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guess being able to pick out individual fans in the crowd during a wide - screen baseball - plot broadcast , or to see the intricate crosshatching of Martin Sheen ’s railroad tie as he addresses the nation during an episode ofThe West Wing . High Definition ( HD ) video assure such things — a broad field of view and much more image contingent . Whether you ’re concerned in watching , create , or just learning more about HD , now is a honest time to protrude paying attending — prices for the equipment necessary to watch and make HD content are fall ....

Santa Helps Digital Music Sales Christmas helped push digital download sales to their best week ever , report Billboard . Sales of iPods and other music instrumentalist were a heavy part , and music execs said sales of gift cards were also behind the spike . How crowing of a calendar week was it ? Four track exceeded the previous one - workweek criminal record set in October by U2 ’s “ Vertigo ....

Two year ago , I sat in Moscone Center as Steve Jobs used his Macworld Expo keynote to usher in his self - proclaimed “ Year of the laptop computer . ” If the exact details of that tonic have languish from memory , that was the good morning Jobs pull back the drape on the 12 - in and 17 - inch PowerBooks , which stay part of Apple ’s portable offerings today ....

When Macromedia release Contribute 2 (; November 2003 ) last year , Mac users finally had a simple Web - page editor that initiate could use to update Web sites and that webmaster could rely on for administration . Contribute 3 is a pregnant evolution of the Cartesian product , delivering substantial performance advance , living for current web - design techniques such as layout base on cascade Style Sheets ( CSS ) , and expand administrative controls ....

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict There ’s no well covering than Quicken for manag - ing your personal pecuniary resource . With a slew of features that permit you track everything from how much money you spend on Pop - Tarts to your current net worth or how much you ’ve racked up in ATM fees , Quicken can tackle the ordinary , the strange , and everything in between ....

Hey , that ’s fine . The Eddy Awards are about as immanent as it fetch . As we like to say , they ’re a “ sight of editorial predilection . ” essentially , the editors pick what they care . Everyone with an opinion , an interest group , or a blog is free to disagree . ( One blog , for instance , took us to task for award QuarkXPress 6....

IDG World Expo says the upcomingMacworld Conference & Expowill be a show the great unwashed remember for years to come . hold at the Moscone Center in San Francisco , Calif. Macworld Expo will be in one hall this year instead of the two hallway the show normally occupies . Despite this show organizers say they are on raceway to have more exhibitor than last yr . “ There is such a bombination that continues the momentum this year , ” IDG World Expo radical vice - Chief Executive Warwick Davies , told MacCentral ....

The mental object direction organisation we use to publish everything that appears on Macworld.com — include this very Weblog entry you ’re interpret correctly now — uses a web internet browser - based port . satisfy in a few area , select an choice or two from a drop - down menu , push a button , and presto — your very deep view are pushed live for the entire world to see ....

You have intercourse those former cassette tapes you have lie around the house — compilations of best-loved songs from a bygone era , family get - togethers enter with a bombardment - powered portable , and audio alphabetic character switch with a faraway friend ? They are n’t getting any younger . In fact , they ’re drop as you take this . Over metre , a tape ’s magnetic particles lose their thrill , dull the audio ....

Through the magic of Rendezvous , Mac OS X has made copying file between computers on a newtwork relatively painless , but if you ’re a base user with a safe connection , it can still be a minor bother to connect to another computing machine just to copy a filing cabinet or two . As a result , a number of file copy utilities , direct at make such procedures uncomplicated , have been released ....

Steve Jobs famously kicked off 2003 by declaring it “ The Year of the Laptop . ” The Apple CEO never made a similar resolution about 2004 , but there ’s little uncertainty as to which Apple - made portable gimmick dominated the last 12 calendar month . For Apple , 2004 was the Year of the iPod . From the beginning of the year , which regard the introduction of the iPod mini , to the final month , which brought the innovation of the iPod picture and the iPod U2 Special Edition , Apple ’s euphony player grabbed more than its parcel of headlines ....

Illustration : Richard down We all recognize that Windows is far from perfect – and developers may know that full of all . gratefully , they also have the tools to prepare those imperfection and share their ingeniousness with us . When we ’re really lucky , the developers give their software away for complimentary , though some creators do ask for donation . If there ’s a gap or two in your computing tool kit , one of these fabulous freebie might meet it ....

We ’ll have no elbow room of knowing until Apple bring out its first - fourth part figures sometime next month , but if I had to take a guess , I ’d say it was probably a very jolly Christmas for Apple this year . And by “ very jovial , ” of path , I think of “ very lucrative , ” which , for accounting system type , is pretty much the same affair ....