This week we look at Today, SpiderOak, PhoneView, Fluid and The Lounge plus 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.
You can email me at surfbits at Gmail dot Com. I love to hear from you.
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Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast:
SpiderOak: http://www.spideroak.com
Fluid: http://fluidapp.com
SketchBox: http://www.omz-software.de/sketchbox_index.html
SuperDocker: http://www.ed-shiro.net
JaBack: http://www.hiteksoftware.com/jaba/data-backup-software.htm
ScratchPad: http://seifertalex.googlepages.com
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast joins us this week to look at:
Today 1.1: http://secondgearllc.com/today
David Sparks from MacSparky cannot join us this week.
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us and we talk about:
PhoneView: http://www.ecamm.com
Then Lola Wong is back with the MacReviewCast Lounge.
Developer, Danny Greg cannot join us today.
Get 15% off BitClamp by using the Code “SURFBITS” at crimsonskysoftware.com.
Jeff Powell cannot join us today.
Darren Rolfe from MacWingNut.com cannot join us today.
Robert Lachman, L.A.Times Staff Photographer cannot joins us. His Web site is PhotographyandtheMac.com,
We have Don McAllister from ScreenCastsOnline joining us every other week to talk about his new free screencast: TextExpander
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! 
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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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By Chris Marshall: Never judge a book by its cover is a very old saying, that still holds good but has gone out of the window a little since they started publishing books with more attractive images on – admit it! Who hasn’t bought a book (and enjoyed it) based on the cover alone? I [...]
Hey Tim its Danny from DannyGreg.com. This week I took at the new download manager Leech from Many Tricks software. A Download manager is a tough piece of software to justify. After all, every browser on the mac comes with its own download manager built in, so why on earth should you output your hard [...]
You heard it was going to be a big update, you will not be disappointed. Here are the published changes. General Fixes a font issue that could result in Helvetica Narrow being used in applications instead of Helvetica. Addresses an issue with stuttering video and audio playback in certain USB devices. Resolves stability issues with [...]
I’ve been a very stubborn individual when it came to using online servers as backup for my files. The main reason was because it was a slow, tedious process. It took so long to upload the first time and then you had to upload the same files next time, and it took almost as long as it did the initial upload. But something changed my mind. Believe it or not, it was the old Windows PC at the office I had to use.
It seemed that the office had no policy for backups. Everyone was on their own. Since my PC didn’t have a re-writable drive, DVD, nor CD, I decided to bite the bullet and try the latest online file repositories, or as they now like to be called, syncing services.
Continue reading about My Favorite Online Syncing: SpiderOak
You may be familiar with Plasq. They’ve brought us applications like Skitch and Doozla. But before those applications existed they had a very successful application called “Comic Life”. The first iteration of Comic Life gave you comic book formatted pages in which you could drop your pictures or artwork and add talking bubbles. In essence, it allowed you to produce your own electronic comic books. I first heard of it when it shipped on my daughter’s iMac.
This week we look at Comic Life, Leech, Filezilla, The Lounge 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.
You can email me at surfbits at Gmail dot Com. I love to hear from you.
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Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast:
FileZilla: http://filezilla-project.org
MultiScreener: http://www.zachpoff.com/site/software/software.html
Preminder: http://www.hairyhighlandcow.net/software/PreMinderMain.html
Email Backup: http://homepage.mac.com/minge/md/products/freeware/emailbackup/index.html
JollysfastVNC: http://www.jinx.de/JollysFastVNC.html
Aspect Ratio: http://www.producenewmedia.com/ar/aspectRatio.html
MailFX: http://mailfx.ddomenet.com/loc/ENG.html
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast joins us this week To share a discussion with Lola Wong on the New MacReviewCast Lounge.
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us this week and looks at:
Comic Life Magiq: http://plasq.com/comic-life-magiq
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us and we talk about:
Are you too Hyper-Connected?
Developer, Danny Greg joins us today and looks at:
Get 15% off BitClamp by using the Code “SURFBITS” at crimsonskysoftware.com.
Leech Download Manager: http://www.manytricks.com/leech
Jeff Powell cannot join us today.
Darren Rolfe from MacWingNut.com cannot join us today.
Robert Lachman, L.A.Times Staff Photographer cannot joins us. His Web site is PhotographyandtheMac.com,
We have Don McAllister from ScreenCastsOnline joining us every other week to talk about his new free screencast: TextExpander
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.
The right link below is the URL for the podcast RSS feed. Just right click it and choose to copy the address and then paste it in your podcast reader, or ipodder, or newsreader that will download enclosures automatically.
