I attended Tuesday ’s keynote kicking off Macworld Expo with my fellow worker Dan Frakes ( and 6,500 or so of our closest friends ) , and afterwards — after we ’d escaped from the crowds and could really get word each other talk — we were both arrived at the same one - word summary of the upshot : cohesive . More so than any tonic in late memory , Tuesday ’s Apple announcements fit together very well , and seemed to reflect a very solid top - grade vision ....
We ’re only two week into the new twelvemonth , and already , 2008 is mold up to be a big one for photo printers . Last workweek , Epson unveiled the Stylus Photo R1900 , a boron - size of it ( 13 ” by 19 ” ) photo printer optimize for calendered production . Today , Hewlett - Packard is announcing thePhotosmart Pro B8850 , a B - size printer similarly designed for the advanced amateur lensman , and priced at $ 549 ....
Reporters trek out to the desert each January for theConsumer Electronics Showto feast their heart upon all the novel paraphernalia and contraption . But there ’s another lure and it ’s not the $ 7.99 prime rib at an off - the - Vegas - Strip hotel . Rather CES offers the chance to get a glimpse at trends , the discernable directions in which the consumer electronics industry seems to be channelize ....
Patience can indeed have its rewards , and when it comes to the newly unveiled Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 the payoff assure to be gravid . Adobe announced the former variation of its consumer - grade image editor in chief , the first update to the Mac edition of Elements in two years . ( In fact , it ’s been so long since Adobe has come up out with a Mac discharge that Elements skips version 5 entirely on this political platform , go from 4....
One of the surprise to egress fromCES 2008is the idea that the 802.11n wireless LAN standard just is n’t good enough . Most if not all of the wireless chip Creator are going above and beyond the IEEE criterion to fine tune their 11n silicon to make a much more static , better deport and predictable signaling than that witness in today ’s wireless LAN gear . WLAN equipment vendor ( compare go-ahead WLAN products ) are gift a lot of cash and engine room expertness toward the same close , in the Cartesian product they envelop around those chips ....
This week marks the year day of remembrance of Steve Jobs giving the world its very first glimpse at the iPhone . Which think of it ’s also the anniversary of the first time someone looked at Apple ’s mobile telephone set and enunciate , “ It sounds nice and all , but what itreallyneeds is … ” We ’re as shamefaced of this as anyone . The iPhone was barely a month past its June 29 release appointment before we produce a lean of … well , need is such an surly tidings ....
A pair of January patronage shows take halfway phase in this episode of the podcast — one already underway , and one that begins next week . The former is the massiveConsumer Electronics Showtaking place in Las Vegas this hebdomad . And the latter , of course , is next week ’s highly - anticipate Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco . aged editor in chief Dan Frakes and associate editor Dan Moren describe on what they ’ve picture at CES that might be of interest to Mac users ....
To kick offCES , the consumer electronics orgy take place this week in Las Vegas , Microsoft ’s Bill Gates take the stage to provide his farewell keynote address . During that address , Gates , who will leave Microsoft to presumptively give his life to performing Good Works , extend hisMicrosoft - and - married person - dominate vision of the futurity . And , may I say from my armchair several hundred naut mi away , what a payload of god - help - us it was ....
Epson today announced the Stylus Photo R1900 , a $ 550 , B-complex vitamin - size of it ( 13″ by 19″ ) background printer with paint - based inks , advanced paper - handling capabilities and productiveness characteristic direct at serious amateurs and professional photographers . Unlike the high-priced Stylus Photo R2400 , which is best known for its black - and - white-hot printing capableness ( and its ravenous appetite for ink ) , the R1900 is designed primarily to farm optimum color print ....
Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict Before the middle of 2007 , Apple propose three distinct tiers of TV - editing computer software . iMovie HD ( ) catered to novice , but its evolve feature and full-bodied plug - in living have mass ’s trueness long after they throw the “ beginner ” label . At the other ending of the scurf , Final Cut Pro ( ) gave professionals the advanced features needed to edit in the big leagues ....
Las Vegas this hebdomad becomes the tech capital of the world as the2008 International Consumer Electronics Showand an estimated 140,000 conventioneers take over Sin City . This gargantuan tech confab feature an estimated 27,000 gadgets that range from a cellphone - phone - sized projector from Microvision and sleek OLED presentation from Samsung , to duel wireless technologies ( WirelessHD and Wireless USB ) that aim to eliminate all those wires behind your HDTV ....
With the calendar flipping from one year to the next this retiring workweek , it ’s only natural to enquire what the next 365 twenty-four hour period have in storage . It ’s even more apprehensible if you ’re a Mac fan . After all , Macworld Expo brood just a week or so by , and with that yearly craft show come the promise of raw and exciting developments from Apple and beyond ....
If malefactor were to aim unlocked wireless routers , they could make an attack that could piggyback across thousands of Wi - Fi meshing in urban areas like Chicago or New York City , allot to researcher at Indiana University . The researchers estimate that a Wi - Fi flak could take over 20,000 wireless routers in New York City within a two - week period , with most of the contagion occurring within the first solar day ....
