Welcome to episode 88 of the MacReviewCast, I want to thank you for downloading and listening to the podcast. We have a lot of great folks on today’s episode with their reviews and comments on software, hardware and websites that make using the Mac special. Plus I’ll have the top freeware Mac MenuBar apps and much more.
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At the moment CastCount is a great little tool that will sit in your dock and menu and if configured this way will show you the total number of ‘casts and the number unplayed in the menu, whilst the dock will show you how many of your four favorite podcasts are unplayed.
(SB) – CastCount is neat idea, how did you come up with it?
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I just read two different reports from two entirely different viewpoints on how the Holidays were a great time for Apple sales. First a report that the iTunes store was slowed down and sometimes even unreachable on Monday and Tuesday because of the rush of new users trying to go online and purchase songs and videos.
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Peachpit is offering free passes to the upcoming Macworld Conference & Expo taking place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, January 9-12, 2007. To request a pair of passes (exhibit-only passes, a combined $90 value), send an email message to press@peachpit.com with your name and postal address, and Peachpit will mail out the passes. [...]
I have a review here for you of a shareware app from Hog Bay Software called Mori. Mori is a digital notebook that makes it easy to record, organize and share thoughts and media.
This is a nice app with a simple and uncluttered three pane interface. There is a pane for the organization of files and folders inside the Mori project, a list pane for folder contents and search results, and the content window where information and images can be stored. A really nice feature here in my opinion is the ability to view projects in a standard view or landscape view.
After I added a few entries and folders into Mori, it was easy to see the functionality of this little app. Folders and their entries can be renamed or rearranged with drag and drop ease, and there is even a trash can that holds on to entries and lets you delete them when you are certain you do not need them any longer.
The list pane offers a number of columns with which to view and sort data. It’s possible to sort – entries with attachments, by creation or due date, entries that are flagged, labeled, or rated by the user, by when and entry was last modified, and there are even columns for character and word count.
Greetings! Trent here from The MannersCast, a podcast about everyday manners for everyday people. In this segment I’m taking a look at Billings 2 from MarketCircle. As I continue to review products each week they just seem to get better and better. Billings is no exception. Quickly creating estimates, tracking time, managing expenses, and creating [...]
Welcome to episode 87 of the MacReviewCast, I want to thank you for downloading and listening to the podcast. We have a lot of great folks on today’s episode with their reviews and comments on software, hardware and websites that make using the Mac special. Plus I’ll have the top freeware Mac apps of the week and much more.
I am a big fan, neigh obsessive, about backing up data and have posted about it before on my site. I have a pretty simple routine, in that I always partition my drives into two (System and Data) and my library and “day to day” documents sit on the System partition whilst my Music, Pictures and Videos (raw footage) sit on my Data partition. This Data partition is backed up to an external drive every month, and at least twice a year I update my archived DVD’s to make sure that I have EVERYTHING backed up twice, with one copy stored outside of the apartment.
I am always happy to look at any alternative application for the day to day, incremental files that I want to ensure that I have back ups of, but I don’t want to have to “manually” manage on a daily basis. I was particularly interested in ChronoSync’s claim that:
“The most powerful aspect of ChronoSync is scheduling. Create multiple synchronizer documents and schedule them separately or combine them in a ChronoSync Container to schedule them together. You can schedule any synchronization to be performed automatically on a recurring basis to ensure files get reliably updated when needed. All scheduled documents are listed in a Scheduled Documents Manager window so it is easy to manage your synchronizations. Best of all, your synchronizations can be performed without ChronoSync running. A background application monitors the synchronized document schedule and performs scheduled synchronizations automatically. To ensure reliability, email notification can be sent allowing you to monitor synchronizations remotely.” This really is impressive, and very useful.
A Cook’s Books is a robust recipe management tool with lots of features and a nice clean look.
It’s possible to import recipes from a number of your old recipe managers like MasterCook, MealMaster, Cook’n, MacGourmet, or Connoisuer. You can also import from a text file or just enter recipes by hand. And if you don’t have that many recipes to enter, there is a handy list of recipe sites from which to gather information.
The entry of information is simplified by A Cook’s Books having an extensive database of common and uncommon ingredients, plus the ability to enter your own items.
A Cook’s Books also includes helpful stuff like nutritional information, measurement conversion, and a roasting time table. The roasting time table includes instructions for roasting fowl, pork, lamb, beef and veal, and slow roasting as well as USDA guidelines and roasting tips.
A Cook’s Books has the option for nice, clean printing of one or more recipes at a time and the ability to export them to use in another program or on the dreaded and feared Windows PC. And if you’re a visual kind of person, you can include an illustration that will let you know what that particular recipe is supposed to look like… or what in the world you think it is that you might be cooking. The image lives in a little drop-down image well with its particular recipe and supports any resolution, and any one of a number of formats, JPEG, TIFF, PICT, etc.
As I am sure you are aware by now, MacAppADay is having a few server issues, but they do have an application to give away today, and you can get it by clicking here.
I know that they are really concerned and sorry this has happened, but as they say it is out of their hands.
“For reasons beyond our immediate control, we’re still unable to do anything regarding the server. However, we’ve got a great app for you today from the people at Ergonis. It’s called Typinator, and I’d recommend you’d try it out. Not only have they set up the Typinator deal, they’ve also gone ahead and been cool enough to offer the great bundle”
I am a huge fan of OmniOutliner and use it pretty much every day when I am writing, so I was intrigued to take a look at OmniPlan. I am actually really surprised that I haven’t reviewed OmniOutliner before, but maybe that is because it is such a favorite of Tim’s that he always grabbed [...]
Midnight Inbox 1.03 is now available for download with additional support for Processing and speed/stability improvements. Midnight Inbox helps you work smarter, not harder, by organizing your projects, email messages, files, contexts and tasks so that you can always be on top of your world. Users of Mac OS X Tiger will find its clean [...]
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Welcome to episode 86 of the MacReviewCast, I want to thank you for downloading and listening to the podcast. We have a lot of great folks on today’s episode with their reviews and comments on software, hardware and websites that make using the Mac special. Plus I’ll have the top freeware Mac apps of the week and much more.
