A review by Chis Marshall. It is just under two months since I first reviewed the application Disco ($14.95), from the developers of AppZapper At the time I loved it. My only (very small complaint) was that the innovative ‘smoke’ feature didn’t work on the Mac mini. Well the great news is that it does [...]
Welcome to episode 96 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 [...]
Thank you to Robert Pritchett and all the folks at The macCompanion for organizing the I Love My Mac Gift Give-Away. We both want to thank all the great sponsors that donated their products for the give-away. It shows you what wonderful folks are part of the Mac community. Thank you again to all of [...]
Red Sweater Software announced today that it has acquired MarsEdit, the popular weblog publishing software, from NewsGator Technologies, Inc. The acquisition promises an exciting future for the application, which provides an intuitive, email-like interface to the web’s most popular publishing systems.
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This is a review by Chris Marshall, MyAppleStuff. SuperDuper at $27.95 is a really great ‘piece of mind’ product. I am a self confessed BackUp junkie, so I have a tendency to try pretty much every option that is around, but the one that I keep coming back to and find the easiest to use [...]
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TheUNreleasedMacAdJohn Hodgman went off on his own here a bit during a taping of a commercial. He seems to be an improv, but you never really know. Either way, it’s a must see YouTube favorite.
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When my wife started a new Wig business, we thought long and hard about how we would keep track of inventory, sales, cost, profit, discounts and bookkeeping. Plus, I wanted it to have the ability to grow when the business demanded it. I looked at a lot of software and ended up choosing madebysofa’s Checkout [...]
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Welcome to episode 95 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.
There have been many examples of good applications gone bad as they tried to add more and more features. Sometimes, in order to update an application and sell a new version number, it’s easy to water down a good program with feature-bloat. I am happy to tell you that Roxio did not fall into the [...]
Literature & Latte is a really cool name for a site. It claims to be “a place for readers, writers, coffee drinkers and tautologies*” It is also the home of Scrivener for Mac OS X ($34.99), an application that I have been using for a while now, and which is growing on me daily. What [...]
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Welcome to episode 94 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.
Written by Chris Marshall. MyMenuDate is the first application from Plaid Vest Software As I understand it this is a new company that has been set up by a new Mac owner, with years of professional development, to sell Mac utility software. The introductory price is $5. As they say “while there are several free [...]
iFixit.com took apart the new Airport Extreme 802.11n from Apple. They also ran several benchmarks on the transfer speeds. Their findings.. “The new base station is amazing. We achieved a 10x performance boost, and a 3x usable range increase (significantly better than Apple’s 5x/2x claims)….At 5 feet, N was giving me a whopping 9 MB/s! [...]
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From the team over at Chronos and costing $39.99, or $19.99 if you have registered 1.x and want to upgrade SOHO Labels & Envelopes 2.0.1 is as neat a way as I have come across to generate all those exciting labels and envelopes on your Mac. Their claim? “SOHO Labels & Envelopes is the fastest [...]
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Hi! Trent here, from The MannersCast. Usually I do a review, but today I have a quick tip for anyone who needs to Scale Down an image quickly… especially if that image is a screen capture from a web page.From time to time, I like to send a thumbnail or at least a smaller version [...]
