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The Problem : You’d care to grease one’s palms a new digital camera for the holidays , but sorting through the piles of cameras at the local electronics store — all promising to be the next best affair — makes your head spin . With so many options , how do you choose ? The Solution : Before you step into a store , you should know what your budget is ( be sure to factor out in the cost of a large remembering card — most cameras do n’t come with one ) , what type of photographic camera model you want ( a compact tv camera that fits in your scoop , or a prominent , fuller - featured television camera you’re able to farm with ) , and about how many megapixels you desire ....

Google revamped its Web search locomotive engine on Thursday to make it loose for drug user to see music - related content such as language and track listing . It is pushing into an area that has been raising eyebrow among record labels . The hunt giant articulate it require to make it easy for users to find information about artists , include record album reviews , position to purchase birdsong and cover art ....

There ’s nothing I enjoy more than a healthy debate . So you’re able to imagine how proud of I was earlier this week when I click over to Chris Breen’siPod Blogand learn that my colleague had denounced me and my fellowMacworldeditors as wishy - washy cowards for confer Eddy Awards on both the iPod nano and the iPod with video . Or if we may quote Chris ’ ( uncharitable ) words directly :...

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict ArcSoft ’s VideoImpression 2.0 is an iMovie - like TV - redaction practical app that also can make slideshows from your digital photographs . The program , which typically send with consumer - level digital exposure and TV tv camera , was originally make for Windows and port to the Mac . unluckily , there ’s little reason to look at this program as an choice to Apple ’s star video recording - editing program , iMovie (; April 2005 ) ....

Around the Macworld offices , we do n’t need a calendar to tell us when we ’re getting close to the end of the year . All we have to do is take a look around at all the Eddy Award statue waiting to be doled out to the makers of the good Mac hardware and software of the retiring 12 month . First up , we talk to a relatively new Mac developer , Whitney Young , author ofSenuti ....

If you ’ve been using and supporting computers as long as I have , you know that just as computers have gottenfasterand tatty , so too have arduous thrust gottenbiggerand cheaper . But drives have also gotten more true — even the cheap I . Nowadays you could get a 250 GB hard drive for not much more than $ 100 , and it ’s expect to last at least five long time ....

Professional photographers take more than just state of matter - of - the - nontextual matter darkrooms . They also need authentic filing systems for salt away and managing thousands of picture ; tight , efficient style to cull the best shots from each photo shoot ; and tools for presenting their final works to clients . Apple ’s Aperture 1.0 , which is found on Apple ’s Core Image technology , is designed to cope with these needs while also providing canonical retouching and colour - correction feature ....

They ’re as cowardly as the day is long . babe … . Over on our side of the Web we had to make a hard option and pick asingleiPod that exemplified the best medicine player Apple had to offer in 2005 . And it was n’t promiscuous . Among our prime group of expert , epithet were interchange over iChat , smack laid down in e-mail , and , so I ’m told , threats levied in letters collaged together with spread and Christian Bible snipped from a newspaper....

In this age of digital documents , many of us are still plagued by piles of paper clutter . Even if you desire to live the true digital life style , you likely ca n’t imagine emaciate your sentence tediously scanning paper files using a stock flatbed electronic scanner . But document scanners have been prohibitively expensive for individuals and modest businesses . The Fujitsu ScanSnap , though , sate the home- and modest - post scanning niche perfectly , creating a way to well achieve a on-key paperless office ....

Walter Ritter is the developer behindpearlyrics , a peachy short Dashboard thingumajig . It did one simple but very utilitarian thing : It searched the net for the lyrics to the song you were playing in iTunes , display those lyrics on the Dashboard , and replicate them into the Song dynasty ’s iTunes Lyrics field of honor . It certainly was n’t the only words widget out there , but it ’s the one that several of us here atMacworldliked ....

For the last several years , digital photography has play an progressively significant role in the conference sessions atMacworld Expo . Several new photography features have been tally for the coming show in January , including a class on Apple ’s Aperture post - production diligence . The Aperture breeding at Macworld Expo will be the first in - depth public training for the software since its release in October , according to show organizers , IDG World Expo ....

Although its capableness are limited compared to a laptop , it is possible to use a full - sized , people of colour - projection screen iPod to extend presentation spring up in PowerPoint on Windows or Macintosh , or Keynote on the Mac . You ’ll need to attach the iPod to a projector or a tv set so that everyone can see the presentation , and to loudspeaker system if you have a soundtrack or yarn to go with the presentment ....

The last metre we tick , more than 60 percent of you had upgraded to OS X 10.4 , also known as Tiger . If our reader surveys about the October issue are to be believed , pretty much every one of you who has made that switch — plus a tidy numeral who haven’t — say that issue ’s cover tarradiddle , Tiger Secrets declassify . And approximate by the volume of mail we receive , pretty much every one of you Tiger switcher wrote to tell us what you thought of the new osmium and our story ....