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[12 Apr 2011 | No Comment | 1,387 views]

Having a house party? Professional DJ? Planning a trippy night out? Then you need visuals and Soundspectrum, a.k.a. Andy O’Meara, has the stimulating bits you need with prices ranging from zero to $30. Thereupon, G-Force is an all-time iTunes visualizer …

Mac, Reviews, how to, Software »

[12 Apr 2011 | 9 Comments | 4,797 views]

A perfect morning — warm April sunshine, a hunk of dead tree (newspaper) and a hot cup of joe (mmm, Butter Pecan Roast). And, who should appear at my door but Scruffy, the American Kennel Club certified feature retriever, with …

Mac, Software »

[12 Apr 2011 | One Comment | 1,342 views]

Roxio shipped Toast 11 on March 8 and about a week later the company rolled a point update to remedy eight-plus issues that were discovered after product went to production. Now, they’ve cleaned up the remains of those days with …

Mobile, Software »

[11 Apr 2011 | One Comment | 1,227 views]

If you do serious web work on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, more than just browsing, then you really need to get Alexander Clauss’ mobile browser. That was true before Apple decided to crimp module support, still true today …

Mac, Reviews, how to, Software »

[11 Apr 2011 | No Comment | 2,390 views]

I had been using the bleeding edge developer version of Google Chrome — currently at version 12 — for about a year without incident, then it crashed and wouldn’t launch. I had a copy of Google Chrome 10 handy, …

Mac, Reviews, how to, Software »

[10 Apr 2011 | No Comment | 1,351 views]

Apple’s Mac OS X Lion is bringing big changes. For some, the shift has already come and there are casualties, including NetNewsWire (no longer launches) — Google Reader plus this extension makes the wait for the new version a little …

Mac, Software »

[9 Apr 2011 | No Comment | 1,441 views]

Capable of importing 200 graphics formats and outputting another 80, GraphicConvertor is a highly capable shareware app — true shareware — that supports Adobe Photoshop plugins and has pretty good good slideshow functionality built-in, too. If you don’t yet know …

Apple luv, Mobile »

[8 Apr 2011 | No Comment | 5,956 views]

When you think of doctors, nurses and hospitals, clipboards come to mind, and those folks love the iPad. Similarly, the image of an NBA coach, clipboard in hand, is burned into the popular consciousness, but they’re starting to catch iPad …

Mac, Reviews, how to, Software »

[8 Apr 2011 | 41 Comments | 30,120 views]

Once again, after seeing the kids off to school and wife to work with a peck and smile, I found myself greeting a visitor, Scruffy, the American Kennel Club certified feature retriever. He appeared at my door bearing screen caps …

Apple luv, Mac, Software »

[7 Apr 2011 | No Comment | 3,074 views]

Anyone who says that all Mac users are a bunch of self satisfied narcissists is just wrong. Nevertheless, more than a few of the rest of us are indeed pretty darned smug. There’s a new open source software website that …