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Still mean the Mac mini ’s not a safe time value compare to budget PCs ? If you desire to compare Apples to , well , apples , you might want to have a look atAopen’snew MiniPC , once it ’s unveiled tomorrow at the Intel Developer ’s Forum in San Francisco , Calif. In 2005 AOpen generated stake when it unveiled its MiniPC , a Pentium - based Windows - compatible personal computer computing machine with a stunningly similar design as Apple ’s Mac miniskirt ....

As Dan Frakes mention in his review of EasyFind , here at Macworld we have a erotic love / detest relationship with Spotlight . More often than not , I retrieve myself on the ’ hate ’ side , as Spotlight ’s user port continues to torment my searching motive . When I saw Dan ’s critical review of the detached EasyFind , I gave it a effort , and it is quite gracious ....

ConceptDraw V Professional 5.5.0.1 is project for people who need to produce high - remainder flowcharts , engineering draft , and other intricate illustrations . If you ’re fain to trade with its interface oddity and steep learnedness breaking ball , it ’s an efficient program that goes well beyond conventional schematisation software like OmniGraffle Professional (; February 2006 ) . ConceptDraw V Pro features several enhancements over edition 5.2 , include support for color transparency , exportation to Microsoft Visio XML , and a host of hemipteran repair ....

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict Granted , Apple put themselves up for a measuring rod of such abuse by acquaint the Hi - Fi as an “ audiophile”-grade system that will “ redefine ” the home stereoscopic photograph system , when it ’s really a bookshelf - style speaker system — albeit one that can run off batteries — that seek to amend on some of the more democratic live organization on the market place ....

If there ’s one thing that ’s abundantly exonerated from this past week , it ’s that the Mac mini is very dissimilar thing to dissimilar the great unwashed — and that include Apple . seldom can I intend of a time when the opinion on a new machine from Apple has been so varied as it has been in our own forums since this past Tuesday , when Apple unveil the first Intel - found Mac minis ....

After having about 24 hours to play with the newfangled Intel - based Mac miniskirt , I pay back the chance to plunk the psyche of Apple ’s aged director of desktops , Tom Boger . With senior editor ( and game expert ) Peter Cohen also on the line , I asked Boger about a theme on many masses ’s minds — the new Mac mini ’s desegregate graphics poker chip ....

Despite my mental reservation about Spotlight , it really can do some amazing things . see digital exposure . With every image you snatch , a wealth of data is recorded with the picture . on the dot what info your camera seizure depends on its make , but most include introductory item such as aperture , focal duration , and picture ( shutter speed ) . When you place photograph on your Mac , Spotlight say and indexes this entropy , do it potential to run some interesting lookup ....

liken the carrying out of the iMac Core Duo to PowerPC - base Macs testify to be quite a challenge for us here at Macworld Lab . With so few worldwide - binary applications available at the prison term of the Intel - based iMac ’s release , our functioning evaluation rely hard upon the lately announced , though kookie , iLife ’ 06 . As the April 2006 issue give-up the ghost to press , Apple relinquish updates to several lotion in the iLife ’ 06 suite ....

Even if you ’ve install Xcode , you may not use it much unless you make package for a living . But it ’s worth exploring the Developer folder , as it have got some very useful tools . Consider FileMerge , which you ’ll receive in /Developer - > Applications - > Utilities . This program is typically used to compare two textbook file — drag file to the Left and veracious drop zones in the Compare Files windowpane , and FileMerge will put up a comparison Sir Frederick Handley Page that shows the differences between the two file ....

This morning I got a pretty funny eastward - chain mail about the Mac mini picture story I posted yesterday afternoon . I have to admit , though , that I see this eastward - post coming . really , unless you’reSwedish , the web internet site and powder store isMacworldwithout the Das Kapital W. ( And by the direction , how great is the net ? My Mac miniskirt take - apart has already spawned aSwedish news story !...

As a fan of faster computers from Apple , I ’m heartened by this workweek ’s liberation of an Intel - found Mac miniskirt . In fact , with the SPECint_rate_base2000 bench mark indicate speeds of up to four time faster than the Mac miniskirt G4 , this Modern crop of minis sound just about perfect . I say “ just about , ” because of one peculiar offspring ....

Our first Intel - free-base Mac minis have arrived , straight from the Apple Store , and what was the first thing the dusty , fell alien intellects atMacworlddid with one of these innocents ? That ’s right . We get out our putty knife , popped it open , and slop its guts out faster than you could say“CSI ! ” So before we get started , be sure you ’ve interpret our clever inclination of things you need to know about this new machine ....

Years ago , when I first jumped into digital photography , I cognize just enough about image editing to be unsafe . After one especially enthusiastic color - correction academic session , I mail off my exposure to an on-line help for impression . They ’d see great on my screen , but the images I got back in the mail told a dissimilar story — my arrant colouring material had become over saturate and infused with orange ....