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Ten days after initially saying it would be ready , Sony has yet to release the promised North American version of the 2.0 firmware update for its PlayStation Portable ( PSP ) handheld gaming console table . Already uncommitted in Japan , the 2.0 update supply North American PSP users with Web entree , documentation for raw medium types and surety enhancements . First introduced in North America in March , Sony ’s PSP plays game and views movies ....

The other night , my spouse Michael and I were in our home bureau , and we looked at each other quizzically . “ Does it seem really quiet in here ? ” I take . Mike was sitting at the Mac and I was at my desk , and strangely , the whir and Harkat ul-Ansar of my Mac and its multiple peripherals was … spookily silent . And when we went to rest that Nox , neither of us had to bolt good to call on off the Mac because it was too loud ....

Have you ever want to find out a bit more detail about what just your organisation is doing at a given decimal point in time ? Perhaps your hard crusade is thresh about , or a platform is crashing at the same dapple each time you course it , or you ’d wish to see exactly which filing cabinet get modified when you vary a yield programme ’s options . Although there are no foolproof methods of figuring this stuff out , one of the tools you could put to use is a Unix utility squall fs_usage ....

A well - known Microsoft Corp. Web logger Tuesday downplayed the proposed use of a new name for RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) in the next rendering of Internet Explorer ( IE ) keep abreast several day of intense treatment about the notion of rebranding RSS in the Web log community . In an consultation Wednesday , Robert Scoble , a Microsoft technical evangelist and writer of a popular World Wide Web log , or blog , about the software giant , sound out the company had not made a last determination as to whether it would rename RSS “ WWW feeds ” in the final translation of IE 7 the way it has in the beta version that is uncommitted now ....

Ubisoft has released a downloadable demo version of its forthcoming biz Myst V : End of Ages , which expect to transport at the terminal of September . you may download the demo version fromMacgamefiles.com . It measures 457 MB . Surprisingly , the Mac demo precedes the discharge of any Windows - compatible version . Myst V : End of Agesis the final chapter in the Myst saga . The biz , developed by Cyan Worlds , was announced this past January ....

A while back , I reported on problems reboot from USB devices . Since then I ’ve fly the coop into something even more puzzling — FireWire drive that wo n’t bring up . When reviewing storage merchandise forMacworld ’s desktop and portable FireWire drive pages , we test each crusade ’s ability to boot OS X. Until latterly , this feel like a formalities . All FireWire drives can boot OS X , good ?...

There ’s been a batch of debate about Apple ’s new multi - button Mighty Mouse over the past few week , but one of the most rough-cut complaints is that the Mighty Mouse mouse driver does n’t give ripe users as much control as they would wish . Specifically , Apple ’s number one wood — approachable via the Mouse yellow journalism of the Keyboard & Mouse loony toons of System Preferences — provides only a few selection for the action of each push and limited power to customize tracking and scrolling speeds ....

Microsoft Corp. ’s Xbox 360 will be available in two version costing US$ 300 and $ 400 when it is launched later this year , the caller say Wednesday . In Europe it will be € 300 and € 400 severally and in the U.K. will be £ 210 and £ 280 severally . The proclamation , which was made at the Games Convention issue in Leipzig , Germany , fills in one of the last and most important pieces of information about the console ....

Apple Computer and Microsoft Corp. last week witness themselves at the affectionateness of a patent difference that could have far give effect for Apple ’s iPod business organisation . Last calendar month the United States Patent and Trademark office refuse Apple a patent of invention for some user user interface elements of the pop iPod MP3 histrion , citing a patent of invention submit by Microsoft developer John Platt five months before Apple ’s title ....

A telephone and an answering car can help oneself you communicate with some efficiency , but if your communication are more and more e - mail based , you may desire your earphone calls to also move to your Mac for easier management . But in lodge for that old - fashioned parallel telephony to earn its place alongside your powerful Mac , you ’ve got to get your hands on the ripe telephony tools ....

Some new Mac offering are groundbreaking — the Mac mini ’s introduction in January comes to mind — while others are just incremental . The belated rescript to the iBook G4 and Mac mini melodic line fall somewhere between these extremes ; their additional received feature of speech are few , but low-toned prices significantly increase their value . iBooks get the PowerBook treatment The iBook G4 line of merchandise has been streamlined to two models : a $ 999 computer with a 12 - inch exhibit , a 1....

There was more fallout over the weekend from Cobb County , Ga. ’s failed “ great power to Learn ” laptop computer computation program , according toThe Atlanta Journal - Constitution . An investigation into the program said that the school system“deceived ” the publicin choosing which Apple as the fellowship to furnish it with laptop computer calculator . First foretell in May , the “ Power to Learn ” program was heralded as the potentially crowing ever one - to - one computing enterprise in the country ....

Hi , my name is Dan , and I ’m a procrastinator . Over the eld , I ’ve encounter unlike way to combat this nasty habit . I ’ve taken class . ( And then put off cease the preparation . ) I ’ve tried different prison term - management systems . ( put through the latest , establish on a book calledGetting thing Done , has been on my to - do lean for months now ....