Eye Candy 6For many years, Alien Skin's Eye Candy has been one of the most used plugins for creating eye-catching effects for image design enhancement. This current version continues to build on previous versions to provide even more effects and greater variety to make your designs "work." The catch is that working with Eye Candy is at its best if you have Photoshop CS4. If you have Photoshop CS3, it's good. If you have Fireworks CS4 or Photoshop Elements, it's okay. This is partly due to the fact that the amount of features has fully passed the inharent user-interface design limitations.

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imageApple today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April. Beginning a week from today, on March 12, US customers can pre-order both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models from Apple's online store ( http://www.apple.com ) or reserve a Wi-Fi model to pick up on Saturday, April 3, at an Apple retail store
Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Moore’s News Roundup Digest481

iTunes Music Store Downloads Top Half a Billion Songs; Apple Earnings Show Rising Mac Sales; Apple in MVNO market?; Apple's Film Ambitions ; Opera CEO Interviewed ; Coding misstep forces new Firefox release ; Clinton takes aim at sex, violence in video games..much more...



Monday, July 18, 2005

Mac mini Muse455

New Mini Drive Updates and Companion Drives ; Mac Mini Books ; Mac mini hubba-hubba ; Belkin Flip Mac mini ; Troubleshooting: Reduced Brightness With Some VGA displays; New Articles...Mini Ture_MacJournal




Shareware Beat435

• ClamXav 1.0.1 graphical interface (GUI) for ClamAV virus checker [OS 10.3 up}
• App Stop .8 Pauses And Resumes Apps [OS 10.3 up}
• Safari Enhancer 2.6.2 Enhances The Functionality of Safari [OS 10.4 up]
• SafariStand 2.0b4 Enhancements For Safari [OS 10.4 up]
• DieticianX Light 1.6 Food Finder & Ingredients Database With Caloric Planner [OS 10.3 up}
• Peek-a-Boo 2.3.4 Monitors CPU Time For Running Processes
• SpamSweep Advanced Bayesian Spam Filter For Mac OS X
• MenuPass - Don’t Type Your Passwords. Click Them.
• Wallet 2.0.2 Securely Stores Important Information [OS 10.3 up}




Widget Watch371

• Widget Maker X 1.0a3
• Wikipedia 0.8.7 Wikipedia Browser Widget
• iChatWidget 1.2 displays iChat Buddy List In Dashboard
• dealmac Widget 2.0 Latest Deals From Dealmac, Dealnews, Dealcoupon
• Gmail Counter 1.2 Widget Counts Storage Space In Gmail Accounts
• The Art of John Dyer 1.0 Widget Displays 40 Paintings By UK Artist
• Symphonic 1.0 Widget Provides Text-based Control Of iTunes





Review: Cepstral Voices for Mac speech7562

The various voices provided on the Mac range from the OK to silly, and they'll work in a pinch. But if you want or need to listen to your computer, you may want a change. To provide this change, the Cepstral company can provide up to 10 US English voices (with 2 British voices) to satisfy most needs.



Review: The Boom Box1474

OK, you have your iPod, you've downloaded 167 songs from iTunes, you've brought over every CD you own into your iTunes and have added those songs to your iPod, and you are still not satisfied. What do you do? Well, if you have The Boom Box, you can bring in your photograph albums, record stuff off the net, bring in podcasts, listen to self-created audio books, and enjoy new shuffle combinations you might not else wise have thought to mix.



OS X Odyssey 760 - Adventures With OS 10.4.2623

Faster, but some issues



Moore’s News Roundup Digest338

Firefox Nears 10-Percent Market Share; Low-End Mac May Be All You Need; OS/2: dead again; Sad Macworld; New Ways to Discover ID Theft; BitTorrent Goes Mobile; much more....




