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TransGaming , developers of the Cider virtualization technology that enable Windows game to run on Intel - based Macs without having to be ported , on Tuesday announced a deal with graphics processor maker Nvidia that promises to work more top - tier microcomputer game to the Mac , with in effect operation . Nvidia does n’t only makes graphic chips that are used in some Mac models . They also developedCg , a high - level 3-D graphics scheduling linguistic communication leveraged by many microcomputer game developers who programme their games using Direct3D , a component of Microsoft ’s DirectX software Programming Interface ( API ) for Windows ....

bid - line enthusiasts know that if you’re able to do something in the regular Mac interface , you’re able to usually do it faster using Terminal . But as of Mac OS X 10.4.6 , Terminal also allow you perform a feat that previously required MBD - on software . Using a obscure program line , you’re able to resize saucer partitions on - the - fly sheet , withoutlosing data ....

Given that today ’s computer screens are much less susceptible to “ screen cauterise - in ” than their forerunner , blind savers have become , for many people , a variety of forget feature in Mac OS ex — most hoi polloi just do n’t take something that work their display ’s pixels anymore . That ’s not to say there are n’t filmdom savers out there that are so good you touch off them just to watch ; there are , and in a future pillar I ’ll talk about some of my favorites ....

We Mac user try a lot about Steve Jobs ’ “ reality distortion field”—the aura of his personal appeal and its sanguine gist on the Apple faithful . If Steven Levy’srecentNewsweekinterviewwith Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is any example , Gates ’ world is pretty distorted too . But I ’m not so certain it has as much to do with personal magnetism as it does with self - illusion ....

CanonandNikonboth managed to importantly increase their share of the U.S. digital still photographic camera market in 2006 whileEastman Kodakdropped from first to third stead , according to estimates from IDC . Canon shipped 6.1 million cameras in the U.S. in 2006 , up more than a million units of 2005 , according to the data point . That gave Canon a 20 per centum market portion and was enough to motivate the camera Jehovah from second to the top spot in the IDC rank ....

By the Book : This article is an extract fromSkin : The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting , Photographing , and Retouching Faces and Bodies , by Lee Varis ( copyright 2006 ; reprinted by permission of Wiley Publishing ) . The days of airbrushing , dye transferral , spotting , and etch are long gone , but the motivation to clean up or enhance photographs has never been greater ....

My comrades , welcome to the bang-up daylight of the grand unification ! At last , all information will flow through the glorious Unity Pipeline to our homes and businesses ! No more atrocious decisions that lease country aside , forced crony against brother , in choosing divine service plan ! As you all well recall , the Great Sundering of the eighties was finally made right on the first day of the New Devolution , which we number from Dec....

rent ’s get this unbowed first : I am not an iPhone justifier , or worshipper , or acolyte . I have held one in my mitt , yes , and it was an gratifying experience . I am very optimistic about the iPhone ’s potential to be a successful product and to change the cellular telephone mart . But at the same clip , the devil ’s in the details — and it seems that we wo n’t have very many details until the iPhone arrives ....

Steve Jobs ’s keynote address at this year ’s Macworld Expo was unlike former keynote in so many ways , from his divine revelation that Apple was absent Computer from its name to the gross absence seizure of new Mac announcements . And the one product he did foretell ( see “ Hello , iPhone , ” page 54 ) was unlike anything Apple ’s done before . understandably , everyone at the fellowship — from Jobs on down — reckon that the iPhone is hold up to be a transformative Cartesian product , one that does n’t just thrust Apple into a new and highly private-enterprise market , but also makes it a serious player , if not a drawing card , in that food market overnight ....

When Steve Jobs pronounce that Apple would change its full line of computers to Intel chip by the destruction of 2006 , he was n’t kidding . The past year has seen a flood of novel Intel - based systems . These unremitting waves of fresh machine have overwhelmed some Mac stalwarts accustomed to waiting years between multiplication of PowerPCs . Our advice : Do n’t sweat it . So what if the Mac you corrupt a calendar month ago is no longer the late and great ?...

Verizon Wireless on Thursday unveiled its first deployments of a faster mobile broadband religious service that multiplies pelt along upstream to the Internet . The carrier announced five areas where Revision A of its EV - DO ( Evolution - Data optimize ) technology is commercially available . Verizon already has EV - DO in places across the country , but in a edition that offer upload fastness of less than 100Kbps ....

After a unshakable flow of special audio Roger Huntington Sessions from the Macworld Expo show floor , the Macworld Podcast returns with a steady episode … that also bechance to let in a peculiar audio school term from the Macworld Expo show base . That academic term featuresPlaylistsenior reviews editor Dan Frakes talking about the notable iPod accessories that debuted at last month ’s Mac swop show . But the bulk of this sequence features news from the here and now — Adobe ’s approaching going ofPhotoshop Lightroom ....

When the topic circles around the shortly - to - be - released Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 these day , much of what I hear in the midsection of my brain is buzz . Literally . There has been so much buzz surroundingLightroomfor so long that it has become hard to focus on what Lightroom actually essay to offer substance abuser thatAdobe ’s other creative appsdon’t . And that ’s particularly true since Lightroom — which sort of seems like it ought to be a Creative Suite app — is being sold independently ....