When it comes to web development, I’m hardly a power user and I’ve found iWeb to be just fine for most of the web based projects I’m involved with. That being said, there are a few features I do miss in iWeb 08. Zarra Studios comes to the rescue with its $25 add-on for iWeb called iWeb Buddy. Put simply, iWeb Buddy picks up the slack for iWeb.
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Have you ever wanted to put one of those cool looking arty photographic edges on one of your photographs? Maybe you needed to cut someone out of the background of a photo, wanted to make a poster from a small image, or have had problems working with levels or curves, then Essentials 2 by onOne software is for you.
Its not often you get to review something that is genuinely a revolutionary approach to a fairly old idea. This opportunity, however landed in my email inbox on the 28th March with an application called Times.
This week we look at Web2Delight, Essentials 2, Times, iWeb buddy Hear, Medialink and much more. 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:
Medialink: http://www.nullriver.com/products/medialink
SimpleBooks Lite: http://www.infinitydatasystems.com
myibay eBay Sniper: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5571
Grabup: http://www.grabup.com
Musolomo: http://plasq.com/musolomo
MovieTools: http://www.ecamm.com/mac/free
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast joins us this week. She reviews:
Web2Delight: http://www.globaldelight.com/web2delight
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us this week and looks at:
iWeb Buddy: http://www.zarrastudios.com/ZDS/iWebBuddy.html
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us and we talk about:
A second graphics card in your Mac Pro and the Nokia N95 compared to the iPhone
Developer, Danny Greg joins us today. He reviews:
Times: http://acrylicapps.com
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Jeff Powell cannot join us today.
Lola Wong Joins us on the podcast. lola reviews:
Hear: http://www.joesoft.com
Darren Rolfe from MacWingNut.com cannot join us today.
Robert Lachman, L.A.Times Staff Photographerjoins us. His Web site is PhotographyandtheMac.com, and he reviews:
Essentials 2: http://www.ononesoftware.com
We have Don McAllister from ScreenCastsOnline joining us every other week to talk about his new free screencast:
Automator for OSX
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The usual cost for the full 6 month membership is only $49 but they can get a 15% discount by using the coupon code MRC2008 bringing it down to $41.65 for the full six months.
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SuperSync today shipped SuperSync 2.3, an application for iTunes and iPod users to keep their music libraries synchronized across multiple Mac and Windows computers. Version 2.3 adds a basic Tivo media server to allow users to browse and play their MP3 music collection over thier home theater. SuperSync’s new Tivo media server lets users share [...]
TextExpander 2.1 allows single character abbreviations. If you use a delimiter to trigger your expansions, you can turn any letter or character into an abbreviation for a snippet. They’ve also improved the performance and reliability for those really fast typists out there. What’s new in TextExpander 2.1 – Allows single character abbreviations – Improves performance [...]
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Yenco.com announces the release of Agenda 4 today. Agenda 4 features multiple calendar view, repeating events, task management, a reminder application, journal editor, built-in iEvents to create calendar or journal websites, quick searching, monthly scenes, multiple window sizes, iCal import and export, and more. Agenda 4 is an application that keeps track of your events [...]
This week we celebrate three years of podcasting! Our special podcast gives you an upclose and personal visit with all the folks that make the MacReviewCast special. I want to thank you for downloading and listening to the podcast. We have the best in Mac hardware, software and websites reviews. Thank you so much for putting up with me for three years. I hope I can do another three with your help.
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Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast
David Sparks from MacSparky.com
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws
Developer, Danny Greg.
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Lola Wong Joins us on the podcast.
Darren Rolfe from MacWingNut.com
Robert Lachman, L.A.Times Staff Photographer.
We also talk to Steve Beyer, the Producer of the enhanced version of the MacReviewCast.
We have Don McAllister from ScreenCastsOnline joining us every other week to talk about his new free screencast:
Vector Designer
A full membership of ScreenCastsOnline Extra! for 6 months which includes:
The next 26 weekly shows via iTunes or direct download,
Immediate access to a catalogue of over 140 DRM free tutorials,
The tutorials are in HD, Apple TV, iPod and iPhone format,
Access to a special members only site.
The usual cost for the full 6 month membership is only $49 but they can get a 15% discount by using the coupon code MRC2008 bringing it down to $41.65 for the full six months.
Try the new ENHANCED version of the MacReviewCast:
And now we have the Podcast in Bit-Torrent Feeds! …
You can either click on the podcast link on the left and listen to it via QT from the browser, or you can right click on the podcast link and choose to “download linked file”. That will download the mp3 and you can play it from you hard drive with iTunes.
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I’ve never really had the need for an application to handle mass emailing, but this week I had a small project that gave me an opportunity to test out Direct Mail from ethreesoftware.com, a mailing-list management software for Mac OS X. I needed to send instructions to on how to access webmail for a new domain I had setup and rather than sending the group generic directions I thought that I could use Direct Mail’s mail merging functionality to individualize each email and also be able to track if the email had been read, or if it had been bounced.
I’m what you would call an “old school” gamer which means while I’m generally cannon fodder in Halo, put me on a 25 year old stand-up Tempest game and watch out! So I’ll admit I’m not the most up to date gamer out there but I’m also a parent. When I saw Freeverse’s Big Bang Brain Games I was immediately interested. This looked like something that would be fun for my family to do together.
It’s hard to imagine that it is almost twenty five years since I sat down and played a game on my first personal computer. I was a child of the early 70’s and like every other boy in my class was fascinated by the personal computer phenomenon.
Fast forward to the early 80’s and I was fully into handhelds, consoles and of course my beloved ZX Spectrum 48k. Yes you did hear me correctly, 48k!
So, I’m guessing that by now you’re thinking what is he wittering on about?
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