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iPhoto’s Face Recognition may have some improving needed


Apple’s new iPhoto software may need a little refinement to its face recognition algorithms. Like, I’m sure I recognize this face! :)


Grand Theft Auto 4 Cheats? You’re kiddin?!

Grand Theft Auto 4 (or GTA IV if you like) has barely had a chance to burn rubber across the game store shelves and the hottest search item on Google is for cheats! Give it a rest! Go play the game first. Man!
The New York Times said, “Grand Theft Auto IV is a violent, intelligent, […]


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Ideas and Writing Help: Visual Thesaurus

I rarely see one that catches my eye, but this one sure did. It is Visual Thesaurus.Doesn’t sound catchy yet.


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New iMovie no Apple plot to harvest your hard-earned

There’s been silly talk around the place that Apple’s new iMovie, which has a revolutionary new editing interface but is missing many important features of its predecessor, is in fact a sneaky plot by Apple to force people who want to make movies on Macs to buy Final Cut Express.This is nonsense.


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Apple iWork’s Numbers the new killer app

Fascinating how Visicalc, the first spreadsheet was a killer app. Lotus 123 was a killer app, Excel again was a killer app (albeit helped by being part of MS Office suite).Now we find ourselves in 2007 and Apple has revolutionized spreadsheets with its new Numbers application, part of its iWork productivity suite, that includes Keynote for presentations, and PAges for word processing and desktop publishing.


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Software - The Print Shop 2 getting rave reviews

This from Dr Bob Leviticus at Mac Observer:I don’t often dedicate an entire Rants & Raves column to a single product, but there’s so much that is cool about the latest release of The Print Shop for Mac (version 2) from Software MacKiev that I just couldn’t help myself.


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Microsoft Buys Out Opera

I hope this isn’t true.
At the moment, the deal is almost through with Microsoft and Opera planning on locations for the browser’s research and development centers throughout the world. One of such locations includes India; other locations at this time are unknown.
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Mac Software - Iridium gives OS X 10.4 a consistent look

Iridium comes to the rescue with a theme that doesn’t need a theme manager:Before MacOSX, Apple Computers shipped an OS that had a unified look-and-feel.


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Should I buy Adobe Photoshop Elements yet?

I am going to buy Adobe Photoshop Elements for my Mac. Problem is, version 4 is out for Windows, and only 3 for Mac. I strongly suspect that Adobe are waiting for the first Intel based Macs to surface before the bring out version 4.

Should I wait? Or will Adobe give free upgrades to those […]


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OpenOffice.org 2.0 released

Exciting news for those looking for a cheaper alternative to Microsoft Office with the release of the new and significantly improved OpenOffice, version 2.0
“OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the productivity suite that individuals, governments, and corporations around the world have been expecting for the last two years. Easy to use and fluidly interoperable with every major office […]


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