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Jaikoz 1.12.1 - Macworld WWDC 2008

Fri, 27 Jun 2008

Download free full version of Jaikoz Audio Tagger 1.12.1.

Unfortunately due to a mistake on our part, an incorrect version of Jaikoz Tagger 1.12.1 was included on the Macworld WWDC 2008 cover disc.

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Fun with Spore Creature Creator

Mon, 23 Jun 2008

Spore Creature Creator – available for both Mac OS X and Windows – enables users to create creatures using design tools taken from Spore, a virtual life game created by Will Wright, designer of Sim City and The Sims. Spore takes the Sim City and The Sims concepts to an extreme, where you create a life form from its first stirrings in primordial ooze all the way up to an intelligent, spacefaring civilization.

Spore Creature Creator lets you assemble hundreds of parts into a creature of your own imagining.

Peter Cohen | Read more...


Microsoft's Golden Age: Going, going ... gone?

Mon, 23 Jun 2008

Oracle Corp. and SAP AG may still be bigger in enterprise applications, and Oracle in databases. Both IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co. may reap more IT dollars overall. But in the ways that really count, Microsoft Corp. remains the king of the IT industry.

Now, though, Microsoft is at a major crossroads, as co-founder Bill Gates prepares to step away from his day-to-day job at the company next Monday (see more coverage on our "Bill Gates Moves On" page). Although Gates has long been disengaging from Microsoft — he turned over the CEO position to Steve Ballmer in January 2000, and his retirement plans were announced two years ago — his departure raises questions about whether the software vendor's best days are behind it.

Eric Lai, Computerworld | Read more...


iPhone 3G-killers

Wed, 18 Jun 2008

The iPhone 3G isn’t even out yet and already rival phone companies are lining up to release iPhone 3G-killers.

In the last two days I’ve had my hands on two such devices. The first is a Sony Erricson C905, which Sony was kind enough to show to me at a launch party yesterday.

Mark Hattersley | Read more...


Spam winner

Mon, 16 Jun 2008

Congratulations, Mary Xee, you have just sent me my 1,000 unread piece of spam email.

Frankly, this is unsurprising. Under a variety of different names you have been sending me an email roughly once every 10 minutes (day and night) for the last month. Comically, the other day you offered me a service for sending bulk emails.

Mark Hattersley | Read more...


Adding some magic to GarageBand songwriting

Wed, 11 Jun 2008

In the previous installment of my ongoing recording project, I wrote about about how I like to use GarageBand to write songs. Songwriting involves some talent, luck and in the case of a new song I’ve been working on, some magic.

Recently, while talking to my writing partner, Allan Doy, I expressed interest in doing a traditional type blues song—nothing too complicated, just a good slow blues number in A. Unfortunately, when it came time to lay down a quick track to show Allan exactly what I wanted, I couldn't find the right drum loops at the right tempo. I cited Led Zeppelin’s I Can’t Quit You Baby as a rough take on what I was shooting for, but even that didn’t fit exactly what I wanted.

Jim Dalrymple | Read more...


Fearless WWDC keynote predictions

Mon, 09 Jun 2008

It’s time for another edition of Wrong in Public, the Steve Jobs Keynote Prediction game in which yours truly tries (and usually fails) to determine what the Apple CEO will announce during one of his periodic addresses to the masses. Today’s game is brought to you by AT&T, the number “3” and the letter “G,” and the service formally known as .Mac.

Of course, for Monday’s Worldwide Developer Conference keynote—which you can follow live at our sister site Macworld.com—some of the mystery has gone out of the guessing game. We’re all pretty much agreed that Apple is going to talk about its iPhone software development kit and maybe even give us a few details about the iPhone 2.0 software coming later this month. And if the iPhone shortages don’t have you convinced that a 3G iPhone is likely to be unboxed Monday, then maybe if we sit around long enough, AT&T can announce it prematurely.

Philip Michaels | Read more...


Apple's Monopoly

Thu, 05 Jun 2008

Apple has just made its sneakiest step yet to boost iPod replacement sales - using the power of bitter gamers to encourage wanton destruction of people's media players.

What has it done?

Jonny Evans | Read more...