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The video franchise cognize asLaw & Order — presently , I retrieve there are about 19 versions with 625,000 episodes in syndication — occasionally teases an upcoming instalment with the phrase “ ripped from the headlines ! ” I imagine the intent is to get us all delirious about how nearly this as - yet - unobserved episode is based on some actual issue . I ’m not sure about you , but when I hear it , the first thing I imagine is “ Geez , yet another week where the writers could n’t come up with something unequaled ?...

Cisco Systems has given Apple a further extension phone on the deadline to respond to its lawsuit worry the iPhone name , the party said late Thursday . Apple was hit with a trademark infringement lawsuit from Cisco Systems the 24-hour interval after it unveiled a new cellphone earphone under the name iPhone at January ’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco . Cisco says its Linksys division owns the trademark on “ iPhone ” and file a lawsuit in Federal District Court for Northern California assay an enjoinment against Apple using the name ....

The large performance benefits of SATA engineering have never been more apparent than with the G - RAID miniskirt . This portable speed title-holder looks like a shrunken translation of the troupe ’s full - size G - RAID framework , right down to the Oxford 924 controller . Featuring an atomic number 13 chassis designed to mix in with a Mac Pro or G5 tower , this fast — but pricey — triple - port , portable foray packs enough power to handle the heftier data - juggling tasks typically set aside for desktop drives ....

Steve Jobs ’ iPhone demo at Macworld Expo in January shake the sign , bar the presses and discomfit the voguish - earpiece status quo . Yes , Jobs changed the worldly concern . Again . Hiskeynotewas so crazily great that five weeks afterward , we almost forget one important fact : TheiPhonedoesn’t exist — at least as a shipping mathematical product . Neither you nor I has ever so much as rival an iPhone ....

In OS X 10.4 , one of Address Book ’s features is the gentle exportation of contacts tovCards — just drag and cast off any one contact ’s name from Address Book to your Desktop ( for instance ) , and a young vCard will be created for that contact . you may then import this vCard into any applications programme that supports the standard , including Entourage and Outlook on Windows ....

Apple exhaust nine software update on Thursday that make adjustment for newfangled Daylight Saving Time , address takings during two certificate investigator ’ ego - proclaimed “ Month of Apple Bugs , ” and fix bugs in Final Cut Pro . The fix are available now via Mac OS X ’s built - in Software Update utility . Daylight Saving Time changes Five of the updates release Thursday covernew Daylight Saving Time rulesput into place for 2007 ....

Microsoft has unveil a public beta of its MSN Soapbox television - upload avail , its competitor to Google ’s popularYouTube service . The armed service , which Microsoft unveiled last September , has been available to beta quizzer only by invitation for several month . But now anyone can examine out the serve by cash in one’s chips tothis vane site , reports the theLiveSide web log , which cross Microsoft ’s Windows Live cyberspace services ....

The practice of manipulating stock options Hiram Ulysses Grant to make them more favorable has come back to repair yet another rhythm of high - tech executives . A former Monster Worldwide administrator pleaded shamefaced in New York Thursday , just a twenty-four hour period after the beginner of Take - Two Interactive Software pleaded guilty to a state felony related to backdate . Myron Olesnyckyj , Monster ’s former ecumenical counsel , faced charges of surety fraud and conspiracy in connection with the backdating of 1000000 of dollars ’ worth of employee caudex option Grant at the on-line recruitment serving company ....

Reader Jeremey West dropped me a line a couple week back with a very specific petition : Ah yes — my ongoing search for iCal calendars that are relevant to my finical interests and pursuit . Here ’s the February 2006 post containing my original bemoaning as well as the follow - up containing a do - it - yourself AppleScript solution . I wrote Jeremey back , mumbling something about how I ’d probably get around to building a new calendar once pitchers and backstop started reporting to spring education inner circle ....

Thanks to Apple chief operating officer Steve Jobs , digital right management has dominated much of the news in the preceding calendar week . And it ’s the focus of this edition of the Macworld Podcast . But before that , we ’re joined by Glenn Fleishman in a word with Macworld executive editor Dan Miller on the before long - to - be - finalize 802.11n wireless networking standard ....

exploiter of pageboy layout software like QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign who frequently exercise with long documents are all too intimate withstyle sheets : pull through text attributes , such as typeface , size , colour , kerning , lead , justification and more , that get automatically hold to stoppage of capacity . They ’re an incredible clock time - rescuer and make for a consistent document appearance . The usefulness of style sheet does n’t block up with text though ....

Microsoft has harmonize to settle a multimillion dollar case brought by thousands of Iowa consumers and businesses who say the companionship ’s anticompetitive practices forced them to give hyperbolic price for software program including Microsoft ’s Windows , Word and Excel . The case made wave in the Mac community in December when the land of Iowa presented as grounds memos from James Allchin , Microsoft ’s Windows development gaffer , who suppose that Microsoft had “ lose sight ” of client ’ needs and that if he were not a Microsoft employee , he ’d buy a Mac ....

Many of the requests for gem I get from readers come in the class of , “ Do you know of any mode to do such - and - such ? ” But I ’m now and then require questions more along the lines of “ Have you found a successor for … ? ” It seems that with all the modulation the Mac platform has undergone over the preceding 10 , a clean number of older applications have gone the way of the Newton ....