additional page or two to an existing PDF file. That has been hard to do before Leopard.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Let's say we have an existing PDF file like the one shown below. Open it in Preview. Under the View menu, select Sidebar if it isn't already visible. Now open the file you want to add in Preview, too. It could be another PDF, but I used a JPG in this example. Open its Sidebar as well.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Here's the cool new feature in Leopard. Drag the new graphic's thumbnail image from one Sidebar to the other, as I've shown with the red line. Just drop it underneath the first image because you can reorder later. If desired you can drag more files into the first document's Sidebar in the same fashion. When you have them all, just drag a thumbnail up or down within the Sidebar to reorder.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Finally, go to Preview's File menu and save the document in the format you desire. In this example I saved it as a PDF. Once you have the file saved, you can have fun verifying the multi-page PDF file with Quick Look by selecting it and then hit the spacebar. A final tip: multi-page docs in Quick Look will have scroll bars when you view them.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><A href="http://www.macworld.com/article/132468/2008/04/workingmac2504.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Tis is only one of the number of new things Preview can do in the new Leopard version.</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> The version of Preview that comes with </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/?sr=hotnews"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Mac OS X Leopard</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> is “more than just a fast and efficient program for reading PDFs,” writes Kirk McElhearn of MacWorld. Using the latest version of Preview, you can “enhance your images, annotate and merge PDFs, print multiple images on one page, and more—all without opening a specialized (and often expensive) image editor or PDF tool. Go to <</SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.macworld.com/article/132468/2008/04/workingmac2504.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">http://www.macworld.com/article/132468/2008/04/workingmac2504.html</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">> to get the full article.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">************************************************************************</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>4. APPLE ONLINE SEMINARS COVER VARIOUS TOPICS</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">On the Apple web site, there are is a vast selection of online seminars that anyone can participate in once registered. Below are details of a couple of the seminars available at <</SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.seminars.apple.com/sol/us_en/?locs=us_en"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">http://www.seminars.apple.com/sol/us_en/?locs=us_en</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">>.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>Compatibility with Windows seminar for new Mac users</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">The Mac is the best tool for both the office and the home, making it the ideal computer for a business. If you're one of the many businesspeople who is contemplating a move from another computer to the Mac, watch this online seminar to pick up useful tips and valuable information to help you make the transition seamless. Kenny Lee, from Apple's Small Business Marketing group, and Travis Fears from the Apple Store San Francisco present and demo specific content for new Mac business users <</SPAN></FONT><A href="http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/sb-switch/apple/index.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/sb-switch/apple/index.html</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">>.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><A href="http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/filemaker/apple/?sr=hotnews" style="text-decoration: none;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2" style=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>Get organized. Your Mac can help.</B></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 12.9px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">If you’d like to get your life a bit more organized, you should watch “Organize your work and life with your Mac.” The free online seminar shows you how you can take advantage of the powerful tools in </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/?sr=hotnews"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Mac OS X Leopard</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> — such as Mail, Address Book, and iCal — Bento, the personal database designed just for Leopard users, and FileMaker Pro to get more control of the contacts, events, projects, and other elements of your busy life. <</SPAN></FONT><A href="http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/filemaker/apple/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/filemaker/apple/</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">************************************************************************</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>5. RECENT APPLE UPDATES</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Apple updated Keynote to version 4.0.3 last Thursday, an update that, "Addresses performance and stability issues when working with large documents." The update requires version 4.0.2 to already be installed, and weighs in as a 20.5 MB download. You can find the update at Download section of Apple's Support site, or download it through Software Update.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><P style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Apple released QuickTime 7.4.5 on Wednesday 3 April. The update for the multimedia playback and support system included security-related enhancements, improved compatibility with third-party applications, and improved reliability. The update addressed issues where Java applets could potentially gain elevated privileges, downloading specially crafted movie files could result in information disclosure, and viewing maliciously crafted movies or PICT files could crash applications or lead to arbitrary code execution. QuickTime 7.4.5 is available via Apple's Software Update application, or as a download at the Apple Support Web site. Versions are available for Mac OS X 10.3, Mac OS X 10.4, Mac OS X 10.5, and Microsoft Windows.