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Continue reading about The MacReviewcast #161: Comic Life Magiq, Leech, The Lounge
today I’d like to review a little piece of sharware that might just solve a problem you have. If you’re like me, you have attention deficit disorder, and as a result you’re flipping between applications as the wind blows and you lose track of time and appointments you should be taking care of. iCal is a great calendaring application, but some recent changes have made it a bit harder to enter data in my opinion, and you do have to wait for it to launch when all you want to know is “what time was my haircut?” I also have a bad habit of flipping the calendar to some date in the future, and not noticing that’s how I left it so I get all confused when I open it again a day or two later and the dates are all weird because I’m on the wrong month.
Continue reading about Help iCal Be All That It Can Be, Today
This week I took a quick look at the recently updated Picturesque from Acquilla software.
Picturesque’s tagline is, or at least used to be, “beautify your images”, and it still does that really neatly. You drag and drop images in and then the new Leopard only interface allows you to edit the perspective of the image, add reflection, shadow, curve the image borders add a border or even crop the image.
This week I’m going to review another CD and DVD label printing software called iWinSoft Label Maker. The software which sells for $29.95 opens up with the very basic Mac interface with a choice of labels or prints in a window on the left and your disc layout on the right.
I’ve been producing screencasts now for almost a year. While I cannot claim to have the superhuman skills of my friend Don McAllister, I do want them to look nice. Up until a few months ago I accomplished this through a byzantine series of steps in multiple applications that was both time intensive and spectacularly underwhelming in its result.
Well this all changed a few months ago when ScreenFlow came on to the stage. ScreenFlow is the screencasting application for the rest of us. It gives you one application to capture video and audio and perform sophisticated editing. So let me break this down a bit.
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This week we look at Screenflow, AudialHub, WinsoftCD/DVD Label Maker, Picturesque, disk encryption 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.
You can email me at surfbits at Gmail dot Com. I love to hear from you.
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Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast:
Bosco’s ScreenShare: http://www.componentx.com/ScreenShare
GPS Photo Linker: http://oregonstate.edu/~earlyj/gpsphotolinker
SaveCircle: http://macxtosh.free.fr/en/savecircle.html
StarPlayr: http://starplayr.com
iTunesShut: http://web.mac.com/gugulino1/GuguSoft/Blog/Blog.html
Battle for Wesnoth: http://www.wesnoth.org
Photo Grabbr: http://www.malarkeysoftware.com/projects_PhotoGrabbr.html
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast joins us this week To share a discussion with Lola Wong about Disk Encryption on the Mac.
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us this week and looks at:
ScreenFlow Professional Screencasting Software: http://www.varasoftware.com/products/screenflow
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us and we talk about:
Are you too Hyper-Connected?
Developer, Danny Greg joins us today and looks at:
Get 15% off BitClamp by using the Code “SURFBITS” at crimsonskysoftware.com.
Picturesque 2.0: http://www.acqualia.com/picturesque
Jeff Powell joins us today to talk about:
AudialHub Review – see also VisualHub
WalletCards on the iPhone
The OS X desktop as music video
LifeHacker – Top 10 Things You Forgot Your Mac Can Do
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:
iWinSoft CD/DVD Label Maker: http://www.iwinsoft.com
We have Don McAllister from ScreenCastsOnline joining us every other week to talk about his new free screencast:
OmniGraffle
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.
The right link below is the URL for the podcast RSS feed. Just right click it and choose to copy the address and then paste it in your podcast reader, or ipodder, or newsreader that will download enclosures automatically.
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Continue reading about The MacReviewcast #160: Screenflow, Picturesque, AudialHub
EchoStar purchased Sling Media last fall and is now pursuing OEM relationships with cable operators worldwide.
“We are firmly committed to becoming the vendor of choice in the cable industry, leveraging decades of systems and manufacturing excellence,” said Mark Jackson, president of EchoStar Technologies. “We are excited to announce our first cable-ready product at the annual Cable Show, where we can meet face-to-face with industry veterans looking for innovative solutions that will reduce churn and increase average revenue per user.”
Continue reading about Sling Media and EchoStar Introduces a Cable Modem?
Global Delight releases minor updates to their utility Web2 Delight. This release includes several UI tweaks as well as size/performance optimizations. The first release of Web2 Delight has been well received. Over 30,000 people have downloaded the release version during the brief period it has been available. The feedbacks from users have been very helpful [...]
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The Wigix marketplace is the new way to buy and sell online, and it’s easy too. On every item page, you’ll see both ‘Buy’ and ‘Sell’ buttons. If you’d like to buy an item, simply click on the ‘Buy’ button. Next, set up a buy order with your criteria. You can view all your orders, [...]
