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Magic Charger Wireless Charger for Magic Mouse
QuickerTek Introduces The Quicky3 - USB Wireless Range Booster
Good News/Bad News: Today's Personal Computers Are Built To Last
WindowShade X 5.0.5 Released
What's The Faster, Better Mac Browser?
Mac vs. PC: Playing Russian Roulette At College
Apple's 27-in. iMac 'The Center Of My Digital Universe'
Ping Users Top One Million in First 48 Hours
Kanguru Adds Cross Platform Functionality to Remotely Manageable, Hardware Encrypted USB Flash Drives
Apimac Introduces iDatabase - Database Manager for Mac and iPhone
Magic Charger Wireless Charger for Magic Mouse
Switzerland-based Mobee's Magic Charger wireless induction charger for Magic Mouse, touted as a "greener way" to use your Magic Mouse, consists of a a USB-powered base station ajnd a special battery pack that fits into the Apple mouse in place of the standard alkaline or rechargable cells. The Mobee pack even weighs a bit less at 1.30 ounces than a brace of AA cells.
To charge the battery pack, just park the mouse on the base station, and a blue light will indicate that it's charging. After reaching full charge in about six hours (battery life is nominally 50 charge cycles), is claimed to provide six days runtime in average use.
Intended for for home, travel and office use, the Magic Charger is made of recyclable materials, and is projected to ship in mid-October priced at around $50.00.
Specification:
• Base Station Size : 4.64 in x 2.55 in x 0.35 in
118 mm x 65 mm x 9 mm
• Base Station Weight : 1.94 oz / 55 g
• Replacement Battery Weight : 1.30 oz / 37 g
• Runtime : 6 days
• Full Charge Time : 6 hours
• Power Consumption on USB : 270 mAh Max.
• Battery Life : 500 Cycles
• Cable Length : 43.3 in / 110 cm
• Warranty : One Year
For more information, visit:
http://www.mobeetechnology.com/mobee/Home.html
QuickerTek Introduces The Quicky3 - USB Wireless Range Booster
QuickerTek Inc. introduces the newest 802.11n device the Quicky3. The Quicky3 is the third generation Quicky, and an improvement over the previous Quicky models. Having a mile line of sight range, this 802.11b/g/n 2.4GHz unit draws 1/2 less power then the 1st and 2nd generations and has the theoretical limit of 300 megabits per second of 802.11n (the previous models were 802.11b/g which ran 54 megabits per second), the Quicky3 has a detachable 5 dbi high gain antenna so that you can connect other antennas. And is available from QuickerTek's webstore or from participating resellers.
Quicky3 works on any Mac with any open USB port with operating system OS X 10.4.x, 10.5.x, and 10.6.x It conforms to the wireless standards 802.11b/g/n, making it compatible with all networks not exclusively AirPort networks. In fact it, should work on most if not all wireless networks, especially modern ones like; D Link, Linksys and Belkin just to name a few. Quicky3 supports 64/128~bit WEP, WPA2 (AES with IEEE 802.11x) and WPA(TKIP with IEEE 802.11x) wireless encryption.
Like most QuickerTek products, the new Quicky3 is backed with a one-year warranty on parts and labor. The Quicky3 can be purchased from QuickerTek's web store or from a participating reseller.
QuickerTek:
http://www.quickertek.com/
Quicky3:
http://www.quickertek.com/products/Quicky.php
Good News/Bad News: Today's Personal Computers Are Built To Last
MarketWatch's John Dvorak says:
We are in the midst of a long-term and massive economic slowdown. We already have more than a few PCs and it seems that if we tune them up with various software patches they work well....
This is the irony of the PC business, the current architecture makes the machines last longer than ever. This sort of longevity problem happens with cars, too. I have a number of family vehicles that are all over 10 years old and not worth upgrading. They work fine and seem to have along life ahead of them....
None of this is conducive to any sort of sector recovery in the U.S. or elsewhere. For the most part, except for adding some hard disk capacity, there is no compelling reason to upgrade your computer system unless it is failing electronically, essentially crapping out.
To read more, click here.
http://bit.ly/d7uLKj
WindowShade X 5.0.5 Released
New in version 5.0.5:
• You may have to restart after installing WSX for the first time.
• Addressed a problem causing WSX to not work in applications that appear to be carbon but use cocoa windows (Adobe AIR apps, Adobe Photoshop CS5 32-bit)
• Includes APE 2.6.1 to properly handle 64-bit Adobe CS5 applications.
• Works with iTunes 10. However, it is ugly. If you want the old title bar back in iTunes 10, just enable an iTunes 10 feature by opening the terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal) and hitting return after entering the following on one line:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -bool YES
Replace YES with NO to restore the default iTunes 10 behaviour (which is not the iTunes 9.x behaviour).
