Munich, 2008 — amiando, the leading tool for online event organization in Europe, today announced plans to implement Facebook Connect to boost the power of amiando ViralTickets, its recently released social promotion system for events.

“Events are the most important social happening. Therefore we will use Facebook Connect to let event organizers and their guests enjoy, recommend and promote events within the social context of their real identity and friendships on Facebook®. ”, said Felix Haas, CEO of amiando.

The key feature of amiando’s implementation of Facebook Connect will focus on boosting the power of amiando ViralTickets, the recently released social promotion system for events. ViralTickets enables event organizers to leverage the internet’s viral effects for their event marketing. Using word-of-mouth marketing they can sell significantly more tickets with less marketing effort.

Facebook users will be able to easily recommend their favorite events to friends and colleagues. Using ViralTickets, they can offer an exclusive discount to their contacts and will also be rewarded with a referral bonus themselves. This makes recommending and promoting events fun, easy and highly rewarding for all sides – guests, friends and event organizers. Facebook gives everyone the power to share with the people they care about making the world more open and transparent. When Facebook users log in to amiando with Facebook Connect, they are able to publish their actions back on Facebook, which enables them to share more information with their friends than ever before.

About amiando amiando is the leading tool for online event organization in Europe and makes professional event organization easy. It offers online-based tools for invitation management, ticketing and community building for every kind of event. All tools are easy-to-use and have a convenient pay-as-you-go pricing.

amiando’s award-winning tools are being used throughout Europe, US and Asia for organizing more than 50,000 events. Thousands of organizers worldwide are choosing amiando to manage their events online. amiando, a Red Herring 100 Europe 2008 Winner, is backed by renowned venture capital company Wellington Partners.  http://www.amiando.com 

amiando – the simplest way of organizing events.

With more than 50,000 events per year amiando is the leading tool for online event organization in Europe. Invitation management, online promotion, participant registration with integrated invoicing and entrance control – with amiando organizers are able to manage all processes comfortably and independently at any time. Additional services for networking as well as an individual event micro site round of the offer of amiando.  Product  Within minutes event organizers are creating a free website for their event. With the integrated ticket shop the participants are able to comfortably register online for the event. amiando is taking over the handling of payments, invoicing and shipment of the individually designed tickets. In July 2008 amiando was introducing ViralTicketing, a world premiere in the field of online event organization: ViralTicketing is the first event promotion system that is combining the powerful principle of word-of-mouth advertising and recommendation management in the internet for every event organizer.

The easy system is usable for every organizer without extra charge: after ticket purchase the participants receive a code which they can distribute to friends and colleagues. This incentive is the main attraction: for every canvassed customer the agent is getting a bonus and the newly recruited customer is receiving a discount.

Organizers are able to manage all processes comfortably and independently at any time, however a toll free telephone number is provided in the language of your country. By now amiando is available in four different languages (English, Spanish, German, French) and supporting organizers worldwide with the planning of their events.

Moreover, for a simple entrance management amiando is providing a free software called EasyEntry with which organizers are able to check the validity of the tickets with a standard webcam.

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iGiki, an established leader in iPhone applications, announces the launch of iGiki Apps, an all-new service offering a collection of tools transforming the way the world creates iPhone applications. Empowering non-technical people to plan, develop, and market iPhone applications on the Apple App Store while reducing costs and eliminating errors.

New York, NY — iGiki announces the launch of iGiki Apps, an all-new service offering a collection of tools transforming the way the world creates iPhone applications. iGiki Apps empowers non-technical people to plan, develop, and market iPhone applications on the Apple App Store while reducing costs and eliminating errors. At launch iGiki Apps will offer 3 core products; the Apps Maps System, an iPhone Professionals Marketplace, and an iPhone Knowledge database. More information is available on http://igikiapps.com.

