Some early adopters have noticed something wrong with some of the anti-aliasing on Macs, particularly in iTunes Coverflow. According to a blog post by Bryce Kerley, he surmises that "the scroll bar and volume slider in iTunes Coverflow full screen get drawn by some anti-aliased method while the buttons are probably bitmaps."

By trial and error, he's pretty much discovered that some anti-aliasing done on Macs is video card-dependent. This is corroborated by some images he took of the program running on different machines using different video cards. You can check out a few of the comparison shots by clicking on the "read" link below.

Other reports from Mac users have flagged the issue as a bug in the program. Apparently, once the Coverflow window is resized the anti-aliasing problem goes away. Kerley says, though, that he has also encountered the same problem as well as the same fix in OmniWeb's Downloads window when using Expose. As of now, there's been no official word from Apple about it.

A lot of QJ staff are in love with their dual monitors. Heck, even a certain Crazy Jon is addicted to multiple monitors! I guess some people really find ease at doing computer jobs when faced with multiple monitors; we can't therefore blame Richard Troxel for wanting to use an extra monitor with his 17" MacBook Pro.

Troxel asks, "Is it possible to use both a 30Â? and 23Â? Apple Cinema Display monitors with a 17Â? MacBook Pro?" Macworld's Christopher Breen clues us in on the answer.

Unfortunately for Troxel - and other MacBook Pro users who also want to work with multiple monitors - the answer is no, not for now. Breen explains, "Although you can connect AppleÂ?s 30Â? display to your MacBook you need another video card to drive an additional monitor."

Because Apple replaced the PC Card slot with the faster ExpressCard/34 slot on their new laptops, the task of adding other monitors on a MacBook Pro has becomes impossible as there are a few ExpressCards available and nil ExpressCard video cards.

If you're a PowerBook user though, multiple monitors are a go for you via the PC Card slot - you'd just need a device like VillageTronic's VTBook and Digital Tigers' SideCar, which will soon release an ExpressCard version of such device this fall...so all is not lost to MacBook Pro users.

All Mac, PC, and Linux users have a new combat game to look forward to - Battlefront's DropTeam. We have given you the details about this sci-fi tactical game back in May and have reported about its release early in June, as well. If you're still apprehensive about giving this game a space in your computer, then maybe you'd like to try out this new demo that Battlefront has just released.

Replacing the old public test demo they released back in June, the Multiplayer Demo for DropTeam includes new game enhancements and updates. Although the single player is disabled and only one scenario is playable, this DropTeam demo is still fully-functional. The included scenario promises to be an exciting one as well - "Raid" will take you to Hopewell, an inhabitable moon that orbits the radioactive Hell The Scorch.

Since this is just a demo, there are known issues you need to deal with in playing DropTeam for now. Battlefront says:

Alt-Tabbing out and back in of a game in progress can result in various corrupted graphics and as such is not recommended. SoundBlaster X-Fi users, the most recent OpenAL Beta drivers can result in a "Busted App" error message upon exit of game if "SB X-Fi Audio [DF8C" is selected as the in game sound driver. To prevent this error, leave the sound driver set to either "Generic Software" or "Generic Hardware".

The full version of DropTeam will see single player skirmish games, single player campaign games, and 21 scenarios. DropTeam Multiplayer demo will require the following minimum requirements:

* Geforce4/Radeon 9600 64MB VRAM class video or better
* 512 MB system RAM

For WINDOWS
* Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003
* Pentium III 800MHz or better
* Catalyst 6.2 or higher drivers for ATI users
* Forceware 81.98 or higher for nVidia users
* OpenGL 1.5 or better for other video cards

For MAC
* OS X Tiger 10.4.5 or higher
* G4 1.2 GHz or higher

For LINUX
* GLIBC version 2.3.4 or higher
* X Windows with working OpenGL acceleration
* ALSA audio

Download: [DropTeam Multiplayer Demo for Mac and PC]