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Steve Jobs is always good for a surprise announcement, although usually the media has got an idea of what is about to be revealed. Not so at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2007 in San Francisco today, where the Apple CEO shocked everyone by announcing that the much loved Safari web …

Everyone wants to know what the next big thing is going to be, and if market analyst [URL="http://www.datamonitor.com"]Datamonitor[/URL] is to be believed the answer is mobile broadcast television. With the opportunity to combine two of the undeniably most popular and successful consumer products in history, namely TV and mobile telephones, …

I couldn’t help spotting a story over the weekend relating to what was being called a groundbreaking camera that can refocus blurry images after the photo has actually been taken. The development, from the [URL="http://www.merl.com/"]Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs[/URL], uses a lens with a depth of field around ten times the …

Both Second Life and Skype have come in for some bad publicity following media reports exposing pedophile activity on the hugely popular services. Second Life got a kicking from a German TV program called Report Mainz which claimed to have been approached by pedophiles inviting the reporter to attend ‘child …

Somewhat surprisingly, Apple has admitted that they can no longer stick to the Leopard schedule that had previously planned this spring of 2007 as the release for the new operating system being brewed by the developers of Apple, and so you should expect it 4 months later, says Apple. Reasons …

Intel's finally received the kick-in-the-pants from its rival AMD, and, trying to kick that reputation of having hot chips has decided to revamp its server quad-core Xeon chips. The new chips, which have started shipping, use a mere 50 watts of power. It also has a 60 percent reduction from …

New research from [URL="http://answers.vizu.com/"]Vizu Answers[/URL] and [URL="http://adage.com/"]Ad Age[/URL] suggests that when it comes to blog posting discovery, the majority of readers use links from other blogs to arrive there. The fact that the figure is as high as 67.3 percent is slightly surprising, given the amount of people that use …

Sex has been one of the silent drivers of technology for as long as I can recall. It might not get reported much, not least because many in the media would prefer to pretend it is not important and has no impact. But the truth is the adult industry has …

Recently I have decided to switch from Ubuntu linux to Freebsd and here I am going to outline why. 1. [B]The Ubuntification of linux:[/B] Lately I have noticed a trend on social bookmarking sites, mainly digg, which have people posting articles with titles like "Ubuntu Tutorials" or something similar. In …

MySpace seems to be where all the kids go -- it's the online meeting place for a lot of young people. But it also seems to be a place where pedophiles hang out, something that [URL="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128087-page,1-c,internetlegalissues/article.html"]MySpace is trying to change[/URL]. It seems as though MySpace is trying to incorporate one …

[B]An innovative experiment in publishing by a doctor in Mumbai has sparked off a wide range of academic publications, giving authors hundreds of new readers and a genuine chance to create relevant new knowledge. [/B] Mumbai-based Medknow is an open publishing firm that creates academic (mostly medical) journals, puts them …

[B]Japanese information technology companies are mapping out a new base to outsource software development in India, according to Nihon Keizai Shimbun. [/B] Japanese firms, which have long shifted their software development to China for low costs, are now faced with a lack of local engineers and deciding to expand their …

Have you downloaded snow leopard yet? I was planning to stop by the Apple Store and get it today instead of ordering online but I was not looking forward to the long line. So what do you think of Snow Leopard? What sup with Apple naming system? I do like …

Apple's quarterly earnings report came out the other day and in spite of the economy and Steve Jobs' health and everything else, Apple blew away their quarterly projections. How do you think they keep doing it? What makes people keep buying their products in spite of the economic climate that …

I have recently build ten (10) Intel iMac, and have noticed that on a Monday most machines will be at least 5 minutes to fast. Becasue these machine are on a Windows Domain, user's are unable to login, I have to login as Administrator and change the time. If the …

sorry it was not my intension to spread illage things on this forum i have only one question is it posible 2 put a new leopard software when i must i buy it in the store but will it works on my g5 from 2004 that was my question otherwise …

Hi guys I was working in CS3 Illustrator a minute ago and I noticed that the shift key has stopped working ie it's not constraining my boxes to proportion when I try to resize them. I tried closing down the programme, trashing the illustrator preferences and restarted it but the …

How good is OS X as OS for a web hosting server? Please advice.

Helo, I'm a newbee in using mac os ,X specially and i have this strange error that i can't understand. I don't want to annoying with a silly question, but can anyone explain me what is happening. The problem: a few days ago my maill.app stop receiving mails, in my …

i buy a (old) g5 dual quad with 4 gb mem ddr 400 but no OS on it. so i download osx leopard now is my question this download file is a dmg file from 7 gb so how can i burn this on dvd so that i can boot …

i have a pc with intel chipset ,2gb ram , 160 gb hard drive with windows vista .how can i install mac os with windows vista dual boot?please if any body have any information or link associated with it reply?

Hi, I have an html form which, when submitted, e-mails the data via php to me. It all works fine, but I wondered if there was a way to get the output to be displayed in html rather than by e-mail. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Chris.