The primary product offering is Apps Maps, a creative environment to envision iPhone applications and create concepts. Non-technical people can quickly and simply create concepts, share them with others, and have professionals bring the concepts to life. Technical people can use Apps Maps to their advantage as well, by planning out applications before designing and coding. Simple to understand knowledge on iPhone applications is built right into Apps Maps.

Apps Maps includes hundreds of iPhone user interface and programming elements to allow in-depth concepts of iPhone applications (http://igikiapps.com) to be created. In addition elements can be uploaded from a user’s computer or from a website allowing for endless possibilities.

Apps Maps includes dozens of iPhone Native App templates, which are for applications distributed through the Apple App Store and iPhone Web App templates, which are for applications made available on a website.

Application concepts can be edited in Apps Maps. Concepts can also be posted to someone’s personal and secure Apps Maps Gallery on the web for sharing and working with colleagues, developers, or others. Concepts can be exported to an interactive PDF for storing or emailing, or used on the iGiki Apps iPhone Marketplace.

The iPhone Marketplace is the only online professional services marketplace devoted to iPhone application development. Concepts can be created in Apps Maps (http://igikiapps.com) and shown to dedicated iPhone professionals around the world to receive accurate quotes and work with them. Finding a qualified professional is quick and easy since their portfolio of iPhone work can be quickly and visually evaluated via iGiki App’s Visual View technology.

iPhone applications represent a tremendous opportunity. Succeeding in this fast moving market requires understanding about planning an app, developing it, and marketing it. iGiki Apps provides a database of knowledge in a non-technical fashion to help people succeed.

iGiki Apps comes from iGiki, a leader in iPhone applications. A little more than a year ago, iGiki drew the attention of the iPhone community when it announced the first third party iPhone applications. iGiki realized non-technical people were interested in offering iPhone applications but lacked the ability to effectively do so; with this in mind, it set out to make available a comprehensive set of tools to allow them to make an iPhone application regardless of technical ability, budget, or experience.

“At iGiki Apps, we want to help the people that have innovative ideas for iPhone applications but do not have the resources, knowledge, or budget to bring these ideas to reality,” said E. Rose of iGiki Apps. “We expect that our comprehensive set of tools including Apps Maps will empower and inspire these people to participate in the iPhone market.”

iGiki Apps will be launching in the summer of 2008. Pricing and availability information will be announced shortly, in addition to other yet-to-be revealed features of Apps Maps. For additional information on iGiki Apps and to be notified when it launches please visit http://igikiapps.com.

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Record both audio and high-quality video to compressed mpeg4 format, upload video to Youtube from iPhone.

May 12, 2008 — DreamCatcher today announces the release of iPhone Video Recorder, a powerful iPhone oriented video recorder. iiPhone Video Recorder is a powerful iPhone oriented video recorder produced by DreamCatcher. iPhone Video Recorder records audio and video to the compressed mpeg4 format, so the recording is space saving, an-hour-high-quality recording will be a file as small as 60MB. iPhone Video Recorder boasts a frame rate up to 15fps which guarantees better recording performance. With iPhone Video Recorder, recording is easy and enjoyable, you may play back the video, download it to a computer, upload to Youtube, or send it out by email as you wish.

Because of the CPU overhead, iPhone Video Recorder encodes at the end of a recording session, and the encoding can be paused anytime and then resumed when you are convenient. It is possible to record on-the-fly, the sound is good, yet the frame rate will suffer. Besides, we offer some important settings which are configurable, such as the audio input amplifier and the video size mode settings. You can also customize the image quality, the brightness and the audio bit rate options.

We are going to update this app as iPhone firmware upgrades, and it will be made to smoothly run on 3G iPhone. We are also preparing for listing in AppStore. Registered users are entitled to permanent free upgrades.

