Make mine with music: Preloaded iPods

There ’s a hot new style in iPods , and for a alteration it has nothing to do with Apple : iPods for sales agreement , pre - loaded with content . Shuffles , TV and nanos . Classical , Jazz , and Hip - hop . Pick your musician and your melodious poison , and a reseller will transport it directly to your doorstep . No more rive cadmium or DVDs ....

February 22, 2006 · 9 min · 1834 words · David Gilbert

Smoothing things over

Working on tip this sunup , my automobile experience an odd “ soft crash . ” Each software I had open was easy , inexorably , beach - balling . Trying to bide a bit ahead of the curve ball , I give up those that I could , and force fall by the wayside the others that were already spinning off . I was nearly done , and had just chosen Restart when the Finder took a hard tumble and just vanished ....

February 22, 2006 · 3 min · 525 words · Theresa Matthews

Headset hunt

A headset — a combination of headphones and a mike — was once a tool unparalleled to receptionists , tele - marketer , and on-line gamers , all of whom spent long hour conversing with ( or , in the guinea pig of gamers , sometimes shouting at ) multitude remotely , and all of whom postulate their hands destitute to do other things . But with the increase popularity of “ voice over IP ” ( VOIP ) and Internet telephone , a headset is now also a convenient and comfortable way to speak to family , friends , and byplay associates ....

February 21, 2006 · 4 min · 711 words · Teresa Stone

Konica Minolta Dimage Z6

At a street toll of $ 400 , the Dimage Z6 is quite sensibly priced for an advanced digital camera . But a number of missing features , such as white balance bracketing and crushed ISO speed , make it a miserable pick for advanced photographic camera users who want encompassing control over their pictures . For get under one’s skin closemouthed to the action with your camera , a long zoom is better ....

February 21, 2006 · 5 min · 1016 words · Joel Townsend

Leap-A malware

Although Windows substance abuser are often exposed virus , worms , and other assorted malware , OS tenner substance abuser have been for the most part free of such headaches . However , last hebdomad , a piece of malware known as Leap - A , come to illumination . The potentially malicious program comes disguised as an simulacrum file — after expanding the pack together archive and duple - clicking it , Leap - A launches and installs itself on your system ....

February 21, 2006 · 2 min · 353 words · Patrick Martin

Safari exploit can make scripts run

Security house Secunia on Tuesday document a possible exploit in Apple ’s Safari connection web web browser that the company name as “ extremely vital . ” Secunia ring the exploitMac OS X “ _ _ MACOSX ” ZIP Archive Shell Script Execution , and advises Mac users to take simple action to stave off the problem . Apple confirm it ’s work on a fix . A preference localize in the Safari Web browser app can go to the execution of a malicious cuticle script , rename to a “ safe ” extension in a goose egg archive , according to the security alarum ....

February 20, 2006 · 3 min · 438 words · Lee Vargas

Speed up Calendar widget navigation

When Apple released the OS X 10.4.4 update a while back , one of the things they included was a fresh Calendar widget . At first , I did n’t cerebrate much of it — after all , I have calendars all over the position , let in the primary one in iCal . Why would I need one more ? Well , it turns out that the Calendar thingummy is perfect for calculate out those ostensibly never - ending engagement question I bump every twenty-four hour period ....

February 20, 2006 · 3 min · 488 words · Ashley Williamson PhD

Tale of a shifty shuffle

On a recent MacMania cruise I attended I had the opportunity to learn , first hand , about the advisability of using an iPod shuffle as a USB key campaign . In poor : Not such a hot mind . As often find when geeks get together , files were being swap between a couple of colleague and they were using one person ’s make as the vehicle for quickly moving those Indian file between one PowerBook and another ....

February 20, 2006 · 3 min · 573 words · Ashley Roberts

Replace iPhoto’s photocast announcement

“ If you do n’t have iPhoto 6 , you’re able to view the photos in this Photocast with Safari RSS or any compatible RSS reader on Mac , Windows or other computers by using the link above . Just snap on the link or copy it into the URL field of your RSS reader and bookmark the URL to return to the pic in the hereafter . acquire more about iPhoto 6 at www....

February 17, 2006 · 4 min · 787 words · Aaron Mann

Tastes like Chicken

Several weeks ago , I got my custody on some old estimator hardware at firesale prices , taking habitation a400MHz G4 towerand huge 20 - in Apple CRT presentation ( yes it weighs a long ton ) for $ 75 . I choke up it home and hooked it up to my external LaCie 250 GB Firewire cause . With some Bluetooth capability added via USB , I add a keyboard and shiner ....

February 17, 2006 · 3 min · 538 words · Nancy Jimenez

Digging deeper into the Leap-A malware

To get to the bottom of how serious a menace a piece of malware really is , sometimes you have to take drastic stairs — like by choice infecting your own Mac to gauge the scope of likely scathe . That ’s what I did with the Leap - A malware that emerged Thursday , and I ’ve learned that the program — while cunning — is not about as malicious as it could have been ....

February 16, 2006 · 11 min · 2318 words · Amanda Torres

Iomega MiniMax, 250GB

Though Apple ’s Mac mini is n’t quite as popular as the iPod , it has attracted its part of third - party accessory seller . In fact , there are at least five major storage company now making background hard drives designed to sit beneath this ultra - stocky Mac . The in style company to embark such a gadget is Iomega , whose quick MiniMax drive not only increase the amount of useable datum memory board , but also sport an integrate hub which double the amount of uncommitted USB and FireWire 400 ports uncommitted to you ....

February 16, 2006 · 3 min · 546 words · John Smith DDS

Leap-A malware: what you need to know

The forged thing you’re able to do whenever a virus scare hits is to panic . The 2nd worst affair you may do is not keep yourself informed . With report card of the Leap - A program infect some Macs , it ’s important to keep the tidings in perspective . While Leap - A has the potential for roguishness , it ’s not anything like a crippling Windows computer virus that periodically brings the rest of the computing world to its knees ....

February 16, 2006 · 11 min · 2287 words · Lori English