After several years of bring about expensive , mellow - end moving-picture show SLRs , Olympus has finally get into the consumer digital SLR market with the first SLR that conforms to the 4/3 standard , a lens and trope - sensing element spec that has yet to be widely adopted . price at $ 999 , the new Evolt E-300 competes directly with Canon ’s $ 999 EOS Digital Rebel XT and Nikon ’s $ 1,299 D70 ....
The Astra 6700 is an cheap , 2400 - dpi , flatbed digital scanner that connect to your Mac via USB 2.0 . It does a good job of scanning exposure and other reflective media , but when using the included international transparency arranger , celluloid and slide CAT scan were noisy . Reflective scan of photographs and test chart came out well . Our standard Picnic test prototype was a lilliputian bit on the cerise side and some of the shadow point was lost — but it was really not bad for a crushed - end scanner ....
On Monday Apple announced an correspondence to lease more than 17,000 iBook laptop computer data processor to the Cobb County , Ga. school district . annunciate as the big ever “ one to one ” cypher initative , Apple ’s deal could net as many as 63,000 iBooks if it ’s successful . It ’s part of Cobb County ’s “ Power to Learn ” program . The goal , said Cobb County School District Porto Rico director Jay Dillon , is to see students get enthusiastic about learning in raw and exciting ways ....
Many Gems are muffin because they bring home the bacon suitable functionality that is n’t include in Mac OS X. Sometimes a Gem just unlocks — or makes more approachable — lineament already found in Mac OS X ; other time , it adds those features itself . Whatever the case , many precious stone take the form of system enhancement . And so with every major release of Mac OS X , when Apple touts heaps and scores of new features , it ’s interesting to note which of those unexampled features fend off the need for third - party hyperkinetic syndrome - ons ( or at least some of those add - ons ’ features ) ....
Apple on Monday announced it has secured a deal with Georgia ’s Cobb County School District to provide more than 17,000 iBooks for teacher across the district and students at four “ demonstration site ” high school day . Apple noted that if the school add-in approves it , this deal could equip all Cobb County high school and middle school bookman with iBooks beginning in 2006 — for a total of 63,000 iBooks ....
Have you hear the news ? If you ’re not spending a vast portion of your life history organizing your stuff , you ’re die as a human being . We ’re inundated with cable - television set shows that purport to save hoi polloi ’s lives by get them organize ; one C of books about clearing clutter ; whole store and catalogs devote to silly organizing supplies ; and infomercials created by professional PDA ....
LightScribe , invented by HP and then spin off , uses a special laser built into your drive to eviscerate images and text onto a thin dye - base coat on the non - data side of a LightScribe platter . Just insert a LightScribe disc , data side up , into the drive and use the included LaCie LightScribe Labeler software to produce your own custom , monochrome label etch onto the surface of the disc ....
Some people just are n’t frightened by the vista of big felines on the loose . Hundreds of Mac exploiter in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan certainly did n’t seem to be , while they stood patiently in dividing line and watched a homo in a cat suit dance to the melodic line of “ Eye of the Tiger , ” upgrade the launching of Apple ’s new operating system ....
The Konica Minolta Dimage Z20 , like the Dimage Z5 (; July 2005 ) looks like a appliance from a sci - fi flick . But concealed within its unparalleled - shaped organic structure is a surprisingly equal to camera with an Automatic mode for snap shooters and Program , Aperture Priority , Shutter Priority , and Manual pic modes for shutterbug . The unusual shape is a routine bulky for a compact ( this is n’t a sack television camera ) , but affords a easy grip ....
Systemax Inc. subsidiary Tiger Direct Inc. has filed case against Apple to prevent the society from using the parole “ Tiger ” to describe its fresh Mac OS X v10.4 operating system , which go on cut-rate sale worldwide at 6 p.m. local time on Friday , April 29 , 2005 . The company claim that Apple is produce trade name confusion by market Mac OS decade v10.4 as “ Tiger ” and has asked the United States District Court for the District of Florida for a temporary restraining order and enjoining ....
I ’m not saying there ’s an active cabal against Apple out there … but perhaps there ’s a conspiracy of ignorance at theSan Francisco Chronicle ? For two days in a row , theChronicle — the newspaper publisher of disc inMacworld’shometown — has published stories with deeply disconnected and misleading headlines touch on to computer topic . Tuesday it was a story about Microsoft ’s preview of Longhorn , the ridiculously late newfangled version of Windows that will be available late next twelvemonth ....
With Tiger , Apple has upgrade iChat AV with the ability to rig up multi - person video and audio chats . But there ’s more to this latest translation of OS X ’s establish - in instant electronic messaging software than the prospect of having three other the great unwashed staring back at you in video chats alternatively of just one . iChat AV 3.0 offers several new features in iChat that will concern those of us who have made instantaneous messaging an important part of our body of work and personal lives ....
While it does n’t have the coolheaded agent of things like Automator and Spotlight , the Unix plumbing in Mac OS X has get just as much tending in Mac OS X 10.4 , and has as many modification in entrepot for technical users as the exploiter - interface improvement . Tiger and Unix The biggest change for nonchalant command - line user is the compatibility of Unix tools like mv and cp , ( move and copy ) with HFS+ structures ....