* “Awesome work on the iPhone Video Recorder. It works really well and its great to see someone put our a smooth video recording app for iPhone.” – jmso

* “Cool! I’m indeed one of those who found it ludicrous that Apple did not include recording features on the iPhone. At $19.95, I think it’s a small price to pay considering I almost NEED this feature (for my own purposes).” – Kat Marion

iPhone Video Recorder works on iPhone firmware 1.1.x, 1.2.x, 2.0. A limited-functional trial version (recording up to 30 seconds) can also be downloaded from this web site http://www.iphonevideorecorder.com.

DreamCatcher Software Co., Ltd., set up in 2007, specializes in developing and marketing iPhone related software.

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eTech Parts, LLC has officially released their new website assisting end users with electronics repairs. eTech Parts supplies thousands of Do-It-Yourself repair kits at fantastic pricing. Product lines include repair parts for iPods, iPhones, Apple Laptop Computers (including MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, MacBook, PowerBook and iBook) with new programs coming online within the next several weeks. Among those are programs for Cell Phone and Blackberry support, PDA parts, and parts for most gaming system consoles including XBOX and popular Sony Consoles.

Olathe, Kansas May 10, 2008 — eTech Parts, LLC (www.eTechParts.com) has officially released their new website assisting end users with electronics repairs. eTech Parts supplies thousands of Do-It-Yourself repair kits at fantastic pricing.

http: www.etechparts.com

Product lines include repair parts for iPods, iPhones, Apple Laptop Computers (including MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, MacBook, PowerBook and iBook) with new programs coming online within the next several weeks. Among those are programs for Cell Phone and Blackberry support, PDA parts, and parts for most gaming system consoles including XBOX and popular Sony Consoles.

“We’ve been in business providing dealers with wholesale pricing and bulk orders. After assessing the market and looking at the competition, we’ve found that there are thousands of end users with the ability to perform repairs in their home on their own electronics.” Said Kyle Baccus, Co-Owner & Director of Operations. “We are helping the customers that are willing to take on a repair themselves while allowing them to get it done as inexpensively as possible. Our new website is a breeze to navigate and finding your repair part with our drill down menus is easy.”

eTech Parts is currently developing downloadable instruction packages for each repair part they sell. This will further assist each customer with the installation and use of the parts purchased.

eTech Parts doesn’t stop there. They also have a full line of Gold Series refurbished iPods available at excellent pricing. They run advanced diagnostics on each hard drive (when applicable) and suspect units are recycled. The iPods have little or no physical signs of use, and each comes with a new set of headphones, charging cable and a 90 day warranty. It’s a great way to join in the iPod craze without paying retail prices. In fact, they give each customer a 30 day return window with no restocking fees. You can’t even get that from Apple, Inc. Customers view their refurbished iPods at: http://www.etechparts.com/category_s/130.htm

In fact, it’s eTech Parts company policy to NEVER charge a restocking fee if an item is returned within their 30 day return period. This applies to their refurbished iPods and every part they sell. This is a great benefit and gives each customer the peace of mind that they are making the right decision.

About eTech Parts

Based on a gold standard for customer service, www.eTechParts.com is your one-stop repair parts shop with support for all makes and models of iPods, iPhones and Macintosh Portable Systems, Cell Phones & Gaming Consoles.

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In the world of Listbuilding, it’s as if Yahoo and Google decided to work together on a search engine: Internet Marketing Master Shawn Casey and his student, Listbuilding Jedi Tellman Knudson, are bringing their “forces” together to create the ultimate Listbuilding course to help new entrepreneurs conquer their fears and build their own ‘robotic moneymaking machines.’

Brattleboro, VT April 20, 2008 — It’s like a scene from Star Wars, the one we all wanted to see: where Luke Skywalker joins up with Obi Wan Kenobi and they put their lightsabers together and team up to side-by-side against Darth Vader to clear the way for the new generation of young Jedi Knights. Shawn Casey, best-selling author of Mining Gold on the Internet, and Tellman Knudson of Overcome Everything, Inc. have teamed up to create what they call the ‘Ultimate Listbuilding course’ — appropriately named after it’s future home on the Internet: Listbuilding.com. It’s purpose, they say, is to help the next generation of entrepreneurs quickly and easily build lucrative businesses online using the most respectable, proven and long-lasting of the internet skills: Listbuilding.

