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COVER STORY Readers respond.
REVIEWS
54 Hello, iPhone
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DAN FRAKES AND JONATHAN SEFF
The iPhone is the most significant new Apple product since the iPod—it’s a
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package.It won’t be available until June—but here’s what you need to
know about it now.

FEATURE

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42 Apple professional laptop
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46 iPod Gear
48 Mac Gems
DAN FRAKES
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SECRETS
72 WORKING MAC
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20 Apple TV and other news from Macworld Expo,Best of Show winners,Photo- are the right applications and utilities.
shop CS3 benchmarks,Microsoft Office 2008,and remembering Bruce Fraser. 74 PLAYLIST

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76 DIGITAL PHOTO

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DAVID SAWYER MCFARLAND

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88 Mac 911
CHRISTOPHER BREEN

Sync Address Book without .Mac,find missing
The Virtual CD iPhoto pictures,fix fonts in TextEdit,add an Ethernet
> The iPhone,the Apple TV,and new movies:We take a loFok aot ther big clear printing,s witch to an AirPort Base Station,and more.
announcements from Macworld Expo and talk to analysts about what it
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all means for Apple.
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> In Breen’s Bungalow,we highlight some of the cool gadgets you may
not have heard about at Expo.
> We also have the latest Macworld Podcast,online reviews,software 120 Hot Stuff
updates,and the Best of Macworld.com.
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Apple Isn’t Waiting

Steve Jobs’s keynote address at this year’s Macworld Expo was unlike
previous keynotes in so many ways, from his revelation that Apple was
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removing Computer from its name to the complete absence of new
Mac announcements. And the one product he did announce (see
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“Hello, iPhone,” page 54) was unlike anything Apple’s done before.

Clearly, everyone at the company—from Jobs on and he devoted almost all of that time—barring a
down—thinks that the iPhone is going to be a trans- brief Mac update and a short Apple TV update—to

formative product, one that doesn’t just thrust Apple the iPhone. This was perhaps the most exhaustively
into a new and highly competitive market, but also detailed Apple product rollout I can remember.
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makes it a serious player, if not a leader, in that mar- Yet for every piece of information we got about the
ket overnight. Still, there’s a connection between the iPhone that day, I found myself adding half a dozen
iPhone and all the pothlerz Ap pcle opronducttsa thcat hta venoquetstieonsm to thae lirst tI w@as kgeepming ina myi hle.adc foor mmy
come before it. follow-up briefing with Apple. According to Apple,
the iPhone runs Mac OS X. Will Mac developers be
Changing the World able to develop programs that will run on the iPhone?
At its core, Apple has always been about using tech- What about the iPhone’s “widgets”: are they Dash-

nology to change the lives of everyday people. Start- board widgets or something else? Why does the
ing with the iPod and continuing with the iPhone, iPhone’s SMS text-messaging program look like
Apple has proven that it’s really much moFre tohanr ju sct lieChaat, wrh enp it rwoinn’t lett yionu cgonn,ec t to the real AIM
a computer company. It’s a technology company chat network that your desktop iChat client uses?
whose goal is to makpe glrezat dceviocesn thatt paeocplet w illnoTthee lismt wenat orn. tW@e askegd Ampple aas mialn.yc of othomse
use in all parts of their lives. questions as we could; you’ll find many of the answers
The iPhone isn’t the only example of this that came starting on page 54. But the length of that list clearly

to light at this year’s Expo. The reannouncement of demonstrates that the iPhone is a much more com-
Apple TV (formerly iTV) fits the we’re-more-than- plex product than the iPod. The iPhone is, indeed,

a-computer-company theme, too. (For more details more akin to the Mac than to the iPod. We’d proba-
on Apple TV, see “Inside Apple TV” in this month’s bly call it a handheld computer if we weren’t calling
Mac Beat.) Apple is pushing its technologFy, aos wrell acs liet a aphorne ipnsteradi.nting,
its relentless integration of hardware and software,
into all sorts of new places. Yes, some fans of Apple’s Whither iPod?
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computers may be concerned about the company’s The comparison between the iPod and the iPhone
new name—but they really shouldn’t be. This isn’t raises still more questions. An iPod with a wide screen

