Apple - iBook - Software

Given how incredibly light it is, you can’t tell from lifting the iBook that it comes loaded with a ton of software applications. Best-sellers, many of them: applications that let you do everything from surfing the web and sending and receiving email to creating your own movies and burning music CDs.

Everything you need for the Internet
iBook gets you on the Internet quickly: You can send your first email within minutes of setting it up. And the iBook has all the software you need for getting online and surfing the Internet, including popular web browsers like Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator, as well as Adobe Acrobat Reader for reading PDF (portable document format) files. You also get Microsoft Outlook Express to send and receive email and 30 days of free Internet access through EarthLink.

Since the iBook comes loaded with Mac OS 9, you can take advantage of Sherlock, the powerful search technology that finds what you’re looking for on the Internet. Sherlock even lets you find people on the Internet. Use Sherlock to locate old classmates, friends you used to hang with or former colleagues you’ve lost track of. Internet plug-ins let you make the most of search engines such as AltaVista, HotBot, Lycos and Excite.

Of course, you can also use Sherlock to find the best deals on the Internet. Sherlock ranks offerings by price, and shows you details about availability. And it’s not just for new stuff, either: With more and more treasures finding their way out of the attic and onto the Internet, that out-of-print action-hero comic book, rare video or doodad you’ve been looking for could show up online. And when it does, Sherlock will find it.

Palm Desktop Software

Organize your organizer
Palm Desktop personal information management software not only lets you connect your iBook to a Palm OS-based organizer, it actually turns your iBook into a pretty good organizer itself. Featuring the familiar Macintosh user interface, Palm Desktop supports drag-and-drop installation of handheld applications and files. You get customizable list views for your contacts, notes and tasks, plus a number of printing options including support for color printing. And if you want to use your Palm OS-based handheld with your iBook, just get the PalmConnect USB Kit and you’re in business.

iBook Software
	Mac OS 9	QuickTime
	iMovie 2	iTunes
	AppleWorks 6	EarthLink
	Microsoft Internet Explorer	Microsoft Outlook Express
	Netscape Communicator	FAXstf
	Adobe Acrobat Reader	Bugdom
	Palm Desktop Organizer	Nanosaur
	Cro-Mag Rally

Get the whole works
With AppleWorks — one of the many software applications that come pre-installed on your iBook — you can perform calculations and trigonometric conversions as easily as if you’d had Einstein as your math tutor. You can, for example, calculate the future value of your savings and investments, or calculate monthly payment rates and schedules for big-ticket items. And AppleWorks gives you tools and technologies — including QuickTime — that give you nifty ways to add audiovisual impact to your presentations. In fact, with its built-in spreadsheet, word processing, database and presentation strengths, AppleWorks provides enough core functionality to run an office. Many small businesses swear by it.

But there’s a significant fun factor as well: With AppleWorks, you can use your iBook to whip out everything from birthday cards to party hats — plus flyers, banners, resumes, calendars and postcards. Use AppleWorks to create stunning slide presentations that you can present directly from your iBook or big-screen TV, or print out on paper or transparencies. To write everything from a book to a book report. And to draw and paint digitally, using 25,000 clip art images for added inspiration.

Fax on the go
With the iBook, you also get fax capability without having to actually go out and buy a fax machine. FAXstf software from STF Technologies lets you send and receive faxes on your iBook.

Games

Time out
When you’re ready to take a break from being productive, take time out to have a little fun with Nanosaur and Bugdom, the 3D games that ship with your iBook. Or get behind the wheel of a Cro-Mag Rally Logmobile or Chariot and take the iBook out for the ride of your life. The new melee racing game that ships with the iBook, Cro-Mag Rally will take you careening past other fast cars over some of the bumpiest, trickiest, most exciting tracks you’ve ever seen. You’ll love the special effects. Because, like the hundreds of Macintosh games out there, Nanosaur, Bugdom and Cro-Mag Rally use QuickTime, the Apple technology that brings over 200 digital media capabilities to your iBook.

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