I have a MacAir with Entourage. For 9 months I enjoyed the services of 123toegher.com / Microsoft Outlook Web, but ten days ago the system started getting unstable. Some of my mails are not being downloaded to my Entourage mail account. I have just updated my 2008 Entourage system. Can …

Hello, i'm quite new to MacOS. Have been working with Suse Linux until now. Usually i divided the hard disk with three partitions: 1. Root: for OS and applications 2. Swap: swap file 3. Home (or User): for all saved documents. Is it advisable to do a similar partitioning with …

Hi every one. I have a 7200. I am using Outlook express, the problem is it keeps telling me the scrach disc is full and cannot down load or open message that has an attachment. I have cleaned out as much as I can on the hard drive and made …

The school district I work at recently put Leopard on eMacs, iMacs, and iBooks. Last year, using Tiger's parental controls, we were able to set it so users would only be able to access a limited System Preference pane (network, system time, accounts, etc. had all been blocked). Is there …

just WHAT is the master password... soz if i am annoyng you.. PLEASE help though, im on my knees begging you...

Tried to install macOSX leopard on my newly installed hard disk (macbook intel core duo). Btw, the installer DVD belongs to my newer mac (intel core 2 duo) since its original dvd is missing. Tried installing, "this MacOSX cannot install on this computer". Anyone can help? Greatly appreciated.

Hi , I have a user is using MS Entourage on his MAC and connect to Exchange server but He always have a problem that frequently the system prompt and ask him to login again... Is there anyone know or have simliar issue which can share with me? Anything where …

Hi, I'm new to this forum, but I cannot find any posts related to my question. When I open a spreadsheet, or, when I open a blank spreadsheet, the toolbars that are checked in the View menu are not displayed. For each toolbar, I have to uncheck and then check …

My parents have a Macbook and a wireless network. Rather than using their network, which I have setup to use WPA-PSK, the MacBook keeps jumping on the neighbor's wireless, which is named Linksys and is wide open. It does this any time the computer is woken up or rebooted and …

my system preferences is in different languages ?? what is going wrong ?? :(

I have an image that is an oval with a white rectangle behind it. I have extracted the image from the layer and the white rectangle still shows up. This is a company logo that is an oval shape, I just want the oval image to place on a product …

OK, new here, so be patient... Thanks. I have my iMac connected to my HP 2510 Photosmart all-in-one. It will print anything I want to print, but when I try to Scan, it says that there is no scanner recognized. I have the HP "Image Zone" logo displayed on the …

I accidentally told my computer not to trust the app that adds photos to my FAce Book page. How do I get it to trust it again?

New to all this, so if I've done it wrong, tell me! EXCEL for MAC: I have a long (3000 names) mailing list stored as data in columns, of course. In combining lists, some of the address entries are in Caps others in Upper and Lower case. Is there any …

Hi all, is it possible to up date to 10.4 Tiger. Thanks, Norm.

i have recently purchased a HP all in one printer which is supposed to work with macs with OSX but I have tried installing the software and at the very end of the process I get an error message that says a "system folder" is required but cannot be found. …

Hello All Is there any option for getting the deleted files from thrash? My files has been deleted few days back. I want to get it back.

Hey…I am sending an URL link with @mail send. The link is very long…It’s not possible to make a Hotspot link with the URL....For Example: The [url]http://test.com/.....?OpenDocument[/url] have you any idea to Make Short link. Thanks for any help you can give me...!!

I have a mac. I have been playing around on FMP. Know how to create fields and containers and design pages with it. However, I have not yet gotten into programing. it. I have a website that I designed on Adobe Illustrator. I figured out how to lay out the …

I'm not sure I fully understand RAM requirements. I'm wanting to buy a Mac Mini with 1GB RAM which seems quite enough for most of the applications I want to run. But OS X requires 512MB RAM, Neo Office 512MB and if I want iTunes running at the same time …

Hello alltogether, it's a really silly question actually, but I just can't figure it out. I want to write a simple server, that serves the HTTP-protocoll (Port 80). The connection does work, when I let the programme run on port 8080, but Mac OS prohibits the connection on port 80. …

Ok, I have an iBook G3. I was restoring it to factory with the Software Restore disks which came with the unit as I was planning to move on to a new unit.. But there was a power cut in the middle of the process and the unit shut off. …

I'm having trouble using SSH to gain access to my Ubuntu 9 machine (extreme linux neophyte). I have the Ubuntu server and OpenSSH installed, as well as Samba on one machine, and I'm trying to access this machine, via SSH, from my Mac--which is running OS X 10.5.6. I am …

Here is the situation. I tried asking this question on Macrumors but no one could help me. I want set up a Raid 1 array with my MBP laptop's internal hard drive and an external hard drive. I want to leave external at home and only take the laptop on …

My mac won't start up, it is always stuck on the Silver apple screen with a loading wheel. I tried using installer disc to boot, but my drive keeps on spitting the disc out. I need the files inside the mac. Anyone has a suggestion to solve the problem?

trying to understand iso files. Is mounting and burning and iso the same? When a program like Poweriso or alcohol mount an iso on a CD is that different from burning? I "borrowed" a program from Pirate Bay and the program runs but is looking for specific files on CD, …

Hey guys, Has anyone grabbed a Mac Mini? Are there any problems like over heating or anything like that? This will be my first Mac since I've been a PC guy for many many years. Thanks for you time. This website gives out free Mac Mini's and has been labeled …

Hi, I've been using a mac for a long time, but still find myself to be somewhat computer illiterate...i bought a new 120 GB SimpleTech portable hard drive and when i plug it into my g4 powerbook, its not reading it...ive tried plugging it into my desk top (also a …