When I first heard the news that Jef Raskin had break down , my mind flashed back to last July ’s Macworld Expo in Boston , when Raskin link fellow Mac innovator Bill Atkinson , Andy Hertzfeld , and Jerry Manock in a keynote panel word lead by David Pogue of theNew York Times . When the session begin , I ’d wager that most of the audience had never heard of Raskin , or at the very least experience about him only peripherally ....
Keeping up with the ever - changing DVD - burner market could be a job in itself . Every few months , profligate thrust are announced , new feature film get introduced , and competing ( and confusing ) phonograph recording data formatting continue to wreak leapfrog in the pursuance for mart control . The most recent technical maturation in DVD writers is duple - stratum combustion . This bully technology allows you to double the capacity of a DVD , from 4....
At $ 350 , the Epson L-500V is almost twice the damage of the Epson PhotoPC L-410 ( January 2005 , ) . amazingly , we like the less expensive television camera ’s pictures better . So , what do you get for two hundred bucks more besides another megapixel ? The most obvious departure are the L-500V ’s spacious 2.5 - inch LCD ( but at the disbursement of an optical viewfinder ) and rechargeable battery ....
Aspyr Media Inc. announce Friday its long - expect Macintosh conversion of i d Software ’s hit first person shooterDoom 3has gone “ gold master , ” the final whole tone before a secret plan goes to product . Doom 3 for the Mac is bear to begin shipping on March 14 , 2005 . break by i d Software and bring to the Mac both by i d and Aspyr Studios , Aspyr ’s in - star sign exploitation team , Doom 3 is essentially a re - telling of the original Doom taradiddle , first brought to life more than a decade ago ....
You ’re in a client ’s office or a Quaker ’s house , and you have to get online . No trouble : you just give the axe up your Mac , wait a couple of moment while AirPort automatically finds any 802.11 networks within hailing distance , and , bunce , you ’re online , right ? Not needs . But fear not . Whether you need access to files or to your Mac ’s desktop , you may probably get both — using shaft ramp up right into OS X....
It ’s time like this that I feel really good about Mac OS X. Yesterday I took pitch on the new 1.5GHz 12 ” PowerBook G4 . ( Yes , I am a gallant extremity of the Twelve Inch Nation . The 15 - inch PowerBook feel like a brick to me now . It ’s just too darned big . ) As I wrote last May ( the last time I go ) , locomote to a new computer can be a pretty jarring experience ....
MP3tunes on Thursday introducedMP3beamer , a new music gizmo that enables you unionize your euphony in one localisation , then hear to it anywhere you want to — over a computer , through a media receiver , through iTunes , or even a PDA . It costs US$ 399 . MP3tunes describe MP3beamer as a “ digital music recorder . ” The gimmick is design to play MP3 Indian file , but MP3tunes say it has the power to transcode track from other formats as well ....
Apple ’s PowerBook product planners present a dilemma during the past twelvemonth : With the G5 processor still too blistering for laptop computer , and no new blockbuster technologies uncommitted to tally , how could they breathe some verve into a PowerBook line of reasoning that ’s now more than two years onetime ? Instead of one full-grown resolution , they came up with a slew of small ones . Individually , none will pick apart your socks off , but collectively , they make the PowerBook lineup both more appealing and more affordable ....
The Epson Stylus Photo R320 is a photo ink - jet printer that use dye - based ink in individual cartridges to print splendid photos with or without the service of your computer . The Stylus Photo R320 is an update to the Stylus Photo R300 ( , February 2004 ) . This late model has a one - column inch LCD , so you could preview images on television camera retention cards , which you could enter in the pressman ’s built - in slots ( you could also seize a DirectPrint and PictBridge - enable camera directly to the USB port on the front of the printer ) ....
The Deskjet 6840 from HP is a world-wide - purpose inkjet with a few prank up its sleeve . It boast USB 2.0 ports for connect to your Mac . It has a USB port on the front to relate directly to DirectPrint - enable digital camera . It can also connect your office or home internet via an Ethernet port or wirelessly via its built - in 802.11 deoxyguanosine monophosphate receiver ....
The HP Photosmart 8450 is a connection photo ink - jet pressman that uses up to eight dye - ground inks to print pic with or without your computing equipment . The 8450 can print flat from just about any case of television camera memory card and also from DirectPrint enabled cameras . To help , the printer has a 2.5 - inch , color LCD to display a thumbnail image of your pictures ....
The Canon PowerShot SD300 is thick and solidly construct . alas , its image calibre does n’t quite measure up . Neatly put control , a bright 2 - inch LCD , and a responsive thumb pad make this tv camera ’s fare easy to navigate . There ’s no live histogram , but you’re able to view a histogram to arrest photograph in Playback mood . There are nine shooting modes , including a Stitch Assist style for taking bird’s-eye pictures , and a manual manner that lets you adjust vulnerability compensation ( chop-chop accessed via a computer menu ) , set blank proportion ( admit custom bloodless balance ) , and select ISO ( sensitiveness grade from a low 50 ISO to 400 ISO ) ....
If I may tread a very o.k. line , let me say that we do n’t do rumor here . If we get fart of a new iPod or version of iTunes coming down the expressway , we ’re more than well-chosen to let it come without spoiling the surprise . There are other folks out there whose living is ground on digging the filth on upcoming releases and they do n’t need any assistance from us ....