Currently in pre-launch, this giant of a Listbuilding resource is scheduled to launch this spring; and if pre-launch activity is any indication, it’s going to be simply huge. At press time, the services and materials they have distributed free of charge — including step-by-step videos on how to create a site, a 24-hour “Squeeze-A-thon” that helped over 200 business owners get their squeeze pages built, and tell-all reports on how Shawn and Tellman started their own multi-million dollar businesses — have received raving reviews.

Both Casey and Knudson have incredible rags-to-riches stories that prove anyone, no matter where they come from in the universe, can make this work. “I started my company on 50 bucks and a ‘Frankenstein’ computer that was built out of other broken machines and resold,” said Knudson. “The CD drive was hanging out of the front because it didn’t work unless I held it in my hand and shook it, and the fan was so loud I couldn’t make a business call in the same room as my computer.” In his desperate search to make a living online, he accidentally found a copy of Casey’s Mining Gold on the Internet. “At the time, I had no idea who wrote it or what it was really worth” says Knudson, “I was clueless, and going further in the hole each day. But I kept at it, hoping something, someday would work.”

Then, he got Shawn Casey on the phone for just twenty-two minutes–and things changed. “Shawn told me a few things–but one of them was I had to send out these nine emails all in a row, and I didn’t want to do it; but he was ‘the master’–so I did,” says Knudson. Because he trusted his teacher, Knudson made $800,000 in profit that year alone–his first year online. Now he owns a multi-million dollar company with twelve employees, but he’s never forgotten who helped him when he was in need.

Casey, who was practicing law in back in 1995, started in a small, cramped apartment in Pittsburgh during the summer–with no air conditioning in 100 degree conditions. “I was living in an efficiency apartment that had no furniture in it, except for a table, two chairs, and a sofa that the landlord had let me scrounge from the furniture left over from previous tenants that he had piled up in the basement,” said Casey. From this humble beginning, Casey rose to become CEO of a company that made the Inc. 500 list for two years running. Yet, feeling suffocated by the corporate rat race, he wanted something more.

Then he discovered the potential power of direct marketing on the Internet. He applied his expert skills from his corporate days to this new business-form, and quickly became a master of building ‘robotic moneymaking machines’ using the internet as raw material. Today, Casey is a multi-multi-millionaire, who often runs his business while vacationing in the Caribbean (which Obi Wan would certainly have made his headquarters instead of the desert if only he’d known about it).
In all seriousness, both Casey and Knudson live a life that most people only dream of. Tellman now lives in a million dollar mansion in the woods of Vermont and works from home as well.

Casey says their inspiration and goal for this joint project is to teach other people to do the same thing they did–in half the time. The course, which will be released sometime in late April, will follow on the heels of the pre-launch materials out for viewing now, including free training videos, reports and case studies (also on video) of their previous students, who have made their own dreams come true following the advice of “the Marketing Master and the List Building Jedi.”

For more information about their upcoming series of trainings, destined to change the face of Internet Marketing, contact Kyle Battis, Affiliate Manager, or get more information at the ListBuilding.com website at eye-candy.ch

Integration Adds Multichannel Order Management Features to Popular Shopping Cart Software

Mission Viejo, CA February 20, 2008 — Early Impact, developer of the ProductCart line of shopping cart software, and Stone Edge Technologies, developer of the Order Manager software for centralized order processing, today announced the integration of the two products, which will allow ProductCart users to license the Order Manager to streamline their order management, especially when handling multiple online storefronts and sales channels.

ProductCart e-commerce software is used by thousands of Internet stores to create and manage professional online storefronts. It combines hundreds of sophisticated features with remarkable ease of use and supports dozens of payment gateways, as well as shipping and marketing systems.

