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Earnings reports from a few brand - name tech party last workweek help cushion worries about the U.S. job grocery store , geopolitical concerns affecting oil Leontyne Price , and a weak get-go for trading in the young year . Still , overall investor confidence seemed shaky through most of last week . The Nasdaq interchange sink at the commencement of the week , as Advanced Micro Devices Inc. ( AMD ) tell last Monday that it wait revenue would be up only slightly from the US$ 1....

With the iPod start the means for Apple Computer Inc. ’s charge into the consumer market , NPD Group psychoanalyst Ross Rubin said the iPod is reach out iconic condition . While the iPod Shuffle aim to openly compete with many other players in the MP3 mart , the upcoming release of iLife ’ 05 may quietly imperil product of third - party developers . “ They just have incredible brand impulse at this pointedness — it is certainly the hot intersection this twelvemonth , ” Rubin told MacCentral ....

In the past few day , Macworld Expo has redeem an cheap , yet feature - packed Mac desktop , a jiffy - based iPod , update to Apple ’s iLife and Keynote offerings , and a ton of merchandise intelligence from third - political party hardware and software developers . So , of course , I ’d care to talk to you about desks . That likely seems foreign , walk the trading floor of a trade show where developer are show off the latest Mac software , groundbreaking hardware , and every iPod accessory conceivable to the human creative thinker and coming aside mouth off about new advances in desks ....

Here are the winners of the Best of Show awards for the 2005 Macworld Conference & Expo . success were take by the editor program ofMacworldmagazine and Macworld.com from products that have been recently introduced or were making their public debut at Expo . •iPod shamble , fromApple : This fabulously small euphony musician declare oneself a really different interface ; there ’s no display , so the gimmick shuffles through a aggregation of your music that can be randomly localise on your iPod via iTunes ’ new Autofill feature ....

When Steve Jobs introducediPhoto 5as part the iLife ’ 05 update , many people saw it as an aggressive move on Adobe ’s consumer image editor , Photoshop Elements 3 . Like the $ 90 Elements , iPhoto 5 includes a palette of sliders that lets you rapidly correct some of the most common image problems — including colour casts , muzzy particular , and faulty exposure . It ’s a slick addition to iPhoto ’s otherwise meagre editing prick , and I was impress by my first experience with it in Apple ’s John Wilkes Booth ....

Last week the Playlist stafftraversed the dateless expanses of CESto find the belated and nifty in iPod add-on . But as immense as CES is , and as pop as iPod products were this year in Vegas , iPod fans know that the “ real ” show happens 550 miles away and a week later : the annual Macworld Conference and Expo at San Francisco ’s Moscone Center . We again did our safe to retrieve all the nerveless newfangled toys for iPod girls and boys , and have organize our theme by manufacturer ....

The computing community in worldwide , and the Mac community in particular , have become progressively concerned about the environmental impact of the usage and disposal of hardware . While it has become less than cool to dispose of a deadened monitor or heavy drive on a street corner or to only trash a confused or outdated piece of equipment , it is often unmanageable to find practicable recycling opportunities ....

I ’ve been in tech journalism for 13 years now and have been to more than my part of patronage shows . But this is my first time at Macworld Expo . I knew there was something dissimilar about it as soon as I hit the show storey , but it took me a while to figure out what that something was — it ’s the baby . Within the first ten minutes , I saw three of them ....

The Mac miniskirt has been annunciate , but it wo n’t arrive until January 22 . Until Macworld gets its hands on one to screen , we ’ve been gleaning what we can about the new $ 499 Mac from loving visits on the Macworld Expo show floor and proficient discussions we ’ve had with a few Apple officials . So here ’s what you need to know about the Mac miniskirt decent now :...

My dad own a Wintel PC — I do n’t know the make or poser , other than that it ’s an ancient ecru boxful puttering along on Windows 98 . I also do n’t know how my father got his manpower on such a gadget , but if I found out that he bought it off the back remnant of a truck on a deserted country road , it would n’t needfully storm me ....

Much of pre - Expo conjecture surrounding iWork — the productiveness big money announced by Steve Jobs Tuesday as a replacement to the recollective - fallow AppleWorks — painted the upcoming app as a productivity suite to rival Microsoft Office . The reality of iWork , however , turned out to be something far short of an Office - killer . Yes , the suite boast an inspection and repair of Keynote , the presentation diligence that ’s given Microsoft ’s PowerPoint a fairly respectable political campaign for its money ....

PowerLogix and Other World Computing are using their exposure at this week ’s Macworld Expo to foreground new product offerings aimed at users of old Power Macintosh systems who want to promote their CPU with a riotous replacement . They ’re also offering possessor of Apple ’s discontinue Power Mac G4 Cube a newfangled customization selection with permutation cases mould in different colors . First up is the antecedently annunciate US$ 239....

This morning , Steve Jobs proclaim 2005 “ The Year of High Definition Video , ” using the announcements of Final Cut Express HD and iMovie HD as the kick - off compass point . Now , you could use any of Apple ’s three picture - redaction applications — Final Cut Pro HD being the other one — to edit HD video on the Mac . Sort of ....