some new Apple they’ll need to get to know. Rather, like the iPhone’s would be great for watching videos.
this is the company that made the Mac great, apply- Yet this new wide-screen iPhone has only as much stor-
ing the same product philosophies to a slew of new age as the iPod nano. Is there a higher-capacity iPod
areas. Just as the personal-computer market needed a waiting in the wings—one that looks a lot like an
Mac in 1984, the complex and fractured wForlod orf c elcl liePhoaner, w itph mroiren stotraigen spgace, b ut no phone fea-
phones could really use an iPhone. tures? Clearly, there’s much for us to learn about how
Will Apple become the dominant cell phone maker the iPod and iPhone product lines will coexist; I suspect
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in the world? I doubt it. But I think it’ll be a credible it’ll take months before we start to get answers.
competitor, and I think its presence in the market will But I’m not waiting around in the meantime. I’ve
force everyone else who develops cell phones to take already ord ered my Apple TV, and I fully expect that
a fresh look at their design assumptions and realize I’ll be moving on to an iPhone in the very near future.
that some of their phones’ features simply Fareon’t gro odclAes tahe srin gepr arndi sonngtwriitner Jgohn, M ayer pointed out
GER enough for consumers. as the keynote event ended, five months sure is a long
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When Steve Jobs said that Apple would convert its entire line of

computers to Intel chips by the end of 2006, he wasn’t kidding. The
past year ha s seen a flood of new Intel-based systems. These
unremitting waves of new machines have overwhelmed some
For cMlaec satalwra rpts arcicunsttomined gto ,w aiting years between generations
of PowerPCs. Our advice: Don’t sweat it. So what if the Mac you
plz contact nbooutgeht ma moantrht a@go isg nom lonageirl t.hce loatemst a nd greatest? As
long as it runs your software, it’s still a positive move. (cid:2)

Future Shock good thing for Mac users, even though it Word and uploaded those to Lulu, which
may be great for retailers. accepted them without a problem.

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The Mac Pro is indeed a fast, exhilarating Take Them with You TONY TRIOLO l
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machine (“Inside the Mac Pro,” November In your December 2006 Digital Photocol-
2006)—to me, by far the best Mac ever. But IAN WELLS l umn, you explained how to create a photo
for those of us who upse tlhizrd- pcartoy plnug-itnsacI htave an suoggetstieon mfor a faollorwt-u@p to ygourmboaoki wli.thcouot iPmhoto and Aperture. You
for Apple’s Logic Pro or Pro Tools or for article about portable applications (“Your cited two online services in particular—
other professional applications, the Mac Apps in Your Pocket,” Mobile Mac,Novem- Blurb and Lulu—but failed to mention
Pro presents a problem: Those plug-ins ber 2006): I run two Macs at work and two the latest offerings from Shutterfly (www
don’t yet run on Intel-based Macs. The at home (a desktop and a portable at each .shutterfly.com) and AsukaBook (asuka

plug-in vendors say they are working fast to location). I try to keep the same versions of book.com). Shutterfly’s recent improve-
come up with Universal versions for the Mac OS X and my applications on all of ments make it the easiest, most intuitive,
new Macs, but most are behind scheduleF; otherm . cTol deo thais,r I cuprrerntliy nsyntchironnizge ,a nd most flexible service out there. For
several companies have failed to deliver my Home folders and sections of my people who will accept only the best,
announced updates. pPlelasze le t cyouor rneadetrsacLibtra ryn fooldetrs ebemtweena eracth @desktgop-mAasukiaBlo.ock ios hamrd to beat. Its books are
know that the speedy new Macs won’t get portable pair of Macs. Now I’m trying to on a par with the slickest coffee-table
much done if Universal versions of their figure out how to take that one step further, books, complete with dust jackets, presen-

favorite plug-ins aren’t available. by keeping working copies of the support- tation boxes, and spine printing. One
ing files for Safari, Address Book, and Mail caveat, however: You have to be a profes-
AARON WOLSKE l on a USB drive, acce ssible from anyof my sional photographer to use AsukaBook.
About your ongoing coverage of Intel systems to which it is attached.
Macs: We went six years with only threFe or clear printing,I Spot the Serif
generations of PowerPC chips (not count- We may have a solution for you. Check out
ing clock-speed increases). Now, barely macworld.com/2410 for a way to take that LEE GRAVES l
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a year into the Intel transition, we’ve next step.—Dan Miller About the letter from Michael Myers
already seen three new chips (the Core (Feedback, December 2006): I, too, miss

