MakeMusic!

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Finale SongWriter makes it easy for you to create and print sheet music on your PC or Macintosh. Now you can put down your pen and let Finale SongWriter bring your inspiration and creativity to its utmost potential. Experiment with more than 128 professional instruments, compose your tune and print it out as a professional-quality score.

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Kevin Bricknell

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Carbon Programming is a comprehensive guide that is logically organized, compatible with the current system software, and includes ready-to-run demonstration programs within each chapter. The book covers Mac programming using the Carbon API. Topics include:

• Scrap;
• Event Manager;
• Appearance Manager;
• Controls;
• Lists.

This book is for Mac programmers who are familiar with the C language but who are new to the Carbon API. Professionals coming to the Macintosh and computer science students will benefit from the book as a learning tool relating specifically to the Macintosh computer and the Carbon API.

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ASPYR

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iSale is an eBay helper utility for Mac OS X that enables users to make and manage their online auction effectcively. iSale integrates with Apple technology; Use iPhoto to ready auction photos for upload and more. Use it to manage your own auctions on the world’s most popular auction service.

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Tom Negrino

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Tired of the lackluster graphics and dull, canned look of PowerPoint presentations? At last you have an alternative: Apple Computer’s graphics-intensive Keynote presentation software. If you give presentations on a regular basis, you’ll want to start leveraging the power of Keynote immediately—dragging and dropping graphics, digital photos, QuickTime movies, and audio into your slide shows; creating animations, shadows, and labels for your charts and tables; producing dynamic drop shadows and cinematic transitions between slides; and more—and this Visual QuickStart Guide will show you how.

Veteran presenter, QuickStart author, and Mac guru Tom Negrino makes it easy to dive in and start creating high-impact presentations in no time by providing step-by-step instructions peppered with plenty of screen shots, tips, and sidebars. You’ll learn how to use Keynote’s professionally designed “themes” to create coordinated backgrounds, fonts, colors, bullets, tables, and charts in seconds. And if you’re interested in creating a custom look, you’ll find plenty of instructions for that as well. The best part? You don’t need to be a graphics artist to produce visually stunning (and stunningly effective) presentations with Keynote.

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Apple

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GarageBand Jam Pack: Symphony Orchestra lets you add the emotional stirrings of orchestral music to your own productions. Build orchestral themes using over 2000 prerecorded loops in different styles and tempos, including symphonic, chamber, and solo performances. You can also use loops individually to enhance songs in any style or genre. Enhance your song using a wide selection of pitched and unpitched percussion instruments including timpani, bells, gongs, celesta, xylophone, marimba, and more

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David Pogue

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After writing so many books and articles — not to mention the countless hours of hands-on experience — David Pogue probably knows more about Macs than Steve Jobs himself. So, who better than David Pogue to write MORE Macs For Dummies, 3rd Edition, the latest, most up-to-date guide to getting more out of your Mac and all your favorite applications? In this practical, easy-to-understand reference, Pogue not only shares expert information on the Mac operating system but also reveals how to fake (in the best sense of the word) your way through applications like Microsoft Word, QuarkXPress, PageMaker, Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, and Premiere. He also shows you how to get online, either directly through an Internet Service Provider (ISP) or through the most popular commercial online service provider, America Online. MORE Macs For Dummies, 3rd Edition, doesn’t skimp on get-down-to-business, practical information. Pogue’s coverage of networking, PC-to-Mac file conversions, printing, and hard drive maintenance are lifesavers. Nor does the book skimp on the fun stuff: You’ll find ready-to-use tips on publishing your own Web pages and creating graphic images with which to adorn them. The perfect companion volume to Macs® For Dummies®, MORE Macs For Dummies, 3rd Edition, is a must-have for every Mac lover’s bookshelf.

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Riverdeep - Learning company

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This interactive program helps teach kids a whole year of 2nd Grade skills. Reader Rabbit is trapped in the Dragon’s castle - can you help Sam the Lion solve the mysteries of the castle and save Reader Rabbit?

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Owen W. Linzmayer

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Amaze your friends with your in-depth knowledge of Macintosh’s history. This book of trivia, anecdotes, quotes, and more includes a complete list of Apple’s code names for all its products, published here for the first time.

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Adobe

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Get this powerful easy-to-use image editing software for print, e-mail, and the Web. From quick corrections to creative editing, you can easily achieve high-quality results - do more with your photos!

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Gene Steinberg

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Sams Teach Yourself the iBook in 24 Hours is a hands-on, step-by-step guide that leads you through the most frequently asked real-world questions about the iBook. Learn to set up the machine, the basics of the operating system, how to use the iBook’s wireless communications option, and how to get on the Internet. You’ll also learn the basics about drives, directories and files, as well as the fundamentals of backups and other safety precautions. This book also instructs you on email and the Internet, faxing and fax broadcasting as well as many software basics.

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