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Apple ’s iMac for Education ca n’t quite match the performance of the more full - featured Core Duo - establish iMacs . But the 1.83GHz machine easily tops the PowerPC - based eMac in Macworld Lab testing . The desktop designed for classrooms also earns a pass mark by out - execute the MacBook that sports the same processor and unified graphics exercise set - up . Apple closed the Word of God on PowerPC - base offerings for educators earlier this month when it supervene upon the 1....

Frequent Mac Gems readers know that we ’re both both fans and critics of Spotlight , Tiger ’s modern lookup technology . Most of our ill revolve around Spotlight ’s port — it ’s more difficult than it should be to perform simple search ; certain types of more advanced searches are inaccessible to the distinctive exploiter ; and the listing of results you get can be difficult to work with ....

buoy up by ever increasing lading of Macintosh computers , Apple has quieted its Intel passage detractors by post doubled - digit grocery store share increases . Two market research firms have pegged Apple ’s growing at over 15 percent with one giving them a 16 pct increase . With Mac shipments rising from 655,000 to 760,000 twelvemonth - over - year for the 2d one-quarter , Apple ’s U.S. market jumped from 4....

We ’re a little more than two week from Apple ’s Worldwide Developer Conference , and already the rumors are fly about what Steve Jobs plans to foretell during his August 7 tonic ( besides the already schedule O X 10.5 preview ) . The live rumor this week : ThinkSecret ’s study thatApple will start offering picture show rentals via the iTunes Music Store . The prognostication moved from the rumor web site to the mainstream media chop-chop , asthe San Francisco Chronicle , the Houston Chronicle , and others all picked up the story ....

reel from recent layoff and a retardation in the growth of planetary personal computer sales , Intel on Wednesday send profit of $ 885 million for the second quarter , less than half of the $ 2 billion it earned in the same period last year . Intel , of Santa Clara , Calif. , listed lucre of 15 cents per share on revenue of $ 8 billion for the tail finish July 1 , down from 33 cent per share on revenue of $ 9....

As you may call back , I was the forged sort of holidaymaker Tuesday — unlearned in the customs duty of the local universe and slightly vexed that this same population could n’t see its mode clean-cut to do things The American Way and drip down loose broadband from the vault of heaven . Now that I ’ve worked through the absolute majority of my connectivity issues ( as well as ordered three complete meals without once pointing and grunting ) I am The Man Who , in full poetize in the means Things Are , Has a little prompting to Make ....

Along with bundle inst noodles , supernumerary - farseeing bedsheets and photos of loved ones before heading to college in a few calendar week , U.S. students may consider add portable medium players to their higher - teaching tilt . Boston - area universities are among those progressively integrating podcasting into the schoolroom technology mix . The pedantic role of podcasts is proving disputatious . Some professors argue that scholar will be discouraged from attending class if lectures are made usable for downloading , while others are not keen on being recorded ....

With the rise of the cyberspace , and the wide accessibility of “ beta ” software ( nigh everything Google releases , for illustration , is tagged “ beta ” ) , we ’ve all come to expect betas to be comparatively milled and functional ware . That typically holds true withThe Mozilla Organizationand Firefox . Betas of the popular Web web browser app are highly publicized and wide downloaded without much thinking given to the fact that the computer software may still be a body of work in progress ....

As I ’ve previously write , I have some issues with Spotlight . That does n’t stand for , however , that I never use it . In especial , I use the Spotlight ’s Finder hunting more often than the full - louse up Spotlight lookup . As long as I ’m comparatively specific about what I ’m looking for , the results are unremarkably relatively quick and relevant ....

For anyone who ’s ever reckon Jimi Hendrix was singing,“’scuse me while I osculate this guy,”this is skilful news . Gracenote — the company that currently supplies track information for iTunes — has signedlicensing agreements with dozens of the world ’s euphony publishers , include John R. Major such as BMG Music Publishing , Universal Music Publishing Group , and Sony / ATV Music Publishing . That arrangement give Gracenote pass approach to the lyrics to more than a million songs ....

Nova Development , newspaper publisher of Print Explosion and other Mac software , have announced that they ’re the undivided retail newspaper publisher ofParallels Desktopfor Macintosh , the virtualization software that enables Intel - based Macs to run Windows alongside Mac osmium X. The retail software cost $ 79.95 . Parallels Desktop was released in June after an extensive public genus Beta test . The software has been well received as an alternative to Apple ’s Boot Camp , which requires substance abuser to reboot their Macs into Windows XP first ....

All this week , we ’ve been sharing our favorite low - cost software of all meter — lean 78 programs that palm everything from enhancing OS X to serve you easily deal files among Macs . Let ’s wrap things up with 10 net favourite that will enable you to work more profitably , analyze more in effect … and muff off some steam with a nice game of patience ....

Last calendar week I did n’t take my e - postal service . For an full week — the first such week I ’ve had since May 2000 — I was without my laptop . I went on vacation , up into theSierra Nevada mountains , toThe Lair of the Bear . It was peaceable , the kids had a great prison term , and we meet a whole bunch of courteous people ....