Welcome to episode 127 of the MacReviewCast, I want to thank you for downloading and listening to the podcast. We have the best in Mac hardware, software and websites reviews. 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.
Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast:
Mac Surfshop Discounts on Mac Software: http://astore.amazon.com/surfbitslearn-20
Wakerupper: http://www.wakerupper.com
Growth Charts: http://www.supermagnus.com/mac/Growth_Charts/index.html
Heroes of First Star: http://www.unfungames.com/heroesoffirststar/index.htm
Bleezer: http://larryborsato.com/bleezer
xPad: http://www.getxpad.com
AllBookMarks: http://allbrowserbookmarks.com
Radiology Anatomy Atlas Viewer: http://web.mac.com/rlivingston/Site/Radiology_Anatomy_Atlas.html
WhiteCap: http://www.soundspectrum.com/whitecap
Shrook: http://www.utsire.com/shrook
Google Reader Notifier: http://troelsbay.eu/software/reader
Save Hollywood: http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/SaveHollywood.html
ManilaMail: http://apps.jkbrowning.com
MP3 Alarm Clock: http://jbenjamin.org/Software/Software.html
Darren Rolfe: Billings Update http://www.billings2.com/
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast cannot join us this week.
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us for his review of:
1Passwd: http://1passwd.com/
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us from Spain and discusses
iPhone Upgrade: http://www.chrismarshall.ws/?p=1067
Photouplink: http://www.chrismarshall.ws/?p=1065
Jeff Powell joins us today. here is what he looks at:
BusySync – BusySync
Calendar Sharing for iCal
Joost – The new way of watching TV
LifeShaker
We welcome Danny Greg to the podcast this week. Danny reviews:
MoneyWell: http://nothirst.com/moneywell/
Robert Pritchett from the macCompanion Magazine was here looking at the new issue of macCompanion Magazine:
macCompanion October Issue: http://www.maccompanion.com/macc/archives/October2007/TOC.html
Voltaic Converter: http://www.voltaicsystems.com/index.shtml
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I have a Mac tip that I’ve been using for a long time but I don’t hear other people mention it, so it’s either a tip that has little value to folks, or it’s a hidden gem. If you’re like me, you really like efficiency, using keystrokes instead of moving the mouse, that kind of thing. Part of that keyboard efficiency is to use the keypad for numbers rather than hunting and pecking across the top of the keyboard. What do you do if you’re on a Mac laptop and you have no keypad? It’s not a great solution, but up in the F-keys you’ll see “num lock” on the F6 key. Turns out if you click F6 (you may have to hold down the function key to engage the F-keys depending on your configuration).
I’d heard about applications that allow you to blog without a browser but never got around to trying any of them out until red-sweater released version 2.0 of MarsEdit. I’ve now been using it for about three weeks and I’m very pleased with it. MarsEdit is a blogging tool that, at its most basic level, allows you to write and edit posts, import media, and upload your genius to your blog without having to wrestle your way through the online editors.
It works with most of the big blogging engines. I’ve been using it with Wordpress both on my wordpress.com site and, since moving my blog to its own server, on the macsparky.com server with no troubles whatsoever.
The main window allows you to see your text and html as you type. Fortunately for me, it does most of the html work for you. I can add links, photos, technorati tags, and a variety of other coding that, frankly, I’d have no clue how to pull off without MarsEdit doing the work for me. It also pulls my online tags down from my site so I can mark up and add new tags right from MarsEdit.
Welcome to episode 126 of the MacReviewCast, I want to thank you for downloading and listening to the podcast. We have the best in Mac hardware, software and websites reviews. 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.
Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast:
The Free Mac Classroom. : http://web.mac.com/simon_elliott/iWeb/simon_elliott%40mac.com/Software.html
Mango: http://www.trymango.com
Carbon Copy Cloner from Bombich software.: http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Movie Changer: http://smarthomedesign.com.au/site/gallery1.htm
iStat Menus: http://islayer.com/index.php?op=item&id=28
CopyrightInserter: http://www.silverstreaksoftware.com/copyrightInserter.html
Fasticns: http://projects.digitalwaters.net/index.php?q=fasticns
VooDooPad Lite: http://www.flyingmeat.com
Punakea: http://www.nudgenudge.eu/punakea
Teleport: http://abyssoft.com/software/teleport
Goombah: http://www.goombah.com
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast joins us this week. Here’s what she looks at:
Kids: All My Faves: http://allmyfaves.com
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us for his review of:
MarsEdit 2: http://www.red-sweater.com
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us from Spain and discusses
LightRoom Adventure; http://www.chrismarshall.ws/?p=1039
iWaterMark: http://www.scriptsoftware.com/iwatermark/
Jeff Powell joins us today. Here is what he talks about:
Carbon Copy Cloner
3.0
UnderCover for Mac
laptops
Overflow
Cocktail 3.8.2
We welcome Danny Greg to the podcast this week. Danny reviews:
Launchbar: http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html
Robert Pritchett from the macCompanion Magazine was unable to make it.
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Like a lot of people, I’ve been coming to the slow realization that I need a way to organize my digital life. Gone are the days when the sum total of the “data” on our computers was a 5 1/4 floppy of WordPerfect files. We now store documents, pictures, sound files, video. My bills arrive in my email box and I’m constantly bombarded with snippets of digital information I need to record or lose. Quickly it becomes overwhelming.
I tackled this in phases. It started out with a series of nested folders and has graduated to Yojimbo and Yep databases. This week I took a look at a newer entry in the data management game, EagleFiler.
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The new iMovie really has some people up in arms. I’m not sure if it is just a vocal minority or Apple’s got everyone mad. What happened is Apple dumbed it down. Gone is the timeline as well as several other tools. “In” is a really cool skimming feature and much simpler formatting and transitions.
So, I’ve been reading about all these rants and decided to give it a try. I had about 20 minutes of miscelaneous footage on my hard drive taken with the video function of my point-and-shoot Kodak that I haven’t gotten around to processing in Final Cut because I just haven’t had time. Sounds like a perfect opportunity to try this new “controversial” software.
By Danny Greg: CrimsonSkySoftware.com This week I took a look at Gus Mueller’s (FlyingMeat Software) new graphics program – Acorn. Acorn was built with one thing in mind: simplicity – they seem to have pulled this off well as, if you are editing one document the maximum amount of windows available is 4: the image [...]
Time for a problem statement or I can’t introduce a new tool – you know the rules around here! Let’s say you’re trying to diagnose a problem on your site, or you found someone else’s site where you’d like to snake they’re style. How do you figure out how they created the look they have? You can do a show source on a web page, but all that will do is show you the html that was generated by the CSS and the php code, it won’t show you HOW they did it. Enter CSSViewer as an extension for Firefox. This is a switch you toggle on when you want to study a site, and most importantly toggle off when it starts to irritate you! When you toggle CSSViewer on, you can hover your mouse over the different regions of the site and a window will update showing you the CSS for that section. It also puts a marquee dotted line box around the region to show you just what region is being identified.
Welcome to episode 125 of the MacReviewCast, I want to thank you for downloading and listening to the podcast. We have the best in Mac hardware, software and websites reviews. 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.
Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast:
Mac Surfshop Discounts on Mac Software: http://astore.amazon.com/surfbitslearn-20
BumperCar: http://www.freeverse.com/apps/app/?id=5003
MakeiPhoneRingtone: http://www.rogueamoeba.com/utm/posts/Article/MakeiPhoneRingtone-2007-09-11-09-00
ForgetmeNot: http://kisonecat.com/software/forget-me-not
Fish: http://uri.cat/software/Fish
Robert Hazelrigg joins us for a review of Adobe’s Incopy.
Then Darren Rolfe joins us with a review of Concept Draw 7.
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast joins us this week. Here’s what she looks at: A Special NumLock Trick
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us for his review of:
EagleFiler: http://c-command.com/eaglefiler
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us from Spain and discusses
VMWare Fusion: http://www.vmware.com
iPhone Consideration: http://www.chrismarshall.ws/?p=1004
Jeff Powell cannot join us today.
We welcome Danny Greg to the podcast this week. Danny reviews:
Acorn: http://www.flyingmeat.com
Robert Pritchett from the macCompanion Magazine was here looking at the new issue of macCompanion Magazine:
http://maccompanion.com/RenewableEnergy/index.htm
http://maccompanion.com/RenewableEnergy/products.htm
Morpheus for the Mac: http://www.maccompanion.com/macc/archives/September2007/Software/Morpheus.htm
Over the past year or so I’ve tested and reviewed several hardware solutions for watching and recording TV on your Mac. The TVMicro and the TVHybrid. Both of them did a good job and used the EyeTV software for a solid solution to scheduling and recording. But I was never really thrilled with the picture, [...]
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Written By Chris Marshall Seamlessly run Windows, Linux and other PC operating systems on your Intel-based Mac. Seamlessly run Windows applications alongside Mac applications with the Unity features in VMware Fusion ($79.99). Find and launch Windows applications quickly with the VMware Fusion launcher. Switch between Windows and Mac applications quickly with Exposé. Minimize Windows applications [...]
Anyone that reads Surfbits.com or listens to The MacReviewCast know we love the applications from Gus Mueller at Flying Meat software. So when Gus announced his new application, Acorn, we received a ton of email asking us why didn’t we report on the new application? Well to update everyone, we have the application and we [...]
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I thought that with the vocal stand I took on my podcast this weekend against all the “whining” podcasters and bloggers that were not happy about the iPhone price reduction, I better post a link to this tongue-in-cheek report from BBSpot about the $7000 store credit being issued by Apple for all the early adopters [...]
Continue reading about Apple Refunding Early Adopters $7000 on Lisa?
I guess Tim bounced this review my way because I work in the advertising industry, and deal with graphics, type and layout on a daily basis. Concept Draw 7 is marketed as… A powerful cross-platform software for business and technical drawing and visual documenting. As soon as I heard mention of ‘business drawings’ alarm bells started ringing! I must of missed the memo but invariably to me, that means only one thing. Flow charts – aaaaaarrrrrggggghhhh! And they are the bane of every studio operator’s life.
Welcome to episode 124 of the MacReviewCast, I want to thank you for downloading and listening to the podcast. We have the best in Mac hardware, software and websites reviews. 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.
Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast:
Mac Surfshop Discounts on Mac Software: http://astore.amazon.com/surfbitslearn-20
iToner: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/iToner
Pathway: http://pathway.screenager.be/about-pathway/
DotTunes: http://www.dottunes.net
Integrity: http://peacockmedia.co.uk/integrity
Meteorologist: http://sourceforge.net/projects/heat-meteo
SoundSource: http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies
UtilityLock: http://semaja2.net/utilitylockinfo
MacSpice: http://www.macspice.com
SketchBox: http://www.omz-software.de/sketchbox_index.html
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast joins us this week. Here’s what she looks at:
CSSviewer: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2104
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us for his review of:
iMovie: Apple
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us from Spain and discusses
Apple iPods: http://www.apple.com
Jeff Powell joins us today. Here is what he looks at:
Former Apple Marketing Exec
Reveals Secrets of Success
iPods all run video out
Free Custom Ringtones in iTunes 7.4
iToner 1.0.1 Updated
We welcome Danny Greg to the podcast this week. Danny reviews:
Librarian Pro: http://www.koingosw.com/products/librarianpro.php
Robert Pritchett from the macCompanion Magazine was here looking at the new issue of macCompanion Magazine:
Try the new ENHANCED version of the MacReviewCast:
And now we have the Podcast in Bit-Torrent Feeds! …
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