Apple Computer Inc. ’s elderly Vice President of Hardware Product Marketing , Phil Schiller , officially give up off Apple Expo Paris this workweek introduce the iMac G5 during his keynote name and address . Analysts are consentient in their support for the new consumer machine and the strategical draw Apple has drawn between the iMac and the iPod in marketing the information processing system . “ From the company that bring you the iPod ”...
Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller on Tuesday morning took the keynote leg of Apple Expo in Paris , where more than 7,000 citizenry are serve the prominent annual gathering of Macintosh users in Europe . He opened the event to warm up cheerfulness , telling the crowd that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is doing well follow recent surgery to remove a rare but recoverable grade of pancreatic malignant neoplastic disease ....
Some random thoughts on Apple ’s freshly reveal iMac , which have its larboard on the back of the enclosure no matter how much some nap - deprive fool insists otherwise : Going Tilt : One of the things I liked about the last incarnation of the G4 iMac was its adjustability . If you require to move the prostrate - cover monitor lizard up - and - down or side - to - side , all you had to do was align it with the tinge of a finger ....
An estimated 1,400 people are convening in Phoenix this hebdomad for FileMaker ’s annual Developer Conference . Among the items on the order of business : lionise the database program ’s 20th anniversary . The coating debut on the PC platform as Nutshell in March 1984 . shortly thereafter , Nashoba Systems — FileMaker ’s original developer — start work on a Mac version , whichhit the mart in other 1985 ....
MacCentral ’s day-to-day reporting includes breaking tidings from the globe of Mac gaming , but there are always a few stories that do n’t make it onto our regular news show pages . Our Week in Games retrospective helps give that news adequate basis . Bloxter updated Norbyte has release a new version of its 3-D falling blocks game , Bloxter . The fresh version , 1.1.2 , reminds players if the rotate or direction keys are n’t used in a game ....
Today BusinessWeek ’s Alex Salkever fall on his sword byissuing an apology to Steve Jobsfor propose that the iPod miniskirt would be the same form of over - priced flop as the Power Mac G4 Cube . consider that I made the Cube / mini comparison and posited that the miniskirt was overprice by at least $ 50 a full day before Mr. Salkever , I speculate I should tolerate in wrinkle ( along with a few others , include theWall Street Journal ’s Walt Mossberg ) to ask for Mr....
Earlier , Chris Breen write about composition of static and disturbance problems with the new 4 G iPods . Since then , I ’ve tried several times to get hold of Apple for comment about the trouble , but with no fortune . In addition to writing and editing a magazine about all thing Mac , we at Macworld are also consumer of mathematical product . In fact , I purchased a novel 40 GB Click Wheel iPod recently that suffers from the static affliction ....
Since I wrote quite a number about AirPort Express of late , I have started to experience e - mails with questions about how to get it to work from new AirPort Express buyers . The most vernacular complaint seem to be about configure the Express . And I intromit , it ’s tricky . I wrestle with mine for a minuscule while when I first got it , too ....
Jason name that you may reset the AirPort Express by restrain down the petite reset clitoris . Absolutely true , but it ’s only one of three way to readjust the equipment ( and each change of reset does something a turn dissimilar ) . The three reset case are soft , severe , and manufactory nonpayment . You issue a soft reset when you need to reset your infrastructure place password ( if you blank out the watchword you primitively come in , for example ) ....
I spend the weekend using the newfangled fourth - generation iPod , and in add-on to discovering a far-out new feature of speech , I put the remainder of the Cartesian product through its paces . ( Expect my full review in brief . ) In terms of assault and battery life , I ’m glad to report that the new iPod came through . Twice I played it all day , on a shuffle through thousands of sway songs ( at medium volume with a duet of headphone plug in ) ....
Finally , this hebdomad we ’re gettinga new iPodmodel from Apple . ( Congrats to Newsweek ’s Steven Levy — a former Macworld contributor , I might add — for breaking the story . ) I ’m thrilled by this , not because of the presumably increase feature set but because Apple ’s incorporate the wheel - as - button system precede on the iPod Mini . This is slap-up news ....
salutation from Boston , where it ’s rainy and warm and there ’s some variety of Mac group discussion and trade show going on . Much has been made about the long tale of Macworld Expo ’s east coast trade show , but from this advantage item I ’m seeing a pretty courteous , well - run group discussion with a belittled but lively trade show floor . No , it ’s not the Macworld Expo of old — but neither are there tumbleweeds blow through the Boston Convention Center ....
With the release of newPower Mac G5son Wednesday , Apple has also introduced a young system migration lineament in its Setup Assistant app to help users make the passage from their quondam figurer to the new one . It ’s plan to meliorate the copying of program , files , folder , user account information and organisation penchant from honest-to-goodness to new hardware , using FireWire to bridge a connecter ....
