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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 ?...

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 ....

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 ....

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 ....

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 ....

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 ....

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....

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....

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....

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 ....

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 ....

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 ?...

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 ....