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Sony Computer Entertainment America ( SCEA ) on Monday announced the availability of a new 80 GB version of itsPlayStation 3video game console . The system is now available at retailers throughout North America for $ 599 ( CDN$659 ) and includes a copy of the off - road racing biz MotorStorm . The 80 GB model has been released to offer user with more storage space for games and add - on content they purchase through Sony ’s PlayStation internet ( PSN ) , a loose online service PlayStation exploiter can relate to purchase game and game - related subject matter ....

Organic Motionon Monday announced commercial-grade availability of degree , its markerless apparent movement capture ( mocap ) scheme that works with Macs and personal computer running Autodesk ’s MotionBuilder software package . Stage was first introduce publicly at the Game Developers Conference ( GDC ) in San Francisco this past March . The system works differently than other movement capture systems as it does not require users to wear a body case or tracking machine in monastic order to charm their motion ....

Smiles for service Your clause “ State of the Mac ” ( June 2007 ) confirm my experience with the excellent help you could get from Apple and its authorized service provider . I was in Australia with my 17 - inch PowerBook ( bought , with AppleCare , in the United States ) when its screen started own problems . I take it to an authoritative Apple reseller in Brisbane ; two days later , my beloved Mac was back with a new projection screen ....

As noted in many of my Mac OS X Hints , I ’m an avowed keyboard junky — if there ’s a mode to do something by leaving my hands on the keyboard instead of achieve for the black eye , then that ’s the method acting I ’ll belike apply . This is true even if the mental process seems a moment wily than using the mouse ; I rule arrive at for the mouse to be an intrusive option , and will usually only rely on it as a last recourse ....

Converting unprotected DVDs Q : Over the past 18 month , I ’ve taken about 15 hours of video of my child . I loaded the videos into Apple ’s iMovie and then burned DVDs in iDVD . ( I did n’t have the arduous - drive outer space to keep the videos on my Mac . ) Now I want to make a highlights video — but when I load the DVD , I ca n’t find the original Indian file ....

Among the iPhone ’s three personalities — phone , iPod , and Internet communicator — it ’s the last one that has perhaps generated the most hype . After all , although there have been many phones that could get at the Internet , few have done so well , and none has come near to approximating the same variety of experience you may get on a “ real ” computer ....

iPhone security measures has been a live theme among researchers and psychoanalyst since well before the twist was even available to the populace in June . While some have been ringing the warning bell that the iPhone is not suitable for the enterprisingness , one analyst says those concerns have been pontifical . “ I think it has been exaggerated , ” Andrew Jaquith , security system analyst with the Yankee Group , told Macworld ....

Mac OS X 10.4 ’s Dictionary program is a ready to hand consultation tool , as it ’s available straightaway in many applications ( Safari , Mail , TextEdit , Stickies , and legion third - company platform ) via the contextual menu . Just restraint - tap a word in your document and opt Look Up in Dictionary from the pop - up computer menu . ( Or campaign Control - Command - D to display a floating definition window for the discussion presently under the mouse cursor ....

Microsoft will detain the release of Office 2008 for Mac until mid - January 2008 , congresswoman of the fellowship ’s Macintosh Business Unit announced Thursday . The long - awaited Intel - native Office , featuring programs such as Word , Excel , Powerpoint , and Entourage , was to begin with scheduled to be put out afterwards this year . rather , Microsoft said it hope to release Mac Office 2008 to manufacturing in December , which would allow it to release the intersection at the January 2008Macworld Conference and Expoin San Francisco ....

In a way , you have to palpate a little moment sorry for Microsoft . Delays in make software out the doorway are a fact of life in the technical school businesses , whether you ’re a lilliputian developer or a Redmond - base software package colossus superintend by one of the world ’s rich men . Yet , when Microsoft ’s Mac Business Unit announce that it ’s push back a planned discharge — as it did Thursday when it check the release of Office 2008 from the 2nd half of this year until January 2008 — people attempt to find the shroud meaning behind the tidings ....

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict So far , a lot of the games available for the iPod have been arcade or puzzle game , butThe Sims Bowlingis a dissimilar stock . And it ’s a lot more than just a bowling biz with The Sims tacked on . The Sims — the hit pretending plot for Macs and PCs from EA — suffice as the ground forThe Sims Bowling ....

Is iTunes headed down the “ Highway to Hell ” as Aussie rock ring AC / DC puts it ? Recently record creative person and music services are giving iTunes some push back and a run for its money . The banding AC / DC says it ’s bypassing Apple ’s iTunes and has broker anexclusive dealwith Verizon to trade its music through Verizon ’s online medicine store . It ’s a sign of the times ....

Ever - thoughtful Apple has given us something to stave off the domestic dog daytime of August a little while longer — a chance to hypothesise on what the company has up its sleeve in this berth - iPhone , pre - Leopard period . tardy Tuesday , the company announced that it would defend … well , not an event , really , but more of a crush briefing at its Cupertino main office ....