Mac OS X Hints – August 2006

Distinguish docked URLs One handy OS disco biscuit feature article is the Dock ’s power to give you one - click entree to web land site . Drag a uniform resource locator to the correct side of the Dock ( or to the bottom , if you orientate your Dock vertically ) , and you produce a fountain icon that you could sink in on to go directly to the Web page ....

July 9, 2006 · 15 min · 3137 words · Curtis Bennett

EBay bans Google payment system

EBay client wo n’t be able-bodied to use the freshly launch Google Checkout military service to buy product , according to the auction Web situation . Google Checkout is now listed among other payment military service such as Netpay.com , Qchex.com , ePassporte.com and BillPay.ie that are not permitted on eBay . The Google offer lets online shopper store reference card and accost information with Google so that they do n’t have to re - move into the same information each time they purchase an item from a unlike Web web site ....

July 6, 2006 · 2 min · 383 words · Lisa Hines

Internet telephony and VoIP: What’s the difference?

If you want to plunge into the world of Internet telephony but opt to use your existing phone — not VoIP software program on your Mac — as your elemental calling gadget , you might conceive subscribing to an net telephone service supplier ( ITSP ) . An ITSP uses your broadband net connection to deliver telephone service to your home or agency , usually at a steeply discounted rate ....

July 6, 2006 · 4 min · 698 words · Denise Hardin

Mac OS X “phones home” with 10.4.7 update

Mac users got a gustation of what its like to run Microsoft Windows as itcame to lightthis week that the recently released update , Mac OS X 10.4.7 , “ phones home ” to Apple servers periodically . refer to as the Dashboard Advisory by Apple , the new feature article ensures client ’s widgets are up to appointment — Apple say there is no transmitting of personal information ....

July 6, 2006 · 3 min · 475 words · Frank Lawson

PhotoKit Color 2.0

Do you wish you could heighten and correct your vividness photographs in Photoshop , but lack the fourth dimension or acquirement to get the resultant role you want ? see no further . PhotoKit Color 2.0.2 from PixelGenius , makes it well-to-do for photographer to apply a wealth of originative effect and people of colour corrections with a minimum of effort . The 2.0 departure of this plug - in includes exciting raw effects and introduces the nonrational PixelGenius Toolbox for previewing and apply them ....

July 6, 2006 · 3 min · 519 words · Michael Davis

WengoPhone Firefox extension 0.68

Most desktop VoIP communicating shaft are stand - alone covering that operate self-governing of other software program on your Mac . But the newest beta version of WengoPhone Firefox Extension , ( 0.68 ) , an extension to the Mozilla Firefox web web browser , allow you tap into the world of VoIP calling from within Firefox . The WengoPhone genus Beta is the first and only web browser - found VoIP product for the Mac ....

July 6, 2006 · 3 min · 468 words · Karen Hall

Widgets calling

As was reported elsewhere on Macworld.com , Apple quietly included a Widget update mechanics in 10.4.7 , the most recent OS cristal 10.4 update . As some of you may echo , I was more than a footling worried when Apple did something similar with the iTunes MiniStore during a purportedly - minor update to iTunes . So I must be going absolutely over the border with this latest incident , good ?...

July 6, 2006 · 4 min · 731 words · Jacob Christian

Apple sees no future for CRTs

LCDs have long been sleeker , lighter - system of weights and more effective than cathode-ray tube , but their heavy price has always hold them back in the retail market . Whether buying a television or a figurer varan , shoppers have been able to purchase a larger filmdom for their money with CRTs . Now Apple has charge that trend by supersede the last CRT - based electronic computer in its product line — the eMac — with a low - price iMac desktop microcomputer ....

July 5, 2006 · 3 min · 581 words · Emma Ray

Epson Perfection V700 Photo scanner

The Perfection V700 Photo digital scanner is a mid - range flatbed electronic scanner with a fragmented personality . It declare oneself up to 4,800 dpi ( dot per inch ) scan for reflective media , like magazines and photographs , but it also features a 2d , furbish up - resolution lens for capturing 6,400 dpi scans of cinema or slide . While the large files you get from high - resolution scanning allow you to create big prints from your transparentness scans , in our test the scanning quality of transparencies was good , but not great ....

July 5, 2006 · 4 min · 742 words · Heather Barber

These highlights brought to you by Parallels

I like learn some summercater on tv set , even more so now that I have a high - definition TV . Hockey , for instance — I can sit through a game even if I do n’t like about the teams involved because it ’s such a fascinating spectacle . I mean , it ’s not just the skill and coordination required to hand and spud a puck , but these people are on ice skates the whole metre ....

July 5, 2006 · 4 min · 718 words · Destiny Gonzalez

VoIP applications

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict Voice over IP , or VoIP , is an come out technology that provide you to apply your broadband Internet connexion to place and receive voice and videophone call . Internet - based calls are less expensive than traditional song ( sometimes they ’re even free ) , and many VoIP - based communication services are compatible with the old - fashioned planetary phone web , so you may practice these fresh VoIP tools to put calls to and receive them from traditional phone numbers ....

July 5, 2006 · 17 min · 3595 words · Victoria Mcbride

Cheap laptop desk

If you ’re the observant type , you may have noticed that over the retiring pair years , fewer and fewer computer manufacturers are calling their portable model “ laptop computer . ” In fact , if you look at Apple’sMacBookandMacBook ProWeb pages , you wo n’t find the wordlaptopanywhere ; instead , you ’ll find frequent custom of the termnotebook . Why is this ? Most in the manufacture agree that it ’s because today ’s portable computersrun so hotthat in reality using them on your lap can be not only uncomfortable , butdownrightdangerous , particularly for man ....

July 4, 2006 · 4 min · 751 words · Heather Harrison

Education graduates to Intel

My magnum piece on the lack of garment - pull in Apple ’s transition to Intel chips get its share of feedback . But I was particularly hit by a commentary sent via eastward - mail from referee who take issue with my statement that “ every snatch of Apple hardware , save for the Xserve and whatever pro screen background will replace the Power Mac , now runs on an Intel processor ....

July 4, 2006 · 5 min · 894 words · Jeffrey Mathis