PMA: HP executives discuss the digital imaging market

In the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. leading up to the Photo Marketing Association International deal show in Orlando , FL . , Hewlett Packard announce a newfangled printer shoot for square at a burgeoning market for printer manufacturers — the advance amateur . The Photosmart 8750 gives client the power to publish professional quality picture at abode with the same quality that would once take a more expensive printing solution ....

February 20, 2005 · 3 min · 608 words · Ann Combs

HP unveils ‘BMW’ digital camera, four others

In gain to its newfangled printers , HP on Friday also tipped its hand ahead of PMA 2005 by announcing five novel cameras that will be unveil at the show , including a BMW William F1 Team Special Edition manakin that sounds like a racing machine locomotive engine when change state on . The Photosmart R717 features unstained brand construction while the Photosmart M417 offers an ergonomic grip . The Photosmart M22 and M23 camera have weather - resistant metal cases ....

February 17, 2005 · 2 min · 422 words · Jessica Smith

iDVD 5

Is iDVD 5 the magician of the iLife ’ 05 cortege ? Like a reality - class magician , iDVD ’s 15 new themes hold your tending — by spinning and slide your photos and moving-picture show around the screen . But behind the scene , the DVD - creation program employs a few unexampled tricks that give it more magnate than I expected to see . More Kindling for the Fire The most notable advance in the previous rendering , iDVD 4 , was the ability to incinerate as much as two hour of movies and photos to a saucer , count on the encoding preset ( Best Quality or Best Performance ) ....

February 17, 2005 · 4 min · 749 words · Matthew Mitchell

iPhoto 5

iPhoto 5 is the most wide - range iPhoto rise yet , bring interface improvements ; newfangled ways to store , browse , and edit images ; and greatly enhanced slide - show and account book - publishing characteristic . It ’s a must - have upgrade for all iPhoto users . Or at least it will be : iPhoto 5 ’s debut was marred by several major bugs . Version 5....

February 17, 2005 · 5 min · 1022 words · Amanda Young

Keynote 2

Since its surprise unveiling in January 2003 , Keynote (; April 2003 ) has draw a cadre of loyal fans who ’ve worked around the programme ’s limit to craft sensational presentations . Microsoft upped the ante last year with PowerPoint 2004 (; August 2004 ) , a warm ascent that delivered dashing graphics ; a smoother workflow ; and Presenter Tools , a control panel for on - screen slide show ....

February 17, 2005 · 7 min · 1420 words · Amy Payne

Mac Security: Fact and Fiction

Mac drug user do n’t demand to worry about virus . FALSEWe’ve enjoyed a long , glorious reaching without serious malware dissemble our platform . But that does n’t mean we can afford to allow down our collective guard . If there is a computer virus onrush , those of us who have estimable , up - to - engagement antivirus software installed will have the best betting odds of escaping unscathed ....

February 17, 2005 · 21 min · 4438 words · Anthony Hansen

modo 102

Luxology ’s modo 102 is the ripe pecker we ’ve consider for arm - open ( sub - cholecalciferol ) modeling , a technique typically used to create 3 - 500 modelling of characters and other constitutional Earth’s surface . In some ways similar to Nevercenter ’s Silo 1.3 (; January 2005)—but more advanced in profundity , tractableness , and customizability — modo offers a Chamaeleon - like user interface , an elaborate tool set , and herculean scripting that give it the expect - and - feel of other high - goal professional 3 - five hundred tools ....

February 17, 2005 · 2 min · 308 words · Patricia Moore

Pages

When Apple declare Pages at Macworld Expo in January , several enquiry may have passed through your mind : Is it a Word killer ? An AppleWorks replacement ? MacWrite reincarnated ? A PageMaker wannabe ? The reply to all these questions is yesandno . Pages is an program program that behaves like a word processor — but one with powerful nontextual matter and media - handling capabilities . People who do a lot of word processing will belike come off from Pages feeling as if they ’d strike gold , but layout - design mavens will find that the program leaves something to be desired ....

February 17, 2005 · 4 min · 840 words · Benjamin Vega

Apple stock split: What does it mean?

Apple ’s programme to split up its inventory in two hebdomad has generate a lot of news show coverage , a hustle of discussion and a modest hike for the company ’s stock terms . Apple ’s share close at $ 90.13 , up from last week ’s completion terms of $ 81.21 . But what exactly does it have in mind when a society splits its descent ? And what ’s the welfare ?...

February 16, 2005 · 5 min · 869 words · Tammy Smith

Canon bows Digital Rebel XT SLR, CP600 photo printer

In addition to its other Thursday announcement , Canon U.S.A. Inc. has introduced its Digital Rebel XT Single Lens Reflex ( SLR ) camera and its SELPHY CP600 compact photo printing machine . All of these new annunciation are timed to concur with the PMA 2005 show that kick off in Orlando , Fla. next hebdomad . Canon ’s Web sitehadn’t been update with information on the new photographic camera and printer as MacCentral posted this article ....

February 16, 2005 · 3 min · 559 words · Kristin Nolan

Raise the Wall

OS X ’s built - in firewall is good enough to protect most Mac users from hack attack . But it does n’t have many bells and whistles and is n’t very leisurely to customize . So to find out whether you’re able to get better protective covering from third - political party firewall applications , Macworldteamed up withAV - Testto tryout Intego ’s NetBarrier X3 10.3 , Pliris ’s FireWalk X2 , Symantec ’s Norton Personal Firewall 3....

February 16, 2005 · 4 min · 791 words · Thomas Brown

Maya 6.5 ships worldwide

Alias in recent January declare Maya 6.5 , the latest major release of their pop 3D aliveness , modeling and render software . At the meter the company noted the software ’s availability to those customers on sustainment programs in early February ; on Wednesday , Alias announcedMaya 6.5’sworldwide release . The new interpretation of the 3D software tool for Macs , PC , Linux and IRIX is a “ performance - driven release , ” according to the ship’s company — legion changes were made to aid improve performance : The software handles enormously larger datasets and does so with much greater efficiency thanks to scene segmentation , and carrying into action betterment have also been made to specific functions — ultraviolet light handling , for example , have been benchmarked at up to 100 times the speed of Maya 6 ....

February 15, 2005 · 2 min · 312 words · Gregory Armstrong

First Look: PowerBook G4s

If you already utilize an aluminum PowerBook — any 12- or 17 - in model , or a 15 - inch unit that ’s less than 18 month honest-to-god — you’re credibly not going to get very excited about the latest update to Apple ’s pro laptop telephone circuit . After all , the rumored G5 models that generated so much ballyhoo on the Mac rumor website before January ’s San Francisco Macworld Expo proved — again — to be a pipe dream ....

February 14, 2005 · 7 min · 1407 words · Mary Rojas