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I learned a valuable lesson on the recent Mac Mania IV sail to Mexico : When it come to sharing , treat your iPhoto library differently than your iTunes library . I was pose outside the Internet Center , chit-chat with a fellow instructor while mucking with some photos I ’d just import into iPhoto 6 . I glance over at iPhoto ’s informant listing and descry the share photo library of a passenger in the vicinity ( I could n’t see them , but lie with they had to be close enough for my AirPort scorecard to clean them up ) ....

Keep your hands and coat of arms inside the vehicle , everyone . After six month of slowly ratcheting anticipation , we ’ve in conclusion reached the top . And a yearlong Intel roller - coaster drive is about to commence . The first Intel Macs have get in , kicking off a twelvemonth of young product rollouts the the like of which Mac fans have n’t seen since … well , possibly since ever ....

late westerly media coverage of a event involve Li Zhi , a incarcerate Chinese net user , exaggerated the role of a Yahoo Inc. subsidiary in the affair , according to a Hong Kong blogger and metier researcher . Li is presently in prison function an eight - year prison term on charges that largely stem from his involvement with the China Democratic Party , a political radical criminalise in China ....

I am a gadget nut . Every time a new cool earpiece or other technological wonder hits the market place , I just have to buy it . The promise of figure out whatever job it ’s supposed to speak or the addition of some coolheaded new feature that I would otherwise never use is too much for me to stand . My late object of obsession : a BlackBerry ....

Quick Mac conundrum : What expect like an iMac G5 , sounds like an iMac G5 when it starts up , and feel quicker than a Power Mac G5 ? Answer : The new Intel - based iMac that arrived late from Apple so I could get some hands - on prison term with the company ’s first Mactel car — at least until those new ( and newly rename ) MacBook Pro laptops arrive afterwards this calendar month ....

Because my look at Google Earth ran on so long that you could credibly complete a trip around the dry land before coming to to the end of the blog Wiley Post , I wrapped things up before come up to two other components of the 3 - D single-valued function software package — e - mailing and impression maps . Neither of those capabilities affect my - rating of Google Earth , but they are important enough that I want to briefly speak about them ....

As the case has n’t yet come up in the MacMania IV web log entries Jason Snell and I have proffer over the past pair of days , I thought it worth remark that while the oddball aboard thisGeek Cruiseare thrilled to be talking tech with the likes of me , Jason , Bob LeVitus , Andy Ihnatko , Leo Laporte , Woz , and Apple ’s Sal Soghoian and Janet Hill , the other passengers aboard thems Oosterdamhave a unlike impression of our passion ....

Research In Motion Ltd. ( RIM ) on Thursday harbinger that it has developed and tested software that would enable it to continue to put up its wireless due east - mail service to BlackBerry users if a court range RIM to shut down the current pattern of the service in the U.S. The work - around has been the subject of much speculation because RIM had said it was developing such software system but had been reluctant to describe how the new organisation would work ....

The arena for Mac revenue enhancement - preparedness software has narrowed this year . Now that H&R Block ’s TaxCut Premium (; May 2005 ) has gone the fashion of last year ’s tax repayment , Intuit ’s TurboTax (; May 2005 ) is now the only covering available for Mac - based personal tax preparedness . But that ’s not necessarily a bad matter . TurboTax has systematically been the best revenue enhancement - prep app usable for the Mac , and the latest version admit several minor improvement that should make your yearly wrestling mates with the IRS a little well-to-do ....

Just month after grounds emerge that Yahoo Inc. cater data that led to the arrest and captivity of Taiwanese journalist Shi Tao , the company is once again taking criticism for handing over info that allegedly led to the imprisonment of a Chinese political dissident . In August 2003 , Yahoo Holdings ( Hong Kong ) Ltd. provided evidence to police that identified Chinese Internet exploiter Li Zhi , according to a document made available online by his lawyers ....

Which is what come about Tuesday whenShowtime added three of its programsto the iTunes Music Store roster . This Apple - Showtime agreement is a significant one , and not just because it adds toKirstie Alley’sincome stream . Rather , I take it as a sign that the iTunes Music Store is attractive territory foranybroadcaster , whether they reside on the VHF portion of your telephone dial or in the upper three - digital reaches of your cable box ....

I ’ve never seen an applications programme quite like LightZone 1.0 . While at first glance , LightZone might appear to be a Photoshop (; August 2005 ) competitor , that conclusion , for the most part , is off infrastructure . sure as shooting , LightZone look alike to Photoshop in some ways . But after using it for an hour or so to delete my photos , I start out to see it as an altogether different entity , serving a separate audience ....

Those who follow the chronicles of MacMania cruise such as the one guide position in the watery region west of Mexico acknowledge that the orbiter Internet access on the ship is expensive and not always reliable . With that in head , those of us for which a changeless connection to the Web is as full of life as oxygen have uprise strategy for getting what we necessitate from the Internet even over the hinkiest of connexion ....