Core Duo

Steve can hardly contain himself extolling the virtues of Apple’s new Core Duo iMac with Intel inside. iLife ’06, its suite of integrated media tools such as iWeb, iTunes and Garageband, allows you to share the media that Apple has always helped you create and manage. Have fun creating a photocast for family and friends with your favourite digital photos, recording a podcast with sound effects and music, then publishing them to a web site – while the iMac does all the work crunching html in the background.

Video Eyewear

Caroline may be seeing the future with Digital Video Eyewear from Icuiti. Watch movies on a video iPod, notebook computer or portable DVD player in privacy and even in 3D. She’ll also give you tips on tracking changes to collaborative documents in Microsoft Word.

Apple

Add your voice to the internet with this exciting new form of audio and video broadcasting. Steve shows how podcasts can be recorded into Apple’s free GarageBand software with MacMice’s Micflex microphone or through a regular phone and hardware from PhoneValet. For listening to and even watching podcasts, Steve goes over the 60-gig iPod, and how to manage and subscribe to content with Apple’s iTunes.

iPod Cases

Caroline shows you how to protect your gear and look good doing it with cases for the iPod, iPod Shuffle, and Palm Treo.

Apple iLife

Microsoft Office may supply all the tools you need from 9 to 5, but when it’s time for fun and you’re ready to create something spectacular, you won’t find a set of creative resources that’s better or easier to use than iLife. This week we are going to walk on the mac side of creative computing. We are going to start with the amazing new music creation application, GarageBand (which we covered in depth last season) and then move through iPhoto, iMovie and finally iDVD, giving you a really good sense of a project from beginning to end in iLife, it is going to be a blast, don't miss it!