What Are Mac OS X Snow Leopard’s Hub Applications?
Macintosh and Mac OS X Snow Leopard are at the heart of your digital hub. To use and process all the data that arrives on your Mac, your computer needs software that provides instructions on what to do with the information you send.
Today, people can try to match five or six electronic wonders. Each device usually comes with its own software, power adapter, and connectors for the outside world. While managing one or two devices isn’t too difficult, when you have a half-dozen cables, power adapters, and software to move around, digital life can get pretty bleak.
To combat this confusion, Apple came up with the idea of the digital hub, in which your Macintosh serves as the hub for a collection of electronic devices. With standard cables, power requirements, built-in software, and even wireless connections via Bluetooth and 802.11x wireless, this goes a long way toward simplifying your interaction with all the electronic gadgets you use.
Think of the digital axle as a wagon wheel. Your Macintosh is in the center of the wheel. At the end of every conversation there is a digital device.
Fortunately, Apple has created some of the most engaging and easy-to-use software ever written to help you manipulate and manage your digital lifestyle. The list of programs that belong to the digital hub include:
iPhoto: Use iPhoto to download, manipulate, and organize your favorite digital photos. After everything is OK, iPhoto can print them, burn them to disc, or even help you design and order a CD album!
iTunes: iTunes provides the ability to create and manage your music and movie collection, along with many other media such as podcasts, internet radio, and audiobooks. You can also purchase and download audio and video clips from Apple’s iTunes Store. iTunes can even burn CDs!
iMovie: Every movie director needs a movie editing kit. iMovie gives you the opportunity to set up Hollywood in your living room with great results.
iDVD: As home video moves toward the digital world, iDVD becomes an essential tool for authoring your DVD media. Home movies will never be the same
GarageBand: Call it a “music building” app! Even if you can’t play a note, GarageBand makes it easy to create your own original songs, and if you’re a musician, you can turn your Mac into a production studio.
iWeb: Are you interested in producing a professional-quality website, but are afraid that you will have to give up your personal life in order to build and maintain it? Never be afraid; With iWeb, you can join the web publishing audience the easy Apple way.
iCal: To help keep your hectic digital lifestyle in order, iCal offers full calendar features. Besides keeping track of dates and appointments on your Mac, you can publish calendars to the web or share them with different parts of the digital hub. If you have an iPod, you can even download your appointments and carry them with you.
iSync: With so many digital devices at your disposal, it’s hard to keep them all in perspective. iSync is a program to automatically sync contacts and calendar information between mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDA), iPod, Mac OS X Address Book, and iCal.