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
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Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Wednesday, March 17, 2010497

• IT Pros: Macs Cost Less To Manage Than PCs
• Apple's Mac Mini Server 'Ideal' For The Small Office
• Make Exact Backup Copies Of Your DVDs
• Why I Plan to Stop Using Google Docs
• Get Mac-Like Scrolling and Gestures on a Windows Laptop
• The Tech Night Owl: Will the 2015 Mac be a Mac?


Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Tuesday, March 16, 2010736

• U.S. Mac sales up 39% in Jan. and Feb. - iPod sales Also Up
• Year of the Mac, Indeed: Apple Headed for a 2.9 Million Mac Quarter
• Not Breaking Up With Windows, But Seeing Other People
• The Case For Standing While You Work
• Why Run Leopard on Slow G4 Macs?
• Researchers Develop A Lithium Battery That Can't Explode
• The Apple Patient - 12" PowerBook With 17" Apple Display
• Dell Mini 5's (Streak) To Be Headache For The Next iPod touch?
• Netbooks Keep It Light


Polycom Delivers Desktop Video Collaboration for Apple Computers166

Polycom's scalable CMA Desktop for Apple Mac OS X meets customer demand in education, healthcare and corporate markets


Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Monday, March 15, 20101181

• Mac Pro Set For Refresh This Week
• Apple overtakes Wal-Mart - Briefly
• So is the Mac at Death's Door?
• Apple Computers vs. PC Computers
• Jef Raskin: Unofficial Father Of The iPad?
• Mozilla births first Thunderbird 3.1 beta
• Apple MacBook Pro 13-Inch Review Revisited
• Former P.A. Semi Chief Leaves Apple For Chip Startup - Report
• Steve Jobs Flash Rant Put To The Test; Found Wanting
• What Would Happen If Apple Decided To Buy A Controlling Stake In General Motors?
• Google Is Working On Letting Users Link Their Gmail And Google Apps Accounts
• Mozilla Gives Passive-aggressive Missive To Pre-Firefox 3.6 Holdouts
• Quickly Create Alpha Images From Icons In Preview
• Apple's Claim to the Letter "i" – Rejected



Coast-to-coast News Coverage Available for Wireless Delivery on Sony Reader Daily Edition187

Giving readers greater access to an expanded selection of digital reading content, Sony has announced several recent newspaper and magazine additions to the Reader Store, which now offers a growing list of periodical content for wireless download on the Sony Reader Daily Edition or via Sony's Reader Library software on a PC or Macintosh computer


Bohemian Coding releases Fontcase 1.5: Elegant Font Manager for Mac OS X244

Bohemian Coding today releases Fontcase 1.5, a free update to the Apple Design Award-winning font manager that is like an iPhoto for your fonts. A few feature-highlights include versatile metadata support, the ability to share fonts on your local network and fantastic ways to preview all your fonts. Version 1.5 adds much-requested auto-activation, duplicates detection, speed increase and stability among other things


Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Friday, March 12, 20101603

Apple's iPad Could Kill The Mac
• Why Apple Will (Eventually) Dump the Mac
• How To Survive Mobile Systems Stampede
• 4 Reasons Why Your Next Mac Could Be An iPad
• The Ultra-light Laptop Conundrum: Weak Processors
• OS X 10.4 Tiger Still Very Usable On 500 MHz G3 iBook
• OCZ Launches "Ultra-affordable" Solid State Drives
• Freescale Demos Prototype $200 Tablet That Runs Android, Chromium OS, Linux
• ClubMac Merging With MacMall
• Hard Drive Evolution Likely To Slow Windows XP Performance
• 'Law & Order's' Belzer: Choking Claim By Apple Employee Is Pure Fiction
• MacBook Pro: Display Issue Related To "Hot-plugging"
• Try Using Time Machine In Supported Programs
• iPad Gaming Potential
• Adobe Responds To Apple's Issues Regarding Flash On The iPhone and the iPad
• Intel Core i7-980X Extreme 6-Core Processor Review
• Banish Seven Bad Computer Housekeeping Habits
• Doritos iPad Ad Parody


Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Thursday, March 11, 20101161

• Apple Top Dog In Consumer Reports Ratings: Best & Worst Computer Tech Support
• Consumer Reports: Apple Still Tops In Computer Tech Support
• Apple dominates Consumer Reports Support Rankings - Beats Dell, Lenovo By 36 Percent Or More
• Wanted: Mac mini On Steroids
• Mac Pro 'hexacore' Xeon Core i7-980x Coming Tuesday?
• 40 Fast Facts on Apple
• 8 Mac Apps to Embrace Minimalism
• Spell-Check And Other Useful Functions When Typing In OS X
• Mac OS X v10.6: Issues after restoring a Mac from a Time Machine backup made with a different Mac ("Restore System From Backup…")
• The iPad Changes Everything
• Six Tips for Using the Dock Efficiently
• iTunes LPs Not Popular, But Why?
• Children's Internet Protection Act
• JAMF Software Releases Casper Suite Version 7.2, Enabling Developers To Extend And Automate Enterprise Products On The Macintosh Platform
• The Tech Night Owl: The Snow Leopard Report: Is it Ready Yet for Prime Time?



PixelMags - 100+ Magazine Apps for iPad574

California based PixelMags has 100+ apps ready for Apple's iPad. PixelMags publications are releasing to top paid book app spots all over the world. 30% of readers are making subscriptions their top In App purchase. The release of the iPad is sure to increase this digital publishing phenomenon. Since PixelMags launched in December, 60+ titles for iPhone and iPod touch have been sold in 77 countries through the iTunes App Store


comScore Reports January 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share314

image Use of Social Media via Mobile Sees Considerable Gains in Past Three Months


Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Wednesday, March 10, 20101235

• Are Macs Really Cheaper To Manage Than PCs? - Yes, A Lot Cheaper
• The iPad As Your In-between Mac?
• MacBook vs. HackBook: You Get What You Pay For
• The Rise of Netbooks Charted
• iPad: Is It A Computer?
• Back to A Comfortable Place with OS X
• Apple vs. HTC Will Delay iPad Competitors
• Blockbuster 2010 Mac Sales Expected To Carry Into February For Apple
• Oh The Horror! Why Is Microsoft Pushing The Hated Windows Ribbon For Office:Mac?
• Content Sales Predicted To Near 30% Of iPad Hardware Revenue
• Is the iPad's Ultra-Realistic Page-Turning Metaphor for Books Stupid?
• Apple iTunes Library: Move iTunes Successfully via the Finder
• Lisa Tickled Pink Hates Technology: The Social Experiment
• All-In-one, Evolved
• Options For Entering Accented Characters In OS X
• NYT: Facebook Location Features Coming Next Month
• AG Interactive Switches from Microsoft Office to Seapine Software's Test Case Management Solution


Survey of IT Administrators Finds Macs Cost Less to ManageThan PCs343

In response to a survey conducted by the Enterprise Desktop Alliance, 260 IT administrators from large organizations with both Macs and PCs responded that Macs are less expensive than PCs to manage. In some categories such as troubleshooting, user training and help desk calls, three times as many administrators said that Macs cost less to manage. 29% of the respondents cited lower total cost of ownership as one of the key reasons their organization buys Macs




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