This week we look at VoodooPad, Screenium, WoW, Gift Ideas 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:
Will Lomas: OSX for the Visually Impared
Christmas Super Frog: http://www.koingo.com
Christmas Crisis: http://www.koingo.com
AirRadar: http://www.koingo.com
Flock Browser: http://www.flock.com
HandBrake: http://handbrake.fr
Komodo Edit: http://www.activestate.com
Trent Armstrong: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/computers-software/macs-os-x.html?&filter=VIDEO
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast looks at:
VoodooPad: http://www.flyingmeat.com
Gazmaz Joins us again this week to review:
Screenium: http://www.synium.de/products/screenium/index.html
Jeff Powell joins us and talks about:
World of Warcraft – Wrath of the Lich King Expansion
eMedia Guitar Method v4.0
Tom Piraino from MacinTomBlog.com looks at:
Photogene:
Mobile Fotos:
Robert Lachman, L.A.Times Staff Photographer joins us. His Web site is PhotographyandtheMac.com, and he talks about:
Great Gifts for the Digital Photographer and family:
Gorillapod: http://www.joby.com/store/
Logan Mat Cutters: http://www.logangraphic.com/products
Panasonic DMC-TZ5S Lumix Camera
Apple iPhoto Print Products:
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Of course I went into system preferences to turn the brightness down on the display, but this still wasn’t enough, so in my searching on the web I came across a little app that pretty much as Tim likes to say “does one thing and does it well”. The app is called Shades from charcoaldesign and it’s free.
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Following an old tradition in the USA, DEVONtechnologies offers DEVONthink, DEVONagent, DEVONnote, and the Infoworker’s bundles (consisting of DEVONthink Pro or Pro Office and DEVONagent) with 25 percent discount on this year’s Black Friday. This year this also includes all upgrades, e.g., from the Personal to the Pro or Pro Office editions of DEVONthink or from DEVONagent 1.x to 2.x.
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There comes a time when you find the perfect gift for that hard to buy for person. You know it’s perfect, you know they’ll love it, and you like it so much you want one for yourself. I found that gift. It’s for the person on your list with an iPhone or iPod Touch, it’s the Richard Solo 1800.
About 10 years ago, when speech recognition was first being introduced to the masses, I tried it out. It was terrible. You … had … to … put … a … space … between … every … word. While those initial experiments were fun, the technology ultimately came up short. I work on a PC at the office and a few years ago I tried again. This second attempt was much more successful. The Dragon Dictate engine on the PC software made huge strides. No longer do you have to put spaces between words. You can speak naturally and, with some training, the computer gets very good at understanding your voice. I write for a living and Dragon Dictate quickly became a regular part of my computing experience.
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This week I’m going do a review of Blow Up 2 software from Alien Skin.
Now you might say to yourself, how cool is that, there’s software that you can just blow everything up and it will look perfect. Well, that’s really not the case. It’s really better to shoot high quality photographs.
It’s when you need to crop and enlarge you can start having problems. When you starting blowing photographs up by just increasing image size or DPI in Photoshop, Elements or your favorite image editing program you can start to have a drop off in quality.
This week we look at BoinxTV, MacSpeech Dictate, Coversutra 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 we look at during the podcast:
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us this week and reviews:
MacSpeech Dictate: http://www.macspeech.com
Bastian Woelfle from Boinx Software joins us to review:
BoinxTV: http://www.boinx.com
Gazmaz Joins us again this week to review:
CoverSutra: http://coversutra.com
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us this week.
We talk about Holiday gifts for the Tech lover you know.
Finally, our dear friend Lola Wong joins us in the MacReviewCast Lounge to talk about her TV addiction. These are the apps she mentions:
Curio 5: http://www.zengobi.com/products/curio
TVshows: http://tvshows.sourceforge.net/index2.html
Xtorrents: http://xtorrent.com
i.TV : http://www.i.tv
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It’s no secret that we love the Flip Video Cams. For a video camera that small, the pictures were very sharp and included sound and basic editing. What could be better then that? How about a tiny little Flip with HD quality video? Welcome the Flip MinoHD.
The Flip MinoHD is the world’s smallest high definition camcorder at just over three oz., this remarkably slim camcorder makes capturing and sharing HD video easy and affordable. The stylish Flip MinoHD from Pure Digital Technologies, priced at $229.99 (MSRP), records up to 60 minutes of HD video and features Flip Video’s new FlipShare software, also announced today. This advanced on-board software platform allows consumers to plug the camcorder’s signature flip-out USB arm into any computer for easy drag-and-drop video organizing, editing and sharing on YouTube, MySpace, AOL Video or via email.
