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Only hour after the Entertainment Software Association ( ESA ) lodge suit in federal Margaret Court , a Louisiana judge has halted a new constabulary that would fine and potentially imprison retailers convict of deal violent video games to nipper . U.S. District Judge James Brady put in position a impermanent injunction that banish Louisiana authorities from enforce the Modern law , which was recently signed into effect by Governor Kathleen Blanco ....

The surge popularity of MP3 medicine players is tug requirement for NAND news bulletin storage chips quicker than provider can keep up , and it could get bad if Apple introduces newfangled mellow - capacity flash - based iPods . gross revenue of portable medium participant will grow from 134.5 million units in 2005 to 187.7 million units in 2006 , according to a study from the market research business firm Gartner Inc....

While there may only be four known viruses for Mac OS X — at least harmonise to antivirus software makerSophos — that does n’t mean that your Mac is impenetrable . There are still plenty of other way for your data to become compromised and with you none the wiser about it . luckily , you could take steps right now to keep your Mac and its datum untroubled — our July 2006 cover story , “ Protect Your Mac , ” offer 18 tips on what you should be doing to protect your data point and privacy ....

As the Mac becomes more democratic , its osmium could well start to pull in the attention of malicious computer virus writers . Installing antivirus software now will not only protect your Mac but also prevent you from passing along Windows - only virus to your Windows - using protagonist and colleagues via e - mail attachments or Office written document . We ’ve taken a close look at three major Mac antivirus programs : Intego ’s VirusBarrier X4 , the open - beginning ClamXav 1....

Camino 1.0.1 , a fleet - footed , lightweight , open reservoir Web web internet browser , is loaded with useful features such as built - in ad and pop - up block , chit , spot - searchable bookmarks , and pause / resume downloading capabilities . The first thing that hit me about Camino was the web web browser ’s bare user user interface and how easy it is to apply ....

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict As someone who works with text for a living , I ’ve always wanted to fit a “ multiple - Clipboard ” utility — one that stores recent contents of the Clipboard — into my work flow . After all , I ca n’t remember how many times I ’ve copy ( or , even worse , cut ) something , intend to glue it elsewhere , then absentmindedly replicate something else , losing the original content ....

Most of you are probably intimate with the Get Info window , which you activate by selecting one or more items in the Finder and then pressing Command - I ( or choosing File - > Get Info ) . This window is useful for things such as checking permissions , Indian file size , file counts for items in folders , changing the Open With coating , and much more ....

The next metre you start yearn for the just erstwhile day of computing , keep this in psyche : In 1995 we had to negociate hundreds of picture file formats , and no two imaging programs spoke the same words . These days , with just a handful of common file type for digital photos , we ’re living on sluttish street . Even so , it ’s rarely obvious which file format is salutary for a given persona ....

We ’ve said it before and we ’ll say it again : Your Mac is the secure personal calculator on the market place . Even though we ’ve had a mates of scares this twelvemonth , there are still almost no Mac viruses . harmonise to research done by Sophos ( a maker of antivirus software ) , at crush time there were only four cognize oculus sinister hug drug viruses , compared with roughly 80,000 on Windows ....

If you ’re shopping for an first appearance - level digital SLR , it ’s sluttish to become confused by the raiment of cameras currently available . The Samsung Digimax GX-1S should be one of your less confusing options , though , because it is very similar to the Pentax * ist D2 . Though the name on the front might read Samsung , the television camera itself has the same sturdy , pocket-sized trunk , it pack the same feature fix , and it delivers the same image quality as Pentax ’s latest entree - level offering ....

Market buzz around Apple Computer sounded again this week , as better news show about chip companies helped interrupt a losing bar on several exchanges . The continuing runaway achiever of the iPod , improve Mac sale , and the planned move to Intel mainframe have help fire IT investor pursuit in Apple . While the Nasdaq Composite Index is about even with its year - ago level , Apple ’s share price is about 50 percentage higher than it was at this time last year ....

As I said in a previous Game Room weblog entry , Mac gaming is in serious trouble — people are n’t buying games like they used to . Readers who commented on the piece noted that cause and effect are n’t inevitably cut and dried . While some admit that market condition have n’t made them run out and purchase new games as they ’re publish , others say there just is n’t a luck that appeal to them ....

Broadly speak , you’re able to use either of two approaches to operate Windows on an Intel Mac : dual - boot ( using Apple ’s Boot Camp software ) or virtualization ( using third - political party software system such as Parallels Desktop or Q ) . In this selection fromTake Control of Running Windows on a Mac , I discover these two glide path and help you choose which path to take ; I also name the two major virtualization choice in some detail ....