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Last week, Opera released Opera 9.6 final, which represents a substantial update from the previous Opera 9.5.2, itself still relatively fresh, but version 9.60 adds some more new features, refinements, and speed tweaking, making my favorite browser by actual usage even better Cool Mac Gear
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One of the ongoing quests of personal computing has been finding a convenient place to park bits of data that you can't immediately act on don't want to give up on, and then easily find and retrieve them. One avenue of function and access is the Mac OS X menubar, and the subjects of this review are both examples of that genre - one fairly richly-featured shareware and the other just-the-basics freeware My Apple Space Announces Live Chat During October 14 Keynote6
My Apple Space will introduce live chat before, during and after the Apple keynote October 14th. My Apple Space is aimed at providing Apple users around the globe a place to connect, cultivate relationships, build a strong sense of community and designed to be a user driven switcher machine on the internet. It's a great resource for finding out about the latest Mac Hardware, news, latest software updates or just meeting new friends
PopCard 3.0 Brings iCards to the Masses6
Pixaria Software has announced the release of PopCard 3.0, a free to use, PHP script that gives website owners an easy way to add Apple 'iCards' style electronic greetings cards to their sites. The free PopCard 3.0 PHP script represents a great alternative for anyone looking to set up a similar service for visitors to their own site
Live Interior 3D Standard 2.0 Interior Design Application7
Live Interior 3D Standard edition is targeted at people who are about to begin designing a new interior for their house, apartment or office. The program has the ability to create two-story projects, allowing users to make different interiors for every room in the house OpenOffice.org 3.0 Open Source Office Productivity Suite470
OpenOffice is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program
Clone X 3.1.1 Creates/Restores bootable copy of your disks - Creates your own bootable DVDs9
Clone X is specially designed to create a copy of your system, to duplicate it on other disks or computers, and to repair and reinstall the system in case of problems (damaged system, errors during installation, etc.)
Steve Wozniak, Apple Co-Founder, Joins Fusion-io Advisory Board9
"The Woz" Brings Tremendous Experience and Valuable Industry Relationships to the High-Performance Storage Company
Baseline 1.4 adds support for scanning Time Machine Backup Volumes7
MildMannered Industries has announced Baseline 1.4, an update to their highly rated disk usage utility for Mac OS X. Baseline features include directory, browser and graphical treemap views, QuickLook support, duplicate file detection, and comparison against previous scans. Version 1.4 adds support for hard links, allowing Time Machine backups to be scanned efficiently
Dejal announces Caboodle 1.28
Dejal has announced the immediate availability of Dejal Caboodle 1.2, a useful application to collect text, images, and other content. Caboodle enables you to arrange the items in an outline-like hierarchy, and include both structured fields and free-form text and pictures in each entry, along with web links, lists, tables, PDFs, and any other kind of file as attachments. It supports encryption, imports and exports, and more. This release adds several encryption enhancements and more
RealArcade Launches “Collapse! Chaos” on Apple’s iPhone8
The casual games business unit for digital entertainment services
company RealNetworks, Inc. is announcing the availability of "Collapse! Chaos" on iPhone and iPod touch Incipio Announces New Feather Protective Case for Apple iPhone 3G6
Ultra light protective case measuring less than 1mm thin
iSimple Announces Availability of iPod Integration System for Nissan and Hyundai Vehicles6
Off-the-Shelf Product Lets an Estimated 69.5 Million Car Owners Connect iPod, HD Radio and Other Portable Audio Devices Directly into Their Factory Radios
Trapster Launches Speed Trap Alert System on iPhone and BlackBerry5
Real-Time GPS, One-touch Alerts, All For Free
iCab 4.2.5 has been released with a raft of new features and bugfixes fot this fast little already deeply-featured indie Web browser
As I predicted in my Acrobat 9 review, CS4 was soon to come. I was right; CS4 was formally announced on September 23, and it will be in our hands soon, very soon. I've been lucky enough to obtain a pre-release copy and have been pounding on it right and left to see what there is to see. Adobe has been maintaining their "about every eighteen months update," routine, but this time is breaking new ground by releasing 17 new programs all at one time. The problem with this type of approach is that there are a few features that seem rushed and not as developed as I think they should/could be, and will instead be "finished" with CS5, while other features that were presented with CS3 are now beautifully developed in CS4. While one can argue the pluses and minuses of this approach (and there are many arguments each way), one does have to sit back and continue to be amazed at how much Adobe does accomplish with each iteration of the Creative Suite suites and applications—that's both collectively and individually.
Ya' just gotta love the way Mozilla.org quietly and unobtrusively delivers Firefox incremental updates in the background, than puts up a dialog politely asking if you want to install them. Firefox 3.0.2/3.0.3 fix bugs found in Firefox 3.0.1
This version of the declared Photoshop challenger is vastly more polished and somewhat more capable than the Version 1.0 I reviewed here a year ago, and with some new features too, but still has a way to go to match the king of the hill, or even Photoshop Elements 
Is there a happy medium to be struck between "what, me worry?" and obsessive compulsive fastidiousness?