The Year in Games

mack gamers will probably reckon back on 2004 as the year when Mac game publisher grew up . Destineer , the parent caller ofMacSoft , andAspyr Mediaboth announced plans to liberate original plot — quite an achievement for an diligence that , by and large , has been dependent on changeover of title from the personal computer and consoles . Neither of those efforts have arrive to realisation quite yet , but we ’ve got 2005 to look forward to , as Destineer print Close fight : First to Fight and Aspyr publishes Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse ....

December 27, 2004 · 7 min · 1302 words · Eric Santiago

Reply to All

We put two of Apple ’s hot new products — the AirPort Express and the Click Wheel iPod — on the concealment , and what do lector want to verbalize about ? E - mail clients , of course . Macworldreaders exhibit the same trueness to their e - mail client ( as well as their browsers , their Holy Scripture C.P.U. , and pretty much every other piece of ironware and software they own ) that other family earmark for football teams and presidential candidates — and woe betide the editor who questions that cultism ....

December 26, 2004 · 7 min · 1377 words · Dr. Alison Hernandez

Apple and IBM Power ahead together

If you have n’t already , check out Tom Yager ’s IBM ’s Power5 deserving a 2d face , first posted on MacCentral on December 22nd . The Power5 has n’t yet arrived in an Apple machine , despite the similarly key PowerPC G5 , the Mac ’s latest , greatest CPU . Apple ’s G5 is really based on the Power4 — except with a single core , a smaller dice , less estrus , and lower power consumption ....

December 22, 2004 · 3 min · 612 words · Steven Taylor

Ready or Not?

Steve Jobs once famously said that his life-time ’s destination was to change the public , not just to trade mathematical product . But changing the world with technology is a tricky line of work : yes , you need the engineering know - how to make a production so telling that it alters people ’s aliveness . But transfer the world is not just a matter of building a better mousetrap ....

December 21, 2004 · 5 min · 908 words · Sara Lopez

Samsung SyncMaster 213T

The Samsung SyncMaster 213 T is a 21.3 - inch LCD that offers one digital and two parallel connection for all-embracing compatibility , plus the power to share the display between multiple computers . Its aboriginal resolve of 1,600 by 1,200 pixels is the same as most 20 - inch LCD displays , but with its sum up size , it can space out the pixel a bit more , making text and graphic details come out a small larger ....

December 21, 2004 · 3 min · 497 words · Kyle Thornton

Apple 20-inch Cinema Display

In Apple ’s revamp of its video display furrow , it did out with the wide , translucent cases , the proprietary ADC connection , and the under-$1,000 , 17 - in modeling . The new line come in three sizes—20 - inch , 23 - in and a huge 30 - inch framework . Each model have a spacious - screen display with a slim aluminum bezel and uses a stock DVI connector ....

December 20, 2004 · 2 min · 391 words · Nicholas Andrews

CEO at eBay India subsidiary is released on bail

The Delhi High Court grant bail on Tuesday to Avnish Bajaj , the chief executive police officer of Baazee.com India Pvt Ltd. , a Mumbai - based subsidiary of eBay Inc. Delhi law arrested Bajaj last Friday in connective with the sale of a adult video CD on Baazee.com ’s online auction portal . He appear before a magistrate in Delhi on Saturday and was remanded to seven days discriminative custody at the postulation of police force investigating the case ....

December 20, 2004 · 2 min · 323 words · Brenda Price

HP Photosmart 2710

This is one full - feature ink - super acid all - in - one pressman . Not only can you print , copy , scan and facsimile from the Photosmart 2710 , you may do it wirelessly ! With built - in 802.11 one thousand , Ethernet and USB 2.0 port , this all - in - one can connect to just about anything . you may also convert it into a six - colour photo ink - super acid printing machine by establish an optional $ 25 photograph - ink cartridge ....

December 20, 2004 · 5 min · 912 words · Judy Austin

Macworld Favorites

Compact Cameras The $ 400 , 4 - mega - pixelCanon PowerShot SD300 Digital Elph(Canon ) ( see Best Current Price ) declare oneself a 3x optical zoom , a 2 - in LCD , and full manual exposure controls . Even more impressive is the fact that it can take full - chassis TV at 30 Federal Protective Service . The sleek , lightweightPentax OptioX(Pentax ) ( see Best Current Price ) has a 2 - inch LCD that pivot 360 degrees ....

December 20, 2004 · 3 min · 590 words · Geoffrey Davis

The MUG update: ideas for last-minute gifts

Leading off the newsworthiness atThe Macintosh User Group ( MUG ) Centerthis week , editor in chief Chuck Joiner notes that the website feature a varlet full of endowment ideas for the Mac drug user in your life . He welcomes summation to the list . You might also find something among the new vender offers also just added to the site — the special peck are uncommitted only to MUG members , and the additions include oblation from O’Reilly , Micromat , the Apple MUG Store and more ....

December 20, 2004 · 2 min · 378 words · Linda Warren DDS

World of Warcraft patch enables shaders on Macs

Differences in the way Macs and personal computer render 3-D graphics command Blizzard Entertainment to inactivate sealed artwork effects in the Mac version of its recently massively multiplayer on-line function make for plot World of Warcraft . With the recently loose 1.2.1 update that problem has been fixed on certain Mac configurations — it also hold optimizations that Blizzard says amend skeleton - rate on some Mac systems . Blizzard has treated Mac and PC gamers with even - handedly since World of Warcraft ’s North American release in November ....

December 20, 2004 · 2 min · 364 words · Wayne Reynolds

Picture Your Perfect Camera

When you bought your digital television camera a couple of years ago , it was a marvel of engineering . Then the next generation came out . And the next . Now your radical camera feel more like an old geezer . But with so many choices on the shelves , how do you select the right replacement ? You might be tempted to base your buying decision on look alone ....

December 19, 2004 · 26 min · 5457 words · Joshua Aguilar

Sonic completes Roxio acquisition

transonic Solutions on Monday announce it has completed its antecedently announce acquisition of the consumer software package division ofRoxio Inc. , as well as the name itself . Among the Mac merchandise learn by Sonic are Toast , the Toast add - on Jam and Popcorn . Roxio Inc. has formally changed its name to Napster Inc. and will concenter its campaign on the development of that Windows - only online music download service of process ....

December 19, 2004 · 2 min · 360 words · Jordan Hicks