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 12.9px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Apple also released iTunes 7.6.2 at the same time. The update for the media management and playback application includes bug fixes, and improves overall application stability and performance. The iTunes update is available via Software Update, or as a download for Mac OS X and Windows at the Apple Support Web site</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Along with its iTunes and QuickTime updates, Apple also released Front Row 2.1.3. The update for the Mac-based media center application improves overall support for the new iTunes 7.6.2 update. Front Row 2.1.3 is available via Software Update, or as a download at the Apple Support Web site <<FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><A href="http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/">http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/</A></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">></SPAN></FONT>.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">************************************************************************</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>6. QUICK TABS IN SAFARI 3.1</B></SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">by Jeff Gamet </SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> Tabbed browsing can save lots of Desktop space if you like to keep several Web browser windows open at the same time. Safari makes it easy to make new browser tabs with its Command-T keyboard shortcut, but if you are using Safari 3.1, you can Double-click to create new tabs, too.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">To create a new Safari tab with your mouse, just Double-click in the Tab Bar. Safari will create a new tab and automatically select it as your active browser window.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Keyboard shortcuts certainly do make it easy to quickly perform tasks in Safari, like creating new browser tabs, but sometimes it can be even faster to create those tabs if you don't have to take your hand off your mouse to move to your keyboard. Double-click tabs is a feature that Firefox has been offering, so it's nice to see it finally show up in Safari, too.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">************************************************************************</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><P style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>7. CARBON COPY CLONER 3.1 RELEASED</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B></B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-indent: 2px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><I> by </I></SPAN></FONT><A href="http://db.tidbits.com/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099"><I>Adam C. Engst</I></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A></P><P style="text-indent: 2px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Bombich Software has released </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> (CCC), a notable update to the popular disk cloning and backup software. CCC 3.1 implements rsync 3.0 for "greater fidelity" when backing up using CCC's Copy Selected Items backup method, improves the already solid interface wording that explains what CCC will do for each selected action, adds "bootability" checks to see if the backup volume will be bootable (this doesn't work with duplicates made over a network, alas), </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.bombich.com/software/docs/CCCHelp/content/history.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">and more</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">. A variety of bugs were also fixed, so backing up to a remote Mac using a path with a space in it uses the correct location, invisible flags are maintained in Leopard when using Copy Everything, scheduled tasks in Leopard now run reliably after a reboot, and it's now possible to install CCC's Authentication Credentials package from multiple source Macs onto a single target machine (previously, manual tweaking of the authorization credentials was necessary to make this setup work).</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-indent: 2px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">For those who haven't used Carbon Copy Cloner, it's a full-featured cloning, synchronization, and backup program with scheduling and archiving features. I've started experimenting with Carbon Copy Cloner to create bootable duplicates of my primary work machines over the network to disks installed inside my Power Mac G4 file server. (This is in addition to Time Machine backups of my Leopard Macs, and Retrospect home folder backups of Macs running Tiger or Panther, all to the same Power Mac G4.) The capability to create a bootable duplicate over a network is uncommon, shared only with EMC's Retrospect (the excellent SuperDuper can create a backup to a remote disk image over a network, but that's not bootable). Carbon Copy Cloner's network duplicates work much more quickly than those in the current version of Retrospect.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-indent: 2px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1 requires Mac OS X 10.4.8 or higher and works well with Mac OS X 10.5.2. The program is uncrippled shareware, meaning that all features are available whether or not you've paid, and no registration is ever required, but Bombich Software appreciates donations once Carbon Copy Cloner has proven its worth to you. It's a 2.1 MB download.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">************************************************************************</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>8. PHOTOSHOP EXPRESS OFFERS FREE PHOTO EDITING ON THE WEB</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 12.9px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><I><BR></I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><I> by </I></SPAN></FONT><A href="http://db.tidbits.com/author/Jeff%20Carlson"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099"><I>Jeff Carlson</I></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 12.9px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Adobe has announced </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.photoshop.com/express/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">Photoshop Express</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">, a new online photo service that makes it easy to upload, share, and - more important - edit digital photos without running a dedicated program such as iPhoto or Adobe's own Photoshop Elements. The service is free, currently includes 2 GB of online storage, and is a public beta. It also requires Flash 9 to operate. You can tour the service's functionality by clicking the Test Drive button on the home page.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 12.9px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">It's easy to see the appeal of Photoshop Express as being "Photoshop on the Web," a way to tap into the long heritage of image editing established by Adobe Photoshop. But when I saw a preview of the service last week, my first thought was, "This is more like a really good online version of iPhoto." It features an easy-to-use interface and basic capabilities for uploading and organizing images into photo albums, as well as sharing photos with others (I've made a couple of </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://jeffcarlson.photoshop.