Mac mini-HDTV connection guide

One of the things that makes the Intel - based Mac mini such an attractive media centre of attention is the slimmed - down desktop ’s television output capabilities — just crochet the DVI port up to a high - definition television set , and you could watch the high - def movies stored on your mini the way they were meant to be project . Would that it were that simple ....

July 27, 2006 · 17 min · 3509 words · David Oneill

Notes from the boat

TheMacMania 4.5 cruiseis curve its way back to Civitavecchia , Italy , the porthole city about an hr outside of Rome where we first boarded the ms Noordam . Since we set canvas a petty over a week ago we ’ve visited Monte Carlo , Monaco ; Livorno ( the port metropolis that act as the gateway to Florence and Pisa ) ; Barcelona , Spain ; Mallorca , Spain ; Carthage , Tunisia ; and Palermo , Sicily ....

July 27, 2006 · 5 min · 942 words · Shawn Hernandez

Sid Meier’s Civilization IV

For story and world affairs buffs , there ’s just something greatly likable aboutSid Meier ’s Civilization IV . In this scheme biz , you work up a civilization up from spearmen and trireme to mechanized infantry and battleship . For those unfamiliar with this epic series , the plot grant you to make and evolve a civilisation through the ages ( 4,000 BC to 2050 AD ) , beginning with basic scout units all the manner up to nuclear weapon ....

July 27, 2006 · 7 min · 1350 words · Randall Gray

Something to flip over

While Mac user would prefer that all streaming message on the World Wide Web was encoded in a QuickTime format , the realness is that Windows Media streams are n’t going to go anywhere . What has perish somewhere — if you consider “ oblivion ” a name and address — is Microsoft ’s Windows Media Player for Mac . Microsoft never put much time and technology into the Mac product — or keep it on a par with the Windows version , for that subject ....

July 27, 2006 · 3 min · 453 words · Courtney Russell

The Missing Sync for Sony PSP 1.0.2

The Sony PlayStation Portable ( PSP ) is a versatile system . Unlike its competitor , Nintendo DS , the PSP hardware can also act as a medicine thespian , Web web internet browser , motion picture instrumentalist , digital picture record album , and more . Now Mark / Space has made the PSP even beneficial for Mac users by offering a interlingual rendition of its Missing Sync software system ( ) ....

July 27, 2006 · 6 min · 1102 words · Brianna Ewing

Fix Keyword Assistant in newer iPhoto

Of all the iLife applications , iPhoto is probably the one I practice the most — it superintend thousands of epitome for me , and I rely heavily on keywords to make it well-situated to quickly notice the pictures I require . Unfortunately , Apple ’s support for keywords is quite clunky , make them somewhat tough to use ( add keywords is done in one spot , assign in another , you ca n’t sort the lean , etc ....

July 26, 2006 · 5 min · 973 words · Leah Bender

Intel cuts some processor prices by more than half

Intel trounce prices on some desktop PC microprocessor by more than one-half on Thursday , raise the post against rival Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ) , which cut prices earlier this week . substance abuser should see the price reductions translate into substantially downhearted prices for brawny background microcomputer in coming month . The microprocessor is the most expensive component inside a microcomputer , and both Intel and AMD have rationalize price on some of their most brawny fries ....

July 26, 2006 · 2 min · 405 words · Jessica Cobb

My morning with Intel

This morning I spent time on the Intel campus for the first clip since I went there for a job audience in 1993 . Back then , I packed an Apple laptop computer and wondered if Intel optical maser beams would slide down from the ceiling and knock down my Motorola - power PowerBook into limbo . This metre , I force out my black MacBook to take musical note , knowing that I would be spared from any modern - day equivalent of those ’ XC optical maser electron beam ....

July 26, 2006 · 5 min · 920 words · Tonya Thomas

AMD vows to break Intel’s ‘monopoly grip’

With its acquisition of ATI , Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ) is skip to break Intel ’s “ monopoly grip ” on the chip market by offer more flexibility to PC Maker and moving into emerging markets , accord to an AMD executive . By incorporating ATI technology , AMD is looking to offer chip platforms — admit a central processing unit , a graphics potato chip and chipset — for enjoyment by PC manufacturers , said Thomas M....

July 25, 2006 · 4 min · 717 words · Amber Simpson

Battery power

To work atMacworldis to live with the recognition that even the most innocent conversation about technology can breed an argument that redact the Lincoln - Douglas debates seem like a pocket-size difference of opinion over semantics . That happened to me Tuesday when we were discussing the news that Apple expel a wireless version of its multi - button Mighty Mouse . The topic of this conflict for the long time ?...

July 25, 2006 · 4 min · 645 words · Phyllis Trevino

Enter Aquaman

Christopher Breen , whose iPod- and iTunes - themed rumination ordinarily occupy this space , is currently bobbing around the Mediterranean Sea as part of the latest MacMania cruise . He ’s in for quite a seismic disturbance when he arrives back on dry land . After all , when Chris room the ms Noordam , he populate in a world where the heavy - alloy band Metallica banish the iTunes Music Store and its insurance policy of making individual tracks available for download ....

July 25, 2006 · 4 min · 703 words · Alyssa Snyder

MacBook wrist-saver

There ’s been a bit of a brouhaha around the Mac Web about “ problems ” with Apple ’s MacBook melodic line of notebook computer computers . But as Jason Snell wrote last week , it ’s difficult to figure out what ’s actually a widespread problem and what ’s merely the concerns of a few ( intelligibly ) unhappy hoi polloi , stand from isolated issues , amplified by the echo chamber that is the Internet ....

July 25, 2006 · 4 min · 801 words · Paul Johnson

Macworld Podcast: Living in a Windows World

The August outcome ofMacworlddelves into the Windows earthly concern , looking for way to get your Mac to play nice with thatotheroperating organization ( and vice versa ) . And this installment of the Macworld Podcast come cause : I interviewMacWindows.compublisher John Rizzo , who wrote the August 2006 feature clause survive in a Windows World , about the Department of State of Mac OS X - Windows intercourse ....

July 25, 2006 · 2 min · 320 words · Makayla Orr