OK , it ’s all my fault , I include it . When I wrote about Apple ’s ProCare service program last twelvemonth , I called it “ the good muckle no one ’s talking about ” because of its training constituent . Apparently someone at Apple decide it wastoogood a deal , because last week the troupe uncover a newfangled program called One to One that breaks out breeding from service ....
Back in February , I wrote about Griffin Technology ’s $ 40 lift , a simple laptop computer stall designed to get your laptop ’s screen up to a more ergonomic height while exploit — with an external keyboard and mouse — at a desk . In the resulting discourse of that article in theMacworldforums , referee joelande sky-high recommended APC’sErgonomic Notebook Stand with 4 - Port USB 2.0 Hub(let ’s just call it “ the Stand ” from here on out ) ....
Reports that Microsoft and Yahoo are in talks over a potential attainment or unification have come as anything but a surprise to analyst who question not if , but when , a deal will happen . Yahoo did n’t immediately reply to phone and e - mail service asking for comment . A spokeswoman for Microsoft said the company does n’t point out on rumors . The potential other - stage negotiation over an acquisition , a merger or some other type of deal amount on the heels of Google ’s move last month to snatch up online advertising fireball DoubleClick for $ 3....
The Danish Consumer Complaints Board has release evidence of a manufacturing mar result in power failures in some of Apple ’s iBook G4 notebook computer computers . The board has already ordered the company to refund one Danish client , and expects its findings to tempt cases elsewhere , a spokesman said on Friday . After receiving ten complaints from iBook owners that their machines would no longer set off up , the circuit board commissioned a elaborate sketch of four complaint encounter between April and November 2006 , including a microscopic examination of the faulty automobile ’ motherboards ....
It was harder to tell what the bigger story was to make out out of this week’sopen letter from Steve Jobsoutlining Apple ’s environmental insurance — the fellowship ’s plan for removing toxic chemicals from its products or the fact that a troupe that ’s unremarkably tight - lipped about future ware releases would tap its hands to show specific item about coming - though - unpredicted products . While describing Apple ’s current recycling cause and limn plans to expand its iPod take - back program while rule out or reducing the use of chemicals such as arsenic , quicksilver , and brominate flame retardation , Jobs offered a peek into the future : orchard apple tree plan to premise Macs with LED backlight engineering in 2007 ....
To eliminate overlap in services , Yahoo will close itsYahoo Photosservice in favor of photo divvy up darlingFlickr , acquired by Yahoo a little over two years ago and considered by many a pioneer of the Web 2.0 wave of cyberspace origination . “ People are alter the way they habituate photography , and we have decided to shift our focus consequently . [ Digital photography ] is germinate from its original purpose as a means to save retentiveness into a societal activity that allow people to communicate and connect , ” a Yahoo spokeswoman say via e - chain armour ....
Having lost out to Google in a play to produce Internet advertising ship’s company DoubleClick , Microsoft has initiated a newfangled round of talks to acquire Yahoo , according to published reports Friday . Microsoft and Yahoo have held informal talks in the past , with the U.S. software behemoth do an go for Yahoo that was turn down , according to Friday’sNew York Post , citing unnamed sources . The fresh talks evoke a renewed urgency on Microsoft ’s part to make a deal , the paper said ....
Articles where someone ’s given a set budget and told to outfit an agency or studio or place amusement organisation with the latest and greatest Mac equipment are near and devout to my kernel . That ’s in part because I redact one of the early permutation of this feature for the August 2004 yield ofMacworld , in which we handed Adam C. Engst and Christopher Breen $ 6,000 each in Monopoly money and told them to do some shopping ....
A rough-cut request I see from readers , both via email and in theMacworldforums , is for a way to re-create the path of a file cabinet — for example,/System / Library / CoreServices / Menu Extras / Script Menu.menu — to the Clipboard . Perhaps you ’re trying to explain to someone , via e-mail , exactly where a finical file is , or maybe you want to expend that file path in Terminal ....
A U.S. Union appealingness homage has rejected Vonage Holdings ’ petition that it order a lower court of law to retry a patent - misdemeanor case against the companionship , Vonage confirm Thursday . The VOIP ( voice over Internet Protocol ) service supplier , embroiled in a contravention with Verizon Communications , had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to vacate an early panel finding of fact after a Supreme Court decision this week that is expected to change the way courts look at patent cases ....
Google renamed and upgrade its Personalized Home Page this hebdomad , but one thing the update could n’t shake was a bug that began disturb many users last Thursday and persist until Wednesday . The bug caused the free military service , which lets users change state Google.com into a customize hepatic portal vein , to revert an undetermined issue of pages to their nonpayment setting or to months - old interpretation ....
With Apple ’s yearly shareholder meeting just a hebdomad away , the company ’s current circuit card of director is getting a cold shoulder from a guide advisory firm for institutional investor . Proxy advisory firmInstitutional Shareholder Servicesis recommending that investors withhold their voting for most of Apple ’s current panel at the May 10 shareholder confluence , adduce the stock - option backdating investigating that culminated in the SEC settling with one former Apple administrator while pursuing a case against another ....
Recently , someone leakedthe cryptographic key(a 16 - finger’s breadth hexadecimal figure ) that can be used to decode content on the high definition HD - videodisk data formatting , making it possible to rend HD - videodisk discs — something which has long been potential , though illegal , for conventional DVDs . The story made it to the WWW siteDigg . If you ’re not familiar with the site , it works like this : mass submit story from around the Web and other Digg exploiter give them a thumbs up ( “ digg ” ) or a thumbs down ( “ bury ” ) ....
