Year: 2002

Picture Play 1.6

Subject: [ANN] Picture Play 1.6, major update
From: Chris Carruthers (chris@crescendosw.com)

Hello,

Crescendo Software is pleased to announce the release of Picture Play 1.6,
our new update to the premier shareware image composition tool for OS X.

Picture Play lets you combine digital photos, scanned images, or any other
graphics to create rich and diverse compositions with editable text
content, backgrounds, and stylish effects including translucency,
transparency, rotation and more.

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Dejal introduces Narrator 1.0b1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Dejal introduces Narrator 1.0b1

A Mac OS X application to read out stories in multiple voices.

PORTLAND, Oregon — June 7, 2002 — Dejal Systems today introduced its
first product for Mac OS X, called Narrator. This application utilizes
speech synthesis to read out the contents of a text document, using
different voices for different parts. You have a range of “actors” that can
portray any number of “characters”, so various passages of your document
are spoken with differing voices, pitches, inflections, etc.

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Apple Launches “Real People” Ad Campaign, PC to Mac “Switchers”

Apple Launches “Real People” Ad Campaign
PC to Mac “Switchers” Tell Their Story

CUPERTINO, California-June 10, 2002-Apple=AE today launched a new advertisin=
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campaign featuring real people who have switched from PCs to the
Macintosh=AE. The campaign will debut today on television with eight
different ads, each highlighting a different “switcher” telling their
story.

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