By Danny Greg: I am sure that a lot of you reading this, own domain names and websites. It’s interesting to see how different people retrieve information for their various sites, but most use a variety of web services Alexa. This is sufficient if you own a few domains, but if your like me, you [...]
Mind Map … what a strange word. It makes me think of something ominous in a science fiction movie. I first heard of mind mapping a few years ago. Since I’m always looking for an edge and I am, admittedly, a productivity junky, I immediately went online to see what all the fuss was about. I found a few articles and applications that were supposed to help me be creative, think “outside the box”, and a host of other popular euphemisms. What I discovered was that mind maps are, essentially, a way of diagraming concepts visually as opposed to simple text lists. If done correctly, they allow you to move things around and look for relationships and concepts that don’t usually jump right out at you. In attempting to put this theory into practice on a computer it was my initial survey of mind mapping applications generally got in the way of doing anything creative. I abandoned mind mapping and stuck with my faithful OmniOutliner.
Welcome to episode 131 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.
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Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast:
Mac Surfshop Discounts on Mac Software: http://astore.amazon.com/surfbitslearn-20
Free Online Storages: http://techmagazine.ws/free-online-file-storage
http://www.yuntaa.com:
http://www.myotherdrive.com:
http://www.driveway.com:
http://www.send6.com:
http://divshare.com:
http://streamload.com:
DEVONtechnologies Freeware: http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/index.html
Mail.Appetizer: http://www.bronsonbeta.com/mailappetizer
Email Backup: http://homepage.mac.com/minge/emailbackup/index.html
DropCopy: http://10base-t.com/premier.html
Simple CSS: http://www.hostm.com/css
MPEG StreamClip: http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
Syphone: http://www.micromat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=190&Itemid=106
KoffeePhoto: http://www.koffeephoto.com/en
Mark Bradley sends in a review he did of Wiretap Studio.
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast cannot join us this week.
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us for his review of:
MindMap Pro: http://www.conceptdraw.com
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us from Spain and discusses
Reviews – TextExpander 2, BitClamp, 10TURIO Notebook Sleeve
Features – DEVONagent
Jeff Powell cannot joins us today.
We welcome Danny Greg to the podcast this week. Danny Talks about his new application called BitClamp: http://www.crimsonskysoftware.com
Robert Pritchett from the macCompanion Magazine is not with us this podcast.
macCompanion October Issue: http://www.maccompanion.com/macc/archives/October2007/TOC.html
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With over 100 million websites up and running, it’s almost impossible to expect simple search sites like Google (or Yahoo, Ask.com, etc.) to help you make sense of this unbelievably huge mass of data.
DEVONagent can help. If you are tired of clicking through the hundreds of links delivered by Google (or Yahoo, Ask.com, etc.) just to find out that most of the links are outdated, broken, or lead to junk pages, you need DEVONagent. It communicates with search engines, digs through all the results for you, and gives you only those documents that are really worth reading.
Even better, it summarizes the accumulated knowledge and presents you with a list of the most important topics, as well as an interactive mind map to help make sense of the findings. Finding the information you need on the web has never been easier!
I”m sure a lot of you are familiar with Little Snitch, its a popular network filter from Objective Development, who, incidentally, are the people behind LaunchBar. for those who don’t know Little snitch lets you know whenever an application or process wants to connect to the internet and what server and port they want to connect to. You can then apply rules to these connections to decide which applications can connect to what.
TextExpander 2 ($29.95) from SmileOnMyMac is an application that hopefully you already know all about.
TextExpander saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images.
If you do then this review is really just a reminder to check out the new features in version 2, in which case you can skip down past the next bits, and check out the New TextExpander 2 features.
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BitClamp is a very easy to use, elegantly designed application, that simply allows you to encrypt and decrypt files.
One problem I used to have with my Mac was the universal save dialogue box. It looks pretty, but often I found myself making lots of clicks just to get a file in the right place. I wanted it to be more intuitive and less work. I looked around and eventually found Default Folder X. I’ve been using it about four months now and, frankly, I couldn’t imagine not having it.
Welcome to episode 130 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.
Receive 25% off of all Devon-Technologies software by going to http://www.devon-technologies.com/podcasts
Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast:
Mac Surfshop Discounts on Mac Software: http://astore.amazon.com/surfbitslearn-20
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast cannot join us this week.
