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Tim (Surfbits) on March 30th, 2005

In the past, when you thought about WYSIWYG Website Design programs for the Mac, you thought about Macromedia’s Dreamweaver, or Adobe’s GoLive. These programs are behemoths and will cost you dearly ($399 MSRP). Softpress has a player of their own now with Freeway Pro 3.5. They are offering an Express version for $99 MSRP, and [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on March 25th, 2005

What do you get when you place two stackable speakers and a stackable iPod dock on top of each other? You get the $69.99 Macally IceTune stereo speakers and charger for the iPod. Macally IceTune is a stereo speaker and charger which is compatible with iPod Mini, iPod 20, iPod 40 and iPod Photo. A [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on March 20th, 2005

While I’m on the subject of unique Mac software, does it surprise you that another of my top ten picks is also from Flying Meat? It shouldn’t because Flying Meat has what so many Mac software companies have, and that’s imagination. If VoodooPad wasn’t impressive enough for you, just take a look at FlySketch. I [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on March 15th, 2005

I hate to use the trackpad on my TiBook. It’s slow and I always seem to double click everything with my fat fingers. Therefore, I always carried a trackball USB mouse along in the case with my Mac. Not any longer. I just found a tiny, Bluetooth enabled, portable, optical mouse from Macally called the [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on March 15th, 2005

While I’m on the subject of unique Mac software, does it surprise you that another of my top ten picks is also from Flying Meat? It shouldn’t because Flying Meat has what so many Mac software companies have, and that’s imagination. If VoodooPad wasn’t impressive enough for you, just take a look at FlySketch. I [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on March 10th, 2005

You should know by now that I think external speakers for the iPod are a great idea. I love my inMotions from Altec Lansing. But what the iPod really needed was a simple, portable solution for listening to audio files on your iPod. I found the perfect solution, the Podwave from Macally. The Podwave works [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on March 9th, 2005

Why would anyone pay $29.95 for an online photo album? Well what if it gave you a smooth and beautiful interface, unlimited photo storage, and huge photo size limits, the ability to backup your online album, your users can download the original size photo which you uploaded and the ability to upload 100′s of photos [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on March 7th, 2005

I love my Tibook, it’s been a good friend and partner to me for the last two and a half years. But the sound it produces from it’s internal speakers make me twinge. I have all this music and podcasts on my TiBook and the only way I can stand to listen to it is [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on March 7th, 2005

Allume Systems knows when it’s got a good idea. They just introduced the third volume of Mac OSX Utilities they call Ten For X. This time they give us 14 utilities in the package. I think it’s because several of the programs in the package are freeware, open source or donationware. The one thing that [...]

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