Google Earth comes to the Mac

While most of the Mac residential area ’s eye were on declaration coming out of Macworld Expo in San Francisco last week , another cock-a-hoop merchandise annunciation — as big as the Earth itself — came from just down the route at Google ’s Mountain View , Calif. , headquarters . Google release a genus Beta of itsGoogle Earthprogram for the Mac OS X. The practical Earth simulation software incorporates map , take directions , and planet double with Google Search capabilities ....

January 16, 2006 · 3 min · 432 words · Jack Williams

Painter Essentials 3.0

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict Some mass have natural artistic power , while others , despite their creative leanings , do not . I am a member of the latter chemical group : I can barely trace my own hand , yet the idea of being able to paint or draw is nonetheless fabulously enticing . Corel ’s Painter Essentials 3 make it simple for the artistically challenge to make beautiful digital drawings and painting from their photographs ....

January 16, 2006 · 4 min · 728 words · Sarah Dodson

Thanks for nothing

The stony secrecy go forth from this quad during the past couple of weeks can be impute to a pair of barter show — the massive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and San Francisco ’s far - more - manageable Macworld Expo . As a Guy Who write About iPod , I was tasked with shoot the pulse of the iPod economy during my visit to each show . I ’m pleased to report that neither was about the iPod ....

January 16, 2006 · 3 min · 517 words · Holly Cardenas

Assessing Apple’s Intel ad

permit us turn our attention away from new Apple portable and omit software suite updates for a moment to undertake true matters of grave significance — Apple ’s TV commercials . In case you neglect last Tuesday ’s keynote , Steve Jobs mark the debut of Intel chip - powered iMacs and MacBook Pro laptops by showing offa new TV adabout the move to Intel - built chip . In fact , Jobs exhibit off the commercial twice , which is either a mansion that hereallylikes the advertizing or , reckon on how much stock you put in hearsay , that something got pulled from the keynote at the last second and the Apple CEO needed to aggrandise his speech ....

January 15, 2006 · 4 min · 691 words · Anna Wallace

First Look: iPhoto 6

iPhoto 6 , the latest update to Apple ’s consumer - degree picture management and editing software , may not have as many revolutionary new features as past versions — the improver of the Adjust panel in iPhoto 5 altogether changed the way I use the program — but it does have something special those other version lack : a sense of fun . Almost all of the new features in iPhoto 6 — part of Apple ’s newly released iLife ’ 06 suite — make the process of work with your photos more gratifying ....

January 15, 2006 · 11 min · 2206 words · Ashley Barber

Microsoft bails on Windows Media Player for Mac

Just three days after denote continued support for the Mac version of Microsoft Office at Macworld Expo , Microsoft officials said Friday that the party has halted development for Windows Media Player for Mac . Microsoft Public Relations Manager Adam Anderson said in a recentNews.comarticle that the move was a business decision for Microsoft . “ Like any other company , we have business precedence . Our focussing really is in deliver the best experience to Windows customers , ” Anderson tell News....

January 13, 2006 · 2 min · 309 words · Charles Wright

Minding their business

Everyone has a company they find a special chemical attraction toward — mine isMYOB . It ’s not that I witness account statement software or business direction tools particularly alien . But I appreciate the fact that , while Intuit ’s Mac variant of QuickBooks languished unsupported between 1998 and 2002 , MYOB continue an active presence in the Mac grocery store . You have to appreciate that level of loyalty to a client base ....

January 13, 2006 · 2 min · 426 words · Timothy Thompson

2006 MacBook Pro: What you need to know

From the outside , Apple ’s new MacBook Pro search suspiciously like a 15 - inch aluminum PowerBook G4 . Yes , the port are slightly different , and it ’s slenderly wide and thinner . But inside , it ’s a completely different motorcar . Intel ’s Core Duo processor gives Apple a combination of speed and vigor efficiency that the company never could get from the PowerPC processor family — one of the large reasons why Apple osculate those C....

January 12, 2006 · 8 min · 1599 words · Cindy Morris

Analysis: Inside Core Duo

Mac users have take heed hatful about the newfangled iMacs and MacBook Pro that commemorate Apple ’s first releases to turn tail on buffalo chip from Intel . But what about Core Duo , the processor inside these new systems ? Here ’s a few warm facts about the Core Duo . It ’s one coolheaded client . It talks to software super - chop-chop . Its pattern leaves plenty of room to grow ....

January 12, 2006 · 5 min · 873 words · Amy Hubbard

EyeTV EZ

Elgato Systems is position the EyeTV EZ , a bantam USB 2.0 TV - viewing twist , as an entree - layer EyeTV production to replace its short - lived EyeTV USB Wonder (; July 2005 ) . By providing a remote control and new iPod support , the EyeTV EZ is a step above its precursor . Like the premature USB Wonder model , the EyeTV EZ is an analogue TV tuner that passes uncompressed video to your Mac for a clear live range ....

January 12, 2006 · 3 min · 633 words · Brian Lindsey

iMac Core Duo: What you need to know

Do people really have burning questions about something as familiar as Apple ’s iMac ? They do when that iMac ships with an Intel - built CPU at heart . Apple kicked off the Intel transition at this yr ’s Macworld Expo by bring out two new iMac models , power by 1.83GHz and 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo chips , respectively . Both the 17 - in and 20 - inch iMacs are ship now ....

January 12, 2006 · 5 min · 1052 words · Joan Jefferson

Photographic histories

While chit-chat my mom a couple of year ago , I found a box of old kinsperson photos . They were yellowed with age and crack around the edges . Even my mother had trouble name many of the people in the photo . Our sense of family account was evaporate . I put the project of scanning all of these quondam pic to my Mac on my to - do list ....

January 12, 2006 · 3 min · 520 words · Dale Le

Chip Story: The Intel Mac FAQ, 2006 edition

In June 2005 , Steve Jobs announced that the Mac would be leave the PowerPC chip behind for a new generation of Mac systems based on processor made by Intel . For longtime Mac exploiter , that announcement was a psychological impact — one-half of the former Wintel “ evil empire ” was now playing on our team . And for Mac developer , the announcement was like the shot from a starting gun : it was time to commence the backwash to make their program compatible with Intel processors ....

January 11, 2006 · 13 min · 2746 words · Eric Watson