DEVONtechnologies Updates for Leopard

DEVONtechnologies, LLC releases updates for all editions of its smart document manager DEVONthink as well as for its intelligent Internet search agent DEVONagent and its personal notebook application DEVONnote. The updates solve incompatibilities with Mac OS X 10.5 ‘Leopard’ and bring additional functionality.

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Like a lot of computer users I am constantly sending files around. It is easy enough with small files but what happens when the files get too big for an email. I send family movies to relatives in London and the Philippines. I send Keynote Quicktime movies to clients and judges. I even send the occasional AIF file to my good friend Tim at the Macreviewcast.

Well, up until recently I always did this through Pando or some other ubiquitous online service that agreed to be my middle man in large file transfers. This works well enough but if the file sizes get too large, those options start costing money. Furthermore, it always requires the participation of the other side. Sure I can tell my brother-in-law in London to get a Pando account, but can I really say that to a client or judge?

Well once again the excellent Mac developer community has come to the rescue. Yellow Mug Software’s $15 FileChute does the trick. This little application puts a box on your screen with a … well … chute. You then drag any file or group of files you want into the chute and the application prompts you to send it as-is or archived in dmg, zip, or tar formats. You can password the archive (or not) and then FileChute uploads it to your internet location of choice.

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By Danny Greg: Image maps. We have all seen them dotted around the net. If you are a Facebook user you will be more than familiar with “tagging” people in photos. That is a particularly clever form of image mapping. Essentially image mapping is adding different links to different parts of an image that you [...]

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I was really looking forward to reviewing SiteGrinder 2 from Media Lab. The concept behind the application is solid and I feel it’s very useful. SiteGrinder is a Photoshop Plug-in that converts Photoshop designs to web sites. If you’re new to website design, Site Grinder 2 allows you to start creating websites without having to [...]

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RapidoSerial is a univerasl binary piece of freeware – meaning it runs on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs. Here’s how delightfully it works. Launch RapidoSerial and give it a master password. this will be the password you use to open the application every time you launch. Across the top you see 5 easy buttonos – preferences, add, remove, export and print. Add is the obvious place to start – that brings up a window to add applications – either manually one at a time, add all of your apps, or add another type of item. I was chicken to fling all my apps in here, that would be kind of chaotic I think, so i started to manually add each of my applications each time I came across one I for which I had to enter my registration.

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MindManager Pro 7 enables companies and individuals to work smarter, think creatively and save time by revolutionizing the way they visually capture and manage information.

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Mention screencasting, and only one name springs to mind ‘Don McAllister. If there was ever a webby Oscars awards ceremony for screencasts, I’ve no doubt in my mind Don would up there receiving them on an embarrassingly regular basis. I like to think of Don as the Steven Speilberg of screencasting, critically acclaimed (I have heard nothing but high praise for him from the podcast community) and a box office success (he earns a living doing it!). But enough of the FREE adverts for Don!

So I was kind of surprised when Tim offered little old me the gig to review Araelium’s Screencasting software. As I’m sure someone of Don’s calibre would of been a far better choice.

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This was an article I found from our friends at SmileOnMyMac.It’s a story about creating the paperless office. “It sounds pretty cool how he’s managed to eliminate 3 boxes of stored paper. He uses DevonThink Pro Office to catalog and manage the PDFs, and PDFpen is part of the workflow too” Another example how you [...]

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As our computers get more powerful and our entertainment media gets more digital there is a natural progression to computers serving as our media hub. I think we are in the very begining stages of this shift but there is no shortage of products available to accomplish this. One such product is SageTV’s media center.

SageTV is a computer-centric solution for digital PVR solutions. It has versions for Windows, Linux, and OS X. The Mac install process is quick and painless walking you through a series of menu options to configure the various options available to you. You can pull media from your drive, the internet or a TV signal if you have one going into your Mac.

Once you have everything set up you are free to go on a content preference rampage. Telling your Mac what to record and when. The software can also make suggestions to you. Searching by category I found several interesting shows that I didn’t even know exist.

In addition to regular television programming, you can access google video and your own media. Like any DVR, it also gives you the ability to play, fast-forward, or pause when life gets in the way or you just want to get past the commercials.

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