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Palm introduced a smartphone with a new firebrand aimed at a immature audience on Thursday . The Centro speech sound will cost $ 99.99 and ab initio be available exclusively from Sprint Nextel starting in mid - October . Palm designed the phone to be flashy , small and dewy-eyed to expend in an effort to flesh out the smartphone market , said Ed Colligan , Palm ’s president and CEO , during a webcast intelligence group discussion at the DigitalLife group discussion in New York City ....

One of the more powerful image treatment features iniWork ’ 08is the Instant Alpha pecker , uncommitted in the Format menu . Instant Alpha helps you make the background in a given ikon transparent while not changing the foreground object(s ) . Once you ’ve made the background transparent , the foreground objects can then be placed in front of dissimilar backgrounds — you could , for instance , put the Statue of Liberty in the L....

Judging by the varied offering found on download sites such asVersionTrackerandMacUpdate , among the third - party add - ons Mac OS X substance abuser most hunger are ways to promptly get at their applications , filing cabinet , and folders . I ’m personally a huge fan of LaunchBar ( ) , and other Macworld editors love Butler ( ) and Quicksilver ( ) , but keyboard - ground launchers are n’t for everyone ....

Apple ended its secretiveness on unlocking the iPhone via third - party hacks with a warning Monday that unlocked iPhones may become inoperable . “ Apple has discover that many of the unauthorised iPhone unlocking programs useable on the Internet cause irreparable terms to the iPhone ’s software system , which will in all likelihood leave in the limited iPhone becoming for good inoperable when a future Apple - supplied iPhone software program update is install , ” the company enounce in a command ....

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict Heroes of Might & Magic Vrepresents a new chapter in Freeverse Software ’s report . The caller is best sleep with for develop and bring out daily gambling fare for the Mac and PC , but this plot is a unbowed - up conversion from Windows . It ’s also the first game to have been write usingTransGaming ’s cyder technology . It embark earlier this class , but Freeverse and TransGaming only recently iron out some serious problems with the game ’s 1....

I ’ve antecedently covered several stands that place your laptop at a more - ergonomic height when used with an outside keyboard . Today I look at yet another , as well as two endure for saving desk space when storing your notebook or using it with an outside keyboard and display . Rain Design mStand As I ’ve noted in the past tense , if you on a regular basis employ your laptop at a desk , you should use some sort of laptop stand or riser to raise your laptop ’s blind to the proper view height , and then apply a disjoined keyboard and mouse , placed at a healthy tallness of their own , for input ....

The cyber-terrorist who discovered a of late patched QuickTime flaw affecting the Firefox web browser says he has found an as serious fault in Adobe Systems ’ PDF file format . “ Adobe Acrobat / Reader PDF documents can be used to compromise your Windows boxwood . totally ! ! ! Invisibly and unwillingly ! ! ! , ” wrote Petko Petkov , in a breathless Thursdayblog bill . “ All it takes is to unfold a PDF document or bumble across a page which embed one ....

Last calendar month , VMWare releasedFusion , a virtualization curriculum that have you run Windows and other x86 - based operating system on an Intel - base Mac . While working onMacworld ’s approaching review of the software , I wanted to prove the power to commute a Parallels virtual machine ( VM for short ) into a Fusion VM . This feature is describe on VMWare ’s Web site , and I was able to make it work ....

Ever since the iPhone was released , a common feature of speech request has been custom ringtones — the power to use a Song dynasty or other audio Indian file as your clone . Apple late introduced a newfangled rendering of iTunes that lets you create ringtones out of ( certain ) songs you ’ve purchased from the iTunes Store , but the price to do so is an additional $ 0....

If there ’s been more rodomontade about anything other than Apple ’s $ 200 iPhone price slash , it ’s about the new backing in iTunes 7.4 for purchasing ringtones from the iTunes Store . Apple ’s carrying out of ringtones is importantly more advance , less expensive , and more flexible than that provided by most any other headphone maker or cellular carrier . This , of course , is why everyone hates it with the bloodless - red-hot mania normally reserved for members of an opponent political political party ....

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been subpoenaed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) to give a deposition in the descent choice backdate lawsuit against former Apple General Counsel , Nancy Heinen . Citing two source familiar with the case , Bloombergreportsthat the subpoena ad testificandum is not part of an SEC investigation . job ’ testimony is required as part of a lawsuit brought against Heinen by the SEC in April 2007 ....

If you ’ve ever needed information about a current or historical Apple product , thenMacTrackeris a must - have utility . This amazing piece of donationware covers pretty much everything that ’s ever come out of Cupertino , starting with the Macintosh XL and Lisa in 1983 . Each entry has an extensive collection of info , including launch and discontinue dates , processor eccentric and speed , memory , graphics , punishing driveway , and much more ....

Apple does not fit that a manufacturing mar caused power failures in an iBook G4 laptop sell in Denmark , but it refunded the client ’s money , said the country ’s Consumer Complaints Board . An Apple spokeswoman in the U.S. said , “ Apple disagrees with the DCCB ’s determination base on our own investigation , and has a strong track criminal record for client satisfaction . ”...