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Today, Adobe Systems Incorporated introduced Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.0.1 software, a major update to the leading start-to-finish professional video production solution. A pivotal component of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.0.1 leads the way in delivering open, flexible post-production workflows by providing virtually seamless project exchange with Final Cut Pro, Digidesign Pro Tools, and Avid workflows. Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.0.1 enables users to import Final Cut Pro projects via XML interchange, export to Open Media Framework (OMF) format, and import and
export projects in Advanced Authoring Format (AAF). Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.0.1 also offers significant performance and stability
enhancements, including full support for 64-bit computing platforms to
accelerate compute-intensive post-production tasks.
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Whenever I see the Bento software package on the shelves, my first thought is always of a lovely Japanese lunch. (Bento or bento box are those thin plastic or wooden boxes that are divided into little compartments containing different portions of food, primarily Japanese.)
The developers at FileMaker have cleverly named this application because in essence this software organizes your information just like a bento box: something simple in it’s elegance, compartmentalized and clear, but also can be elaborately arranged and there’s plenty of complexity in flavors depending on what you put into it!
DEVONtechnologies, LLC takes part in the Give Good Food to Your Mac promotion and adds the personal document and information manager DEVONthink Personal and the Internet research assistant DEVONagent to the recipe.
From November 17 to 30, 2008, Mac users can create their own cocktail of applications and enjoy increasing discounts starting at 20 percent for three applications and up to an amazing 50 percent for five applications or more.
Eric Böhnisch-Volkmann, President of DEVONtechnologies: “Give Good Food to Your Mac is a quality promotion filled with life by a great community of independent Mac developers. We are proud to be part of it and enjoy that Mac users from all over the world get quality applications for great prices.”
More information about which products are part of the promotion as well can be found on the Give Good Food to Your Mac web site.
I reviewed Mail Act-On last year explaining it is one of the most useful utilities on my computer. With the recent release of version 2, that hasn’t changed. For the uninitiated, Mail Act-On installs itself as a preference in the Apple Mail client. It allows you to assign keystrokes to repeated actions and rules when dealing with your inbox and, with version 2, outbox. For instance, after reviewing an e-mail, there are a limited number of things I will do with it. I will either deal with it and file it, put it in my “action” folder, or delete it. Each of these require me to drag the e-mail over and place it in the proper folder. This works fine if you don’t mind taking your hand off the keyboard and using the mouse to drag it over and if you’re accurate enough to make sure that you actually drop it in the right folder. For those who use hierarchical folders to sort their Mail, this can be even more difficult. No matter how you slice it, this process takes time.
This week we look at Bento 2, Mail Act-on, RunKeeper, Flick Fishing 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:
Skim: http://skim-app.sourceforge.net
TinkerTool: http://www.bresink.de/osx/TinkerTool.html
LiveStation: http://www.livestation.com
Camouflage: http://www.briksoftware.com
VLC Media Player: http://www.videolan.org
Onyx: http://www.titanium.free.fr
Lola Wong joins us with her review of:
Bento 2 http://www.filemaker.com
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us this week and reviews:
Mail Act-on 2: http://www.indev.ca/MailActOn.html
Gazmaz Joins us again this week with Darren Rolfe from MacWingNut.com and talks about.
Flick Fishing: http://www.freeverse.com
Tom Piraino from MacinTomBlog.com looks at:
RunKeeper: http://www.runkeeper.com
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us this week. We talk about iPhone and iPod cases, his favorite for the iPhone? This one…
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We all have our favorite earbuds or headsets, they can easily cost $100 or more. That’s fine, I know that for those long trips a comfortable earbud or headset that delivers rich bass and exciting trebles is well worth the price. But what about those folks that want an inexpensive headset or in-ear buds to [...]
This week I wanted to talk about something that I depended on VERY heavily over the last few months and I’ve been wanting to talk about a really long time: my glorious Etymotic Hf2 High-fidelity | Hands-free noise isolating headset + earphones.
Since losing my dear old car back in May, I had pledged to riding my bike during the summer. I decided to treated myself to a set of Etymotic’s hf2’s because I’ve always been in love with my ER6i’s. The etymotic brand has always been a comfort to my ears, both in sound and in wearability. (I’m sure I’ve mentioned about the time I travelled and slept in hostels where these were able to block out a room full of 100 people, more than half who were snoring.)
Because I had the new iPhone, I also wanted to have the ability for a handsfree set of headphones, and was delighted to know not only did Etymotic produce a compatible noise-isolating set of earphones, but that they were iLounge.com’s Best in Show for 2008. By iLounge’s review, the Etymotic hf2s actually combine the high end $330 ER-4P earphones with an iPhone ready microphone and remote control button. It’s listed as compatible with the Blackberry Curve and other music phones with a 3.5mm/4-contact phone + stereo plug and the nano4G although I haven’t had the opportunity to try.
In any case, I happily shelled out the $179 for a set (remember this means about a trillion dollars in Canadian funds, plus shipping & handling.)
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