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Earlier this workweek I covered iWatermark , which lease you easily add watermarks to your photos . I ’m pass to make it a exposure - focused ( no punning mean ) workweek here at Mac Gems ; today I ’ll show you a smashing tool that makes printing photos quick and simple . Apple ’s iPhoto is a stellar photo direction program , no doubtfulness about it . However , its printing functionality makes a braggart assumption : that you ’ve already train all your photos for impression — you’ve rotated them , cropped them , resized them to the right size and proportion ( 3×5 , 4×6 , etc ....

Apple released Mac OS X 10.3.6 last week on a post - election Friday good afternoon , with little tucket and the distinctive utile - but - sparserelease notes . The caller document 22 modification in Mac OS X 10.3.6 , which occur from closely 1,200 changed files in intimately 1,000 dissimilar directories or folders , many of them in bombastic megabucks or software system . Here ’s a close tone at what Apple has told users about what ’s inside the OS 10 update ....

The release of Firefox 1.0 is a big , big deal . I ’ll allow that for we Mac user , it ’s not quite as vast a heap as it is for the oppressed Windows masses who once again have a legitimate choice to the ad - overrun corpse of Internet Explorer . But even for those of us in the tribe of Safari , competition is a in effect thing ....

It ’s easy to see why , in the two year since it was introduced , Safari ( , November 2003 has speedily become the dominant browser app for OS X : It ’s silken , fast , and free , and it beat the trouser off of former champion Microsoft Internet Explorer . But that does n’t mean Safari is right for every somebody and occasion . Sometimes you might want a skimpy , miserly browser app that does little but render entanglement page quickly and accurately ....

Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday encouraged user of itsiTunes jukebox softwareto upgrade to the tardy edition , useable from the society ’s vane site . As of today user of iTunes 4.2 or low will not be able to buy or download songs from the iTunes Music Store , but Apple says the Modern innovative features are well deserving the rise . “ As of today , customers will need to utilize one of the three most recent variation of iTunes — 4....

latterly , Apple denote two newfangled , faster iBooks and one novel , deadening Power Mac G5 . The Speedmark resolution are in and we ’d like to share them with you while we continue to work on the full review . As look , the new 12 - inch 1.2 gigahertz G4 iBook sour in number like to the 14 - inch 1.2GHz G4 iBook we screen back in April of this year and the 10 per centum hump to 1....

Sonos Inc. ’sSonos Digital Music Systemwas first announced this past June . The modular sound system was developed to provide house - wide music culled from medicine appeal on Macs , personal computer or connection Attached Storage ( NAS ) systems , and feature a four - port 10/100baseT Ethernet switch and has 50 W RMS per transmission channel speaker system hookups , RCA audio stimulation and output and a remote control ....

word , in series numbers pool , ATM code — we’re all swimming in a ocean of info that ’s secret ( or should be ) . Make it easy to commend , and someone may swipe it . Make it hard to guess , and you may forget it yourself . Mac OS X has the answer : the Keychain . Here ’s how to use the Keychain in OS X 10....

In late August Aspyr Media Inc. and Wideload Games first announced plans to cooperate on a new plot dismissal . On ThursdayAspyrand Wideload Games offered the first detail about the secret plan , include political platform information and a dismissal schedule . Stubbs the Zombie in “ Rebel Without A Pulse ” is the game , and it ’ll be published worldwide for Mac , PC and Xbox cabinet in the summertime of 2005 ....

When Steve Jobs announced that the iPod Photo was available the day of its launching — last Tuesday — a agile check of the San Francisco Bay Area ’s Apple Stores revealed that the equipment could n’t be found for dearest nor money . Ah , but what a difference a sidereal day do — at least for a few someone prosperous enough to track down the rare iPod Photos transport to select stores ....

We ’ve evidence you what we think aboutApple ’s in vogue addition to the iPod mob . But how has the debut of the iPod Photo and its dark-skinned , U2 - themed similitude been received outside of the immediate Mac existence ? To preserve your finger the strain of undue surfboarding from savant to pundit , we ’ve combed the Web to gauge the reaction to this week ’s iPod ontogeny ....

Last week , I obtain an e - postal service that read “ Steve Jobs , Bono and The Edge ask round you to give ear a special event . ” ( Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton were indifferent about my attending , I guess . ) And as I was perplex in traffic this morning on the way to San Jose , I was wondering just what Steve might unleash ....

Virginia Tech ’s all - MacSystem Xsupercomputer , installed at the university ’s Terascale Computing Facility , made newspaper headline last year when it was determined to be the third - fast supercomputer in the cosmos . System X has been promote to Apple Computer Inc. ’s Xserve G5 server and now runs even quicker , with a sustained speed of 12.25 trillion operations per second — 19 pct faster than before ....