When I was growing up , April Fool ’s Day was a hotly anticipated holiday — it was a chance for us put - upon schoolkids to even the scores with our teachers , parents , and any other authority figure that crossed our paths ( except maybe the truant officer and the constabulary ) . As a father , I now see my kids engaging in the same variety of guile that pit April Fool ’s twenty-four hour period when I was young ....
For the 2d year in a course , there will be no Comdex IT craft show in Las Vegas this November , for the most part a consequence of a continuing want of interest and fiscal commitments from major seller . San Francisco - base MediaLive International Inc. , which has promoted the show since 2003 , on Wednesday confirm that the outcome is again being canceled . It was last held in November 2003 ....
In the last yr , the Motion Picture Association of America ( MPAA ) deliver the goods various legal injunctions in the U.S. against software system firm 321 Studios , cast the society out of occupation . In light of these upshot , company like Roxio and DVD2one have practiced reason for playing it safe when discharge their DVD - copy software . Legal interrogation aside , the result is high - quality software , although Roxio ’s Popcorn is easier to use ....
seek through the reportage of Apple ’s two lawsuits involving Mac rumors sites , and you ’re bound to come across commentary about the First Amendment and freedom of the press . But a closer examination of the real evaluator ’s opinion that Nfox , the due east - mail provider for Jason O’Grady ofO’Grady ’s PowerPage , must turn over information O’Grady received about an unreleased Apple audio product reveals that tourist court moot this case really an take of place rights ....
ceremonious Wisdom of Solomon says you just do n’t put icon of smoking , battered Macs on the cover of a Mac magazine . To which we sayphooey . Let ’s face it : Mac sustentation — like flossing your teeth and changing your crude — may not be scintillating , but it really is important . So excuse us for slightly exaggerating the consequences of carelessness on our February cover ....
News readers take the work out of Web browsing by delivering content from your favored Web web site directly to your desktop . This software program , base on RSS or Really Simple Syndication , compiles headlines from user subscription and present them in a convenient , clickable format . There are several excellent RSS news readers ( also know as news collector or feed readers ) for the Mac ( Reviews , March 2005 ) ....
What makes a magazine what it is ? It ’s not the editor in chief , author , clothes designer , and other content creators . It ’s not the advertizer or the strong-arm paper and ink that arrive in your mailbox or on your newsstand every calendar month . It ’s thereaders . Magazines survive to help readers , and the publishing that do n’t tend to evaporate in a hurry ....
A U.S. court ordered Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. ( SCEI ) to compensate Immersion Corp. US$ 90.7 million for patent infringement of touch feedback technology used in PlayStation games consoles , enunciate court documents . Immersion ’s speck feedback technology has been supported in Mac OS X since 2002 . The court also tell a check to U.S. sale of infringe PlayStation - brand console and 47 software titles as part of a patent - violation case but put the order on - hold pending an charm ....
AIFF and WAV audio file vocalise endearing ( they are made up of 16 - bite , uncompressed stereo music at 44.1kHz — on the button what you find on audio CDs ) . The one job is their size : an AIFF Indian file gobble up 10 MB of disc space for every mo of audio . That size makes them unmanageable to store and download . That ’s why the MP3 audio compression algorithmic program were put together more than a decade ago , and why Apple uses AAC files on its iTunes Music Store ....
The Epson Perfection 4990 Photo is a 4800dpi electronic scanner that features a built - in 8 - by-10 - inch transparency unit and musical accompaniment for film formats range from 35 mm to 4 - by-5 inch . Its speedy FireWire and USB 2.0 link make prompt piece of work of mellow - resolution CAT scan and , in our tests , we bump the scanner to be very sound at reproducing detail , though the coloration were a touch on the green side ....
Sony Corp. on Thursday released its US$ 249PlayStation Portable(PSP ) to the North American market . There ’s no question the system packs a lot more versatility under the hood than an equivalently - priced iPod mini , though the PSP comes with some drawback of its own . The basics Measuring about 6.7 x 2.9 x x.9 inches and weighing a bite more than half a punt , the PSP is jumbo for anyone who ’s accustomed to Apple ’s sizable iPod exposure , let alone an iPod mini or an iPod shuffle ....
The 321 LCD Monitor from LaCie is a bright , beautiful 21.3 - in LCD direct at professionals unforced to pay the price for exact color . Although it ships with a tough to help oneself block limelight , this 1,600 - by-1,200 - pixel monitor sportswoman other features that will overtake the middle of people of colour pro — like a 10 - bit color search table for display smooth gradients and computer hardware color standardisation via the optional LaCie Blue Eye Pro calibrator ( $ 349 ) ....
There ’s good news for devotees of ProVue ’s Panorama : Panorama V ( or version 5 ) runs in OS X. And this version adds a boat - burden of enhancement — including unrecorded clairvoyance ( similar to the easy search feature in OS X ’s Finder ) , more ways to get information from the Internet , file name extension to Panorama ’s programing language , custom social function , and a great new way to create custom menu — to the neat features Panorama has had for age , such as cross - tab reports , charts , and quick subtotaling of groups ....
