Get smart

It ’s doubtlessly commonplace by now for companies to adopt Apple ’s “ Smart ” feature article — using presets to create a playlist in iTunes or a folder of searches in spot or mailbox in Mail and have them update dynamically whenever anything meeting the circumstance of those presets seem on your Mac . But it ’s still fascinating to see the wide mixed bag of developer that have worked this lineament into their own applications , specially as you walk the Expo show base ....

January 11, 2006 · 3 min · 439 words · Suzanne Gilbert

Keyboards for your iPod

keyboard are for more than just typing these Clarence Day . A few input - machine shaper are using exposition to show off keyboards that , in gain to require all the type your finger can summon , will also connect youriPodwith your Mac . Mouse - makerRazer’sbooth ( # 2629 for those of you roaming the Expo floor ) have a paradigm of the company ’s Protouch keyboard . Besides the usual motley of programmable hot paint ( 10 of ’em , all light ) , media center keys for controlling music playback and the like ( also lit ) , and keys for zooming and commit your information processing system to sleep , this USB keyboard also run around a general iPod bob up above the social occasion key ....

January 11, 2006 · 3 min · 430 words · Kimberly West DVM

Macworld Expo: Best of Show

The editor ofMacworldhave scoured the show storey to find the most forward-looking products at this class ’s Macworld Conference & Expo . This year we have 14 products that we experience highlight the commitment Macintosh developers have for the platform . Here are the 2006 Best of Show winner . Adobe Lightroom , which Adobe release on Monday as a public beta for the Mac , takes a Modern overture to working with your photos — and offer some interesting competition for Apple ’s recently released Aperture 1....

January 11, 2006 · 8 min · 1519 words · John Ferguson

Avoid killer e-mail messages

If you utilise Apple ’s Mail program , you ’ve probably experienced the casual crash due to some strangely - formatted HTML e - mail content ( yet another reason I prefer plain text content ) . This will usually happen as you ’re sit there , paginate through new mail message . You penetrate on the next one in the lean , and then , blammo ! It all just up and quits ....

January 10, 2006 · 2 min · 383 words · Brandy Anderson

Let’s make a deal

It was easy to miss among the talk of the town of iLife updates and MacBook Pro unveiling , but today ’s Expo tonic also featured the later development in the Microsoft - Apple saga , a relationship with more twists and turn than your average romance novel . The light translation : Apple and Microsoft are still buddies . The slightly longer version : Microsoft and Apple ink a new agreement in November 2005 that lists the following three conditions :...

January 10, 2006 · 2 min · 417 words · Stephanie Lewis

MWSF: Apple gave careful thought to first Intel models

While many of the announcements during Apple CEO Steve Jobs ’ keynote Tuesday at Macworld Expo may have been require , the Macs that became the first to run on Intel - built C.P.U. were n’t such obvious selection . While many thought the iBook would be the first Mac to have an Intel buffalo chip , the preeminence instead fail to the iMac and an entirely new laptop dubbed the MacBook Pro ....

January 10, 2006 · 4 min · 659 words · Jason Young

Update spate includes iTunes, OS X, QuickTime

In addition to major updates to both iLife and iWork rooms , Apple released several other venial software update Tuesday , highlight by changes to its iTunes music jukebox software system and Mac OS X itself . Mac OS X 10.4.4 includes mend for the followers : SMB / CIFS and NFS internet file service ; Bluetooth wireless access ; Core Graphics , Core Audio , Core Image , RAW camera reinforcement , including updated ATI and NVIDIA nontextual matter equipment driver ; public eye indexing and search ; AppleScript , iChat , DVD Player , and Safari software ; Dashboard widgets Calendar and Stocks ; and Software Update and Sync Services ....

January 10, 2006 · 2 min · 400 words · Matthew Franklin

What about Intel?

I recall , when everything is say and done , that Apple ’s decision to turn to Intel to provide the processors that power its computer hardware will go down as one of the watershed case in the ship’s company ’s history . It ’s a move that will not just ensure Apple ’s natural selection — it ’s going to give the late revivification that Apple has enjoy an extra small bitch , so that a few years down the line , when you mention the Dark Times when it looked like Apple did n’t have much of a future ahead of it , the kids will look at you like you ’re gabble on about phonograph records and horseless pram and the talking picture ....

January 10, 2006 · 8 min · 1523 words · Michael Watson

Crowded house

Of the Monday of Macworld Expo workweek , the show trading floor is closed to the populace . No one is let past the Moscone Center entrance hall and onto the exhibit floor itself unless you ’re sporting a snazzy gamey Exhibitor badge . And yet , on this particular Monday , there I was on the Macworld Expo show floor without a blue Exhibitor badge to my name ....

January 9, 2006 · 3 min · 486 words · Ronald Jenkins

Keynote reaction: The Intel roller-coaster ride

Keep your hands and arms inside the vehicle , everyone . After six months of easy tick to the top of the peak , Apple ’s Intel roller - coaster ride has finally started . In an oddly - paced Macworld Expo keynote address , Steve Jobs did what he usually does — namely , save the best for last . And so after an hour of second - tier stuff — newfangled Dashboard widgets , an iPod remote ( huzzah !...

January 9, 2006 · 6 min · 1260 words · Sean Garcia

Macworld Expo Live Keynote Coverage

This concludesMacworld’slive coverage of Steve Jobs ’ keynote address to Macworld Expo 2006 attendees . Please see Macworld News or the Macworld Expo topic page for more details from the show . Steve Jobs started his Tuesday presentation with a recap of some of Apple ’s highlights from the former calendar quarter . He say that Apple now has 135 retail stores opened around the earth , and assure 26 million visitors over the vacation quarter ....

January 9, 2006 · 9 min · 1828 words · Christopher Martinez

MWSF: Apple updates iWork suite

iLife was n’t the only suite of Apple software to undergo an redevelopment at Macworld Expo . Apple also announcediWork ’ 06 , the latest version of its suite of productivity tools . Both applications making up iWork — Pages and Keynote — have undergone update , tot up features such as three - dimensional charts , iPhoto - comparable advanced paradigm - redaction and masking instrument , and spreadsheet - like table ....

January 9, 2006 · 2 min · 364 words · Jeffrey Jones

MWSF: DLO Introduces Homedock Deluxe

Digital Lifestyle Outfittersannounced the DLO HomeDock Deluxe Home Entertainment Center for iPod with on - projection screen Navigation . The wharf for the iPod allow a substance abuser to see and navigate their iPod ’s music and Sung dynasty on their boob tube screenland while contain the iPod using the include 18 - button distant ascendance . The HomeDock Deluxe also let iPod owners to play their slideshows and videos on their big - screen idiot box ....

January 9, 2006 · 2 min · 389 words · Edward Collins