Solo, the Core Duo, and the Core 2 Duo). By the Books the WYSIWYG fonts we had in OS 9. I
The former stability of the Mac platform continues
ensured that our software would remain ROBERT SUMMERS l
usable for extended periods of time. Has I enjoyed your article “Beyond Apple’s CORRECTIONS
that era of stability ended? FoPhrot oc Boloeks”a (Drig itapl Prhoiton, Dteciemnbegr ,
2006). But please note that you cannot We ran the wrong picture next to our descrip-
JAKE PURCHES l upload a Pages-created PDF file to Lulu; tion of Timbuk2’s Artist’s Canvas Bag in
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One of the reasons I likedPowerPCs was it will be automatically rejected. This has “Macworld’s Gear Guide”(December 2006).
that Macs didn’t change all the time. Now, been a problem for a long time, and That picture was of Timbuk2’s Single Speed
two weeks after you shell out your money there’s no resolution in sight. You can find Laptop Courier.
for the latest machine, you find that it’s the details on the Pages forum at www In “Troubleshooting MacBooks”(Mobile
been superseded by something newer. ItF’s o.aprpl e.ccomleanda thre dpiscurssiionn ftoriunm agt , Mac,January 2007),we implied that you GER
depressing. I deliberately bought the last, www.lulu.com. I’ve published two books could reduce processor speed on the Mac- AN
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do what I need to do on an Intel Mac. those files in Word to get the same look MacBook and MacBook Pro. GR
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This quick progress isn’t necessarily a I had in Pages, I created PDFs from HOT
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window to see what each font will look else I should try? I encountered a problem. The first step is
like. Please, Apple, just list type in to find the screen-saver files. You said to
WYSIWYG style. The Go + Play was ori ginally scheduled to be go to the /System/Library/Screen Savers
available by the time that story was pub- folder. When I opened that folder, it was
JEFF MAO s lished. But according t o JBL, the product has empty. I tried this process on both my
I want to respond to Michael Myers’s been delayed. We’re sorry for the confu- Intel iMac and my G4 tower, and both
wish for a WYSIWYG font menu in OS sion.—Dan Frakes times encountered the same problem. Was
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(1-T), you can expapnd lthzat pcaletote tno dtis-acIn tres pnonsoe tot yoeurm Deceambrert 20@06 stgorym, Maorei tlha.nc liokelym, you were looking in the
play the actual font. Above the Style pull- “Take Your LPs for a Spin,” you don’t Library folder in your Home directory or in the
down palette is a dot. Drag that dot down really need a “batte ry of equipment” to /Library folder, but not in the /System/Library
to open the font-display area. Select a digitize your records. If you already have folder. I guarantee that that folder isn’t
font, and you can see how it looks. This a turntable, the stereo equipment, and a empty.—Rob Griffiths

isn’t the same as a WYSIWYG font computer, all you need is the Griffin iMic,
menu, but I actually like it better, because which costs less than $40. The iMic plugs s Post comments on our forums (www
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In “Macworld’s Gear Guide” (December ALESSANDRO PEDICEL LI l letter.We reserve the right to edit all letters
2006), you mentioned the JBL Go + Play Regarding your tip “Use Screen-Saver and posts.All published letters and forum
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What We Know and What’s New Since Last Year’s Announcement
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ater sound system). With an Apple TV ers and 30-second previews of popular
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Apple’s Macworld Expo announcement of hooked up and your TV turned on, you’ll iTunes songs.
its new set-top box, the Apple TV, wasn’t see a menu of options similar to those And just as Apple said back in Septem-

really unexpected; after all, the company you’d find on an iPod or in Apple’s Front ber, you’ll need a wide-screen TV with
had already previewed it in September Row software for the Mac. digital or component inputs in order to
2006, when it carried the code name of To make content a vailable to your TV, use the Apple TV. It doesn’t have to be an
iTV. But almost four months after we got the Apple TV connects to your home net- HDTV set, but it does need to have at
our first glimpse, and just weeks before Foworrk , mcolste comamron lyp viar 80i2n.11t wiirenlessg,l east an enhanced-definition (EDTV) dis-
the product hits store shelves, we’ve networking. (Yes, it has an Ethernet port play that’s capable of displaying at 480p, or
learned a bit more about the device that on the back for those of you who have a 480 lines of progressive-scan resolution.
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Apple designed as the bridge between wired network.) Once that’s done, it can
your Mac’s library of digital content and act as a bridge between your computer— What We Learned
the TV in your living room. with its movies, TV s hows, music, and Beyond its new name, the biggest piece
photos—and your TV. of new information about the Apple TV
What We Knew ForYo u cconlterol ather A ppple rTVi nwitht ainng,i s that there’s a 40GB hard drive inside.
First, a recap: The $299 Apple TV is a Apple Remote. The Apple TV software Last year, we speculated that the Apple
small device (7.7 inches square and 1.1 has an iPod-style interface—but instead TV might have only a small amount of
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inches high) that’s destined for your living of seeing the interface on a small iPod storage space and would be forced to
room. It’s meant to attach to a wide- screen, you get a larger-than-life view of stream all audio and video data over a
screen digital TV (and to get digital audio it on your TV screen. The Apple TV network connection; the hard drive
output, you can hook it up to a home the- software also lets you access movie trail- changes things considerably.
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You load data onto the Apple TV’s hard haps the biggest one is this: At a time when
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drive by synchronizing it with a computer Internet video services such as YouTube
(a Mac or a PC) running iTunes. The have become massively popular, would
Apple TV on your local network will Apple really release an Internet-connected
appear in your iTunes Source list, and TV product that doesn’t have the ability to
you’ll be able to configure synchroniza- browse such services? A pple has never
tion features, just as you can with an iPod. demonstrated such a capability, but it has
Apple Releases
iTunes then automatically copies movies, shown off the Apple TV’s ability to browse
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TV shows, music, photos, and other data and view movie trailers streamed from New AirPort
across your home network and onto the Apple.com; presumably, browsing a site
Apple TV. (Apple estpimaltezs t hact tohe hnardtascucht a s YnouoTubte weoumld woark srimtila@rly. gmEaxilt.rceomme Base
drive is big enough to hold about 50 Then there are questions about file
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hours of movies and TV shows, 9,000 formats. The Net is lit tered with video—
songs, or 25,000 pictures.) in formats such as DivX, Xvid, WMA,
If you have more than one computer MPEG-2, and live video streams in Win- While Steve Jobs was showing off the iPhone

