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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 Cool Mac Gear
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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
Sunday, October 12, 2008
DataMind Srl announces Jade 1.3 Digital Image Enhancement And Processing for Leopard5
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
• 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
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
Friday, October 10, 2008
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
Charles Moore Reviews ShoveBox And QuickNote Menubar Based Clipping Storage Utilities38
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 Applelinks Tech Web Reader - New MacBooks Edition - Friday, October 10, 200830
• Apple To Hold Special Notebook Event On Oct. 14
• Apple to launch $800 laptop
• Apple's new MacBooks: Spy photos from Taiwan
• Analyst: New MacBooks will start at $899-$999
• Piper Jaffray Says New MacBooks Could Be Priced From $899
• October 14 MacBook Event Confirmed
• Apple Openly Pre-Announces Laptop Announcement
• Apple To Unveil New Or Updated Laptops
• One More Thing From Apple: New Laptops
• Apple's Fall Notebook Classic
• Will The Next MacBooks Be Better Gaming Systems?
• Apple To Unveil New Laptop Computers
• What Would An $800 MacBook Mean for the Mac mini?
• Apple to launch $800 laptop
• Apple's new MacBooks: Spy photos from Taiwan
• Analyst: New MacBooks will start at $899-$999
• Piper Jaffray Says New MacBooks Could Be Priced From $899
• October 14 MacBook Event Confirmed
• Apple Openly Pre-Announces Laptop Announcement
• Apple To Unveil New Or Updated Laptops
• One More Thing From Apple: New Laptops
• Apple's Fall Notebook Classic
• Will The Next MacBooks Be Better Gaming Systems?
• Apple To Unveil New Laptop Computers
• What Would An $800 MacBook Mean for the Mac mini?
Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Friday, October 10, 200820
• Mac vs. PC: Making the Switch - There's a reason you never see an Apple store empty
• Modding Your Old Mac to Make It More Useful
• Linux at 17 - What Windows promised to be
• Toshiba launches latest MacBook Air beater
• Mozilla Readies Firefox 3.1 Features
• PC Mag: OpenOffice 3.0 to Launch Oct. 13
• The Mac Night Owl: How About a Real Business Mac
• Modding Your Old Mac to Make It More Useful
• Linux at 17 - What Windows promised to be
• Toshiba launches latest MacBook Air beater
• Mozilla Readies Firefox 3.1 Features
• PC Mag: OpenOffice 3.0 to Launch Oct. 13
• The Mac Night Owl: How About a Real Business Mac
Applelinks iPhone News Reader - Friday, October 10, 200817
• 5 (Yes, 5) Landscape Email iPhone Applications Released
• iPhone Tech World Tour Announced
• Ad Industry Eyes The iPhone
• Smartphone showdown: BlackBerry Storm vs. the iPhone
• All Hail King iPhone
• iPhone Tech World Tour Announced
• Ad Industry Eyes The iPhone
• Smartphone showdown: BlackBerry Storm vs. the iPhone
• All Hail King iPhone
New Axiotron Service Expands Modbook Mac Tablet Availability27
Company announces Axiotron Modservice, allowing customers to transform their existing Apple MacBook into an Axiotron Modbook MacWay Announces Immediate Availability Of Its SilverDrive Quattro 1.5 TB21
The world's first 1.5 Terabyte quad interface single drive external Hard drive Samsung Launches High-capacity Ultra-compact External Hard Drives23
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced its new S Series external hard disk drives. The Samsung S Series family consists of a 2.5-inch drive S2 Portable and a 1.8-inch HDD S1 Mini. The new external drives are designed in a sleek high glossy casing with a leather back-cover for a professional look and feel
iPod touch Fans: A Quarter Of A Million Strong25
iPod touch Fans, the leading online iPod touch community website and major hub of third-party device modifications, just passed 250 thousand members as it nears 1 million postings. Launched by a computer science student, the site holds a growing archive of user-generated information relating to the customization of the Apple device, which along with its powerful social and interactive features, has been pivotal to the site's success
iCab 4.2.5 has been released with a raft of new features and bugfixes fot this fast little already deeply-featured indie Web browser
As I predicted in my Acrobat 9 review, CS4 was soon to come. I was right; CS4 was formally announced on September 23, and it will be in our hands soon, very soon. I've been lucky enough to obtain a pre-release copy and have been pounding on it right and left to see what there is to see. Adobe has been maintaining their "about every eighteen months update," routine, but this time is breaking new ground by releasing 17 new programs all at one time. The problem with this type of approach is that there are a few features that seem rushed and not as developed as I think they should/could be, and will instead be "finished" with CS5, while other features that were presented with CS3 are now beautifully developed in CS4. While one can argue the pluses and minuses of this approach (and there are many arguments each way), one does have to sit back and continue to be amazed at how much Adobe does accomplish with each iteration of the Creative Suite suites and applications—that's both collectively and individually.
Ya' just gotta love the way Mozilla.org quietly and unobtrusively delivers Firefox incremental updates in the background, than puts up a dialog politely asking if you want to install them. Firefox 3.0.2/3.0.3 fix bugs found in Firefox 3.0.1
This version of the declared Photoshop challenger is vastly more polished and somewhat more capable than the Version 1.0 I reviewed here a year ago, and with some new features too, but still has a way to go to match the king of the hill, or even Photoshop Elements
Is there a happy medium to be struck between "what, me worry?" and obsessive compulsive fastidiousness? The Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update is recommended for Mac OS X Leopard versions 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3 and 10.5.4 Leopard, and according to Apple includes general operating system improvements that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac