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Unity, the game development engine behind Ambrosia Software’s Gooball and Freeverse Software’s forthcoming Big Bang Brain Games, has been updated to version 1.6.1. A free update, Unity is priced starting at $249.
CoverSutra sports a variety of methods that let you control iTunes. See what's currently playing or enjoy your album artwork. Do not let yourself be distracted from your work, CoverSutra is never in your way but always by your side.
Apple announced that the iPod shuffle is now available in five colors; Blue, pink, green, orange and the original silver. The 1GB iPod shuffle costs $79. "When we designed the new shuffle we entered into a new space of fashion - the idea that you can wear it in your favorite color is a great extension," Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, told Macworld.
Google Notifier is a program I wrote that lets you know when there is new Gmail ready to be read in your inbox and when you have upcoming Google Calendar events. The basic features of Notifier are pretty obvious, but there are a few bits of trivia that Notifier users might be interested in.
Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. cellphone carrier, passed on the chance to be the exclusive distributor of the iPhone almost two years ago, balking at Apple's rich financial terms and other demands. Among other things, Apple wanted a percentage of the monthly cellphone fees, say over how and where iPhones could be sold and control of the relationship with iPhone customers, said Jim Gerace, a Verizon Wireless vice president. "We said no. We have nothing bad to say about the Apple iPhone. We just couldn't reach a deal that was mutually beneficial."
Anton Linecker writes: "This article assumes that you already know how to create your content—an audio or video podcast—so I won’t go into how you need to compress your video. Instead I’ll concentrate on what makes this password-protected podcast different."
A host of European countries are concerned about iTunes music downloads and how they only play on the iPod. The latest to speak up is Holland where the Dutch authorities have said: “What we want from Apple is that they remove the limitations that prevent you from playing a song you download from iTunes on any player other than an iPod. When you buy a music CD it doesn’t play only on players made by Panasonic. People who download a song from iTunes shouldn’t be bound to an iPod for the rest of their lives.â€
I frankly don't see what the big deal is. There are so many places one can download music or purchase CDs that this should not be an issue at all. If you don't want to use iTunes don't use it.
This is a short movie about a fictional new generation accessory that interacts with your iPod or iPhone through your window blinds. Superior performance and technology that drives iBlinds to create innovative dynamic living room space through your own music.
Apple has posted AirPort Extreme Update 2007-001, intended for some Intel-based Macs running Mac OS X v10.4.8. The update corrects an issues that could cause system crashes on a wireless network caused by malicious intent, according to Apple.
If you use Mail.app a lot, this series of five tutorials are something to check out. The tips, ideas and workflows that demonstrated will be useful to everyone. Hawk Wings has all the details.
If you find yourself typing the same thing over and over again when answering emails, Ryan Carson has a real time-saving tip for you. Watch the video below to see how Text Expander can save you time on when answering emails.
Among many other fixes, the guys at Panic fixed a bug relating to hanging SSL connections, improved message count accuracy, improved message parsing, and made random signatures more random. It's not a super critical update — if Unison works well for you, you might be already set — but if you have a pet peeve bug stuck in your craw or just want the best Unison build in existence, go ahead and grab the update!
In a nutshell, a Smart Folder contains items in the folder based on search criteria that you set in the preferences of the folder instead of grouping the contained items by location, like a regular folder. This makes it very easy to better organize your Mac. Say, for example, that you have a lot of word documents or keynote presentations spread out in different folders on your Mac but you want to get them all in one location without physically moving them on the hard drive, then making a smart folder is your solution.
As a sign of the global reach of the iPod, an Australian bank has opted to use the music player as a benchmark to track currency values worldwide. Commonwealth Securities has launched an iPod index, based on the cost of the 2 gigabyte iPod Nano player as a way of showing if a currency is overvalued. The idea stems from The Economist magazine's Big Mac index. The bank has chosen the iPod since they are all made in China and its price - in theory - should be consistent.
Scott writes: "My goal with this was to do the simplest thing possible while still ending up with something useful. It's a relatively short read by design — probably about twenty minutes. Essentially, you're shown how to launch Xcode, create a project, launch Interface Builder, add a few items and compile the result. There's no code, but we do bask in the glow of NSTextView's rich text handling."
This widget allows you to search YouTube from your Dashboard, just to waste a little more of your time :) You can search by three different methods:
A senior Microsoft executive was so frustrated by his experience with digital music players made by Microsoft’s partners that he proposed turning to Apple’s iPod for salvation, documents made public as part of an Iowa antitrust case reveal. The outgoing head of the Microsoft division in charge of Windows, Jim Allchin, was so distraught by his experience using the music players on offer in 2003 that he considered calling Steve Jobs, the documents show.
A forthcoming update to Apple's MacBook Pro line will usher in a generation of more vibrant and uniformly-colored notebook displays thanks to some new underlying backlight technology.
Ah, isn’t it good to be back from the holidays, showing off the latest gadgets you received as gifts from your family? That new iPod, for example, will be great for storing files, especially because your company won’t allow you to take home your laptop for some silly security reason. No one will ever guess all the stuff you need is around your neck, stored in a little silver Mini.
If you’ve spent time in Terminal, more than likely you’ve made a typo or two—or two hundred thousand, if your typing accuracy is anything like mine! It’s one of the banes of working in Unix—after years of point-and-click, having to type sometimes long and complex commands by hand leads to inaccuracies. And, sad to say, Terminal isn’t nearly as lenient with my typos as are Word and my other text editors!
Apple will likely have some wiggle room to cut retail prices on the iPhone, if a report from iSuppli proves correct.
The consulting firm on Thursday released an analysis of what the total component budget will likely be for the Apple iPhone. The $499 iPhone, which comes with 4GB of memory, will likely have a component budget of $229.85. Assembly costs will raise the total manufacturing price to $245.83, according to the analysis.
There's a whole lot to say after 45 minutes with the iPhone and thankfully this article is filled with details. The iPhone runs the same OS as the Macintosh. And not in the way that Windows Mobile is. It truly does run Leopard, the upcoming 10.5 OS that will be released for the Macintosh late in the spring.
Anyone with a yen for disassembling computers discovered last year that Apple had jumped the gun on wireless standards by including Atheros and Broadcom 802.11n, or “N,†chips into some Intel Core 2 Duo models. This stole some of Apple’s thunder last week at Macworld Expo when it formally announced its adoption of 802.11n and the wireless networking standard’s 100 Mbps-throughput. But what was more surprising was the company’s willingness to commit to a standard that’s a year from completion.
The iPhone may be Apple's future. But investors will listen attentively to its past today as Chief Executive Steve Jobs reveals how well the company's existing products, notably its iPod and MacBook laptops, have been doing. Apple will report first-quarter earnings, which include holiday sales, after the market closes. Analysts expect the company to report earnings of 78 cents per share on $6.42 billion of sales, representing a 20% year-over-year earnings increase and 12% year-over-year revenue jump. In October, Apple said it expected to post first-quarter earnings of 70 cents to 73 cents per share on sales between $6 billion and $6.2 billion. Want to buy essays online of blue-chip quality? ParamountEssays.com will provide you with it!
With Acrobat 8 Professional, Adobe offers a redesigned, Universal version of its flagship application for creating and distributing PDF content. With this version, which will be part of Creative Suite 3, Mac users now have only one choice: Acrobat 8 Professional. Once you get over the loss of the Standard edition, you’ll probably love what you see.
First and foremost, it looks and feels like a true Mac OS X application. It sports a redesigned, task-oriented user interface with customizable toolbars. And, on Intel Macs, it feels remarkably faster than its predecessor.
Though the market for commercial Mac-based video games is small, that could change because of the iPod's computer chip and the large color screens on newer models, which make them well suited to the same kinds of casual games many users play on cell phones. Add in the iPod's overwhelming popularity, and it's clearly Apple's best chance to become a force in gaming.
Here’s a little hack that makes the main window use a 3 vertical pane view, like the letterbox plugin does for Apple Mail.
FUSE stands for Filesystem in USErland, and it provides a generic interface that lets the operating system see virtually anything as a filesystem. Historically, adding new filesystem recognition to an operating system has meant modifying the kernel for each new FS. FUSE, though, provides a single interface that filesystem modules use to interface with the OS. Best of all, anything that provides the correct interface can be interpreted as a filesystem. One enterprising Python programmer even developed a script to let users mount their GMail accounts and use the extra space in their accounts to save files.
You may have missed it with all the news coming out of last week's Macworld Expo, but Apple recently distributed a new pre-released build of Mac OS X 10.4.9 to its developer community. The latest is just the second build of the Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system update to make its way outside the company's walls since build 8P2111 was released to developers in late December.
Former Apple employees say the company plants fake product names within workgroups to track the source of media leaks. Perhaps this is why they are former employees? Regardless, this is a very smart idea for Apple to figure out exactly where the leaks are coming from
When Steve Jobs took the stage to present one of the most important products in his company's history, he proceeded to grab headlines around the world with details of a smart phone everyone had expected, but no one else had been able to imagine.
Less than two days earlier, Bill Gates took the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show. His mission was similar to that of Mr. Jobs: get the world excited about technology and his company's most important product. He gave a flat, tired performance, even as he showed off features of the Vista operating system, a product that by his own description will be the most used piece of software on the planet.
The Sundance Film Festival has struck a deal with Apple to allow festival films to be sold through its iTunes store. Thirty-three short films being screened at the festival in Utah will be made available for download for $1.99. They will also be streamed free of charge on Sundance's Web site when the festival kicks off on 18 January.
An investigation into the ongoing trademark dispute between Cisco and Apple over the name "iPhone" appears to show that Cisco does not own the mark as claimed in their recent lawsuit. This is based on publicly available information from the US Patent and Trademark office, as well as public reviews of Cisco products over the past year. The trademark was apparently abandoned in late 2005/early 2006 because Cisco was not using it.
The iPhone features a surprisingly large screen, and has the ability to automatically change the screen orientation when a user turns it sideways. At 3.5 inches it seems suspiciously perfect for reading. Will this be a new era for "books on the go"?
David Pogue brings us the ultimate iPhone FAQ list, complete with answers. CBS had the pleasure of getting a presentation of the iPhone and the video below shows you how it looks like to actually use one.
Parallels won Macworld's Best of Show award for 2007. Much to many of your delight, hardware graphics acceleration is expected to come in the next major beta, which will be available within the next couple of months. Other things we can expect are multi-core virtual machines/virtual SMP, some SCSI support, and "a more Mac-like feel.
Almost 400 vendors have booths set up at Macworld Expo, showcasing some of the latest gadgets and software for Mac users. For those missing out on this intense experience, MacUser bloggers Dan Moren, Derik DeLong and Scott Silverman walked the show floor and picked some impressive new products to talk about.
Cisco announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against Apple, Inc., seeking to prevent Apple from infringing upon and deliberately copying and using Cisco's registered iPhone trademark.
Cisco obtained the iPhone trademark in 2000 after completing the acquisition of Infogear, which previously owned the mark and sold iPhone products for several years. Infogear's original filing for the trademark dates to March 20, 1996. Linksys, a division of Cisco, has been shipping a new family of iPhone products since early last year. On Dec. 18, Linksys expanded the iPhone family with additional products.
"Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco's iPhone name," said Mark Chandler, senior vice president and general counsel, Cisco. "There is no doubt that Apple's new phone is very exciting, but they should not be using our trademark without our permission.
"Today's iPhone is not tomorrow's iPhone. The potential for convergence of the home phone, cell phone, work phone and PC is limitless, which is why it is so important for us to protect our brand," Chandler concluded.
With its lawsuit, Cisco is seeking injunctive relief to prevent Apple from copying Cisco's iPhone trademark.
David Pogue was in a meeting with Steve Jobs and got to play with the iPhone, his thoughts on this beauty are not disappointing although it is a prototype. The lucky folks from Gizmodo got their 15 minutes of fame as well and offer us some juicy details.
AppleInsider posted many quality photos of the iPhone for you to peruse.
One of the most astonishing things about the new Apple iPhone is how Apple managed to keep it a secret for nearly two-and-a-half years of development while working with partners like Cingular, Yahoo and Google. Bogus prototypes, bullying the press, stifling pillow talk - all to keep iPhone under wraps. Fortune's Peter Lewis goes inside one of the year's biggest tech launches.
The Mac Macintosh Business Unit (BU) announced its intent to deliver the first Universal version of Office for Mac for PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs — Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. Scheduled to be available in the second half of 2007, Office 2008 for Mac will allow Mac users to work smarter and more efficiently with new and enhanced tools that are simple, intuitive and easily discovered.
Microsoft conducted extensive customer research to determine which enhancements to make to its Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage applications. As a result, Office 2008 for Mac is packed with new tools to help Mac users better manage the business of life.
Shared Technologies With Office for Windows
Office 2008 for Mac shares a new graphics engine with Office for Windows. Office Art 2.0 provides users with the ability to add professionally designed graphics with a simple click of a button. Like the 2007 Microsoft Office system and its new user interface with the Ribbon, Office 2008 has its own new UI that introduces Elements Gallery, a feature that emphasizes discoverability and gives users quick access to tools and Mac-specific features within applications in a visually appealing, simple way. Both features leverage Mac OS capabilities to retain a Mac-like look and feel users are familiar with while taking advantage of new technologies.
Part of the Elements Gallery is a tool called Document Parts. Documents Parts simplify and automate some of the most common, but often difficult and tedious, document tasks — such as adding a table of contents or headers and footers — so users can produce manuscripts and papers that look professional.
New Mac-First, Mac-Only Features
Microsoft continues to deliver new Mac-first, Mac-only features aimed at providing customers with a unique, engaging and definitively Mac experience. Office 2008 for Mac will carry on the tradition of Mac BU’s productivity software, helping users get organized and work smarter through these features:
Publishing Layout View lets users create incredibly layout-rich documents such as newsletters, fliers and brochures by uncovering desktop publishing layout tools and providing text box entry.
Ledger Sheets enable anyone to use Excel to handle common financial management tasks. Home and small-business users can balance checkbooks, track accounts or manage investment portfolios more easily than ever.
My Day allows users to track priorities and stay on top of daily activities no matter what application they’re currently working in. My Day is a stand-alone application that doesn’t take up much screen space, offers at-a-glance schedule and task viewing without launching Entourage, and lets users color-code everything for visualizing daily priorities.
Commitment to Compatibility
To improve collaboration between Mac customers and their Windows-based PC counterparts, the Mac BU has continued to make compatibility with Office for Windows a key priority. Like the 2007 Office release, Office 2008 for Mac will use the Office Open XML Formats, which were just approved in December by standards body Ecma International as an international standard. In spring 2007, Microsoft plans to release a public beta of the file format converters for the current version, Office 2004 for Mac, so users can read and write the new Office Open XML Formats. Six to eight weeks after Office 2008 for Mac is launched, the Mac BU intends to ship final versions of the converters. the best site asian singles dating blonde I was very pleased
In this video over at NBC Steve explains why Apple decided to make the iPhone. I just loved it when he said: "We are a product company. We love good products." Well, so do we :)
Engadget has a gallery of live photos of the iPhone and so does TUAW. It really does look amazing! :)
Kottke grabbed some cardboard, scissors, and glue and made a scale model of the iPhone and compared it to various other devices so that you can get a feeling of the size. Check it out!
iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device.
iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.
iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows you to make a call by simply pointing your finger at a name or number in your address book, a favorites list, or a call log. It also automatically syncs all your contacts from a PC, Mac, or Internet service. And it lets you select and listen to voicemail messages in whatever order you want — just like email.
iPhone features a rich HTML email client and Safari — the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device — which automatically syncs bookmarks from your PC or Mac. Safari also includes built-in Google and Yahoo! search. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background over Wi-Fi or EDGE.
Two versions will be available, 4 GB for $499 and 8 GB for $599.
The iPhone will ship in June in the US, Q4 in Europe and Asia in 2008.
Your computer is the center of your digital life. Your TV is the center of your entertainment life. But what if you want to watch movies, TV shows, movie trailers, podcasts, and photos from your computer on your TV? At $299, Apple TV brings iTunes to the big screen.
Apple TV connects to your TV via an HDMI port or component video and audio ports. Its built-in, superfast 802.11 wireless capability syncs your iTunes library to any Mac or PC in the house. Best of all, what's on Apple TV stays in sync: Anytime you change your library in iTunes, it changes on Apple TV — wirelessly, automatically.
Apple TV puts your iTunes library — movies, TV shows, music, and podcasts — plus movie trailers from Apple.com on your TV. And your digital photos from iPhoto on a Mac or Adobe Photoshop Elements or Adobe Album on a Windows PC appear in high definition, so you can put on a stunning big-screen slideshow.
Roxio launched Toast 8 Titanium, a significant upgrade to its industry-leading Mac disc burning software.
Continuing to enhance and extend the functionality of the Mac OS and iLife applications, Toast 8 offers a range of new innovative features and ground-breaking platform firsts that enable users to see, hear, copy, and enjoy their entire digital lives on a disc and on-the-go.
Headlining Toast 8 are a number of unique new features and enhancements that help redefine the standard for disc burning on the Mac platform. Toast 8 brings TiVo and the Mac together for the first time, enabling users to enjoy their favorite TV programs on their Mac, burn them to disc, or easily convert them for viewing on a mobile device such as an iPod or PSP. Complementing the features of iTunes, Toast 8 enables users to apply professional-quality tools to create superior sounding audio CD mixes and music DVDs. Going beyond the burning options included in Mac OS, Toast 8 introduces Blu-ray Disc burning, as well as automatic disc cataloging, cross-platform data spanning, and disc restoration. site horny milfs liverpool just try
Toast 8 offers a familiar, yet streamlined user interface that offers intuitive visual feedback and a readily accessible media browser, which takes the efficiency of “drag, drop, and burn†to new heights. Users can now complete their projects faster and easier, while experiencing a richer and more engaging workflow.
Consumers can recover data from scratched or damaged discs that may be unreadable in the Mac OS Finder. Now with Toast 8’s Disc Recovery tools, users can gracefully recover from read errors encountered during disc copying and recover some files from damaged discs to create new clean copies of the previously unreadable disc.
Only Toast brings Blu-ray Disc burning to the Mac platform, enabling users to store as many as 12,500 music tracks, 50,000 photos, or up to four hours of high-definition video on a single 50 GB Blu-ray Disc. Toast’s Dynamic Writing feature allows consumers to use a Blu-ray Disc recorder like a giant hard drive by dragging and dropping content directly onto the disc icon on the desktop to add or remove files.
Toast 8 Titanium is available now for purchase direct from Roxio, and will be widely available from e-tailers and retail outlets this month. The suggested price is $99.99. Owners of previous versions may be eligible for upgrade offers.
Everyone knows the MP3 format is used by more devices and people than any other file-based digital-audio format. Most also know that record labels prefer DRMed alternatives such as the ones sold by Apple's iTunes, because they make it harder for people to share music. Evidence is mounting that major labels may start to prefer the MP3 format, as impossible as that used to seem.
If you believe all the hype, installing the new Windows Vista operating system will solve world famine, end the AIDS crisis and bring about world peace. Well, maybe no one is saying it's that great, but the clamor and fuss have been pretty boisterous. Hidden behind all of this hoopla, however, is the fact that as much of an improvement Vista is over XP, its main competitor, Mac OS X, still stacks up really well - and even tops Vista in several important areas.
This article is for people who just want to figure it out and get going but fully realize that their initial questions are only going to annoy veteran users.
There are many ways to remotely initiate BitTorrent downloads, but most are complicated and require tweaking. Here’s an easy way to remotely download torrents with only an instant messaging application and a BitTorrent client.
Two security researchers have kicked off 2007 with a "Month of Apple Bugs," promising to feature a new vulnerability related to Mac software each day in January. It follows two similar monthlong campaigns last year that focused on browser flaws and kernel flaws. However, some experts and users have questioned the purpose of these projects, wondering how much security value they have. To find out what people on the street make of it, we asked our Mac Views panel, made up of ordinary readers, this question: "Do these kind of bug-publicizing campaigns do any good for the general Net public?"
Adobe announced that the next version of Adobe Production Studio, the integrated video and audio post-production tool set that is part of the Creative Suite family, will be available for the Mac.
Film, video and web professionals currently using Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator on the Mac will soon be able to harness the power of completely new Macintosh releases of Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Encore DVD and Adobe Soundbooth - all key components of an upcoming milestone revision to Adobe Production Studio.
The software will have its first public demonstration during the Macworld 2007. The next release of Adobe Production Studio is expected to ship in mid-2007.
Adobe Production Studio creates an efficient post-production workflow enabling creative professionals to move smoothly between the full range of post-production tasks while remaining focused on their creative vision. The product combines Adobe’s award-winning applications, including Adobe After Effects for compositing, effects and animation, Adobe Premiere Pro for non-linear editing, Adobe Encore DVD for DVD authoring, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, as well as the time-saving workflow enhancements offered by Adobe Dynamic Link. Dynamic Link eliminates the need for rendering when moving motion graphics and visual effects from Adobe After Effects to the real-time HD, SD and DV editing environment in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Encore DVD.
Adobe Soundbooth is designed to enable creative professionals to produce high-quality audio. Offering the ability to quickly record, edit, and customize audio and music for web and video production, Adobe Soundbooth makes the delivery of pristine sound tracks fast and efficient. Adobe Soundbooth will take the place of Adobe Audition in the next version of Adobe Production Studio. Adobe Audition will continue to be developed for audio professionals as a stand-alone product for Windows.
Adobe video technologies - including Adobe Production Studio, Flash Media Server for streaming interactive media applications and Flash Video for easy video playback across the Internet - are having a profound impact on how broadcast and video content is being distributed.
What can you do when your iBook suffers from a problem that is well documented but the warranty expired a long time ago? Use candles, literally :)
Apple is defending CEO Steve Jobs as the company is under investigation by the feds. To some, he is Apple. But could the company make do without its very public leader?
Scrivener is a project management tool for writers that acts like your own little writing shed at the bottom of the garden, where you have cork notice-boards, ring-binders, photos, clippings paperclipped to jottings, notebooks and reams of typewritten pages piling up - along with a secretary who keeps it all in neat piles and uses his speed-reading skills to find what you need as soon as you need it.
This is a sure fire way to clean your beloved Mighty Mouse you spent $50 for.
For Mac users who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter, but live in the digital world. WriteRoom is a full-screen, distraction-free writing environment. Unlike the cluttered word processors you're used to, WriteRoom is just about you and your text. WriteRoom 2.0 adds a live word count, rich text, multiple documents, and lets you fine-tune your writing environment.
Dashcode is everything you need to create great Dashboard widgets. With Dashcode you will have your widget running in minutes, even if you've never written a line of code. You will start your project by selecting one of the bundled templates, creating a valuable widget that is ready to run - and ready to be customized. The integrated workspace will have you smoothly transitioning from design and layout, to editing code, to debugging JavaScript, and finally deploying your great new widget.
If Amazon's hot holiday seller list is any indication, a lot of you got new Macs this holiday season. If you switched to a Mac from a PC, you've probably noticed that there are a lot of differences between the two. This article will get you up to speed quickly on the differences so do take a look, this is very good material for new users.
Task List is the simple way to manage your homework. After all, it's bad enough that you have to do homework in the first place - why should keeping track of it be difficult too? It makes it easy to actually do something about your homework, with features such as multiple file attachments for each task, a built-in tabbed notes editor, and convenient reference information and links, just like your composition notebook.
A previously undocumented flaw in Apple's QuickTime media player could be exploited remotely by attackers to install malicious software on computers running either the Windows or Mac OS X operating systems, according to the inaugural posting by the Month of Apple Bugs project, a month-long effort that promises to feature a newly described security hole in Apple's software each day for all of January.
Garmin announced the Garmin Training Center software is now compatible with Mac OS X 10.4. Garmin Training Center software is used with Garmin’s Forerunner and Edge series fitness products.
Mac OS X Tiger users will now be able to download information directly from their Forerunner or Edge fitness device to the Garmin Training Center software. While using the software, fitness enthusiasts can create, analyze and store data from their fitness activities directly on their computer.
The software also offers tools to record pace, speed, heart rate, and elevation based on time and distance. In addition, users can categorize the information based on the type of activity, such as walking, running, biking, or kayaking.
In addition to the Garmin Training Center, Mac users have come to rely on Garmin's web application - MotionBased.com - which has been supporting the Mac since March 2006. This internet based platform translates GPS data into performance analysis, online mapping and route sharing. MotionBased utilizes a web plug-in that allows customers to upload data directly from a Garmin fitness device through the Safari web browser. Data recorded by the GPS device is stored at MotionBased.com where time, distance, speed, elevation, cadence, grade, and heart rate analysis is displayed. The MotionBased.com site also includes charts, reports, historical weather, split analysis, interactive maps and one-click export to Google Earth.
Garmin will distribute complimentary Mac compatible Garmin Training Center software CDs at Macworld, January 8-12, 2007. Those unable to attend Macworld will be able to download the Mac compatible software for free in late January 2007 at this address.
Among the best security practices that everyone should adopt, choosing strong passwords is at the top of the list. If you're reading this, then you have access to the Internet. You likely have accounts on various web sites. You might even be doing some on-line banking. All of these systems, systems not under your control, store your password somewhere. Should someone get their hands on that password file, it's not at all difficult to crack some of the passwords in that file.
Upgrading the DVD burner to a newer model will not only bring shorter burn times, but also Dual Layer capabilities. Opening the PowerBook is considerably more complicated than the Mac Mini - some experience working inside laptops will be useful if you intend to crack open an Apple notebook. First, though, you’ll want to make sure a new drive will fit.
