image 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

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One of the hot button topics this week in the Mac Web blogosphere has been the "toxic Mac Pro" story. Any cancer risk is likely extremely remote, but that's not the whole of the computer chemical emissions issue

DataMind Srl announces Jade 1.3 Digital Image Enhancement And Processing for Leopard5

image DataMind Srl announces Jade 1.3, their digital image processing application for Mac OS X Leopard. Implementing state-of-the-art algorithms to enhance color, contrast and dynamic range, Jade is an easy-to-use image enhancement and batch processing tool that will automatically improve digital images. As DataMind's main product of a series of image processing and computer vision tools, Version 1.3 is a staff pick on Apple's download website


Sphinx: Open Source Speech Recognition In Java6

Carnegie-Mellon University has developed a cross-platform, Java-based freeware speech recognition application called Sphinx, which is offered under an Open Source BSD license


The Road Warrior Mailbag and From The Archive - New on MacOpinion5

• Leopard on a G4
• From The Archive Learning To Love Leopard


MyWeather Mobile Has Sunny Future on iPhone6

MyWeather, LLC has announced that after over three months in Apple's App Store, its MyWeather Mobile iPhone application has remained in the top 2% of all paid applications. MyWeather Mobile brings full-screen, interactive radar to the iPhone, and remains on the App Store Top 100 paid apps. In addition to the interactive radar, MyWeather Mobile also offers accurate and robust weather data including current conditions, temperature, precipitation, wind speed, and 12-hour trends



Freeverse Garners Top 2 Spots in Apple’s iTunes App Store6

image Freeverse's innovative games continue to push the capabilities of the iPhone as a gaming device


BreakThru Radio Comes To The iPhone and iTouch7

Indie-focused online music radio broadcaster, BreakThru Radio is using technology from TVersity to offer on-demand radio shows to iPhone and iTouch users. The news means the broadcaster's diverse range of channels covering the gamut, from reggae to rock. iPhone and iTouch users simply need to navigate to BreakThru Radio in Safari on their device. Once there they will be presented with a series of drop-down menus which allow them to choose the on-demand show they want to hear.


macVCR 2.0 Advanced Screen Recording Software for Mac OSX7

Arten Science announces macVCR Version 2. Following on from the success of Version 1, Arten Science has worked hard to produce a significant upgrade in Version 2 with many advanced features including Magnify at the Cursor, Simultaneous Video Camera Recording, Unlimited User Presets and a Date and Time Overlay Option. Existing customers can upgrade free of charge. As with all our products macVCR remains free of charge to educational and charity organisations


PENTAX Drops Price of Award-Winning K20D DSLR to $999.958

PENTAX Imaging Company has announced significant savings on its flagship, award-winning digital SLR. Beginning Sunday, October 12, 2008, the price of the PENTAX K20D digital SLR camera body has dropped to $999.95



Dr. Bott to Have Major Presence at Macworld Expo 20098

With an expected 25 vendor exhibits in the 60' x 70' Dr. Bott booth space, Dr. Bott will have a significant presence at Macworld Expo 2009. The cornerstone of the Dr. Bott booth will be the popular Dr. Bott Store, where attendees can choose from hundreds of products offered at a special show discount


Apress Acquires Rights to Best-Selling SpiderWorks Programming Language Learning Books7

IT Professional book publisher Apress, Inc., today announces the acquisition of the rights to best-selling titles Learn C on the Macintosh and Learn Objective-C on the Macintosh from SpiderWorks, LLC


app4touch.com : 5 applications for iPhone and iPod touch8

Introducing app4touch.com 5 applications available on iTunes appStore


Apple Announces MacBook Pro Service Program Addressing Distorted Video Or No Video Issues8

Apple has announced a new service program for MacBook Pro users whose machines have certain NVIDIA graphics processor units and are experiencing video anomalies such as distorted or scrambled video