The nice folks at Plasq have agreed to let me give away two Doozla licenses. So I’ve decided to do this with a contest. Download the Doozla demo and send me your kid’s masterpiece. My 6 and 11 year old daughters will then pick their two favorites and the winning artists will get Doozla licenses. Send the pictures to me at david@macsparky.com and mark the email as “Doozla Contest”. I can’t wait to see the creative kids in your world produce. I’ll announce the winners in next week’s review.
Leopard has been out for almost a year now, and those of us using Time Machine hopefully have had a good experience with it, I know I have. When I first setup Time Machine, I used a hard drive that I had partitioned, and well after about 8 months or so decided that Time Machine needed its own, much larger hard drive. I wasn’t able to go as far back in time as I hoped.
I purchased a new hard drive, and thought I could just drag my Time Machine backup folders from my original drive and drop them on to the new drive. Hmmm…….if only it was that simple. That just didn’t work!. After a few google searches I found the solution and thought, “I’d share it with everyone in 10 Easy steps.”
This week we look at DataCase, Droozla, VLC, Pixelmator 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.
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Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast:
Raw Photo Processor: http://www.raw-photo-processor.com
FStream: http://www.sourcemac.com/?page=fstream
Skim: http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/index.html
DVD Hunter: http://software.joelares.net
Offshoots: http://projects.digitalwaters.net
Simple Invoices: http://www.simpleinvoices.org
Tom Piraino looks at three great iPhone apps and tells you why to choose DataCase.
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast cannot join us this week.
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us this week and reviews:
Droozla: http://plasq.com
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us this week. We discuss his new 3G iPhone and DropBox online storage
Then Lola Wong is off this week this week.
Jeff Powell cannot join us today.
Darren Rolfe from MacWingNut.com cannot join us today.
Gazmaz Joins us again this week to review
VLC Video Player: http://www.videolan.org
Robert Lachman, L.A.Times Staff Photographer joins us. His Web site is PhotographyandtheMac.com, and he talks with me about Digital Cameras and software, specifically the new Adobe CS4 Suite.
We have Don McAllister from ScreenCastsOnline joining us every other week to talk about his new free screencast: Pixelmator
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iCal is really great to manage your events and appointments. But keeping the big window open all the time just to see upcoming events is nothing I really want to do. So I was looking for a small application which would visualize my upcoming events. At first I used a widget, called iCal Events and ran it as a desktop app (I’ll probably come to this in another segment). But that wasn’t as elegant and unobtrusive as I wanted it to be. While I was searching for something completely different on versiontracker.com I stumbled over an application called iCalViewer. What is does is displaying your iCal events either in a single window, in a list view or – and that is the best part – seamlessly on the desktop. It draws a line on the desktop that represents the current date and time and the events approach this line as they come closer. To keep all day events and normal events apart from each other, you can display one kind on the upper area of the desktop and the other kind on the bottom. Or just mix them, however you want it to be.
Every event is displayed as a bubble, just like in iCal’s week mode and you can choose if you want to have due date, remaining time or both displayed.
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DEVONtechnologies, LLC is a sponsor of the MacReviewCast Podcast. For a 25% discount on all their software, just follow this link. DEVONtechnologies, LLC releases free updates for all editions of its information manager DEVONthink as well as for the intelligent note-keeper DEVONnote. The updates re-enable email import on Mac OS X 10.5.5 and deliver a [...]
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Here are the press releases from Adobe for their new CS4 Suites of applications available in October. We’ll have more including reviews when the apps are released. Stay here for more information as we receive it. Adobe Introduces Creative Suite 4 Product Family Radical Workflow Breakthroughs, New Levels of Flash Expressiveness and Integration Anchor Adobe’s [...]
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So the Application that I’m looking at this week is called AppDelete from Reggie Ashworth. As it sounds, AppDelete is an application that deletes applications, hang on I hear you say I can do that quite easily right now, just by moving an application over to the Trash, and of course I have to say if you have Hazel, that I reviewed the other week, then you don’t need this app, however if you liked the thought of being able to delete apps but didn’t want to get Hazel for all the other things it could do then this is a great alternative as the app which was once free now still only costs $5.00 minimum, a very reasonable cost compared to some other apps that also do a similar job.
If you’ve checked out my show before, you may have figured out that I actually script all of my show up till Chit Chat Across the Pond with Bart Buscchots. I do this for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that I go through a lot of technical bits that I think up early in the week and have to reproduce brilliantly way out on Sunday night.
Since I do use a script, I might be the perfect person to test out Videocue 2 from Flip4Mac.com. Videocue was originally developed by Telestra, and they were bought by Flip4Mac. Varasoft is the great company who brought us Screenflow for making video screencasts. This has all the promise of being an application I’ll like.
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This week we look at iShowU HD, Hazel, Sena Cases 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.
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Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast:
BBAutocomplete: http://c-command.com/bbautocomplete
Fastscripts: http://www.red-sweater.com/fastscripts/index.html
Humungous Elephants and Tigers: http://homepage.mac.com/fahrenba/programs/appList.html
NTFS-3G: http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com
MediaInfo Mac: http://mediainfo.massanti.com
Trailrunner: http://trailrunnerx.com
iPhoneModem: http://www.iphonemodem.de/en/index.html
AirRadar: http://koingosw.com/products/airradar.php
Tom Piraino gives us ten simple steps to move your Time Machine backup.
Bastian Wolfle with his review of a utility called iCalviewer: http://www.iCalViewer.com
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast joins us this week and reviews.
