Archive for April, 2008

Mac|Life’s Software Vault

Many of us were sad to see Mac|Life quit being MacAddict and dropping the monthly CD of software. For some time, they have had a library on line for all its readers. Continue reading »

Top +20 Free and open-source software

I have listed several sites with free and open source software. About.Share4VN.com has one of the best. It also has a number of applications that I did not know.
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BootDisk.com

As a Mac user, I have long been familiar with disk images. I really didn’t know that the Windows world had them. Although I really don’t think they work completely the same as they do on the Mac.

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Service Scrubber 1.1.4

Probably the least used menu in Mac OS X is the Services menu. (Found under the application menu item.) But there are a lot of features in that menu, some of those may not be useful to you. Continue reading »

Flip Video Non Profit Program

You read our review of the Flip Video camera last December. At that time we registered for the Flip Video Spotlight program. We’ve been approved for this wonderful opportunity. User groups and other non-profits can show how they are changing the world through this program… Continue reading »

Browser For Autistic Children

From PeopleCD the creators of Kidz CD; Web 2.0 Safe Web Browsing For Children and Teenagers comes the Zac Browser For Autistic Children. Continue reading »

Shoot Photos & Edit Like a Pro!

Lesa Snider King, noted graphics expert, teaches how to take our photos to the next level at Luther Jackson Middle School, 3020 Gallows Road, Falls Church, Virginia, on April 26 at 9:30 a.m at Washington Apple Pi, a DC metro area Macintosh User Group’s monthly meeting. Continue reading »

Veropedia

We have all gotten used to using Wikipedia for quick answers to our questions. Unfortunately we have also learned that the details in a given article may not be accurate. Continue reading »

5 Reasons to Say Yes to Macs, When Your Company Says No

This article comes from CIO magazine, which would seem to be an odd place to show rebellion from the Wndows standard. Continue reading »

Configure Mail to Prevent iCal Spam

Jeff Carlson, wrote this article for TidBITS. The vulnerability of iCal to spamming was recently announced by one of the anti-virus vendors. Jeff says that he actually had an unexpected morning even called “Hello Dear”. Continue reading »

All About Linux

This is a Blogspot blog that runs under the above title. I don’t know enough about Linux to know how well it lives up to the title. Continue reading »

Mac OS X: Two trashes are better than one!

This is a blog article about how Mac’s Trash can is a one size fits all and some files need to be more completely deleted.

He recommends using an Apple Script to deal with a second trash that does multiple write over to make sure it is truly gone. Continue reading »

iSpoof

This site has a number of desktop pictures that resemble the iPod advertisements. Continue reading »

15 Best Freeware Apps for the Mac

Best of the Web has the article with the above title. Some of the list we have heard of repeatedly in the past, but there are a couple of new ones. Continue reading »

Adam Gotcha…

A few people noticed last week’s April Fool’s joke… and as usual they let us know about it right away! But the best read I’ve had in a long time was Adam Engst’s TidBits on the first. Continue reading »