• This depression is unbelievably painful.
System Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
Rosetta.
$15.00 Shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/wsx/
What's The Faster, Better Mac Browser?
Mac 360's Alexis Kayhill says:
...I have more browsers on my Mac than I have children. And the browsers and children get equal time. If you had to live with only one browser on your Mac, which would it be? Safari? Firefox? Or, the newest, fastest, simplest browser on earth?
Don't all browsers do pretty much the same thing?
Is there a way to differentiate one browser from another?
Speed, Baby, Speed...
What I really want is what every pitching coach wants. Speed. Google's latest browser is the speediest ever....
On my Mac, Chrome starts up faster than Safari, renders web pages faster than Safari, runs Javascript and searches faster than Safari.....
It may be the fastest and most secure browser on the planet, Mac or PC, but its also, bar none, the ugliest.
[Editor's note: I have to disagree with Ms. Kayhill on Chrome's aesthetics, although I agree with her about its speediness, and its fast startup makes most other browsers (Safari is a pretty lively starter too) look like slugs out of the blocks. Personally, I brefer the Chrome interface to Safari's, and it would be near the top in my preference for looks in terms of default browser interfaces (Firefox and Opera are easily reskinnable. Ed.)
For the full review visit here:
http://bit.ly/cimF1I
Mac vs. PC: Playing Russian Roulette At College
ZNet blogger Zack Whittaker says:
Would you buy your student kid a Mac at three or four times the price of a non-Apple laptop if you knew it might not last the year?....
Apple... has taken over other major PC manufacturers in the student laptop space, such as HP, Dell and Toshiba.
But - and here is the big caveat, as most universities run the Windows operating system throughout, the compatibility between Macs and PCs are still not there. Ubuntu struggles at times, as does Mac OS X, because theyre simply not Windows and thats one of the the simple reasons for it.
Macs are expensive... a bog standard laptop [PC] bought each year for three years makes up the cost of a basic MacBook....
For the full commentary, visit:
http://zd.net/cQuPdT
Apple's 27-in. iMac 'The Center Of My Digital Universe'
Computerworld's Michael deAgonia says:
For the past month, the latest 27-in. iMac from Apple has been the center of my digital universe....
The 27-in. iMac's most prominent feature, of course, is the 2560- by 1440-pixel screen, which is framed by a black border. This border is now customary on most Apple products, from the iMac to the MacBook Pro and displays....
For the full report, visit here:
http://bit.ly/bit5zs
Ping Users Top One Million in First 48 Hours
Apple has announced that in less than 48 hours since its launch on Wednesday, more than one million users have joined Ping, its new social network for music which lets users follow their favorite artists and friends to discover what music theyre talking about, listening to and downloading.
One-third of the people who have downloaded iTunes 10 have joined Ping, said Eddy Cue, Apples vice president of Internet Services. As many more people download iTunes 10 in the coming weeks, we expect the Ping community to continue growing.
Ping lets you follow your favorite artists such as Lady Gaga, Coldplay, U2, Jack Johnson, Yo-Yo Ma and more, to see what theyre up to, check out photos and videos theyve posted, see their tour dates and read comments about other artists and albums theyre listening to. In addition, you can post your thoughts and opinions, your favorite albums and songs, the music youve downloaded from iTunes and the concerts you plan to attend.
Kanguru Adds Cross Platform Functionality to Remotely Manageable, Hardware Encrypted USB Flash Drives
Kanguru Solutions has announced it has added Mac and Linux to the list of compatible platforms for its Kanguru Defender Elite, manageable, secure flash drives.
The Kanguru Defender Elite offers security features including: 256-bit AES Hardware Encryption, Remote Management Capabilities, On-board Anti-Virus, Tamper Resistant Design, and FIPS 140-2 Certification. The addition of GUI support for Mac and Linux opens Kangurus secure flash drives to a wider audience, allowing Mac and Linux users to benefit from its industry leading security features.
"The importance of cross platform functionality cant be overstated. Many organizations are utilizing more than one type of operating system in their day to day operations." says Don Brown, CEO of Kanguru Solutions. "Mac and Linux usage is an integral part of many organizations' IT infrastructure, so it is critical that our secure drives work with those systems."
The Kanguru Defender Elites security features help organizations meet some of the strict new security regulations outlined in the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH ACT), and Massachusetts 201 CMR 17. These regulations and more like them in development can penalize organizations that arent taking the necessary precautions to safeguard their data.
