TurboSketch Studio

TurboSketch Studio is a jade - in for Google SketchUp ( ) , and include the costless reading of the programme in the loge . It work out with both the free and the Pro versions of this powerful 3 - D program , which is typically used for architectural rendition that ship with rather minimal lighting and rise effects . That ’s where TurboSketch Studio get into the picture ....

August 30, 2007 · 4 min · 690 words · Michael Garcia

Beyond The Beatles

Turns out that I issued mynext - gen iPod prognosis piecea calendar week too early . Now that Apple ’s assuredly - iPod September 5th event has been announced and the residue of the world is busy toy the prevision plot , I ’m remain firm around with a smoke , yet empty , gun . Damn these pestiferous psychical powers ! Since I seem to be work a good week into the future , I might as well quell the row and look beyond the event to September 6th ....

August 29, 2007 · 3 min · 432 words · Chelsea White

Computerworld: The iPhone at two months

When I first walk into the house the daylight I bought myiPhone , I had a bit of panic . After six calendar month of sensitive fury and amongst all of the excitement , I had lost sight of the fact that the8 GB iPhone I boughtat a nearby AT&T store had set me back $ 600 . Not that I had n’t been warned ; the terms data was everywhere , sensationalized and vilified , even , by masses who call up that the price rag outrageous ....

August 29, 2007 · 13 min · 2619 words · James Hall

Review: Mac mini Core 2 Duo

With its downcast price and small sizing , the Mac mini has always offered a various and economic Mac experience . But , while Apple has on a regular basis updated its line of consumer laptops and desktops , this yr the Mac miniskirt seemed to have been all but forgotten by the company . In fact , many industry pundits predicted that the miniskirt would be eliminated from Apple ’s product line ....

August 29, 2007 · 8 min · 1648 words · Kelsey Johnson

The Beatles on iTunes: Tomorrow never knows

So if my prestigious coworker Philip Michaels is right , next week we ’ll see the release of The Beatles ’ catalogue on iTunes . This news program has literally been year in the devising , and the excitement palisade this likely announcement seems to be immense . Crowds are ( virtually ) forming outside the iTunes Store already … well , OK , maybe not . But you ’d have to be sleep - surfboarding not to have seen some reference of “ Beatles , ” “ iPod , ” and “ iTunes Store ” over the last dyad of twenty-four hour period onhundreds of sites , admit ours ....

August 29, 2007 · 5 min · 1063 words · Denise Dixon

Macworld Podcast: iMovie ’08 and iPhone hacking

Macworldhas been busy rolling out the iLife ’ 08 reviews , including iPhoto ’ 08 , iDVD ’ 08 , GarageBand ’ 08 , and , most latterly , iLife ’s most controversial app , iMovie ’ 08 . In this podcast I pass meter talking with Mike Curtis , founder ofHD for Indies , a consultancy and entanglement site sharpen on high - definition video / motion picture product ....

August 28, 2007 · 2 min · 337 words · Eric Barnes

Analysis: Apple rethinks its DVD stance

At the press event unveil iLife ’ 08 , Steve Jobs yell the fresh version of Apple ’s cortege of digital lifestyle apps “ the biggest sweetening to iLife since we invented it many , many years ago . ” The same could not be say of iDVD ’ 08 . Compared to its suitemates , the videodisk - authoring app saw only modest changes — improvements to functioning and encoding as well as fresh theme — and direct up only 30 minute of Jobs ’ 45 - minute iLife preview ....

August 27, 2007 · 6 min · 1110 words · Ann Martinez

Red Snapper 1.4

Back in 2005 , I tell you about Paparazzi , a free utility that lets you go into the URL of a Web page to take a screenshot of that page — the entire thing , top to bottom , even if part of the page extends beyond your web web browser window . paparazzo is a utile alternative to “ print ” a PDF of the page or using Safari ’s Web Archive feature film because , as I noted back then , “ When you print to PDF , the ensue printout often looks quite different from what you see on the projection screen , not to remark that it ’s broken into separate page , each with its own header ....

August 27, 2007 · 5 min · 1047 words · Andrew Lopez

A world without Quicken

For as nearly as far back as I can remember — and in this particular case , I can remember as far back as 2001 — the dog day of August have always include the release of the previous rendering of Quicken . That ’s not happening this prison term around , at least not on the Mac side . Intuit update the Windows variation of its personal finance managera dyad of week ago ....

August 26, 2007 · 4 min · 795 words · Heather Nixon

Amidst Mac efforts, EA also pushes iPod games

Electronic Arts ( EA ) lead off the summer by pledging at June ’s Worldwide Developers Conference to bring six A - leaning secret plan to the Mac platform . But the world ’s magnanimous self-governing secret plan publisher was pursuing other opportunities with Apple long before that . Nearly a year ago , Apple start offering premium games for fifth - generation iPods , and EA was an early supplier ....

August 26, 2007 · 5 min · 937 words · Brenda Salinas

Review: GarageBand ’08

With the departure of GarageBand 3 ( , the version included in iLife ’ 06 ) , iLife ’s music sketchpad covering centralize most of its try at incorporating podcasting capabilities . With the liberation of GarageBand ’ 08 , Apple teddy its focus back to musicians , as most of the platform ’s major new features — Magic GarageBand , multi - take recording , arrangement , broader automation capableness , and Visual EQ — nicely augment the euphony - making mental process ....

August 26, 2007 · 8 min · 1500 words · Linda Anderson

X-Arcade TankStick + Trackball

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict If you ’re just an occasional gamer , or if modern first - soul shooter , on-line role playacting game , and strategy titles are your style , move along . This critique is specifically for the old school colonnade gambling crowd — especially those of you who are looking to tailor-make the ultimate emulation experience with a $ 200 game controller directly out of the coin - op arcades ....

August 26, 2007 · 6 min · 1112 words · Adam Cox

Legal worries delay iPhone unlocking software

Fear of judicial proceeding has run to an indefinite delay in the contrive Saturday departure of package to unlockApple ’s iPhone . John McLaughlin , beginner of Uniquephones , based in Belfast , Northern Ireland , enunciate Saturday that he receive a phone call about 3 a.m. Saturday local time from a man claiming to be from O’Melveny & Myers , an external law firm , calling on behalf of AT&T....

August 25, 2007 · 3 min · 543 words · Brandi Reynolds