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us for his review of:
Default Folder X: http://www.stclairsoft.com
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Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us from Spain and discusses
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Reviews – Tune Bar 3 Beta is looking very very good, and there is a link to the beta on my site! InPreflight 2 is another good InDesign add on
Jeff Powell joins us today. here is what he looks at:
Apple OSX Leopard Arriving October
26th
Leopard guided tour
video
Textpander 2.0
released
Dragthing updated
BBC iPlayer coming to the Mac by years end
We welcome Danny Greg to the podcast this week. Danny reviews:
Domainer: http://www.ragesw.com/products/domainer.html
Robert Pritchett from the macCompanion Magazine is not with us this podast.
macCompanion October Issue: http://www.maccompanion.com/macc/archives/October2007/TOC.html
Try the new ENHANCED version of the MacReviewCast:
And now we have the Podcast in Bit-Torrent Feeds! …
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You may already of heard this, but Amazon is offering OSX Leopard at only $109.00 for pre-orders and you’ll have the product the day of the the release. If you purchase Leopard through my SurfShop online Apple store, I receive a little kick-back from Amazon. I thank you for all you support. Here is the [...]
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GarageSale is the premiere eBay selling application for the Macintosh platform. The application gives you an easy interface to collect the data you need for your eBay sales and allows you to avoid the drudgery of crawling through the eBay web sale process. Frankly, being able to set all of your eBay sale preferences with familiar Mac-friendly menus and checkboxes alone probably makes this $29.99 application worth it but it actually gives you quite a bit more.
Sometimes you just gotta check out some software because it’s from a company that has made other cool stuff. Audio Hijack Pro is an awesome application for recording audio on your Mac – you can’t believe how many applications there are for it.
Welcome to episode 129 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
Audacity Information: http://www.aztecmedia.net/2007/10/pnme-2007—get.html
Wacom Bamboo Tablets: http://www.wacom.com
AppleJack: http://applejack.sourceforge.net
SnapNDrag: http://www.yellowmug.com/snapndrag
SizzlingKeys: http://www.yellowmug.com/sk4it
Proxi: http://proxi.griffintechnology.com
GarageBuy: http://www.iwascoding.com/GarageBuy
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast joins us this week. Here is what we talk about.
RadioShift: http://www.rogueamoeba.com
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us for his review of:
GarageSale: http://www.wascoding.com
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us from Spain and discusses
Apple: http://www.apple.com
Chris’s Blog Pieces: http://www.chrismarshall.ws/?p=1082
Jeff Powell joins us today. here is what he looks at:
Possible 10/26/07 Launch of Leopard?
Official iPhone web apps directory
Forth coming announcement of Apple’s iPhone 3rd Party aggreement
Eliminate
Duplicate Songs in iTunes easily with Dupin
Remote Buddy – Make your Apple Remote do something useful again!
We welcome Danny Greg to the podcast this week. Danny reviews:
MacFanatic: http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/10/12/help-wanted-staff-writers-for-mac-fanatic/
Little Snitch: http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
Robert Pritchett from the macCompanion Magazine is not with us this podast.
macCompanion October Issue: http://www.maccompanion.com/macc/archives/October2007/TOC.html
Try the new ENHANCED version of the MacReviewCast:
And now we have the Podcast in Bit-Torrent Feeds! …
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At work I manage many different projects and have a very good system for keeping track of what needs to get done. I’m using the OmniFocus beta and very pleased with it. There are two weaknesses with this systems however: Capture and simple lists. By “capture”, I’m talking about getting tasks from your brain into your system and by “simple lists”, I’m talking about that day to day flotsom and jetsom. Those little lists that remind me to pick up a certain book at the library, or spicy carrots at Trader Joe’s. It would help if the iPhone had a task list manager but frankly, I’m not sure I want my spicy carrots getting mixed in with all of my work tasks. Anyway, I stumbled upon a great little web 2.0 app solves both of these problems, www.tadalist.com.
As a podcaster for almost two and a half years, I understand that you can dig yourself a pretty deep hole during an episode. I’ve made predictions that were so wrong I wanted to delete the podcast segment and replace it with an apology. I’ve been fooled by applications that were April Fools jokes and [...]
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