The integration between the two systems will allow Stone Edge customers to take advantage of ProductCart’s unique e-commerce features, such as its Build to Order system for selling complex, customizable products and services over the Internet.

The Stone Edge Order Manager provides a single interface for effective order processing in a multichannel environment, where a company’s Web, mail order, and retail businesses are managed in one shared system. The Order Manager is an ideal solution for managing orders and inventory across multiple, ProductCart-powered e-commerce storefronts, while retaining the branding of each individual store.

“Many ProductCart users take orders over the phone, have a retail location, or run multiple online stores with our shopping cart software. They were looking for a robust solution to consolidate order processing in one place.” said Massimo Arrigoni, CEO of Early Impact. “The integration with the Stone Edge Order Manager addresses this need, helping store managers save time and money while becoming more efficient.”

“With just a few clicks, merchants using ProductCart can now import new orders into the Order Manager, where they have easy access to all the features they need to effectively process and fulfill orders,” said Barney Stone, president of Stone Edge Technologies. “And there is real-time inventory synchronization too: if you sell the last unit of a product in your retail store, or re-stock a sold-out product, those inventory adjustments can be reflected immediately in your ProductCart-powered store.”

ProductCart is available starting at $695 per storefront. The Stone Edge Order Manager is available starting at $1500, which includes one shopping cart license, five workstation licenses, and an extended support contract for the first year.

About Early Impact, Inc.
Early Impact develops e-commerce software for small businesses. Its ProductCart line of shopping cart software is used by thousands of Internet stores around the world. Hundreds of Web design companies have chosen it as their e-commerce system of choice for building online storefronts for their customers. Early Impact is a privately owned California corporation, headquartered in Mission Viejo, CA. For more information about the integration between Early Impact’s e-commerce software and the Stone Edge Order Manager, please visit www.earlyimpact.com/productcart/stoneEdge

About Stone Edge Technologies, Inc.
Stone Edge Technologies is a privately owned developer of affordable e-commerce software for small businesses. Barney Stone, a pioneer of database software for desktop computers, founded the company in 1983. Stone Edge began shipping its flagship Order Manager in 2000. Today more than 2,000 Web merchants use the Stone Edge Order Manager to help streamline their businesses. For more information about Stone Edge and its Order Manager software, please visit www.stoneedge.com

Sources: PRWEB/stoneedge.com

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RequestFill Inc., the multi-dimensional and web 2.0 based lead-generation platform for IT service and outsourcing providers announced the launching of real-time best-practice and knowledge publishing for IT service providers. This new feature allows registered service providers to publish best-practice articles and knowledge on RequestFill platform. Each article published can be searched and viewed by millions of IT readers in our strategic partnership media network. In the near future, each article can also be rated by the readers. Top-rated articles will further promote service providers’ ranking in related service categories and help improve their visibility among other vendors.

San Jose, CA January 24, 2008 — RequestFill Inc., the multi-dimensional and web 2.0 based lead-generation platform for IT service and outsourcing providers announced the launching of real-time best-practice and knowledge publishing for IT service providers. This new feature allows registered service providers to publish best-practice articles and knowledge on RequestFill platform. Each article published can be searched and viewed by millions of IT readers in our strategic partnership media network. In the near future, each article can also be rated by the readers. Top-rated articles will further promote service providers’ ranking in related service categories and help improve their visibility among other vendors.

RequestFill believes that the best matching service provider to buyer should have high-quality service and knowledge offering, as well as top client ratings. Taking all these criteria into account, RequestFill’s proprietary search engine gives IT requesters unbiased and highly qualified service providers according to requester’s criteria. RequestFill is the industry’s first unbiased search platform delivering superior value to both IT service providers and requesters.

Launched on Nov 6, 2007, RequestFill currently has more than 300 qualified enterprise-level service providers covering more than 60 IT service areas. It is recognized as one of the fastest growing lead generation companies in business service sectors.

