Recently added articles from Macworld:

Heavyweight inboxing; Changing e-mail habits, and wishing the iMac a happy birthday.(FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK)(Editorial)

Jul 01, 2008; Snell, Jason ... I began using Eudora, my first Mac e-mail program, in 1993. Fifteen years and countless tens of thousands of messages later, I vowed to change my e-mail ways, all because of Penelope and Merlin. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A Time of Crisis Two years ago, ...

Office animosity.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)

Jul 01, 2008 ... Running from office Microsoft Office 2008 meets with some less-than-enthusiastic reviews Microsoft rewards our four-year wait for Office 2008 (Reviews, April 2008) by removing VBA macros from Excel? I won't be upgrading if it means trashing the hard work I put into ...

Overheard on the forums.(FEEDBACK)(Brief article)

Jul 01, 2008 ... All the improvements [in OS X 10.5.2] are welcome, but the fixes for the Dock and the menu bar are especially good news. It shows that Apple does indeed pay attention--when we complain loudly enough. Now if Microsoft would just restore macro support to Office'08. Whitedog ...

What about Tiger?(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)

Jul 01, 2008 ... I'd love to upgrade to Leopard, I really would ("Your Leopard Survival Guide," April 2008). Unfortunately, my PowerBook G4, which is working just fine, doesn't have enough free space. I know your focus has to shift somewhat, and I'll happily save the Leopard tips cover story to read later, ...

Safety first.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)

Jul 01, 2008 ... In your article on Leopard's Firewall (Connect, April 2008), you praise the interface and function of Leopard's new firewall. You also correctly lament its inability to block outgoing connections. However, third-party utilities such as Objective Development's excellent Leopard-compatible ...

Time Machine and NAS.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)

Jul 01, 2008 ... In "Better Backups with Time Machine" (March 2008), Joe Kissell says that Time Machine will not work with NAS devices apart from the Time Capsule. However, the article dedicates an entire section to configuring Time Machine to use a network volume. What is the difference between NAS ...

Negative is positive.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)

Jul 01, 2008 ... A letter in your April 2008 issue claims that there is too much negative material in Macworld. That is astounding to me. If Macworld never said anything negative about Macs, it would be the ...

Reader poll.(FEEDBACK)(Survey)(Brief article)

Jul 01, 2008 ... <Pre> Which, if any, of the following places did you use to rent or purchase a movie or TV program in the last 30 days?* 80% RENTED IN LAST 30 DAYS (total) 34% FROM A COMPANY BY MAIL (such as Netfix) 33% FROM AN OFFLINE STORE 17% FROM THE iTUNES STORE 12% FROM ANOTHER ...

Correction.(FEEDBACK)(Correction notice)

Jul 01, 2008 ... The URL provided for Jobo in the May 2008 issue's Mac Beat ...

Google's Mac development; Employees' pet projects opened the door to wider efforts.(BUSINESS)

Jul 01, 2008; Michaels, Philip ... Google engineer Amit Singh thought something was missing from OS X, so he took a look at what the Mac operating system didn't have that Linux and Solaris did. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "One thing stood ...

Apple reports Strong earnings.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Financial report)(Brief article)

Jul 01, 2008 ... Strong demand forMacs, driven by record laptop sales, helped Apple turn a $1.05 billion profit for its fiscal second quarter ending March 31,2008. From January to March, the company sold 2.2 million Macs--up 51 percent from the same quarter a year ago--helping drive sales of $7.51 billion ...

Boot Camp bumps to 2.1.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Apple Inc.)(Brief article)

Jul 01, 2008 ... To add compatibility with Windows XP Service XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) and to fix other issues, Apple has released version 2.1 of Boot Camp, its software that lets Intel-based Macs run Windows operating systems in addition to OS X, Apple has posted three separate Boot Camp 2.1 updates--one ...

Visual Basic's Office comeback; Users won't see feature until next version of Office for Mac.(PRODUCTIVITY)(Microsoft Corp.)(Brief article)

Jul 01, 2008; Seff, Jonathan ... Microsoft announced that it will be adding back support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to Microsoft Office for Mac--a direct result of complaints from users about the removal of the suite's cross platform automation functionality. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Unlocked iPhones are a-ok with Apple; Hacked products show strong demand.(iPHONE)(Brief article)

Jul 01, 2008; Snell, Jason ... If you were Apple, what would you do upon realizing that many of the 5.4 million iPhones you've sold haven't been activated on the networks of any of your worldwide cellular partners? The correct answer? Shrug. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] True, Apple doesn't get the cut ...

An epidemic of vulnerability.(TECH TRENDS)(Brief article)

Jul 01, 2008; Thompson, Maryann Jones ... More than 700,000 new computer viruses were identified in 2007, according to Symantec. Browsers are increasingly the target of infection. The number of Safari vulnerabilities identified held fairly steady from the ...

Apple buys chip designer; Purchase brings skilled engineers.(BUSINESS)(P.A. Semi)(Brief article)

Jul 01, 2008; Myslewski, Rik ... Apple's recent purchase of microprocessor design firm P.A. Semi has triggered a wave of speculation over what the computer maker plans to do with its newly acquired asset. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The $278 million purchase, first reported by Forbes, prompted the ...

Dialog box.

Jul 01, 2008 ... "We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again." Google's Vic Gundotra after discovering that the company had 50 times more searches from iPhones than from any other mobile handset "Both Apple computers [we ...

Product watch.(Buffalo Technology Inc.)(nVidia)(Brief article)

Jul 01, 2008 ... HARDWARE DriveStation Combo 4, from Buffalo Technology (www.buffalotech.com): External hard drive with external seral ATA, FireWire 400/800, and USB 2.0 interfaces comes in 320GB, 500GB, and ...

Wooden USB memory sticks.(Hot Stuff)(Oooms)(Brief article)

Jul 01, 2008; Kelly, Heather ... What we're raving about this month The designer flash drive is usually overlooked as a status symbol, but not anymore. Whip out a one-of-a-kind wooden beauty at your next cocktail party, and prepare to bask in the envious oohs and ahhs of your friends and acquaintances. Made by ...

AudialHub.(Hot Stuff)(Techspansion)(Brief article)

Jul 01, 2008; Pourhadi, Dan ... Finding good tools to convert, isolate, tweak, and fix audio files isn't easy. Now Techspansion--the same company that brought us VisualHub--has released AudialHub, a simple audio-manipulation tool that can handle conversions to and from most common audio formats, as well as ...