Amazon finds a new use for 3G with Kindle

Amazon.com is n’t the first company to sell an electronic book reader with an easygoing - on - the - eyes E - Ink display , but its method for delivering those books may have open up a whole new use for mobile data networks . To deliver all this information , Amazon is using Sprint Nextel ’s 3 G ( third - generation ) cellular mesh . But Kindle owners will never see a bill for that service , because the toll will be included in the price of the content ....

November 19, 2007 · 4 min · 691 words · Tammy Schmidt

Promising Prospect: Quay

well the most - criticized aspect of Leopard ’s new Stacks feature is the fact that it does by with a pop lineament of Tiger ’s wharfage : the capability to place a folder in the Dock and then enter the contents of that folder , and its subfolders , via a hierarchical pop - up menu . Although I ’ve covered a few boisterous substitutes , we ’re now seeing third - political party programme that attempt to specifically replicate this Tiger lineament in Leopard ....

November 19, 2007 · 3 min · 597 words · Helen Villarreal

Photosmart A626 photo printer

The HP Photosmart A626 is a compendious picture printer that features a special 4.8 - in touch - screen display and stylus to make impression pic well-situated than ever . Equipped with a pocket-size carrying handle , the attractive , boom box - shaped A626 is design for you to carry along on trips or special occasions . The A626 ’s user interface is nonrational and innovative , but like the tumid , more expensive version of this printer — the Photosmart A826 ( ) — the A626 ’s photographic print tone suffers from dull - looking dark prints ....

November 18, 2007 · 5 min · 956 words · John Barrett

Web design apps for beginners

For beginning Web designers who wish to leave behind the confines of simple , template - driven apps like Apple ’s iWeb ( part of the $ 79 iLife retinue ) , Karelia ’s $ 49Sandvox , and Realmac Software ’s $ 49RapidWeaver , the software you ’re most often differentiate to buy is Adobe ’s $ 399Dreamweaverand eitherFireworks($299 ) orPhotoshop($649 ) . Nvu Nvu is based onMozilla’sopen source Gecko , the layout railway locomotive that drives theFirefoxWeb web browser ....

November 18, 2007 · 3 min · 497 words · Travis Stafford

Analysis: The end of Netinfo

While the general Mac user community is ooh - ing and ahh - ing over Mac OS X 10.5 features like Time Machine , or suppose about the new Dock , Stacks , et al , those of us who corroborate Mac users are deep into learning about one of the biggest below - the - hood change to happen in any version of Mac OS X : The ending of Netinfo ....

November 15, 2007 · 6 min · 1215 words · Nathan Esparza

iMovie ’08 Library Compressor 1.2

Like it or not , iMovie ’ 08 is the future of iMovie . And , true statement be told , I really care it . Not in compare to iMovie HD , but as an easy - to - use motion picture - making programme , iMovie ’ 08 is in reality pretty respectable . One useful lineament of iMovie ’ 08 is that , like iPhoto , it keeps a depository library ofallyour DV clips handy and uncommitted , regardless of which project you ’re currently redact , so you have to import each clip only once to make it available to any labor ....

November 15, 2007 · 6 min · 1123 words · Stephanie York

Where did that command go?

It set about years ago , though I ’m unsealed as to exactly when — perhaps it was System 6 , or maybe System 7 . It startle innocently enough , of course , with a simple observation : “ Hey , hold down the Option keystone , and some of the bill of fare items do different things ! ” At the time , not many the great unwashed get card ; some even thought it was “ cool ” or “ rad , ” to apply the jargon of the daytime ....

November 15, 2007 · 8 min · 1622 words · Kevin Ramirez

Add conditions to Finder searches

One of the features I like the most about OS X 10.5 is Spotlight — yes , come from me , that might seem unusual , but Apple has handle nearly every issue I had with Spotlight in Tiger . In particular , I ’m thrilled that you’re able to search for musical phrase within documents , and employ boolean operators ( such as AND , OR , and NOT ) to further restrict your search results ....

November 14, 2007 · 3 min · 625 words · Abigail Stokes

Apple updates Mac OS X Leopard

Just three weeks after free Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard , Apple on Thursday unloose the first update for the new operating system . The System and Finder received several updates including addressing a likely data loss issue when move filing cabinet across divider in the Finder ; resolving an issue with login after turning off FileVault for a specific drug user report ; improving compatibility with Adobe Flash - based uploaders used by ....

November 14, 2007 · 3 min · 460 words · Jessica Grant

Bruce Chizen’s legacy

This hebdomad , Adobeannounced the surrender of chief executive officer Bruce Chizen , with company President and Chief Operating Officer Shantanu Narayen film over Chizen ’s role , effective December 1 . This word get shortly after the 25th day of remembrance of the company ’s founding , and a few months after release of the full - scale practical app avalanche known as Creative Suite 3 . Having get laid Bruce for nearly two 10 , I ’m sure that he felt that this was the correct time to make his exit : Adobe is financially firm and has a abstruse portfolio of products that yoke mark , WWW , picture and professional and consumer tomography mart ....

November 14, 2007 · 7 min · 1343 words · Alyssa Johnson

Leopard mauls competition, takes half Japan retail market

Apple ’s new Leopard operating system take a sizable bite of the Japanese retail operating organization grocery store during October and accounted for over one-half of all sales of packaged operating system software despite being on sale for only the last six days of the month . OS X Leopard , which is the first major update to the Apple operating scheme in more than two year , take a 53....

November 13, 2007 · 2 min · 384 words · Brittany Graves

Macworld Podcast: MacMania and Iceland

This installment of the Macworld Podcast starts in the Caribbean Sea and winds up in Iceland . And you thought your Thanksgiving travel plans were complicated . We start off our global podcast on board theMS Volendam , where editorial theater director Jason Snell checks in from the latest MacMania sail . Then , it ’s off to Iceland , where senior intelligence editor and Game Room editorialist Peter Cohen serve the one-year Fanfest forEVE Online , a massively multiplayer online plot that made its Mac debut a calendar week ago ....

November 13, 2007 · 2 min · 423 words · Robert Becker

Review: MacBook Core 2 Duo/2GHz and 2.2GHz

Apple has once again update its pop consumer laptop computer . The newest glossy - screened MacBooks look nearly selfsame to their six - month - honest-to-goodness siblings , but a act of significant under - the - thug improvement have sum up novel zip to this generation with no increase in toll . Let ’s go with speed : there ’s a modest departure if you just look at the numbers ....

November 13, 2007 · 6 min · 1264 words · Ricky White