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.

Wedding Bells

From planning to reminiscing, Steve shows you the many ways technology can fit into the modern wedding. Visit online gift registries like bridalfaircanada.com for tools that will help the wedding run smoothly on time, and on budget. Steve explains how you can create and print your own personalized invitations, wine labels, guest book and thank you cards with a variety of kits, and HP’s Photosmart Series of portable printers & all-in-ones. Caroline points out the finer points of custom label-making in Microsoft Word. For the weak-kneed speech maker, Microsoft’s PowerPoint presentation software comes to the rescue.

Tech Toys

In this episode’s Tech Toys segment, Caroline brings you the Canary Digital Hotspotter, and Notebook Chill Mat from Targus.

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.

Microsoft Office

Whether you're a student, small business owner, or a volume-license business customer, Microsoft has an Office 2003 Edition that's right for you. Each edition builds on the essential combination of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook adding on tools tailored to your needs. Each one of these programs is powerful by itself, but Microsoft Office ties them together beautifully and the sum ends up greater than the parts! Today we are going to look at Publisher which is available in both the Professional and Small Bussiness editions.

Label Printing

This week we are going to have a look at Avery's personal label printer. This little guy uses a a direct thermal printer which uses heat to print labels. It eliminates the need for expensive laser and ink jet cartridges and eliminates wasted label sheets since labels are created on demand, reducing the waiting and loading involved with printers.