in your house, don’t worry—while the dows Media and Real—that doesn’t appear and the Apple TV,Apple quietly introduced a
Apple TV will sync with only one copy in tidy MPEG-4 bundles. If Apple TV new AirPort Extreme Base Station that sup-
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of iTunes, it can connect to as many as doesn’t support many (or any) of these ports 802.11n,a networking standard that
five other computers and stream content formats, it will be unable to play a huge works up to five times faster and at up to
(including movies, TpV slhzow s,c anod mnusict)acchutnk onf thoe vitdeeo comntenta avrailatbl@e on gmatwicie tlhe. rcangoe ofm the pr evious version.The
from them. The only difference is that it the Net. Wouldn’t it be great if the Apple new base station will be available around the
won’t store the content from those com- TV were able to play b ack Major League same time as the Apple TV,for $179.
puters on its hard drive. (And the Apple Baseball’s live MLB.TV streams (which The new AirPort Extreme Base Station
TV can’t connect to iTunes libraries are currently available only in Windows marks a radical design departure from its

without explicit permission—as it tries to Media and Real formats), CNN’s Pipeline predecessors.While the older Base Stations
connect, it displays a PIN code on the (Windows Media), or Apple board mem- had a squat,teardrop-shaped design,the
computer’s screen; you have to type that Foberr Al Gcorlee’s Caurrernt TpV r(Filansh vtideion)? g, new model features a beveled square shape
code into iTunes to connect.) This isn’t to say that intrepid program- similar to that of the Mac mini and the new
Apple also gave usp molrez de tcailso abonuttamcerts w onn’to findt weayms to maaker vtide@o gmaAppile lTV..Ict moeasumres 6. 5 inches square and
the video formats the little box will play. Apple TV–friendly—but even the most 1.3 inches tall.
They are similar to the video that the elegant workaround is still not as good as Based on a draft specification of the

iPod plays: H.264 and MPEG-4 videos the built-in, “it just works” simplicity 802.11n standard,the new AirPort Extreme
up to 640 by 480 pixels (the very dimen- we’ve come to expect from Apple. Base Station is backward-compatible with

sions of videos available at the iTunes The good news is that even if the the earlier 802.11g standard and works
Store). But it’ll also play high definition Apple TV doesn’t have the ability to play with 802.11b- and 802.11a-based devices.
content at 1,280 by 720 pixels, or 720p inFosucrh v idceols erighat nrow ,p it mrayi bne atblie nto g, 802.11n uses a technique known as multiple-
HDTV terminology, on both 720p and someday. Under Apple TV’s Extras menu input,multiple-output (MIMO) to achieve
1,080i HDTVs. is a prominent Update Software com- faster performance and a longer range.
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Other tidbits we’ve learned include the mand—suggesting quite clearly that the While 802.11n offers seamless connectivity
fact that Apple TV is powered by an Apple TV is a young dog that can be with older products,the performance of an

unspecified Intel processor; includes a taught numerous new tricks. 802.11n network will slow down if you con-
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GER; focus, we still have a lot of questions. Per- JASON SNELL is Macworld’s ed itorial director. USB-based printers and hard disk drives
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