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In another blow to the supremacy of Microsoft ’s Office franchise , Belgium on Friday became the second governmental body to approve the use of the OpenDocument format as a way to interchange authorities text file . By September 2007 , all Belgian Union agency must utilize package that can say paper , spreadsheet , presentations and other types of data filing cabinet saved in OpenDocument ( ODF ) , a free XML filing cabinet format certified as a touchstone by the International Standards Organization ( ISO ) last month ....

Whatever your position on the dandy personal computer vs. Mac question , one affair is beyond disputation : Macs have always had better commercials . ( Actually , has there ever been even one nifty microcomputer telecasting ad campaign ? The original IBM personal computer ads with a Chaplin impersonator , maybe ; the “ Dude , you ’re getting a Dell ” ones were more ineluctable than memorable . )...

The Palm Treo 700p , which includes features present in the 700w but which runs on the conversant and wanton - to - use Palm OS , attempt to propose something for everyone . As a PDA , the 700p is designed to appeal to both consumers and business users , with Es - post and Microsoft Office functionality , a 1.3 - megapixel digital tv camera that shoot better - than - mean cell phone depiction , and MP3 euphony playing software that , when you bring a high - capability SD memory card , might make you reconsider buying an iPod shuffling ....

Have you ever wanted to impress a number of eastward - mail messages in Mail ? you could do so easily ; just retain down Command , click each substance you want to publish , and then weight-lift Command - P. Simple . However , there ’s a downside . Each content will print on a full sail of paper , so if you print four 10 - line atomic number 99 - mail messages , you ’ll waste almost four full sheet of newspaper ....

My 15 - inch PowerBook G4 hard effort bought the farm a few Clarence Day ago . But not to concern — thanks to a comprehensive backup strategy and talented IT professional , I have n’t lost any data I ca n’t well replace . ( What ? You were n’t worried whatsoever ? That ’s not very empathic of you . ) Even better , since I ’m now base in San Francisco as opposed to Los Angeles ( where I was the last time something like this fall out ) , I have access to a nifty many backup systems ....

design for security - witting Mac user , MacScan 2.1 does two things : It scans your hard drive for spyware and other malware that has surreptitiously slipped onto your system . It also cleans up the trace bequeath behind by Web browsing — your internet browser history , hoard , and cooky . But the question is : Do we really need a separate app to do either ?...

Pervasive Software , a U.S. vendor of data base software package , this week foretell it close down its software development subsidiary in Bangalore , India , citing complexity of management of the operation , and increasing employee cost and dollar volume . diligence analysts expect a number of other small software package exploitation or services operations in India of multinationals to either close down down or get transferred to an Amerindic provider ....

Super Collapse was one of the first “ match three ” puzzle games to make a magnanimous splash on the Mac and PC when it debuted a few eld ago . Addictive gameplay and wide-eyed auto-mechanic — the skillful possible combining for a casual puzzler — explains why . Now Super Collapse is back in its third major loop , and it ’s bigger and more ambitious than ever ....

TheEntertainment Software Rating Board(ESRB ) fall in Capitol Hill lawmaker admit Rick Santorum ( R - PA ) , George Allen ( R - VA ) and Mark Pryor ( D - AR ) on Wednesday to support its “ dedication to parents . ” The commitment let in first step that will be undertaken by home retailer to verify matured - rated games are n’t sold to nipper ....

TurboCAD 3D Macintosh has all of the feature article and tools of its 2 - D first cousin , TurboCAD 2D (; September 2006 ) , including the same easy - to - use interface . In addition , TurboCAD 3D has an extensive curing of 3 - D pecker and command that CAD ( electronic computer - assist design ) user will immediately find familiar , such as 3 - 500 primitive , extrude , lathe , sweep , as well as surface and upstanding Boolean operations ....

The formal wisdom is that Macs are protected from most viral calculator attacks , while PCs exist in a direful wild full of danger . But if you use Apple ’s Boot Camp public beta package to instal and operate Windows on your Intel - based Mac , you leave safe dominion . In the yesteryear , if you needed to run some Windows programs , your only choice was Microsoft ’s $ 249 Virtual PC ( ) ....

When Apple released GarageBand in 2004 , the music creation platform target at consumer seemed like just another component in the iLife suite of multimedia system software . But a slight more than two year after that initial release , audio software and hardware Almighty have come out with consumer products of their own . And few make any mystery of the fact that it was GarageBand that animate them to turn over out to this novel audience ....

One sign of OS X ’s overall security savvy is that it has its own work up - in firewall , which is pretty good . But there are many other firewall add - on apps for the Mac , including Brian Hill ’s Flying Buttress 1.4 , Intego ’s NetBarrier X4 , Open Door Networks ’ DoorStop X Security Suite , SustainableSoftworks ’ IPNetSentryX 1.3.1 , and Symantec ’s Norton Personal Firewall 3....