Tim (Surfbits) on July 19th, 2012

Anyone that knows me, knows I love to talk about freeware, I love to talk about menubar apps, and I love to talk about utilities that do one thing, but do it very well. Today I wanted to tell you about an application I found that’s a perfect trifecta, it’s called PleaseSleep from DragonOne Software. [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on June 18th, 2012

I am not a Video professional. I do not make a living in Final Cut Pro, but I do use it for part-time post production work and personal projects. Therefore, I was excited to look at the new FCPX plugin from Ripple Training, Callouts. From the general description and video that was supplied to me, [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on July 29th, 2011

I’ve mentioned many times that I’m an old gamer from the early 90’s. My favorite category of games have always been RPG’s. I’ve played the Wizardry series, Ultima, Might and Magic, and more Dungeon games then I can shake a stick at. There is nothing more relaxing and time consuming I can do on a [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on May 14th, 2011

This week we look at Wave Arts, iSkin, iCasual, ShelfMenu, Hard Drive Docks, Freeware and 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:

EarTones from iSkin:
Wave Arts Dialog Audio Production Plug-in:
Frenzy: http://frenzyapp.com
Clipboard History: http://www.agileroute.com/clipboardhistory
Task Coach: http://www.taskcoach.org
Star Watermark: http://www.star-watermark.com
Tincta: http://mr-fridge.de
MagicPrefs: http://magicprefs.com
Cenon: http://www.cenon.info

Gazmaz Joins us again this week to review:
Icy Dock Docking Station: Amazon Link

Michelle Lopez joins us today from the The Portable Gamer and iCasual Report to review the iPhone/iPod Touch game:
Cut the Rope: iTunes Link
See Michelle’s Video review at: http://youtu.be/XFRoxixn2Ig

A friend of the podcast, Jane Griffiths from MacStrings.com visits us and reviews a Shareware app:
ShelfMenu: http://www.cemacsoft.com

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Continue reading about The MacReviewCast Episode #267: iSkin, Wave Arts, ShelfMenu

The MacReviewCast Episode 265 This week we look at Toast 11, Griffin Technology Survivor, Kuboku, Freeware and 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 [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on March 16th, 2011

By Bastian Woelfle: I’d like to tell you about a flickr app, but to be honest right from the beginning, I never was a big flickr user. I uploaded a pic once in a while and sometimes browsed special groups. Last year, I decided to take my photography a bit further and I wanted to [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on March 3rd, 2011

As my dear friends, David and Katie always say, in fact, as all my knowledgeable MacRoundtable friends always say, “Backup, Backup, Backup”. You have to be living in a cave not to know that your important data should be backed up to an external hard drive and an off-site storage. But, can you take this [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on January 13th, 2011

I’ve been using Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners for the last several years. I started with their ScanSnap 300M, and then graduated to their S1300. Compared to my old flatbed scanners, the Fujitsu ScanSnaps were able to quickly scan any size document or business card and with the great software that Fujitsu included with the scanners, I [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on January 4th, 2011

I’ve been looking at the RTX220-QR quad interface portable storage device from WiebeTech for the past few weeks. The unit was designed for photography and video storage. They also wanted to build storage for small business servers and professionals in all walks of life that need to protect their data. Let’s start with some basic [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on December 8th, 2010

Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast podcast here, hosted at podfeet.com. I’m really excited about the product I’m reviewing today, because I’ve wanted to play with it for ages and for some reason I just never got around to it. The software is iStopMotion from boinx.com. iStopMotion is software that lets you create stop motion movies [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on November 29th, 2010

Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast podcast here, hosted at podfeet.com. I’m a big fan of efficiency, so I use keyboard shortcuts whenever possible. I can’t stand to let go of they keyboard and reach over to the mouse and slooowwwly drag across the screen to pick an item. When I see someone move their mouse [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on November 15th, 2010

Over the past few years, we’ve talked about several of the fine audio products from Audioengine. The Audioengine W2 wireless iPod adapter, and the Audioengine A5 powered speakers among others. This time I am looking at the P4 Passive Bookshelf Speakers. The idea was to create a matching speaker that would go with the powered [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on November 10th, 2010

Every so often I hear from the developer of a Freeware/Donationware/Opensource application we talk about on the podcast. I love it when they write and keep me informed about updates or changes to their app. I decided to pass the information along to you via the blog in addition to the podcast. This update was [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on November 2nd, 2010

Hi everyone Gazmaz from the UK here. This week I’m looking at Sketch a Vector based drawing tool. So what are Vector based drawings? Very basically Vector drawings are mathematically based and will give you an indefinitely scaleable image without losing any quality. A bitmap image which is based on pixels, also known as a [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on October 27th, 2010

Hi Tim, and all the lovely Mac Reviewcast Listeners! Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast podcast here, hosted at podfeet.com. Today I’d like to tell you about the newest version of Parallels Desktop, the virtual machine software for the Mac. I’ve got a special place in my heart for Parallels as I was involved in the [...]

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