First Look: Picking our favorite Leopard features

When Apple rolls out a major osmium X update , it does n’t skimp on features , and Mac OS X 10.5 is no exception . When Leopard makes its launching this Friday , the latest version of OS X will sport some 300 new features and enhancements , with Apple offer up adescriptive listof each and every one . Of naturally , with great detail comes bang-up confusion . Sure , you ’re intimate with Leopard ’s marquee features , but what about the nitty - gritty details in novel additions like Time Machine or revamp favorites like iChat and Spotlight ?...

October 23, 2007 · 9 min · 1824 words · Anthony Cervantes

Fluid Mask 3

Among the most difficult chore in Adobe Photoshop is separate complex objects from their background . It can be clock time - ingest and frustrating to isolate object like fuzz , tree branch , or animal fur using Photoshop ’s built - in survival of the fittest and masking feature . Fluid Mask 3.0.2 , a Photoshop chaw - in , can salvage you time and try and help you produce natural - looking cut - outs ....

October 23, 2007 · 4 min · 724 words · Carol Adkins DDS

WiTopia adds free iPhone VPN for subscribers

The security measure - focused host house WiTopia has add up a bonus to its practical individual networking ( VPN ) service — a separate , barren business relationship for use with the iPhone or other devices . WiTopia ’s personalVPN servicecosts $ 39.99 per year , and allows any user to make an encrypted tunnel that protects their data in transit over local mesh . The overhaul requires the installation of a special software software , make it in the first place utilitarian for Mac OS X and Windows laptops ....

October 23, 2007 · 3 min · 474 words · Juan Moore

E for All reporter’s notes

After a week in Los Angeles for theE for All Expo , allow me to empty out my notebook with some thoughts on Guitar Hero III , news and notes about assorted games , a look at a pair of striking no - show , and some observation about the future of this brand - fresh gaming trade show . • If you have n’t been initiated yet , Guitar Hero III is the latest instalment of a medicine biz franchise in which you repeat a sequence of colored , flashing lights on screen using a peripheral machine that looks like a small galvanic guitar , all timed to cooccur with rock songs you bonk and love , from “ Welcome to the hobo camp ” by Guns ‘ N ’ Roses to “ Cat Scratch Fever ” by Ted Nugent ....

October 22, 2007 · 6 min · 1091 words · Jamie Kennedy

Has Time Machine’s AirPort Disk use been grounded?

One of the most frequent interrogative we ’ve ensure from lecturer of late is “ Will Leopard ’s Time Machine feature film support a hard drive connected to an AirPort Extreme Base Station ? ” It ’s a good interrogation , look at how convenient it would be to use an AirPort Disk — over your local connection — as your substitute volume . And until last week , the question had a clear solution : of path ....

October 22, 2007 · 2 min · 381 words · Vanessa Davis

Improving Photoshop performance on the cheap

Anyone who uses Photoshop all the time is looking to speed it up — especially , if you ’re like me , you ’re on a regular basis working on range heavy than 200 MiB . The most obvious tip ? Buy a new Mac Pro and adulterate it up with 3 GB to 5 GB of RAM . “ Sure Jim , just send me the moolah and I ’ll get right on it , ” you ’re probably thinking ....

October 22, 2007 · 6 min · 1088 words · Leonard Marquez

Inside iPhone 1.1.1

There ’s more to last month ’s iPhone 1.1.1 software update than just bricked earphone and blocked apps . The software program update for Apple ’s roving headphone added several fix and features — most notably defend for the iTunes Wi - Fi Music Store — but many of those modification were overwhelm out by the clamor over disabling unlatched iPhones and third - party applications . It ’s a pity that the features , bug fixes , and tweaks that the iPhone 1....

October 22, 2007 · 13 min · 2734 words · Rodney Jacobson

Apple posts $904 million profit

Apple sold almost 2.2 million Macs in its fiscal quaternary - quarter , topping the phonograph record for quarterly Mac sales it had set just three months ago . Those record Macs sales event , combined with ongoing iPod sale increase and the first full quarter of iPhone sale , helped deliver another strong fiscal performance for Apple . The ship’s company said Monday that it tally a $ 904 million lucre on receipts of $ 6....

October 21, 2007 · 4 min · 821 words · David Heath

First Look: Leopard preview: What’s new with Mac OS X Server

The client version of OS X 10.5 wo n’t be the only version of Leopard to recoil into action on October 26 . Apple also be after to release Mac OS X Leopard Server , potentially the biggest update ever to its waiter - side software . The lineament inclination for this upgrade to Mac OS X Server is immense , as extensive as the change announced for the drug user edition of Mac OS X 10....

October 21, 2007 · 11 min · 2152 words · Teresa Zimmerman

HP Photosmart A826 photo printer

The HP Photosmart A826 is a stall - shaped compact photo printer that feature a seven - inch touch screenland and a stylus . Designed for what HP calls “ busy momma , ” the A826 streamlines the process of printing photos : it ’s as easy as inserting a photo reposition poster , tapping a silver screen , and touching the Print image . Though the A826 ’s sense of touch - projection screen interface is a smashing foundation , its print quality could employ some body of work : in our examination , dark prints looked flat and a minuscule bland ....

October 21, 2007 · 4 min · 851 words · Tammie Johnson

Opinion: iPod touch is a business tool, too

Apple ’s newiPod touchisa radical equipment , much like itsiPhone full cousin . It offers in one lissome parcel a host of cool features , everything from connection browsing over Wi - Fi to VPN access and a host of endeavour - useful apps . Sure , you may hear to music , but there ’s also a hard-nosed side , the side that makes it a perfect creature for business ....

October 21, 2007 · 11 min · 2170 words · Rebecca Stewart

Speedmark waits for Leopard, too

With Leopard ’s release hulk at the end of this workweek , Macworld science laboratory staff office are preparing to update our overall system performance benchmark , Speedmark , to account for the new operating organization . If you ’ve ever read one of our benchmark charts — to see one , check out this revue of the late upgraded Mac mini example — and thought to yourself , “ Why do n’t they test software X ?...

October 21, 2007 · 2 min · 404 words · Dylan Andrews

Casio Exilim EX-V7 digital camera

It turn out to be a challenge to get very make for up one way or the other about Casio ’s Exilim EX - V7 , a camera that balances out to be an almost perfectly ordinary item - and - shoot . On the plus side , the 7x zoom electron lens covers a spate of district , and the photographic camera ’s battery liveliness of almost 1,195 nip per charge is olympian for its year ....

October 18, 2007 · 2 min · 397 words · Michelle Grant