Jeff Gamet

The judge did leave an opening for the shareholders to amend their complaint with different arguments and additional information, which is exactly what they plan to do. Shareholder lead attorney Mark Molumphy commented “The discovery we have so far has made the case stronger.” A group of Apple shareholders filed the suit against Apple in…

California-based Digital Background Corporation filed its case against Apple on November 14 in the Illinois Southern Federal District Court. The 1997 patent describes a process where the background in an incoming video signal is repaced by an alternate background in real time — just like iChat can do. While on the surface the patent and…

Autotextis “computer-based transcription” patent describes a process where a list of words is presented based on the letters a user is typing. Mac OS X 10.4 and Safari along with IBMis Lotus Notes, Eudora 7.1 from Qualcomm, The Sony PS3, and the Nintendo Wii are listed in the case, as are devices from several other…

Mr. Chizen has worked for Adobe for 14 years, and was CEO for the past seven. John Warnock and Chuck Geschke, co-chairmen of Adobeis Board of Directors, commented “Bruce Chizenis vision has helped transform Adobe from a company that was known mainly for its popular design products into one of the largest and most diversified…

Dane Harnettis WideMail 0.0.5 plug-in, like Letterbox, adds a three column view to Mail. The first column shows your accounts and mailboxes, the second shows messages, and the third displays the selected message. Message rows in the second column alternate colors which makes it easier to pick out individual emails. WideScreen adds a three column…

“The once-little app has proven almost endlessly adaptable to new needs and workflows, but all that morphing has a price,” Mr. Nack said. “In many cases weive traded simplicity for power, and not all the pieces look like part of a cohesive whole. In fact, I sometimes joke that looking at some parts of the…

The list was comprised from a poll of IT industry professionals. 73 percent of the 473 respondents named Mr. Jobs as the most influential, while 84 percent named Mr. Gates. PC maker Michael Dell came in third, and Linux creator Linus Torvalds took fourth place. Mr. Jobs is credited with revolutionizing the PC market first…

Hereis how: Launch iChat. If it isnit already in your Dock, check in the Applications folder. Choose iChat > Preferences. Select the Messages tab. Check Collect chats into a single window. Leopardis iChat can group chats in a single window.

If you want to create your own Dashboard widget to monitor a specific Web site, Leopardis Safari 3 makes it easy. Hereis what to do: Launch Safari. It should be hiding in your Dock and also in your Applications folder. Open a Web site that has something you want to monitor. I decided to make…

Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional, a critical part of many design-related workflows, is not fully Leopard compatible and will require an update. Even though the Acrobat update wonit be available until January 2008, Adobe claims it is safe to run the CS3 apps and Acrobat 8 Professional on Mac OS X 10.5. Adobe Premiere Pro CS3,…

Hereis how: Modify as many settings as you need in the Print dialog. Now choose Save As from the Presets pop-up menu. Give your printer setting group an appropriate name, and then click OK. Save printer settings as presets.

Open a PDF document in Preview. Click the Text Annotation tool. Itis the button that has a pencil icon — you can find it in the tool bar at the top of your document window. Use the Text Annotation tool to add notes to PDFs.