Better baseball stats

As I compose this , the New York Yankees and the Orange County Angels of Los Angeles ( or whatever they ’re calling themselves these solar day ) are an frame into the decisive Game Five of their American League divisional serial . The achiever of that plot join the Chicago White Sox , St. Louis Cardinals , and Houston Astros as the remaining teams in the hunting for the World Series , with a world champion crowned sometime around the last weekend in October ....

October 10, 2005 · 5 min · 940 words · Sara Little

Fast DVD Copy 4

immobile DVD Copy is an all - in - one DVD - copying programme that ’s design to let you make personal or backup copies of DVD and telecasting game you own . After watching my shaver much rust my Finding Nemo record , I can see the use in that . The product works great , but there ’s one collar : The software is n’t technically sound ....

October 10, 2005 · 5 min · 900 words · Janet Love

Industry groups to fight California video game law

The Video Software Dealers Association ( VSDA ) has announced plans to get together with the Entertainment Software Association ( ESA ) to fight a recently passed California law of nature that would ticket retail merchant for selling violent television games to minor . The VSDA is a trade association for the home entertainment industriousness . Its members include retailer , distributor and other related to businesses . The ESA is the public policy radical for the TV and computer game industry ....

October 10, 2005 · 2 min · 394 words · Philip Pope

iPods great and small

It never bomb . Every time you recollect Apple is going to zig , the company zags instead . On September 7 , everyone in the populace was expecting Apple to announce a cellular phone that worked with iTunes . And that ’s what we got . But we also got something much more momentous — the bluff replacement of the hugely democratic iPod mini with the groundbreaking unexampled iPod nano ....

October 10, 2005 · 5 min · 990 words · Kevin Glenn

New soul of a machine

Some might say the mo of silicon that power your Mac is just a micro chip . But if reactions to our August outcome ’s Mac Beat especial report are any indication , Apple ’s decision to exchange to Intel CPUs intend much more to many Mac loyalists . Beyond the technical merits of one fleck versus another , there ’s something deeper pass on here , something about the identity operator of the Mac itself ....

October 10, 2005 · 8 min · 1591 words · Danielle Banks

I want my music everywhere

I remember how much I wanted aniPodwhen it was first announced so I could well transfer my music from my computer to a nice little equipment and comport it with me . Then I wanted to take my medicine in the auto , then in the mansion and now I want it in multiple room in the house . That may vocalise like a tall order , but last weekend I hook up aSonos Digital Music Systemto see if it could accomplish my musical desires ....

October 9, 2005 · 4 min · 836 words · Derek Hernandez

The point of podcasting

For now , podcasting is n’t a elbow room to make huge amounts of money . Unless you’reAdam Curry , the “ podfather ” and founder ofPodShow , and/or his “ podchildren,”Dawn and Drew , you ’re probably not going to be give up your day occupation to commence a full - clip podcast anytime soon . PodShow andOdeoare two podcasting - touch on startups that have started in good order here in the fair city of San Francisco , but neither of them have prove themselves to be induce any money yet ....

October 9, 2005 · 2 min · 403 words · James Montes

Widgets of the week: October 7, 2005

In this week ’s Dashboard roundup , I overlay a deluxe clock , a shaft for calculating video outer space / fourth dimension , and a canonical to - do lean . And I ’ve commence some dear newsworthiness about a previous thingmabob of the Week . VelaClock (; $ 5 until November 1 ; $ 10 after ) . I ’ve antecedently recommended a twain useful clocks for Dashboard that are more decipherable and attend better than Mac OS X ’s built - in clock widget ....

October 6, 2005 · 3 min · 535 words · Rachel Mcdonald

Is video in the picture?

Ah , autumn — when a young tech author ’s sentiment turn to changing leaf colors , baseball game playoffs , and in haste announced Apple events . Ever since Tuesday ’s news that Apple would hold an October 12 press gathering — its second such event in as many months — guess has run rearing on just what the company has up its figurative arm this prison term . And the long - rumored video iPod has taken on a starring role in this latest round of Product Rumor Theater ....

October 5, 2005 · 4 min · 687 words · Kayla Rivera

Opinion: Wi-Fi by the Bay

I live in San Francisco , the city where Wi - Fi memory access is considered a fundamental right field . Seriously , that ’s what our city manager , Gavin Newsom , say lately . Of course , in a densely packed city full of badly configure router , free Wi - Fi is already a realness for many San Franciscans . In my construction , anybody can just bug into an unlocked router cleverly named WLAN whenever they get the urge ....

October 5, 2005 · 4 min · 797 words · Robert Jones

PhoneValet Message Center 3.0

Telephony package like Parliant ’s PhoneValet and Ovolab ’s Phlink ( , October 2005 ) can turn your Mac into a highly trained receptionist — and more . Not only do these tools answer your telephone set , they also log calls , storehouse voicemail messages , and record conversation . With PhoneValet Message Center 3.0.2 , Parliant adds several new characteristic , like call block and custom ring tones ....

October 4, 2005 · 6 min · 1235 words · Andrew Durham

Apple’s education shipments grow as desktops surge

Shipments of notebook and desktop data processor to the moneymaking education securities industry have produce for Apple Computer over the last year as the company sees freight of desktops begin to surge . Apple is following the common up and down trends typically discover in the education purchasing seasons , but the ship’s company has made some headway . PC shipments by the number Apple presently finds itself in third post in general Department of Education computer freight , behind Dell in first position and Hewlett Packard in second spot ....

October 3, 2005 · 5 min · 1054 words · Jose Hardy

iPod nano cases roll out in force

For many users , the basic protection of a silicone polymer or other rubberized skin will suffice . This will protect your nano and its sieve from scratch , stain and other defect , and furnish a modicum of auspices against encroachment . Most people credibly already recognize aboutApple ’s iPod nano Tubes(5/$29 ) . These introductory rubberize cases were the first announced for the nano and are made by Apple itself ....

October 3, 2005 · 9 min · 1838 words · Eric Diaz