"Our goal has been to develop the most comprehensive set of security features ever built into a USB thumb drive. says Nate Cote, Kanguru's VP of Product Management. "And part of that includes making them work across various platforms. Encryption and remote management are only useful if they work within your organizations IT infrastructure."
The Kanguru Defender Elite currently works with:
(*) Windows XP and above
(*) Mac 10.5 and above
(*) Red Hat 5
(*) Ubuntu 10
Additional compatibility is in development for several other Linux distributions and connectivity options.
For more information, visit:
http://www.kanguru.com
Apimac Introduces iDatabase - Database Manager for Mac and iPhone
Apimac announces iDatabase 1.0 for Mac OS X, their Mac compatible version of the company's highly successful iDatabase 3.2 for iPhone/iPod touch application. Designed to permit wireless, bi-directional syncing between computer and mobile device, iDatabase is a complete personal database management solution. Ideal for tracking membership lists, expenses, projects, Internet accounts, etc., the app includes 16 ready to use templates such as Accounts, Contacts, Exercise Log, Recipes, and To Do. Drop and drag creation of custom templates is also supported.
Virtually identical in features, layout, and operation, iDatabase 1.0 for iOS and iDatabase 3.2 for Mac OS X complement each other to offer a personal database management solution both on the desktop and on the go. The clean, simplified GUI allows the user to begin using the app immediately, without instruction of any kind. Facilitating this ease of use is a built-in library of 16 templates: Accounts, Classes, Computers, Contacts, Customers, Events, Exercise Log, Expenses, Inventory, Movie Catalog, Membership List, Mobile Phones, Notes, Projects, Recipes, To Do, and Vehicle Maintenance.
For example, opening the Expenses template, a variety of text fields, number fields, and choose fields are already perfectly organized and ready for use. Editing or adding to these elements is a straightforward, drag and drop procedure. The topmost, title field is labeled Description and is accompanied by a single line, large type text field. Below that is Amount with a single line number field. Next is a choose field, Type (of expense), consisting of a drop down menu populated with the following choices: Car, Entertainment, Hotel, Meal, Tolls, Parking, Transportation, and Other. Clicking in the Date field brings up the current date in standard month/day/year numerical notation, and each may be edited or incremented. Next is Have Receipt accompanied by a simple Yes/No choice field, and then Reimbursed, Yes/No. Last, is a text box entitled Paid By, allowing the user to enter all the details pertaining to payment.
iDatabase combines simplicity with sophistication in its support of custom templates. The app allows the user to select from 10 different fields:
(*) Small Text Field stores letters, symbols, and numbers used as text in a single line without scrolling bar
(*) Large Text Field stores letters, symbols, and numbers used as text in a multi line of text with scrolling bar
(*) Number Field stores numbers
(*) Date Field stores dates
(*) Time Field stores time
(*) Date and Time Field stores a date and time together to reference a fixed point in calendar time
(*) Image Field stores images
(*) Item Picker Field presents a list of mutually exclusive choices
(*) Separator Field divides a record into distinct visual parts
(*) Calculation Field presents the result of an arithmetic operation between two or more number fields
Adding fields, labeling, and ordering them create custom templates. This is conveniently accomplished using the drop and drag procedure. Fields are easily moved, added, subtracted and modified, and fields which require the use of other fields (e.g., the Calculation Field), automatically notify the user of this when employed. iDatabase for Mac and iDatabase for iPhone can be synchronized via Wi-Fi. iDatabase supports Backup and Restore, Exporting and Importing of databases in .idatabase and .CSV formats (the iPhone version via the service online Dropbox). The .idatabase files preserve the complete content and structure of the database, including pictures.
"With the great success of iDatabase for iPhone, our affordable personal database management solution, it became clear that we needed to develop a companion app for Mac," stated company Senior Vice President Worldwide Product Marketing Gabriele Gobbo. "iDatabase 1.0 offers all the features and convenience of the original iPhone version on any Mac computer."
Language Support:
(*) US English, Italian
System Requirements:
(*) Mac Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later (Snow Leopard compatible)
(*) iPhone/iPod touch Version: iOS 3.0 or later (iOS 4 compatible)
(*) 8.3 MB OS X
(*) 1.2 MB iOS
iDatabase 3.2 for Mac is available for $29.00 (USD) from the Apimac Store. A fully enabled, free 8-day trial version is also available for download. iDatabase 1.0 for iOS is $2.99 (USD) and available worldwide through the App Store in the Productivity category. Review copies are available on request.
Apimac:
http://www.apimac.com/
iDatabase 3.2 and 1.0:
http://www.apimac.com/idatabase/
Purchase and Download for iPhone:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/idatabase/id328185048?mt=8
Download iDatabase for Mac:
http://www.apimac.com/downloads/
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