Month: June 2005

Todays candidate for “Mom Of The Year” is from Fredrick county Maryland.

Thurmont, Md. (AP) – Thurmont woman is being charged three counts of reckless endangerment for driving with three children in the closed trunk of her car.

st Lanora Lucas are misdemeanors punishable by up to five years behind bars and $5,000 fines. According to police, an off-duty state trooper saw the children get out of the trunk just before noon on Saturday at a parking lot on Frederick Road. Police say when Lucas and the children returned to the car minutes later, the children climbed back inside the trunk and the car took off.

When Thurmont police caught up with her, they say Lucas told them the kids wanted to ride in the trunk. The children were her 3-year-old daughter, her 9-year-old son and his 8-year-old friend.

The traffic stop was recorded on videotape. On the tape, Lucas is heard telling police she drives a bus for the Frederick County schools. The school system says she has not driven for the county schools for three years.Considering the high heat and humidity in the area I was relived to find, via Weather.com, that at the time of the arrest the temperature was only 73 degrees with 65% humidity. Several days before and after Saturday have been downright oppressively hot and humid. The fact that the children were apparently unharmed is probably due to lower than normal temperatures and cloud cover. At the same time on Sunday with the outside temperature 90 degrees and no clouds they children would have been traveling in the equivalent of a mobile oven.

Thurmont Woman Accused of Driving With Children in Her Trunk – [Video]

Originally posted by Kevin Aylward from Wizbang

Apple has put up a page listing their top 50 downloaded Dashboard widgets.

Some of the more interesting include:

• Wikipedia 0.8.7 – Search for and view wikipedia articles, complete with pictures, directly from the Dashboard.
• RabbitRadio 0.6 – A Dashboard widget for realtime streaming of NPR radio stations.
• DailtyTao 1.1 -Displays a new chapter of the Tao Te Ching each day, for your enjoyment and enlightenment.
• Podcast Shuffle Search Widget 1.2 – Makes it easy to find podcasts from your desktop.
• DashBlog – Post to your blog from Dashboard.

It’s pretty amazing to see all the new and useful widgets people are coming up with. This list is a great place to start.

[posted by D. Keith Robinson]

Originally from Lifehacker

Filed under: Hardware, PowerMac G5

News.com is reporting that according to reliable sources, his Steveness will stride onto the WWDC Stevenote stage and shock us all by announcing Apple’s switch to Intel based processors. The switch will be gradual with the Mac mini being the first Mac slated to use an Intel chip in mid 2006 with the PowerMac’s joining them in mid-2007 (and I assume that the iBook would go in 2006, the Powerbook in 2007).

The WWDC is the perfect place to announce such a thing, but I still have my doubts. This is a major change, and Apple is on a roll at the moment. I won’t believe it until Steve himself says it.

[Thanks for the tip, Jorge]

Originally posted by Scott McNulty from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

There is every reason in the world that this could be fake, but it won’t hurt to go ahead and put those Powerbooks on eBay. Dated June 7th, this press release talks about ‘Powerbook G5’ models, with faster processors (duh) and better screens, still inside an aluminum case. We’ll reproduce the text after the jump, but you can look at the ‘Google Cache’ on this guy’s website for signs it’s a spoof. (Thanks, Art!)

Apple Announces PowerBook G5 for August Availibility
The Highly Anticipitated G5 Portables are Here, Featuring Low-power G5 Processors and HD Screens Across the Line

CUPERTINO, California—June 7, 2005—Apple® today announced the upcoming availibility of it’s highly anticipitated PowerBook G5 line of personal computers, featuring low-power G5 cores running up to 2.3 GHz, with 12, 15, and 17 inch high definition widescreen displays, all enclosed in a thin aluminum shell. The super-powerful notebook computer outperforms the leading PC notebooks by up to 35 percent.*

The PowerBook G5’s blazingly fast PowerPC G5 processor makes it the ideal computer for professional work on the go. “The PowerBook G5 is not only one of the coolest looking personal computers on the planet, it’s also the fastest portable computer available.” said Philip Schiller, AppleÂ’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “We think it was worth the wait.” With powerful Radeon® Mobility™ x-Series video cards standard across the line, and high speed 400MHz DDR2 RAM, the new PowerBooks can handle everything from 3-way H.264 video chats in iChat AV to professional graphics applications such as Shake 4 and Final Cut Pro 5 with ease.

The new high definition widescreen displays give you all the working space you need to watch and edit high definition video without hooking up an external display. All models will ship with Apple’s new Mac OS 10.4 Tiger preinstalled. Best of all, this power is available at prices starting at just $1,699.

Pricing & Availibility
The new PowerBook G5 line will be available in August through The Apple Store® (www.apple.com), at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Autorized Resellers in four standaIrd configurations.

The 1.8 GHz, 12-inch PowerBook G5, for a suggested retail price of $1699 (US), includes:

a 1440×900 HD widescreen LCD;
a Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) optical drive;
512MB of 400MHz DDR2 SDRAM;
ATI Radeon Mobility x300 64MB video card;
AirPort Extreme wireless networking and internal Bluetooth 2.0;
DVI, VGA, S-video and composite video support;
two USB 2.0 ports, two FireWire 400;
optional backlit keyboard with ambient light sensor; and
an 80GB Ultra ATA/100 hard drive.
The 2.0 GHz, 15-inch PowerBook G5, for a suggested retail price of $1,999 (US), includes:

a 1680×1050 HD widescreen LCD;
a Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) optical drive;
512MB of 400MHz DDR2 SDRAM;
ATI Radeon Mobility x600 128MB video card;
AirPort Extreme wireless networking and internal Bluetooth 2.0;
DVI, VGA, S-video and composite video support;
three USB 2.0 ports, two FireWire 400, FireWire 800
backlit keyboard with ambient light sensor; and
an 80GB Ultra ATA/100 hard drive.
The 2.3 GHz, 15-inch PowerBook G5, for a suggested retail price of $2,299 (US), includes:

a 1680×1050 HD widescreen LCD;
a 16x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±R/CD-RW);
512MB of 400MHz DDR2 SDRAM;
128MB ATI Radeon Mobility x600 video card (256MB optional);
AirPort Extreme wireless networking and internal Bluetooth 2.0;
DVI, VGA, S-video and conposite video support;
three USB 2.0 ports, two FireWire 400, FireWire 800;
backlit keyboard with ambient light sensor; and
an 80GB Ultra ATA/100 hard drive.
The 2.3 GHz, 17-inch PowerBook G5, for a suggested retail price of $2,899 (US), includes:

a 1920×1200 HD widescreen LCD;
a 16x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±R/CD-RW);
1GB of 400MHz DDR2 SDRAM;
256MB ATI Radeon Mobility x600 video card;
AirPort Extreme wireless networking and internal Bluetooth 2.0;
DVI, VGA, S-video and conposite video support;
three USB 2.0 ports, two FireWire 400, FireWire 800;
backlit keyboard with ambient light sensor; and
an 100GB Ultra ATA/100 hard drive.
*Based on a series of 12 common actions in Adobe Photoshop CS

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning desktop and notebook computers, OS X operating system, and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital music revolution with its iPod portable music players and iTunes online music store.

The ‘Google Cache’ [Mac]

Originally from Gizmodo

If you’re a Mac user but still need to run Windows software, but don’t want to pay the high price for VirtualPC, iEmulator 1 is a new, low-cost, high-performance PC emulator. With a price tag under $25, it’s a bargain buy for a die-hard Macintosh user.

Originally from My Digg News