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">galleries available</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">).</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 12.9px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">As you might expect from technology based on Photoshop, the service shines when it comes to making adjustments to your photos. You won't find levels or curves adjustments in this consumer-oriented approach. Making an adjustment such as exposure gives you a strip of thumbnails with various degrees of the settings applied; click the one that looks best to you. (A few adjustments, such as White Balance, also offer sliders for a bit more control over how the effect is applied.) Making edits is also non-destructive, with a clear method of reverting to previous edits and toggling the application of adjustments you've applied.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 12.9px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">A few corrections are quite nifty, such as the capability to "pop" a color and make the rest of the image grayscale. And I'm impressed by the implementation of the Retouch feature, which gives you more control over fixing blemishes than just applying spot patches to them.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 12.9px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Photoshop Express isn't a serious competitor against an established photo-sharing service such as </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.flickr.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">Flickr</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">, which functions as much as a social networking site as a way to post photos. Photoshop Express also lacks the capability to assign tags to images (which makes finding them easier later) or even a way to rename them, though you can add and edit captions. However, Adobe clearly understands this, because you can import and export pictures between other services. The service currently supports </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.facebook.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">Facebook</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">, </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.photobucket.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">Photobucket</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">, and </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.picasa.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">Picasa</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">; an Adobe representative said that they've signed an agreement with Yahoo to add Flickr access soon.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 12.9px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Photoshop Express also isn't the first online photo editor, but does have the advantage of being Photoshop-derived. Picnik, which Adam wrote about last year (see "</SPAN></FONT><A href="http://db.tidbits.com/article/8887"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">Picnik Duplicates iPhoto on the Web</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">," 2007-09-07) offers similar features and works with many online services. In Flickr, for example, clicking the Edit Photo button that appears above one of your images opens the photo in Picnik.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 12.9px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">The service does have a few drawbacks. Photoshop Express is currently limited to users in the United States. It's also quite network-intensive, since the majority of the processing is being done on Adobe's servers. While working in Photoshop Express on one computer, I've seen the Internet performance on other computers on my network slow down. The service is also built entirely in Flash; I've never been a fan of the technology, which has always struck me as overly resource-intensive and, frankly, annoying. That said, Photoshop Express reminds me that Flash doesn't have to be equated with annoying banner ads or goofy online greeting cards.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 12.9px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Adobe said that this iteration is specifically focused on consumers. Future revisions are likely to bring improvements such as more storage (for a fee, I would assume), a way to order prints directly, built-in support for the service in Adobe's applications, and probably more robust tagging and sharing options.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 12.9px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">At its launch, Photoshop Express also stepped into a legal quandary: The </SPAN></FONT><A href="https://www.photoshop.com/express/terms.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">terms of service</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> (the ones you agree to, usually without reading) indicate that for any photos uploaded and made available for publicly sharing, "you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed." In other words, Adobe can do whatever it wants with your images.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 12.9px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Later in the day, Adobe responded with a </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=74&catid=684&threadid=1349048&enterthread=y"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">promise to change the language</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">, writing, "We've heard your concerns about the terms of service for Photoshop Express beta. We reviewed the terms in context of your comments - and we agree that it currently implies things we would never do with the content. Therefore, our legal team is making it a priority to post revised terms that are more appropriate for Photoshop Express users. We will alert you once we have posted new terms."</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 12.9px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Photoshop Express won't replace iPhoto or Photoshop Elements, but it does offer a high degree of near-immediate gratification. If you want to upload something quicl and make a few corrections (from any computer, since it's entirely Web based), the hassle factor is incredibly low. It's also an easy way for non-technical friends and relatives to make their photos available.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">************************************************************************</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12.9px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Some articles above have been reprinted with permission from TidBITS. TidBITS has offered more than ten years of thoughtful commentary on Macintosh and Internet topics. 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