Samsung may face probe on Apple memory deal

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. is facing a potential investigation by South Korea ’s Fair Trade Commission following press composition that it sold NAND flash computer storage chip to Apple at below - marketplace prices . “ We have not get going an probe yet but we are reviewing the case ” say Yi Seuk - joon , who heads the Competition Policy Division of the Korea Fair Trade Commission ( KFTC ) ....

November 27, 2005 · 3 min · 525 words · Kimberly Johnson

iPod scratch protection

Although I cover most iPod - related product over onPlaylist , I occasionally find something that ’s both telling and inexpensive — which make it perfect or Mac Gems , as well . If you ’ve got a new iPod nano or iPod with video , chance are you ’d care to keep it look like new — for model , you may be concerned about scratching its shiny grimace ....

November 22, 2005 · 4 min · 783 words · Amy Chavez

The mini stays in the picture

It ’s always gratifying to have one of your fellow worker agree with you , especially without the sort of forehead - beating , cajoling , and thinly veiled terror that consensus usually requires . So you could ideate how thrilled I was Monday to see Dan Miller proclaim the chastity of Apple ’s small capacity iPods . Dan ’s point , if I may sum up , is that the 4 GB capacity of hisiPod nanoforces him to be more choosy when it comes to what playlists he ’s placing on his gadget , which , in tour , makes the listening experience ever more enjoyable ....

November 22, 2005 · 5 min · 997 words · Erica Noble

Unzoom ‘Spotlighted’ PDFs

As many of you screw by now , I have some issues with the way glare “ version 1.0 ” works . A late hint on macosxhints.com reminded me of yet another quirkiness in Spotlight ; one that I did n’t even observe in the original write - up . usurp you ’re look for a PDF with a sure phrase in it — for example , recently I looked for a history I wrote last yr that talk about Unix maintenance scripts ....

November 22, 2005 · 4 min · 739 words · Madison Mercado

iPod DRM faces another reverse-engineering challenge

A company that specializes in right - management engineering for online stores has declare its plans to reverse - railroad engineer the FairPlay encryption system Apple use on iTunes Music Store purchases . The move by Cupertino - basedNavio Systemswould essentially break Apple ’s Digital Rights Management ( DRM ) system for allow other on-line medicine retailer to betray downloads that are both DRM - encode and iPod - compatible by early 2006 ....

November 21, 2005 · 5 min · 926 words · Jacob Houston

Power Mac G5 Quad: Fast performance at its core

After Steve Jobs announced Apple ’s program to drop the PowerPC processor and put Intel inside succeeding Macs , some performance - hungry pro fear they ’d see no major advances in Mac processing speed until the arrival of an all - unexampled , Intel - base line of high - ending desktop models — something that could be a year or more away , according to the company ’s modulation timetable ....

November 21, 2005 · 10 min · 2016 words · Juan Bowen

Apple sews up long-term flash memory deals

Apple on Monday announced that it has reached long - term supply agreement with five major maker of NAND newsflash memory . What ’s more , two of those company — Micron Technology Inc. and Intel Corp. — denote the constitution of a novel caller to fabricate NAND jiffy memory . The memory chips are used in Apple ’s iPod shuffle and iPod nano models . Apple indicated that the accord fix NAND instant memory through the yr 2010 ....

November 20, 2005 · 2 min · 326 words · Tony Sandoval MD

Fluid Mask 1.0

Any planetary house painter will state you that one of the most punishing parts of a job is masking : outlining the edges of window frames and trim with tape recording to ensure a bully occupation . Masking can also be one of the most arduous parts of a Photoshop projection , for much the same reason . Isolating a national from its background can be tedious , especially if there is n’t a lot of contrast between the subject and the desktop or if the subject has blurred edges or fine detail , such as wisps of hair’s-breadth ....

November 20, 2005 · 5 min · 856 words · Dr. Frank Hendricks MD

Let’s get small

Up until a month ago , I was happily dependent on an senior , third - generation 30 GB iPod for all my music need . My aggregation is just over 20 GB and growing , so that 30 - gig role player was a good fit . Then my iPod die out . Kicked the bucket , joined the choir invisible , you knowthe routine . golden for me , we had a couple ofiPod nanosfloating around the office , so I adopt one of the4 GB modelsfor a tenacious - term rating ....

November 20, 2005 · 3 min · 577 words · Karl Rodriguez

Benchmarks: Quad G5 on top

With four PowerPC G5 processors to treat the tasks you throw at it , it ’s no wonder the Power Mac G5 Quad posted the firm Speedmark account ever . But the margin in that benchmark test may not be as enceinte as some expected . Still , Macworld Lab examination of the final — and most promise — of Apple ’s raw three-fold - core mac revealed sinewy carrying into action from the 2....

November 18, 2005 · 4 min · 702 words · Monica Ramirez

Apple denies EMI claims of copy-protected song support on iPod

Apple Computer has deny statement made by music - giant EMI Group that Apple is near finished working on transcript - protect CD support for the company ’s democratic iPod music player . EMI made the claims in a assertion outlining its position on transcript auspices . “ Apple is about eat up with the technical piece of work necessary to enable consumer to transfer medicine from content protected discs to their iPods , ” say the EMI statement ....

November 17, 2005 · 2 min · 335 words · James Fisher

Automated email

As much as Mac OS X ’s Mail app has ameliorate over the preceding couple days , those improvements have n’t yet compelled me to flip from using Microsoft Entourage as my primary electronic mail guest . Two of the reasons I still prefer suite are the thriving community of scripters that tally functionality to Entourage , and Entourage ’s superior rules — automatize actions that can be apply to messages as they arrive or whenever you ’re “ done ” with them ....

November 17, 2005 · 7 min · 1425 words · Jason Mcgee

Control those podcasts!

For those who do n’t know , I ’m not really a fan of podcasting . However , over the last few month , there are a few podcasts , audio and TV , that I ’ve chosen to support to , though I rarely get the chance to listen to them — between work and family , and not having a long commute nor travelling all that much , I just do n’t get to them as often as I ’d like to ....

November 17, 2005 · 6 min · 1190 words · Victoria Bailey