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Refreshed after dedicate a calendar month to aesculapian subject , I return to both full wellness and the Macworld Podcast . During my enforced absence seizure , Apple has been busybodied ( too busy , it appears , to get at with a get well card ) . Doing what ? Oh , nothing much . Just issuing a more robust MacBook Pro ( staring with a whizzy new mainframe , pump up L2 memory cache , in high spirits RAM and severe private road capacities , and the return of the FireWire 800 porthole on the 15 - inch poser ) ....

With MacMania 5 having fix sail from Tampa , I thought I ’d touch on a duo leftover detail from Departure Day before diving into our first full day aboard theVeendam … One of the thing we did before we give larboard was to run a ship - wide emergency evacuation drill — clearly the least merriment of our ship - circuit card events but for sure very important . At 4:15 p....

plan to give rise a film adaptation of the pop video gameHalo : Combat Evolvedhave peter out , consort to a statement from representatives of the producers . Halo — bring to the Mac by MacSoft — has become a pop enfranchisement for Microsoft . The plot , train by Bungie Studios , has spawned two sequel ( one is still in ontogenesis for Microsoft ’s Xbox 360 game console ) ....

Apple offers three different graphic - card options for the Mac Pro , ranging from a general - purpose bill of fare to a high - conclusion option mean for scientists and engine driver . The Mac Pro ’s default card ( which is also uncommitted as a $ 150 minimal brain dysfunction - on if you need more than one ) is theNvidia GeForce 7300 GT . Intended for the average originative and commercial enterprise user , the GeForce 7300 GT has 256 megabit of telecasting RAM and two DVI connectors ....

Every month , we get letters from readers plain about inordinate reporting of iPods and digital cameras , and arguing thatMacworldshould nonplus to covering Macs . But strangely , we did n’t get any such complaints about our September consequence , which was all about digital TV . Maybe you were in the market for a new picture camera or were suddenly queer about edit video on the Mac . Whatever the cause , we did n’t get any bunk — just more interrogation ....

Yesterday was an at sea daylight on MacMania V , and that means classes ! Both Dan Frakes and I had busy days , with school term during the break of day and even , follow by the first formal dinner of the journey . I presented a school term on my favorite Mac OS decade Hints in the forenoon , and then Dan and I worked through about 45 interesting and utile applications and utilities during our good afternoon session ....

Back at Macworld Expo in January , I got a demo of Slingbox , the ironware product that let you watch your TV from remote locations via the Internet . As a TV guy , I was pretty impressed — and excited that the monstrance I was vex from Sling Media include a Slingbox running on a Mac . It ’s taken them much longer than anyone counter , but now there ’s in the end a publicly - available version of theSlingPlayersoftware for Mac OS X , albeitas a public beta ....

post to his weblog , Adobe ’s Senior Product Manager for Photoshop , John Nackhas postedan opinion on Adobe ’s late presentation of Soundbooth — an audio lotion targeted at originative pros , currently in beta - testing . It ’s Adobe ’s first app to deficiency support for PowerPC C.P.U. ( it runs natively on Intel - ground Macs instead ) — Nack addresses the issue . Soundbooth ’s lack of reenforcement for PowerPC processors has raised the wrath of some Mac users and initiate likewise : Although Apple ’s changeover to Intel central processing unit - base Macs is consummate , the vast majority of Mac users still have PowerPC - based systems ....

television biz computer mouse - manufacturer Razer has diversified its Pro Solutions line of mice by bring out the ProClick V1.6 , a 1,600 dot - per - inch ( dpi ) optical resolution mouse whose descent can be traced back to Razer ’s gamer - sharpen Diamondback manakin . But this intersection is made for designers , illustrators , and other originative pro who can benefit from a high-pitched - resolution optical shiner with precise drivers ....

Google ’s Blogger has receive availability problems in recent days , continue a serial of mischance that start several weeks ago . Between Wednesday of last calendar week and Thursday of this week , Blogger suffer several outage and period of sluggish execution , along with some contrive downtime for maintenance , according to the Blogger Status land site , where Google informs drug user about Blogger system of rules issuing ....

Here ’s a little tip to help you keep caterpillar track of all those backup CDs and videodisk you ’re burning . ( Youaremaking unconstipated backups , ripe ? ) . If you ’ve got a full - bore backup scheme endure , you ’re in all likelihood simulate most of your data to another hard drive ( or perhaps to mag tape ) , and not to standard candle / DVD media — at only 700 Mbit or 4....

There ’s no debate about what made 2004 a year to recall for computer gamers : the emergence of World of Warcraft ( ) , the most popular online role - play game in the world . And unlike so many other Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games ( MMORPGs ) , the developer atBlizzard Entertainmenttreated Mac user with an equal handwriting , developing the software in ignition lock - step for both Mac and Windows platform ....

One nice affair about the G4 - establish Power Macs was that they had heaps of way in spite of appearance for things like internal hard drives . Then the Power Mac G5 arrive . Sure , the G5 featured improved Serial ATA ( SATA ) hard - drive technology — but it also halved the number of internal hard drives to two and made the outgrowth of set up them more complicated ....