Where are the third-party MagSafe accessories?

When Apple announced the first MacBook Pro models back in January 2006 , one of the most - touted raw feature was in reality a relatively minor one from a computer hardware standpoint : the MagSafe power connector . This origination , which has expand beyond the MacBook Pro to the MacBook line , as well , utilise a smashing magnetized innovation to connect the power arranger to the laptop computer ....

May 23, 2007 · 4 min · 746 words · Miss Debra Best

Macworld Podcast: New MacBooks, Karelia Software

Apple has a young channel of update MacBooks , and we ’ve got the benchmark . We plunge into the numbers in this episode of the Macworld Podcast in a roundtable give-and-take featuring editorial director Jason Snell , Macworld.com executive editor Philip Michaels , Macworld science lab director James Galbraith , and senior news editor in chief Jonathan Seff . In accession to this roundtable , which covers not only the new MacBooks but also the upcoming iPhone andApple ’s Worldwide Developers Conference , I also talk toDan WoodofKarelia Software ....

May 22, 2007 · 2 min · 422 words · Rodney Colon

NEC MultiSync LCD2690WUXiSV monitor

The NEC MultiSync LCD2690WUXiSV is a 26 - inch wide - screen LCD admonisher , the largest in NEC ’s 90 series of professional displays . A alike variation of this monitor ( without software and colorimeter ) realise a Best of Show accolade at the Macworld 2007 Expo , due largely to its high - closing features . The SV good example includes a bundled colorimeter , a programmable 12 - bit colouration search mesa for smooth colouration transition and gradient , the power to display up to 94 percent of the Adobe RGB color space , and ten - light Pro technology to keep luminosity and gloss consistent over the life of the presentation ( it measure operation and mechanically pay off for modification over time ) ....

May 22, 2007 · 4 min · 785 words · Matthew Abbott

xPad 1.2.5

If you were a “ definitive ” Mac exploiter , you sure enough remember NotePad , the eminence - keeping lotion that shipped with the Mac OS for years . Although quite limited , it was popular with many people as a way to cursorily enter simple notes . If the results of asearch on VersionTracker.comis any denotation , practical notepads are still quite pop . However , many of the options are more - ripe applications for notation - pickings , data - direction , and outlining ....

May 22, 2007 · 5 min · 912 words · Maria Choi

Fidelity ready for iPhone, other devices

Apple ’s iPhone , which debut next month , may be chiefly a consumer multimedia twist and wireless telephone set , but it is very much on the minds of some IT coach , including Fidelity Investments ’ Joseph Ferra . Ferra , the chief wireless policeman at theBoston - based investment business firm , is tax with making Fidelity ’s Web - based investing pecker and its Boston Coach car service uncommitted on any wireless gadget ....

May 21, 2007 · 3 min · 573 words · Shannon Young

First Look: Minor MacBook changes mean not-so-minor boost

The latest update to Apple ’s MacBook line provides an impressive , if not dry land - shaking , boost to the popular consumer laptop . Credit the jump in functioning over the previous edition of the MacBook to Core 2 Duo processor with slightly fast clock speeds as well as new hard drives . uncover a calendar week ago , the refreshed MacBooks volunteer only pocket-size changes from their predecessor ; for example , the MacBook continue to run on a Core 2 Duo chip or else of a processor from Intel ’s newly released “ Santa Rosa ” chipset ....

May 21, 2007 · 5 min · 1023 words · Ronald Mitchell

Hex Color Picker and TextClipping

Most days , I focus on a single product in Mac Gems ; today I ’m going to cover a twosome plugins for Mac OS X that offer wide-eyed but useful features . nibble your colors Back in October 2005 , we review ColorTagGen .01 , a standalone utility that makes it easy to find the hex code for a color — the code you use to specify a color in HTML and CSS ....

May 21, 2007 · 3 min · 614 words · Donna Lee

LightZone 3.0 adds styles, image-management tools

I do n’t mean Fabio Riccardi sleeps much : yesterday his company , Light Crafts , postedLightZone 3.0 , which debuts bare month after the dismission of Version 2.0 , and only a year and a half after Version 1.0 became available . The guy definitely burns the midnight rock oil . LightZone is an redaction , management and depth psychology tool for your digital images , one that the ship’s company arrogate bring an “ levelheaded , ” alternative attack to photo editing ....

May 21, 2007 · 3 min · 612 words · Chad Williams

Linux users say ‘Sue me first, Microsoft’

In an unconventional postulation , some user of Linux and other assailable - author software are inviting Microsoft to sue them . “ If you would like to invite a visit by Brad Smith , Microsoft ’s head litigator , please experience spare to add your name here , ” according to the wiki , part of a blog byDigital Tipping Point , a television project centre around unfastened - source software ....

May 21, 2007 · 2 min · 380 words · Cheyenne Griffin

Making sense of our reliability survey

Back when I run for our sister publication , PC World , we used to run an annual sight of our referee , in which we asked them to grade their PCs for reliability and their PC vendors for service . That survey made sentience in the microcomputer world : There were multiple , competing vender , and it was salutary for readers to know which one delivered the most reliable political machine and the good service ....

May 21, 2007 · 4 min · 718 words · Maria Gill

Organize files with Spotlight comments

Like my fellow Macworld scribes Dan Miller and Dan Frakes , I ’m a Brobdingnagian lover of “ catapult ” covering — Butler in my case . However , not everyone witness launchers quite so sympathetic . Today ’s crest is for those who would rather not use a full - mess up catapult program , but would like some of the benefits — the only requirement is that you be running OS X 10....

May 21, 2007 · 3 min · 534 words · Jessica Horton

Photoshop Action Pack 3.5 released

Macworldcontributor Ben Long has released Version 3.5 of his popularPhotoshop Action Pack , a collection of 86 Automator actions for scripting Adobe Photoshop . The update append support for Photoshop CS3 , a new Auto Color action , better watermarking functionality , best Camera Raw financial backing and also includes a number glitch fixes . The Action Pack is a solidification of build blocks for the automated processing of images , and includes access code to most of Photoshop ’s core mapping and filters ....

May 21, 2007 · 2 min · 325 words · Erin Wilson

State of the Mac: Know the warning signs

As true as Macs may be , some do split up down — just like televisions , microwave , and most other electronic devices . But your Mac has an advantage that most other production do n’t : it may be able-bodied to discourage you before a problem step up from minor chafe to dispatch disaster . It can also aid you figure out which of the many computer hardware component that make up your Mac is make a difficult - to - diagnose symptom ....

May 21, 2007 · 4 min · 773 words · Christopher Conley