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romantic bullshit, CGI replacement of photography and motion pictures is already happening.

Yes and no.

I sincerely doubt you could get some guy with a copy of, say, Poser to whomp out something that an ordinary Joe would look at and go "neat photo!" (I picked on Poser because it doesn't cost thousands of bucks to get, unlike most of the high-end packages).

Most CGI replacements in motion pictures happen either with non-human figures, or with massive crowds in the background where detail is a low priority, and most of it is fuzzed by motion or distance. Also notice that I only said motion pictures - still photography requires a hell of a lot more attention to detail; it's something that requires a shit-ton more skill than the average Dave of Mumbai is going to have, even with a script to guide him.

Photoshop would be replaced by Acorn, which would get a bunch of resources dumped on it. Illustrator is replaced by Inkscape. Quark Xpress makes a comeback to replace InDesign. Apple iWeb, Softpress or Karelia Sandvox or someone steps up to the plate to replace Dreamweaver. Fireworks is replaced with DrawIt. And Flash is replaced by Anime Studio or something. In any case, there's a great number of companies that would be ready to jump into the fray should Adobe choose to pull out of the Mac market.

For instance it does not need as much hard disk space as Leopard does.

Nor should it, given all the PPC code was removed.

And why would there be PPC code on an Intel Mac? It should be easy to write the installer to test for the processor then only install the correct code. I know universal binaries, like what XCode produces, may not test but I can't see OX S being programmed in XCode. Even then though utilities like Spring Cleaning can remove unneeded code so I see no reason there should be PPC code in an Intel installation of OS X.

Falcon

Update your phone (OS 4.5) & Google maps. Verizon unlocked GPS for the Pearl 8130 shortly after the Storm shipped, and it required a code change in Google maps (regular GPS is unlocked, assisted GPS is still locked to VZNav).

The 8130 OS 4.5 ("device software") can be downloaded from http://vzw.smithmicro.com/blackberry/ and Google Maps can be updated from http://m.google.com/maps Kormac

Why can't you sync iTunes via BlueTooth, since the phone actually has BT? First the mini mouse, now this.

Will this phone be a full iSync citizen, or at least as much as other Moto phones? via BT?

Can you use this phone as a Cell modem? Via BT? And why is it not EDGE capable?

Can you sync photos via iPhoto?

Can you purchase ringtones via iTunes?

If so, you could use WebDNA and give it any extension you want so no one would know WebDNA was serving up the info.
You can also use the [protect admin] tag to require username and password.
It is cross platform and the Developer Edition is FREE.
You can download it at Click Here
Here is the sample encrypt tag
[Encrypt seed=abcdefg]Some Text that is private[/Encrypt]
[Decrypt seed=abcdefg][Encrypt seed=abcdefg]Some Text that is private[/Encrypt][/Decrypt]
In the example above, the first line of displayed text will be unintelligible, as seen below.
The second line decrypts the text and displays it as it was before:
;)(*&#$KLJFLKjkhegdlksdfg09814
Some Text that is private
Good Luck!!