Bamboo Fun!

When you get your first Apple computer, you step into our realm knowing that you are purchasing one of the best creative machines known to man. It comes with a slew of creative based software in the form of the iLife Suite. To get more for your creative fix there are many Mac user support pages with loads of Shareware and Freeware to download for your beautiful new mac. But for those of you who are true artists and want to bring out your creative side right on the screen, have we got a tool for you!

Its called the Bamboo Fun Tablet by Wacom and it is just what the title says it is. This fun tablet comes in multiple sizes and colors ranging from 4×5 inch and up. These little gems give you the ability to draw right up on your screen with the aid of a pixel or drawing based program. Whatever your fancy is, whether it be Photoshop CS3, Photoshop Elements or a free program like Tablet Draw, you can use your Bamboo to draw out pictures, write notes and even edit photographs. With the 4 programable buttons and the built in scroll pad, it makes it easier to cut, paste, and undo any of the work that you just created.

For those of you who are looking for a bit more of a professional edge, the Wacom Graphire or Intuos3 lines may be more for you, but to those people who are looking for a little fun in an old school way, pop in to your local Small Dog Electronics retail store and pick up a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet for your Mac and start drawing.

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