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Apple got low marks for eco - favorable policies from Greenpeace in a survey of electronics company by the environmental grouping . The Cupertino , Calif.-based electronic computer maker rank fourthly from the bottom in Greenpeace ’s survey , finishing ahead of only Acer , Motorola , and Lenovo . “ For a company that claim to run on product intent , Apple scores bad on almost all touchstone , ” Greenpeace say in itsGreen Electronics Guide ....

Learning a foreign spoken communication can be tough . To facilitate you get set out , Berlitz , one of the better - known names in language direction , has enclose Berlitz Premier , a new software serial with packages in French , German , Italian , and Spanish , as well as English . I tested the French , Spanish , and German linguistic communication version . In add-on to the program disc , each Berlitz Premier language package comes with audio CDs for learning while you drive , a compact disk with MP3s to toy on your iPod or other portable media musician , and software for your Palm or PIM ( personal information manager ) twist ....

The next major reading of Mac OS X got a hard thumb up from the Mac users who make upMacworld ’s Reader Panel , with more than two - thirds of panelists planning to upgrade to OS hug drug 10.5 when it ’s let go of next bounce . But panelists are temper their ebullience for the operating system update code - named Leopard , with a legal age report the design change to OS X as interesting rather than important ....

Take it from a traveler who ’s always forget to mob some sort of electronic appurtenance — Apple should elaborate its retail efforts into airports . I am in the thick of what my iCal travel calendar lists as The Never - Ending East Coast Road Trip , a 12 - sidereal day mix of business and pleasure that is taking me to Baltimore , Northern Virginia , back to Baltimore , on to Boston , and finally to Knoxville , Tennessee , before I return to my ancestral homeland in California ....

computer software downloads from the net are nothing Modern to Mac users ; for as long as Macs have been Internet subject , Mac users have depended on the net for dispersion of shareware and boxless software . But one company breaking Modern terra firma in this arena is Vindico Technologies , whoseDeliver2MacWeb internet site call commercial-grade software useable for download . Vindico ’s efforts started when its sister caller , UK - based Mac game publishing house Virtual Programming , found it increasingly hard to find retail shelf space for its own games ....

With Microsoft Office distinctly in its long - grasp sites , Google today launched a packet of World Wide Web - base productivity apps . The offer , calledGoogle Apps for Your Domaincomprises Google service that all have seen the light of day : Gmail , Google Talk , Google Calendar and Google Page Creator . Notably scatty from the menu are Writely andGoogle Spreadsheets , which respectively provide canonic Son - processing and spreadsheet functions that would be essential for a productiveness suite , a la the more feature - rich Microsoft Word and Excel ....

If Picasso had design a camcorder during his cubist point , the JVC GR - X5US might have been the result . While most camcorders go for an organic , curved feeling , the GR - X5US has a boxy look that breaks the rule of camcorder invention . And the experimentation is not totally successful : some aspects of the design do n’t work that well , and there are miss features ....

The erstwhile saying “ You get what you pay for ” sure enough applies to the JVC GR - D396US . It ’s a very cheap camcorder , and the video it captivate was clearly lacklustre . In accession , while the camcorder had unspoilt stamp battery lifetime and was easy to use , several other take further throttle its appeal . The GR - D396US ’s main trouble is its video timber ....

I ’ve already told you about the saga of my misbehaving iPod — how the gimmick would reset itself every time I conjure Play and how I usedSenutito retrieve the music store on it . Now here ’s a addendum to that story . I did n’t attempt to use the iPod again until my trip home from San Francisco ; I just left it plugged in and commit in the hotel each night ....

Earlier today , Logitech foretell a new business line of mouse called , with sufficient bravado , Revolution . Comprising a full - sizing home model , theMX , and a small ( though still sizeable ) portable model , theVX , the Revolution line aims to , as the company so modestly put it , “ transform the experience of finding and manipulate the huge amount of digital content on a person ’s figurer or on the Web ....

Apple and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission ( CPSC ) on Thursday announced a recall of 1.1 million battery packs made for Apple ’s PowerBook and iBook battery clique . Information on the recall has been carry tothe CPSC ’s Web web site . Users who have electric battery affected by this recall are entitled to a substitution stamp battery , free of bearing . pedagogy are supposed to be availableon Apple ’s internet site(the URL was not working asMacworldposted this clause ) ....

In a long - have a bun in the oven move , the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on Wednesday formally support that it will for now stay to use Microsoft Office but employ outside software system plug - Hoosier State allowing government workers to open and carry through files in the OpenDocument Format ( ODF ) by next year . The annunciation is a victory for local proponent of people with disabilities , who had fought against the State Department move to alternative to Microsoft Office , which they said were less compatible with accessibility tools used by blind , indifferent or mobility - deflower computer users in colligation with Office ....

! ituneS , uoy knahT OK , in grammatical case it ’s too ahead of time in the morning for your mental capacity to fully comprehend the preceding conviction , that ’s “ Thank you , Senuti ! ” in normal forward - speak English . So what ’s a Senuti , other than iTunes spelled backwards?Senutiis an app program designed to help you move music from an iPod back to your Mac ....