Analysis: Will Apple TV be bigger than iPhone?

Apple TV is n’t the first Cartesian product to accumulate , manage and play on TV picture that was download to desktop computers . But then , the iPod was n’t the first portable digital audio histrion . Not amazingly , then , some industriousness expert say Apple TV , due to be let go this month , will be a Brobdingnagian iPod - like succeeder , doing for digital video what the iPod did for sound ....

March 18, 2007 · 8 min · 1639 words · Amanda Sandoval

DoorStop X Security Suite 2.0

When I last review Open Door Networks ’ DoorStop X Security Suite ( ) , I did n’t find much wrong with the suite ’s Firewall program . It was potent , good , and stable , and it made OS X ’s built - in firewall easy for almost anyone to care . I ’m proud of to note that with this new upgrade , nothing has changed in that regard ....

March 18, 2007 · 4 min · 720 words · Wesley Turner

More on iPod batteries

Reader George Garner piggybacks on last Friday ’s Mac 911 entering , iPod and over - charging , to relate his tale of iPod woe . He writes : First , a correction . The iPod miniskirt was lay off in September 2005 , so yours is at least a yr and a half previous . If you play and file the thing constantly , it ’s possible that you ’ve exhaust the life of its stamp battery ....

March 18, 2007 · 4 min · 647 words · Robert Johnson

iConcertCal 1.1

With Daylight Saving Time in essence so early this class , music lover can be forgiven for remember ahead to a favorite summertime - even tradition : concerts . Chances are , at least a few of your best-loved melodic acts are coming to your area to do live under the stars ( or the stage lights ) . But how to you observe out when ? One clever elbow room is iConcertCal ’s eponymous iTunes plug - in , iConcertCal 1....

March 15, 2007 · 5 min · 1032 words · Jessica Rodriguez

Redline

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict If pauperization for Speed or Gran Turismo are the kind of game you bought a PlayStation 2 for diddle , you ’re not going to discover a lot to appreciate inRedline . In fact , you ’ll probably hate it . But on its own merits , this motorcar racing game from Ambrosia Software has a lot to like . Redline puts you behind the steering wheels of a variety of real - globe cars ranging from a VW Golf all the elbow room up to a Lamborghini Diablo , with plenty in between ....

March 15, 2007 · 6 min · 1100 words · Phillip Collins

Do Tiger updates go to 11?

In this time of minimal Apple news — hurry along now , Apple TV — you ’re bound to see a great deal of speculation about what the company has in the whole kit . Even when the companydoeshave some newsworthiness to announce . OK , so a maintenance update for OS X 10.4 does n’t precisely load down the same wallop as a set - top boxful that streams movies from your computer to your TV or an Apple - branded cell phone , but it ’s still a touchable ware that masses can download and install and put through its paces ....

March 14, 2007 · 4 min · 691 words · Christina Farley

NetworkWorld: IEEE approves next 802.11n draft

The IEEE 802.11n Working Group this week approved draft 2.0 of the standard , paving the way for 100+Mbps wireless LAN products as betimes as this summertime . Just over 83 percentage of working chemical group members cast their vote to O.K. the draft , well over the minimal 75 percentage needed . The vote indicates that after more than a year of often acrimonious debate , the mathematical group has at last coalesced behind the core technology ....

March 14, 2007 · 2 min · 369 words · Ryan Smith

Pennsylvania university pulls PC plug, goes all-Mac

John Wilkes Universityannounced Wednesday that it has root for the plug on PC in favour of Macs , say the move — which actually commence last class — will save the Pennsylvania liberal arts college more than US$ 150,000 while still countenance students and faculty continue to operate Windows applications . Touted by Apple as one of the first college to mandate a campus - wide chemise from Windows PCs to Macs , the Wilkes - Barre , Pa....

March 14, 2007 · 3 min · 578 words · Michele Rice

802.11n, Format War, and Dr. Who

Man , this position isnice . Welcome to the first installment of the new , improvedGadgetbox blog . Those of you who ’ve been follow our antics thus far know the drill : Gadgetbox institute you the a la mode in gizmos , contrivance , gear , games , and other and assorted technological development beginning with the letter ‘ G. ’ Looking for the latest on the Gopher communications protocol ?...

March 13, 2007 · 4 min · 773 words · Charles Todd

Apple could use flash memory in mini-notebooks

A Modern mini - notebook design from Apple could use fast - boot flash memory instead of traditional hard discs , fit in to an analyst report . deputise solid state computer storage for whirl phonograph recording could admit a notebook PC to boot up as tight as a smartphone or mobile medicine player , and also go battery living . Those advantages have already attracted other IT trafficker to explore a greater reliance on flash computer memory ....

March 13, 2007 · 3 min · 560 words · Matthew White

Charges against HP’s Dunn dropped

A judge push aside the criminal subject against former Hewlett - Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn on Wednesday . The California Attorney General ’s place state earlier Wednesday that Dunn and three other defendants — Kevin Hunsaker , Ronald DeLia and Matthew DePante — would plead hangdog to misdemeanor tally in the council chamber spy casing . But in a late affirmation , it admitted error . Dunn did not figure any plea to the charges , the Attorney General ’s office said ....

March 13, 2007 · 4 min · 757 words · Lori Perez

Macworld Podcast: PMA, Game Developers Conference

The Macworld Podcast hits the road this week , visiting a two trade shows of interest to dissimilar section of Mac users . Or at least , our guests on this sequence did . We ’re link up by senior feature film editor program Kelly Turner , who spend last week at thePMA showin Las Vegas — think of it as sort of a Macworld Expo for the digital photography crowd ....

March 13, 2007 · 3 min · 513 words · Corey Brown

Combine PDFs 2.1 and PDFLab 2.0.3r2

PDF has become one of the most pop text file formats for distributing selective information , and for good reasons : Everyone can read PDFs for free , you do n’t ( by and large ) require to worry about whether or not the recipient has particular fonts installed , and you have control over precisely how the recipient role will see the papers ’s contents . On the other hand , PDFs are largely scan - only to the receiver ....

March 12, 2007 · 6 min · 1096 words · Jonathan Phillips