VideoCue: http://www.flip4mac.com/videocue.htm
A special treat this week gives us her review in the Video format.
David Sparks from MacSparky cannot join us this week.
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us this week. We discuss the AppleTV and the ATVFlash.
Then Lola Wong is off this week this week.
Jeff Powell joins us today and reviews.
GarageBand ’08 Tutorial DVD: http://www.askvideo.com
Darren Rolfe from MacWingNut.com cannot join us today.
Gazmaz Joins us again this week to review
AppDelete: http://reggie.ashworth.googlepages.com/appdelete
Robert Lachman, L.A.Times Staff Photographer joins us. His Web site is PhotographyandtheMac.com, and he reviews:
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom
We have Don McAllister from ScreenCastsOnline joining us every other week to talk about his new free screencast: Twitter
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,
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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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I have been racking my brain as to which app I could review next, well I was messing about in my system preferences when I spotted an App called Hazel sitting there looking all lonely and to be perfectly honest not doing a great deal. Now before you think I go around buying apps and then forgetting them this App was purchased in a Mac bundle when I first switched from the world of windows, and haven’t really looked at it since, so I thought why not review Hazel, I might learn something about the App at the same time.
So what is Hazel well it’s not a one trick pony which is what I thought it was when I first got the Application. Now this sits in your System Preferences pane as it’s a utility app but this App does some thinking for you if setup correctly.
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Sena Cases specializes in high end leather cases for your portable devices like Blackberries and iPhones. These leather cases bear little resemblance to the mass produced cases you are used to seeing in your local big box retailer. Naturally, I was interested in their MacBook Air cases and they kindly agreed to loan me one for a few weeks.
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I know I’m supposed to be objective as a reviewer but I just have to say this plug in rocks. Have you ever seen those photoshop svants that can take a picture and then work their black magic on it. I’ve always admired it but at a certain level accepted that I’m about as likely to learn how to do that as I am to build a fission reactor in my attic.
This is where Color Efex Pro steps it up. It installs as a plug in for Aperture or Photoshop and it has a pile of digital filters that enhance your photos with the touch of a button. I’m not just talking black and white here. This is 52 filters with over 250 effects that make your photos look professional.
The update to 10.5.5 is out and here’s what it does..
* Includes recent Apple security updates.
* Addresses stability issues with video playback, processor core idling, and remote disc sharing for MacBook Air.
* Addresses an issue in which some Macs could unexpectedly power on at the same time each day.
* Resolves a stability issue in TextEdit that could be found when accessing the color palette.
* Improves Spotlight indexing performance.
* Fixes an issue in which contacts might not sync properly with PalmOS-based devices.
* Improves iPhone sync reliability with iCal and Address Book.
* Includes improvements to Active Directory (see this article for more information).
* Improves Speech Dictionary.
* Fixes Kerberos authentication issues for Mac OS X 10.5 clients that connect to certain Samba servers, such as Mac OS X Server version 10.4.
This is Robert Lachman from PhotographyAndTheMac.Com. This week I’m going to review Adobe’s Lightroom 2.
Lightroom 2 is a powerful photo-editing software, that is used to import, organize and make some adjustments to your photos.
Most consumers who are happy using iPhoto on their Macs for photo editing, are probably fine, and may not be quite ready to take the leap into Lightroom 2. iPhoto is like driving a Ford and Lightroom 2 is like driving a Ferrari to get to the same location. It’s a ramped up, supercharged, photo-editing machine with a multitude of features.
When you do need the high performance of library modules, dual-monitor support, web-gallery exporting, great control over Raw image import, color correction, gradient tools and adjustment brushes and smooth integration with Photoshop, Lightroom 2 from Adobe is your best choice. The Apple product in this category is Aperture 2.
Lightroom 2 does have a fairly steep learning curve, but that doesn’t mean that there’s not an abundance of ways to learn about the software program. There are plenty of seminars, tutorial videos and books on the subject. A quick check on the Amazon site gave me the name of ten Lightroom 2 book titles which include: The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers, The Serious Photographer’s Guide to Lightroom Efficiency, Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure, Workflow not Workslow in Lightroom 2 and Lightroom 2 For Dummies.
This week we look at iShowU HD, Hazel, Sena Cases 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:
Marware: http://www.marware.com
Power Support Crystal Film: http://store.apple.com
Air Sharing: http://phobos.apple.com
Hand Drawings: http://gallery.me.com/dottyy#100590
Alerts.com: http://www.alerts.com
Chandler: http://chandlerproject.org
Easy Business Manager: http://web.mac.com/lipton_lover/Eversoft/Home.html
Tofu: http://amarsagoo.info/tofu
Plex Media Center: http://www.plexapp.com
Tom Piraino reviews: Zenbe Lists: http://lists.zenbe.com
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast joins us this week and reviews.
iShowU HD: http://www.shinywhitebox.com
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us this week. He reviews:
Sena Cases: http://www.senacases.com
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us this week. We discuss the new Apple iPods.
Then Lola Wong is off this week this week.
Jeff Powell cannot join us today.
Darren Rolfe from MacWingNut.com cannot join us today.
Gazmaz Joins us again this week to review
Hazel: http://www.noodlesoft.com
Robert Lachman, L.A.Times Staff Photographer cannot join us this week. His Web site is PhotographyandtheMac.com
We have Don McAllister from ScreenCastsOnline joining us every other week to talk about his new free screencast: Twitter
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:
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