“RequestFill connects IT requesters to service providers by quality, service and knowledge offering. Leveraging the power of RequestFill’s proprietary search engine, service providers get qualified leads that go beyond traditional cold-calling”, said Jessica Ma, CEO and founder of RequestFill Inc.

About RequestFill Inc.

RequestFill Inc. is an effective lead-generation platform that supplies service providers with detailed and highly qualified leads on motivated and budgeted buyers. Powered by a proprietary multi-dimensional match engine, RequestFill revolutionizes how IT professionals research and locate IT service providers specific to their needs.

For more information, visit www.RequestFill.com or
Phone: 408-551-2830

RequestFill, RequestFill logo and RequestFill.com are trademarks of RequestFill, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Software Deal of the Day offers one software application for sale every day at a significantly discounted price.

Boston, MA January 23, 2008 — Software Deal of the Day offers one software application for sale every day at a significantly discounted price.

Software Deal of the Day is a new site that offers software applications at a significantly reduced price for only twenty-four hours. Each day a new software deal is available. If you cannot resist a great deal then Software-DOD.com is for you!

Software-DOD.com features popular software titles. The software discounts range from 10-90% off of list prices, and the software is only available at that price for twenty-four hours! Software-DOD.com also contains second chance offers. The second chance offers are still discounted and designed for those that miss the deal of the day offer, but the second chance offer is not as deeply discounted as the deal of the day offer.

Many of the software applications on the Software-DOD.com website even have trial versions available, which allows website visitors to try the software prior to making a purchase decision.

Interested visitors can preview the applications that will be available on the Software-DOD website for the coming week. Additionally, deals are easy to monitor because RSS feeds are available that contain the daily specials, the second chance offers, and a preview of applications that will be featured on the Software-DOD.com website.

Other webmasters and publishers can also syndicate the Software Deal of the Day offers, and integrate the discount offers into their own websites. Software-DOD.com provides the tools to make the integration process painless for webmasters. The offers will dynamically update each night as the new offers become available. Providing such great software deals are sure to endear webmasters to their website visitors.

Software developers interested in this new distribution channel are encouraged to submit their software applications for consideration. With economic concerns looming individuals and businesses alike are tightening their spending. Software Deal of the Day is a win for every everyone. Additional details available at www.software-dod.com

Software-DOD.com is owned by NotePage, Inc. an independent software development company in Massachusetts. For more information contact, NotePage, Inc. at PO Box 296, Hanover, MA 02339. Phone: 781-829-0500. Fax: 781-582-1869. E-mail: sales @ notepage.net. Internet: www.notepage.net.

About NotePage, Inc.
NotePage, Inc. is a Hanover, Massachusetts company specializing in communication software solutions. They market (1) FeedForAll, a windows desktop RSS feed and podcast editing tool (2) FeedForAll Mac, a Mac desktop RSS feed and podcast creation tool (3) rss2html.php a script for converting RSS feeds to html web pages. (4) RSS Scripts Directory, a directory of PHP scripts for managing RSS feeds and podcasts (5) PageGate, a network paging and SMS gateway that allows for text or SMS messages to be sent via a number of interfaces, and (6) NotePager Pro, a desktop application that sends messages to pagers, cellular phones, and PIMs.

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The Spencer Hotel & Spa has introduced a series of writers’ workshops that provide an environment for inspiring writers and artists to develop their skills and vision by bringing them together with today’s top professionals in a unique environment.

Chautauqua, New York January 20, 2008 — The Spencer Hotel & Spa has introduced a series of writers’ workshops that provide an environment for inspiring writers and artists to develop their skills and vision by bringing them together with today’s top professionals in a unique environment.

Each five day workshop (limited to 20 students) is taught by award-winning authors and artists eager to share their professional wisdom. In addition to the professional instruction, students may choose from yoga, meditation, dance classes, watercolor instruction, spa treatments, massage therapy, hiking, and bicycling. Meals are enjoyed together, class size is limited, and the schedule of instructors changes annually to provide a diverse, entertaining choice.

