The Czech is in the mail

Lets me begin this workweek ’s installment of Gadgetbox byclearing the air(wihout the help of any insidious purifier ) . Last workweek I alluded to find myself in the back of a squad car , so I just require to take this opportunity to observe that I may have confuse two separate event , to witticism : a ) walking by a patrol railway car near my household and seeing an iPod deep down and b ) watching an military action movie where the hero ( Bruce Willis ?...

May 15, 2007 · 8 min · 1621 words · Kevin Howard

Apple updates MacBook with faster processors

Apple on Tuesday updated its consumerMacBookcomputers adding profligate processor , 1 GB RAM and larger hard drive in all good example . The newfangled MacBooks come in three poser — a lily-white 2.0GHz and 2.16GHz , and a black 2.16 GHz model . All of the MacBooks include a built - in iSight video camera and the modish generation of 802.11n wireless networking . The notebook also come with iLife ‘ 06 and Mac OS X 10....

May 14, 2007 · 3 min · 437 words · Benjamin Villa

Microsoft desperate, says patent target OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org Monday cry Microsoft Corp. ’s assertion that its loose - source lotion entourage violates 45 of its patent of invention “ a do-or-die act . ” “ It ’s just arduous to put into believable term , ” said Louis Suarez - Potts , a community of interests manager for OpenOffice.org and seven - year veteran of the all - volunteer radical . “ I do n’t sympathise what motivated Microsoft to lay on the line so much with a position that can only serve to alienate [ endeavour ] customers , as well as those millions of the great unwashed who use Linux ....

May 14, 2007 · 3 min · 463 words · Katie Francis

Open-source users, companies scoff at Microsoft threats

Open - source supporters are thumbing their noses at Microsoft ’s title that it will attempt royal house from substance abuser and distributors on 235 patents it holds for technologies in Linux and open - source software , saying they are not disquieted about being the target of judicial proceeding for letters patent infringement . Rather than panic attack company off from using or circularise opened source , the general consensus is that the society ’s menace of litigation — outline in statements Microsoft executive director include CEO Steve Ballmer made toFortunemagazine this week — prove it ’s the software giant who is afraid of the competitive threat Linux and open - source computer software pose to its business long full term ....

May 14, 2007 · 5 min · 957 words · Angel Bell

Shopping, or not, at the online Apple Store

As most of you probably know , when Apple announces a novel production , as it did earlier today , theonline Apple Storegoes offline . Back when online sales first began , this was the average and you ’d see it all the time . Today , though , Apple is the exception rather than the prescript . Imagine if the Amazon depot went offline for two hours whenever an existing product was being put back by a newer model ....

May 14, 2007 · 4 min · 791 words · Taylor Reyes

Compress Files 1.0

Thanks to ever - growing hard - drive capacities and ever - faster web connector , compact files is n’t quite the vital and frequent task it used to be . Still , it ’s useful in certain office ; for example , when attaching files to an e-mail content , when trying to fit 700 MB of data point onto a 512 MB fanfare drive , or when copying files to a host or drive that does n’t support Mac OS go metadata ....

May 13, 2007 · 6 min · 1096 words · Teresa Richards

Hanging up on the iPhone

No carrier The iPhone is flowing , gorgeous , multifunctional , and ultracool ( “ Hello , iPhone , ” March 2007 ) . But it has one major flaw . How un - Apple - like is it to have your mobile phone provider selected for you ? Because most mobile speech sound users are already locked into multiple - year contracts ( and because the punishment for breaking those contract could well pay for an iPhone ) , I think the marketing strategy behind this decision was laaaaame!...

May 13, 2007 · 7 min · 1490 words · Ashley Hernandez

Mac 911 – June 2007

Taking out iPhoto’s trash Q : Recently , I went through more than 2,000 photos in my iPhoto library and cancel the not - so - good ones for exempt up a little space on my hard driving force . Alas , when I went to the Trash to empty it , none of the deleted photos were there . It seems that while I delete them from the library , they are still buried somewhere on the hard effort ....

May 13, 2007 · 10 min · 2023 words · Rachael Lane

Mac OS X Hints – June 2007

Quickly set Office 2004 zoom levels Many programme have a Zoom menu point that you may use to make everything on screen larger or smaller . This help you see small-scale text and pull strings tiny objects more easily , for instance , or mark an total page ’s formatting at a glance . Microsoft Office 2004 is no exclusion — Word , Excel , and PowerPoint ( but not Entourage ) all have a opinion : Zoom menu item ....

May 13, 2007 · 11 min · 2296 words · Mary Friedman

Notebook cleanup and protection

Laptops are subject to far more abuse than desktop Macs . Dirt , dust , and scratches keep them from looking new for long . But that does n’t mean you ’re stuck with smudges , stains , and scrapes . Here ’s how to make your Mac laptop look good again — and how to then keep it that way . Clean that screen If your screen is like most , it ’s a magnet for dust and fingerprints ( or if you ’ve got small children in the house , handprints ) ....

May 13, 2007 · 8 min · 1654 words · Andrew Baker

The exercise iPod

Running is hard oeuvre . On cold , showery mornings — or after a recollective workday — come up the inspiration to get out the door can be pall . But I ’ve found that , along with nerveless young shoes , there ’s one major technological advancement that spend a penny getting in shape easier these days : the iPod . Thanks to an abundance of seaworthiness - oriented ADHD - ons , your iPod can serve make all kinds of seaworthiness more fun ....

May 13, 2007 · 8 min · 1632 words · Richard Morgan

Bye-bye, Yahoo

Last week , Google released itsiGooglepersonalized home varlet from genus Beta . If you have n’t checked it out already , you should . For years now , I ’ve start my calculation day atMy Yahoo . I ’m not the only one : According toComscore , My Yahoo is the web ’s most popular home pageboy , with 50 million fast user . I ’d configured My Yahoo to show me the top national and international headlines , atmospheric condition forecasts for San Francisco and a caboodle of other metropolis around the earth , the current time value of my origin portfolio , and the latestGiantsscores ....

May 10, 2007 · 3 min · 550 words · Brian Garrison

Introducing the Macworld Apple TV Superguide

I ’m a bit of an Apple goggle box fan . Long before the Apple TV actually live , I wanted one . I did n’t know what to call it or even quite what its features would be , but I knew I want an Apple merchandise that would take all thestuffon my electronic computer — videos , music , pictures , you name it — and make it available in my living room via an gentle , remote - control - driven interface ....

May 10, 2007 · 3 min · 556 words · Daniel Gutierrez