New Road Warrior Mailbag on MacOpinion292

• Something Only A Laptop Could Do
• Powerbook Pismo
• PowerBook vs Wintel laptop
• Mac Portable screen resolutions
• Upgrade to Tiger or Panther on G3 ibook
• Intel’s DarkSide
• RE: Wallstreet and wireless
• David Lynch behavior




iPod Muse423

New Products: Longest Lasting Battery Upgrade For Generation 4 iPods; Griffin SiliSkins for iPod Shuffle; Latest iPod News: Army and Air Force Exchange System Selling iPods; iPod is 'the Kleenex' of MP3 players; The iHypocrite iPod; more.....; Commentary, Review links



Shareware Beat444

WindowShade X 4.0; DragThing 5.6.1; iCooked 1.2.1 iBook G3 Overclocker;PowerLogix CPU Director 2.1b1;TypeTrainer4Mac 2.5; Firefoxy 1.4.3; ShowVolumeFragmentation 0.69;Yasu 1.3.2 Yet Another System Utility;VitaminSEE 0.6.4.1 Fast Image Browser;GyazMail 1.3.1 Email Client; AcidSearch 0.51 Safari Search Box Enhancement; CopyPaste + yType 2.6b6




Notable New Product News463

• SubRosaSoft Announces VolumeWorks Version 1.3.3 - Includes Mac OS 10.4 Based Bootable CD
• MacSpeech Announces Summer Road Show
• ForensicDECK Read Only FireWire 800 Forensic Station
• Konica Minolta Introduces Maxxum 5D 6 Megapixel Digital SLR
• Konica Minolta Introduces the First ‘’X-Series’’ Compact Digital Camera to Feature Anti-Shake Technology
• Pepsi Chooses DXG Digital Cameras for its 2005 Sierra Mist Lemon Lime Challenge
• Sharp to Mass Produce World’s First LCD to Simultaneously Display Different Information in Right and Left Viewing Directions
• VueScan 8.2.22 Scanner Software For Flatbed & Film Scanners





Sunday, July 17, 2005

Hands-On Mac: Secrect Agent Mac798

Last week, I wrote an installment of Hands-On Mac that covered a few basic tips and tricks for sexifying your Mac. While sex appeal is no doubt a crucial element of a secret agent's cover—Hello, Mr. Bond—actual, you know, secrecy is the name of the game. So, with a disclaimer that neither I nor Applelinks are responsible for any kind of possible law-breaking that occurs as a result of this article, go ahead and read on for a few tips to give you that Secret Agent Mac.



Laser Dophin arcade action game1595

Somewhere out there is a design document for a rather small-time, independent shareware-game-that-could. This design document could be on a bar napkin, or a Post-It note, or maybe it's just a quickie little TextEdit document that has been since consigned to the depths of an unorganized documents folder. The beginnings are humble, and legitimately so, for the design document is only one sentence—no, a sentence fragment—and that sentence reads, "Dolphins with frickin' laser beams."



Friday, July 15, 2005

New Hot Deals Updates From Apple413

New specials from CompUSA, J&R, and Publishing Perfection



DOOM 3 patch released…but you still can’t see anything441

Aspyr Media has released a free update for the English version of DOOM 3 for Macintosh. The patch updates DOOM 3 for Mac to version 1.3.




Charles Moore Reviews The Kodak EasyShare C300 Digital Camera3768

Surprisingly good image quality from an inexpensive and pleasant to use digital camera



Moore’s MailBag501

Re: Nvu review on Applelinks; Tiger on an old iMac; Thunderbird 1.05 is out; Interesting keyboard; Interesting article; Strange



Belkin’s Flip for Mac mini shares display between two computers286

Belkin Corporation has announced Flip for Mac mini, the first solution designed to share one monitor, keyboard and mouse between the Mac mini and a second computer, saving money and desktop space. Flip is ideal for using the Mac mini as a second computer, without the expense or desktop real estate requirements of a second monitor.
Flip for Mac mini



TuneCommand; wireless iPod control from Belkin278

Belkin Corporation today announced TuneCommand for iPod, a device that allows you to roam and play the songs from your iPod virtually anywhere. Using wireless radio frequency technology, the TuneCommand Remote works from up to 150 feet away, regardless of barriers such as walls, ceilings, or windows that limit traditional remotes. It allows for control of your iPod to remain with you, even if your iPod is stashed in your glove compartment, backpack, or your home entertainment center. TuneCommand fits the 3G, 4G, photo, and mini iPod.



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