The Hotel’s location within the Chautauqua Institution (a gated resort community located on Chautauqua Lake in western New York), offers a quiet setting for reading and writing. Workshop classes are held at the Chautauqua Institution’s Hulquist Conference Center, while the surrounding landscape of Bestor Park and plentiful gardens provides an enchanting setting for all to enjoy.

The Spencer is newly renovated, boutique hotel with 26 luxurious rooms and suites. It houses the oldest literary society in America, and opens its gates to all who enjoy a tale. New York Times once titled Chautauqua Institution as “Camelot, a place where time is forgotten and the arts flourish.”

“The Hotel offers a distinctive literary theme which celebrates the life and works of history’s most revered authors. Each room pays homage to a renowned author, depicting scenes from their most famous works,” Innkeeper Helen Briggs states. “I love literature and like to read, and so I decided what better place to create a literary theme than in Chautauqua,” Helen continues.

For instance, in the Isak Dinesen Room, a play on the “Out of Africa” theme allows guests to slumber under their very own dream-like safari tent while the Jules Verne Room gives the playful feel of sleeping up in a balloon traveling “Around the World in 80 Days.”

Helen recalls the huge undertaking of the building’s renovation, which started as a hotel by Mrs. Spencer in 1907. When Helen took over the hotel in 1997, it had basically been unattended to for 90 years. Fortunately, Helen, formerly an artist, designed the interior and along with three other artists, painted some of the murals. “I spent a whole year reading by night and working with the contractors by day,” she says.

National Geographic Traveler magazine featured Chautauqua in the 50 “places of a lifetime” to visit in America, describing it as “an idyllic retreat to enrich body, soul and mind.”

Rates for the 5 Day/5 Night Workshops are $765.00 per person, double occupancy; $1222.00, single occupancy; $590.00 for a non-student companion, double occupancy.

Workshop Packages include tuition for one evening and 5 full days of class; 5 nights of lodging; breakfast, lunch and dinner each day; and gratuities and taxes. Workshops are held May 4-8, 2008; May 11-15, 2008; June 15, 2008; October 6-10, 2008; October 12-17, 2008.

Phone: (716) 357-3785, Toll free: (800) 398-1306, Web: www.thespencer.com, E-mail: stay @ thespencer.com

Website: www.thespencer.com

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MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO—January 15, 2008—Apple® today unveiled MacBook® Air, the world’s thinnest notebook. MacBook Air measures an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, while its maximum height of 0.76-inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks. MacBook Air has a stunning 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display, a full-size and backlit keyboard, a built-in iSight® video camera for video conferencing, and a spacious trackpad with multi-touch gesture support so users can pinch, rotate and swipe. MacBook Air is powered by a 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache, and includes as standard features 2GB of memory, an 80GB 1.8-inch hard drive, and the latest 802.11n Wi-Fi technology and Bluetooth 2.1.

“We’ve built the world’s thinnest notebook—without sacrificing a full-size keyboard or a full-size 13-inch display,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “When you first see MacBook Air, it’s hard to believe it’s a high-performance notebook with a full-size keyboard and display. But it is.”

MacBook Air has a vibrant 13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display that is energy efficient, and its spacious trackpad offers multi-touch gesture support for pinch, rotate and swipe, making it more intuitive than ever to browse and rotate photos or zoom into web pages in Safari™. MacBook Air features a full-size keyboard design in a sleek and durable aluminum enclosure. The backlit keyboard makes it ideal for dimly lit environments such as airplanes, studios or conference halls, and a built-in ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the brightness of the keys as well as the display brightness for optimal visibility.

MacBook Air delivers up to five hours of battery life for wireless productivity and includes AirPort Extreme® 802.11n Wi-Fi networking, which delivers up to five times the performance and twice the range of 802.11g*. Apple’s Migration Assistant software now enables users to quickly transfer files, applications and preferences from your old Mac® to MacBook Air right over your wireless network.

