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The first Macworld Expo I attended as a cub newsperson was in Boston . summertime air blasted off the harbor as sweaty show - goers load onto busses to shuttle back and forth between two full Marguerite Radclyffe Hall . The cackle was about the dissipated Mac ever made , ringer - maker Power Computing ’s 225 MHz PowerTower Pro ; a foreign drawing computer program called Kai ’s Power Goo ; and the wacky buttons Iomega was distributing to promote the omnipresent Zip drive ....

Just last year , enthusiastic computer software reviewers throughout the estimator manufacture greeted the release of FileMaker Pro 7 (; October 2004 ) as the most important upgrade in the production ’s history . With the release of FileMaker Pro 8 ( see our first looking ) , the company has done something surprising : Rather than resting on its laurels , FileMaker has released another significant rise about a year sooner than many diligence percipient gestate ....

Apple Computer chief operating officer Steve Jobs and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller run into with media today at Apple Expo Paris to talk about the iPod , medicine and the Macintosh . While the company was without any megahit announcements at the show , they did raise their .Mac on-line service with in high spirits capacity and Modern features . The chat with culture medium today replaced a Jobs keynote presentation , which usually open up the effect in Paris ....

In our late Software Bargains clause , I recommendedBattorox ( ) as a useful utility for monitor your PowerBook or iBook ’s battery . In addition to showing how much of a charge your shelling has left , Battorox tell you the battery ’s cycles/second enumeration ( how many charge cycles the battery has been through ) , voltage , and temperature . Since that clause , I ’ve meet a turn of reader recommendations for another barrage usefulness pose in my Mac Gems “ To Do ” leaflet , the freecoconutBattery 1....

Three second of late news take me thinking : • First , Apple announces that it ’s going to start using Intel chips in its computers . The primary rationality looks like that Intel ’s good than IBM and AMD at designing buffalo chip that do n’t consume a lot of power . • Second : Apple introduces the iPod nano , which apply flash retentiveness ( reportedly supply by Samsungat a hefty price reduction ) ....

Part five of our six - part serial publication take a look at TIger ’s core communication creature : Address Book , iCal and Mail . They not only keep you in touch with the world , but also provide the mean value to keep your busy lifetime organized . Organize Address Book entries using smart groups Here ’s a simple but utile tip — you may use Address Book ’s Smart Groups feature to organize your Address Book entries ....

When Apple Computer released the iPod nano just over a workweek ago , put back the popular iPod mini , they efficaciously solidified their berth of authority in the MP3 player market . While the ship’s company has released no prescribed sales routine , manufacture analysts have been intimately watch out the procession of the machine . “ Customers are fundamentally doing back flips over this affair , ” Gene Munster , senior enquiry analyst with Piper Jaffray , told MacCentral ....

IDG World Expo on Friday said they have cancelledMacworld Expo Bostonand will instead focalise their exploit on a individual conference and expo in San Francisco . The outcome , which has been a pillar of East Coast conferences for almost 20 years , has been axe just two years after returning to Boston from New York City . “ The market and our own enquiry have made it clear that the industry prefers one master industry event , ” Mike Sponseller , voice for IDG World Expo , told MacCentral ....

You did not precisely need psychical king or even a Magic 8 - chunk widget to see that the closing of the East Coast Macworld Expo was coming sooner rather than by and by . One glance at the less - than - robust attending and the general want of interest group in the Boston - based shows of the past two old age evidence you all you needed to eff , even if Apple ’s blatant absence seizure from Macworld Expo Boston had n’t already clued you in ....

Steve Jobs sent a seismal shocker across the tech landscape in June when he announce Apple would phase out PowerPC chips and put Intel central processing unit inside Macs starting in 2006 . To some , the move seemed puzzle : Why would Jobs , the king of cool plan , make a batch with half of the empire that conquer the world with cooky - cutter beige boxes ? Jobs had an answer at the ready during his Worldwide Developers Conference keynote — a electric switch to Intel chipping intend better Mac hardware down the line ....

Automator is one of the my pet unexampled features in OS X ; it allows non - technical users to make seemingly complex programme to handle mundane tasks . Not only that , but these fresh programs can then be solicit into Automator ’s contextual card in the Finder via a simple Save As , and you have the beginnings of the ultimate power tool . As such , look to see a phone number of Automator - related peak here in my web log , include today ’s unveiling ....

The other day , a colleague of mine shout out over the booth wall , “ I think podcasting is at its fourteenth minute . ” Of course , he was consult to the proverbial 15 minutes of fame . And of course , I break into laughter . But his comment got me thinking : whereispodcasting choke ? The main aspect of any new entertainment engineering science is content ....

TheElectronic Frontier Foundation(EFF ) on Tuesday gain the rightfulness to unseal court documents from Apple Computer . The document show that Apple planned to subpoena the anon. sources of two reporters from AppleInsider and PowerPage before conducting an probe inside the company . The case was brought against the sites when they printed clause about “ Asteroid , ” bruit to be a FireWire audio frequency interface for GarageBand — Apple claim violation of trade hugger-mugger law ....