QuarkXpress patches performance

Quark has released an update to its QuarkXpress desktop publishing application that addresses a number of issues in version 7 and provides several performance enhancements. The update provides substantial improvements to the performance of actions involving text selection, such as scrolling, spell checking and Find/Change, general layout manipulation where images have clipping paths and flattening of layouts that use transparency. Resolved issues include: slow printing, PDF export and EPS saving where layouts include tables that use opacity, numerous or highly blurred drop shadows and drop shadows over lines of text; slow text editing, especially in multi-column text boxes; slow zooming and scrolling when displaying a clipping path with a large number of points and in layouts with a large quantity of selected text; incorrect resolution when printing low-resolution drop shadows when they occurred over high-resolution images; failure to apply clipping-path runarounds when printing to non-PostScript printers; failure to apply the Accents for All Caps preference setting; incorrect spelling of Ukraine by the spelling checker; and several cosmetic issues relating to control placement, text truncation and stylistic inconsistencies. ...more

Sony kits out developers with Linux for PlayStation 2

Penguins on your PlayStation... ...more

Apple updates its iMac G5 range

Apple has upgraded its iMac G5 range, with faster processors, double the RAM and souped-up graphics. Three models are available, at 1.8GHz and 2GHz with 17in displays and 2GHz with a 20in display. ...more

NTL fall foul of advertising standards

The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that NTL cannot describe its 128Kbit/sec Internet connection service as broadband. Although the service does meet Oftel and DTI definitions of broadband, the ASA decided that 'most consumers would understand broadband to mean a service of upwards of 500Kbit/sec'. The ruling followed a complaint by Freeserve. ...more

Nokiagame hype coming your way

Nokia is launching an online game that is tipped to be the next "Big Brother". Players of Nokiagame take on the role of a fictional character and use their powers of detection to unravel the clues and win the top prize. This is a trip to the MTV snowboarding weekend in the Italian Alps in January. ...more