MacBook Air users can buy the companion MacBook Air SuperDrive, a compact external drive designed for MacBook Air, for just $99. The MacBook Air SuperDrive® is powered by MacBook Air’s USB port, eliminating the need to carry a separate power adapter. Many MacBook Air users will not find a need for an optical drive now that they can wirelessly rent movies from the iTunes® Store, wirelessly backup files with Time Capsule and access the optical drives on remote PCs or Macs to wirelessly install software applications on MacBook Air.

MacBook Air is powered by Intel Core 2 Duo processors running at 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz, and includes as standard 2GB of memory and an 80GB 1.8-inch hard drive. An optional 64GB solid state drive contains no moving parts for added durability. Every MacBook Air includes a micro-DVI port so users can connect to Apple’s gorgeous 20-inch or 23-inch Cinema Displays to extend their desktop or connect to projectors and other displays via DVI, VGA, Composite and S-video adapters. MacBook Air includes USB 2.0 for plugging in peripherals or charging an iPod® or iPhone™, a headphone jack and Apple’s acclaimed MagSafe® Power Adapter designed especially for mobile users.

Every MacBook Air comes with iLife® ‘08, the most significant update ever to Apple’s award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications, featuring a major new version of iPhoto® and a completely reinvented iMovie®, both seamlessly integrated with the new .Mac Web Gallery for online photo and video sharing. The new MacBook Air also comes with Leopard™, the sixth major release of the world’s most advanced operating system. Leopard introduces Time Machine™, an effortless way to automatically back up everything on a Mac; a redesigned Finder that lets users quickly browse and share files between multiple Macs; Quick Look, a new way to instantly see files without opening an application; Spaces, an intuitive new feature used to create groups of applications and instantly switch between them; a brand new desktop with Stacks, a new way to easily access files from the Dock; and major enhancements to Mail and iChat®. .Mac members can use the new Back to My Mac feature to browse and access files on their home computer from a MacBook Air over the Internet while out on the road.

The new MacBook Air embodies Apple’s continuing environmental progress with its aluminum enclosure, a material highly desired by recyclers; Apple’s first mercury-free LCD display with arsenic-free glass; and brominated flame retardant-free material for the majority of circuit boards as well as PVC-free internal cables. In addition, MacBook Air consumes the least amount of power of any Mac, and its retail box, made primarily from 100 percent post-consumer recycled material, is 56 percent smaller by volume than the previously smallest MacBook packaging.

Pricing & Availability
The new MacBook Air will be shipping in two weeks through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $1,799 (US), and includes:

* 13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with 1280×800 resolution;
* 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache;
* 800 MHz front-side bus;
* 2GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM;
* 80GB hard disk drive with Sudden Motion Sensor;
* Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100;
* Micro-DVI port (includes Micro-DVI to VGA and Micro-DVI to DVI Adapters);
* built-in iSight video camera;
* built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR;
* one USB 2.0 port;
* one headphone port;
* multi-touch TrackPad with support for advanced multi-touch gestures including tap, scroll, pinch, rotate and swipe; and
* 45 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter.

Build-to-order options and accessories include the ability to upgrade to a 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor; 64GB solid state drive, MacBook Air SuperDrive, Apple USB Ethernet Adapter, Apple USB Modem, Apple MagSafe Airline Adapter, Apple Remote and the AppleCare Protection Plan. Additional build-to-order options also include pre-installed copies of iWork ‘08, Logic® Express 8, Final Cut® Express 4 and Aperture™ 1.5.

*Battery life depends on configuration and use. See www.apple.com/batteries for more information. AirPort Extreme is based on an IEEE 802.11n draft specification. Actual performance will vary based on range, connection rate, site conditions, size of network and other factors.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.

Sources: Apple

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