Vongo movie service waits on Apple for Mac support

Starz ’ new digital video subscription and download service Vongo could be Mac - compatible , a Vongo executive toldMacworld , presuming Apple has a alteration of mettle in its digital right hand management philosophical system . The inspection and repair uses digital right direction technology built into Microsoft ’s Windows Media Player software package , and is compatible with Windows - compatible PCs running Windows 2000 or by and by ....

January 2, 2006 · 5 min · 917 words · Emily Davis

ColorWasher 2.0

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict Everyone has photos that are underexposed , lap out , taken under strange inflammation conditions , or have fade with clock time , and Adobe Photoshop ( , August 2005 ) has all the tools you necessitate to furbish up any of these problems . However , if you ’re not willing or able to expend the hours necessary to interpret , let alone master , Adobe Photoshop ’s color - rectification tool , there are several plug - ins that can do the heavy lifting for you ....

December 29, 2005 · 4 min · 644 words · Mary Jones

Five-mouse favorites

A five - mouse valuation is n’t as rare as , say , a four - leafage trefoil . But you could make a warm example that the former is boundlessly more worthful . After all , a four - leafage clover just brings you safe luck ; a five - mouse rating mean you ’ve got our highest good word for a Cartesian product that ’s among the in effect we ’ve seen in its class ....

December 29, 2005 · 7 min · 1466 words · Zachary Eaton DVM

Paste Plain Text

Regular readers ofMac Gemsknow that I expend a mint of clip work with text — and that I ’m always look for way to pick up that schoolbook . For the ultimate in textual matter cleaning , my putz of choice is Unmarked Software’stextSOAP , which I spread over back in December of 2004 , but sometimes I just need to divest the data formatting from text — off its fancy fonts and styles ....

December 28, 2005 · 3 min · 478 words · Ashley Poole

The Year in Review: Apple

There can be no doubt that 2005 was a stellar year for Apple . From platter - bump quarterly financial reports and the liberation of Mac OS X Tiger to the denote changeover of the Macintosh to the Intel weapons platform and new iPods , Apple fired on all cylinders throughout much of the yr , creating unprecedented demand for many of its products . phonograph record breaking gain Apple commence off 2005 by harbinger a $ 295 million profit and the gamey quarterly revenue and net income in the ship’s company ’s chronicle ....

December 28, 2005 · 8 min · 1599 words · William Rivera

2005: The year in music

When the sky are fill with flying car aviate by our silvery - jumpsuited posterity , chronicle will await upon 2005 as The Year of the iPod ( Again ) . Whereas 2004 established the iPod as a genuine phenomenon , 2005 proved that Apple ’s medicine player had strike beyond mere fad to psychiatric hospital . MentioniPodand your audience recognize you spoke of the world ’s most popular music player ....

December 26, 2005 · 8 min · 1625 words · Alvin Allison

American, Offline

Only for the first time since 1994 , I ’m not one of them . Last week , I ended my 11 - year rank at AOL , an association I unremarkably keep under wraps since no admission will make you manoeuver look faster , except for maybe telling people you ’ve spent clock time in prison house for tax fraud or that you own a Backstreet Boys record album ....

December 26, 2005 · 5 min · 912 words · Tony Scott

Get Better Service(s)

Mac OS X ’s service feature — which let you use one software ’s abilities from within another — has dumbfound a good sight of tending here at Macworld over the past couple weeks . Just last Wednesday , two different web log entries discussed ways to trim the Services cascading menu ( in the software menu ) to make it more operational : Christopher Breen cover the old utilityService Managerand pointed to amanual solutiononMac OS X Hintsfor geeky types ; Rob Griffiths opine on his beefs with Services in general and suggested the new utilityService Scrubberto help you bring off your Services submenu ....

December 26, 2005 · 6 min · 1069 words · Sarah Ramirez

Stubbs the Zombie

Last month I proffer a first look at the much anticipate Stubbs the Zombie , develop by Wideload Games and released for the Mac by Aspyr Media . The game is now out , and while it succeed on many level — assuming you ’re a fan of gore and off - colour trick — it comes up short in others . Stubbs the Zombie is a third - mortal action game that puts you in the role of Stubbs , a zombi who has been reanimated into 1950’s - era Punchbowl , Pennsylvania ....

December 26, 2005 · 3 min · 586 words · Kevin Miller

Xerox Phaser 6120/N

The Xerox Phaser 6120 / N is a compact , connection - ready , color laser printer that , like a growing number of product in this category , cost about $ 500 . But unlike many of those inexpensive printers , the Xerox 6120 also include some high - end feature like PostScript 3 , and upgrade selection such as an interior strong cause , 500 - sheet report tray , extra memory mental ability , and a duplexing unit ....

December 26, 2005 · 3 min · 446 words · Bianca Benton

Aperture 1.0.1

flashbulb of genius with elbow room for improvement : that ’s Aperture 1.0.1 , Apple ’s fresh professional digital imagery software . Targeted at picture taking professional , Aperture combines powerful exposure - management and cataloging features with canonical image redaction and first-class publishing and display capabilities . All this is enwrap in an efficient , elegant port that glitters with typical Apple genius . But no first appearance is pure : Aperture 1....

December 25, 2005 · 8 min · 1565 words · Mark Holmes

An unwelcome walk down memory lane

When I buy my iBook in March 2005 , I make love I wanted to get some more RAM for it , beyond the stock 256 M that shipped with the laptop . Because I did n’t buy my laptop computer online I did n’t have the choice of arrive supererogatory Aries put in at build clock time . So I corrupt some third - party RAM ( PNY Technologies , for what it ’s deserving ) from our estimable friends at J&R Computers in New York ....

December 22, 2005 · 3 min · 618 words · David Torres

Guitar Rig 2

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict Since it was first introduced in 2004 , Native Instruments ’ Guitar Rig has lure an increasing numeral of guitar actor from their traditional foot pedal setup to the digital world . While there is no doubt Guitar Rig was a breakthrough product , the first exit was not without its problem — most of which have been make up with Guitar Rig 2 ....

December 22, 2005 · 5 min · 961 words · Amy Long