PhotoFrame 4PhotoFrame is a Photoshop plugin that helps you create digital frames for your digital images. When you think back to most any museum trip you've taken, the vast majority of the paintings are presented in a beautiful frame (which sometimes looks better than the image contained therein). Digital images presented on a computer or the web should be no different. With this new release, PhotoFrame has significantly advanced its usability and ease of finding "just the right frame." That's not to say it wasn't easy before; it was. But with each integration of newer versions, OnOne Software has done an even better job of removing the guessing about how each different frame might look with your image and making the final decision based on what you could see. Well, mostly. In this latest release, there are some wonderful improvements along with some strange glitches, all leading to a mostly great new release.

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Mac OS X (including iPhone version) now has more than of 10 percent of the OS market and more thanapproachinf half of Vista's penetration

Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Thursday, January 8, 20098

• The 17" Unibody MacBook Pro Value Equation
• Apple Skips Zinc in New Notebook Batteries
• Apple pegs 17-in. MacBook Pro battery swap at $179
• First impressions of the 17-inch MacBook Pro
• Apple Boring? No, Brilliant!
• Why Businesses Are Embracing Macs
• Redmond's Roost: Most Mac Owners Still Buy Office
• Is iWork '09 an Office Competitor?
• The Pixelmator Challenge
• Apple's HyperCard To Rise From The Ashes
• Asus Eee Keyboard Opens CES
• Trends Are Cyclical: the Asus Eee Keyboard
• Macworld: Apple Rewards The Faithful
• Future Of Macworld Expo Up In The Air
• Why Schiller's Macworld Keynote Is A Big Deal In The Big Picture
• Pogue Rocks Macworld With "Where Is Steve?"
• Apple Fails To Meet 'Computer Detox' Deadline
• MSI's Super-Thin MacBook Air Killer Will Cost Just $700
• How Netbooks Impact Microsoft and Apple
• Apple's Worst Business Decisions: Another Perspective
• 2 Apple Failures: Apple III and Lisa
• Who Did Apple Hurt With Its Macworld Announcements?


TOM BIHN Offers Nine Bags for Apple’s New 17” Aluminum MacBook11

image TOM BIHN is offering nine backpacks, briefcases, and messenger bags to fit Apple's new 17" aluminum MacBook Pro, including the following bags. The Checkpoint Flyer The Checkpoint Flyer is the only airport checkpoint friendly laptop bag designed in sizes specifically for Apple laptops. TOM BIHN products are available for order with worldwide shipping at the company's website


Verbatim Announces ExpressCard SSD for PC and Mac Users14

Features a True PCI Express Interface -- 5X Faster Than a USB Interface, and Capacities of 16, 32 or 64GB


Modbook Pro, the Ultimate Tablet Computer, Unveiled at Macworld11

image At Macworld Expo 2009, Axiotron Introduces World's Fastest and Largest-Screen Tablet Computer, the Modbook Pro, and Offers Discount Promotions on Its Full Line of Products



QLPlugins.com Source For Quick Look Plugins13

QLPlugins.com is a repository for Quick Look Plugins, which are available only for Mac OS X 10.5. In addition, I seek to provide information for developers seeking to create QuickLook Plugins and to power users looking to use QuickLook more effectively


FirmTek is Now Shipping the SeriTek/SpyderHUB eSATA Converter10

image New eSATA converter allows up to two external eSATA hard drives to interface with a USB or FireWire computer port while supporting hardware RAID modes and adding Macintosh boot capability to eSATA enclosures


PDF Shrink 4.5 Optimizes PDFs for Viewing on iPhone, iPod touch13

image Apago Inc. has announced the availability of PDF Shrink 4.5, which now optimizes PDFs for viewing on the Apple iPhone and iPod touch devices. PDF Shrink is a Mac OS X utility that can reduce most PDF files - including those created by Mac OS X iLife and iWork applications, Adobe Creative Suite, and Microsoft Word and PowerPoint - by as much as 90% of their original size


DriveSavers Launches First Data Recovery Portal to Apple Service Providers9

Quick and Easy Online Access to DriveSavers Thrills Early Adopters



Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Wednesday, January 7, 200914

• Woz Helps Take The Wraps Off Modbook Pro Tablet
• IBM Finalizing Free Symphony Office Suite For Macs
• First Impressions: Picasa for Mac
• USB 3.0 Promises Faster Speeds, Backward Compatibility
• Apple unveils 17-inch MacBook, iLife tweaks, Tony Bennett
• No, an Overgrown iPod touch Is Not a Netbook
• Macs vs. PCs: Is It Still A 'Tax' If Users Happily Pay A Premium?
• Even Without Jobs, Apple Makes News at Macworld
• Was Apple 'Adequate but Late' on Jobs?
• Macworld? Who cares. How's Steve?
• Why All The Digging By The Apple Faithful At Steve Jobs' Health?
• 10 Techie Ways to Fight the Flu
• How-To: Build A Hackintosh On The Cheap
• The Mac Night Owl: The Expo Report #1: Do You Prefer Tony Bennett to Steve Jobs?


WaterField Designs 17-inch MacBook Pro SleeveCase11

image WaterField Designs announces a new, custom-fitted, protective SleeveCase for the 17-inch aluminum MacBook Pro. WaterField Designs manufactures in San Francisco enabling them to design and ship custom cases for new electronic devices lightning fast. The new size 17-3 SleeveCase is available now for pre-order and will ship January 16, 2009


Applelinks iPhone News Reader - Wednesday, January 7, 200915

• Cisco WebEx Now Lets You Collaborate From The Apple iPhone 3G
• Can iPhones Go Corporate?
• iPhone 3G Gets Excel Editing App


Kensington Announces New SlimBlade TrackBall - Now “The Ball Does It All”26

image To turn savvy digital lifestyle users into "smooth operators" smart made simple breakthrough design provides one-touch user interface for navigation, media controls and document, photos browsing