Adobe unveils Photoshop Elements 4.0

Adobe on Monday will uncover the latest going of Photoshop Elements 4.0 for Mac , the ship’s company ’s consumer - level photo - editing app . Elements 4.0 include many newfangled feature that will help consumers with their everyday pic penury . Adobe also said the applications programme was not being released as a Universal Binary for Intel Macs because of time constraint . Many of the tools include in the new acquittance allow Elements substance abuser to accomplish tasks that would have necessitate painstaking employment in the past times ....

February 26, 2006 · 5 min · 1022 words · Amy Mcintosh

Easy file sending

Back in December 2004 , I talked about a new utility program , then in beta , design to simplify the task of copy files between Macs . Now officially give up , 10base - t Interactive’sDropCopy 1.01 (; free for personal use ; $ 25 site licence ) has ameliorate significantly and has become one of my favorite Mac OS X public utility . Although Mac OS X ’s Bonjour ( formerly Rendezvous ) engineering makes it relatively easy to connect two local Macs together for the function of sharing file , you still have to set up Personal File Sharing and then manually connect from one Mac to the other , providing your name and password when motivate ....

February 26, 2006 · 5 min · 987 words · Linda Golden

First Look: First Look: Adobe Photoshop Elements 4

By summate pro - level tools while maintain a surprisingly low toll , Adobe ’s Photoshop Elements 4 is an important acclivity for any digital photographer who does n’t want to — or but can’t — spend hundreds of dollars on a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS2 . The $ 89 Elements typically invites comparisons to Apple ’s free iPhoto mental image organizer and editor program . But a more disposed comparison is between Elements and Photoshop itself ....

February 26, 2006 · 7 min · 1342 words · Julie Orr

PMA: Apple shows Intel native Aperture 1.1

Apple is showing an updated variation of its professional photography workflow software , Aperture at the Photography Marketing Association ( PMA ) show in Orlando , Florida . In addition to being Intel - aboriginal , Aperture 1.1 also boasts significant fastness increases on both the PowerBook G4 and the Intel processor . Kirk Paulsen , Apple ’s senior director , market development professional applications , tell Macworld on Sunday that Aperture is being shown on the young MacBook Pro and iMac ....

February 25, 2006 · 4 min · 771 words · Cindy Gordon

MacBook Pro Reviewer’s Notebook

After two week away from the government agency , I returned to a brewing storm : our first MacBook Pro models arrived just as I did , and I was bug to critique them . After 24 hours or so , I had enough experience to make some initial judgment ; after four days ( and a huge amount of science lab testing courtesy Jim Galbraith and Jerry Jung ! ) , we ’ve finally got a full review ....

February 24, 2006 · 13 min · 2699 words · Morgan Williams

MacBook Pro/1.83GHZ and 2.0 GHz

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict When Apple introduced the MacBook in May , it bump the mainframe speed on its 15 - inch MacBook Pro model . This model meet its processor jumping to a 2GHz Intel Core Duo chip from 1.83GHz . Other than that change — plus a glistening screen option — it ’s the same mannikin we prove in our May 2006 reexamination . It ’s got a new name on the outside and a unexampled processor on the interior , but the MacBook Pro is in many ways indistinguishable from its precursor , the 15 - in PowerBook G4 ....

February 24, 2006 · 17 min · 3436 words · Natalie Washington

Analysts: Late Universal apps won’t stall Intel shift

As MacBook Pro laptops arrived this hebdomad , drug user of the first Intel - powered Mac portables begin firing up their new political machine for the first time . What theyhaven’tbeen able to do , however , is get translation of some pretty mellow - visibility professional applications that consort natively on the MacBook ’s Intel Core Duo cow chip . And , according to the public dictum from software Almighty such as Adobe and Microsoft , they should n’t expect cosmopolitan - binary version of those plan to come out any time shortly ....

February 23, 2006 · 9 min · 1731 words · James Rodriguez

Instant image preview

Last hebdomad I covered NuFile , which fulfills a feature request from many former Windows users : the ability to mightily - click to make a newfangled file in Mac OS X ’s Finder . Another request I see frequently from Windows - to - Mac whipper is for a way to quick preview images files in the Finder . A couple years back , I wrote about QuickImage CM ( ) , a contextual carte du jour quid - in that countenance you consider — and even edit — picture file in the Finder , but some hoi polloi palpate that even QuickImage CM is too inconvenient ....

February 23, 2006 · 3 min · 634 words · John Miller

No Adobe… no problem?

Elsewhere on this land site , my colleague Jim Dalrymple babble out to an array of tech industry analyst about whether or not they ’re concerned that gamy - profile pro apps such as Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office are n’t available in Intel - native kind and wo n’t be any time soon . The analyst ’ chemical reaction to this ostensibly alarming bit of news ? A collective oscitance ....

February 23, 2006 · 6 min · 1190 words · Kathy Mcdonald PhD

Save color profiles when fast user switching

Fast user switching ( accessible from Login Options in the Accounts System Preference pane ) make believe it easy to keep two or more user logged in to a Mac at the same time . alternatively of enter and out when you need to flip accounts , you may flip between them with a quick icon fall into place in the menu stripe . This is Brobdingnagian timesaver for people who want to use more than one account — family member , mass giving presentations , user seek to debug their main account , and even author who take screenshots for articles and blogs ....

February 23, 2006 · 5 min · 943 words · Adam Baker

Analysts: Mac OS X malware merits education, caution

LEAP - A. Inqtana - A. Safari preference defect . It ’s been a toughened hebdomad for stalwart Mac supporter who crow about the platform ’s certificate compare to Windows . While the Mac remains a very secure and unchanging platform , these outcome demonstrate the motive for increased user awareness , Department of Education and security , according to several security analysts polled byMacworld . And the motivation behind these recent security incidents is money , some said ....

February 22, 2006 · 5 min · 1033 words · Sherry Mccarty

As court case looms, RIM and NTP fight war of words

With the long - escape patent infringement lawsuit over BlackBerry wireless e - mail serving prim to go to unwritten arguing before a federal judge Friday , parties in the case are taking the concluding hour to escalate a state of war of countersign via press expiration . NTP Inc. issued a instruction this sunrise enunciate that Research in Motion Inc. , ( RIM ) which provides BlackBerry service for nearly 4 million U....

February 22, 2006 · 4 min · 686 words · Ashley Chan

First Look: MacBook Pro: First day, first Lab tests

Our first MacBook Pros arrived yesterday — three 2GHz poser buy with our own coin — and the testing started immediately . Macworld Lab has been churning away on benchmark testing , and we ’ll carry a review with complete in - deepness result later this week . In the meantime , I ’ve been using one of the other MacBook Pro systems as my principal system for about a Clarence Day now ....

February 22, 2006 · 9 min · 1745 words · Jessica Hoffman