Archive for September, 2008

Know Your Mac – Top Ten Secrets of a Power User

An article by this name exists on the MacMembrane blog. The article gives ten tips, many of which I was unfamiliar. Continue reading »

Cool iPhone Stuff from September

Top stories and interesting insights into the iPhone from September’s headlines… Continue reading »

Want to kill the Mac startup sound?

StartupSound.prefPane is the software which controls the volume of the startup sound of your Macintosh computer. Continue reading »

The Best of Everything

It has been awhile since I have mentioned the Internet Tour Bus. I have mentioned it several times in the past. The authors have long been providing us with interesting new web sites. Continue reading »

UGN Salutes NWAP

Huge support for Macintosh users in the Tacoma/Pierce County, Lakewood, Washington region…
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UGNN Salutes MacSTAC

Macintosh Southern Tier Apple Club Continue reading »

Useful Fruit Software introduces Pear Note 1.0 for Mac OS X

Useful Fruit Software has announced Pear Note 1.0, their unique note-taking utility for Mac OS X. At its core, Pear Note integrates audio, video, and slides with traditional text notes. By recording all activity, Pear Note keeps track of what’s going on while taking notes as well as what the user has to say about it. With Pear Note, there’s also no need to manually organize notes to find them. Simply bring up search and start typing, and the note you’re looking for will pop right up. Continue reading »

MacVide announces Flash Player 1.7 for Mac OS

MacVide is proud to announce MacVide Flash Player 1.7, their standalone Flash player utility for Mac OS X. With a focus on ease-of-use, Flash Player allows play Adobe Flash files, flash video and games. It also allows you to watch downloaded flash files from YouTube and other video websites. All of the flash formats are supported. Continue reading »

Medical Mac

Back in the middle ’80s, when I was active with the Boston Computer Society, the Mac Group had a medical SIG named MediMac. Unfortunately, that was also the name of a piece of medical software. The SIG had to change its name.

Meanwhile, the Mac is still popular with medical folks. Here are are a few web sites that specialize in it. Continue reading »

LittleSnapper

Realmac Software announced LittleSnapper at Apple Expo Paris.

LittleSnapper is built to be the designer’s digital scrapbook, allowing you to capture, organise, annotate and share screenshots from your desktop and the web.
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PDFpen v.4

Smile On My Mac has announced a new version of PDFpen. It adds several new features. Continue reading »

APPLE PHISHING ALERT

Yesterday, and over night a wave of phishing attacks hit the servers targeting Apple Mobile Me users, and others who might not know the specifics of the phish. There were several, all from different “senders” but leading to the same address. READ THIS ALERT Continue reading »

Apple’s smallest computers

Washington Apple Pi’s Saturday program is all about Apple’s newest mobile OS X computers – the iPhone 3G and its non-phone companion, the iPod Touch — it happens September 27 Continue reading »

Why no comments in UGNN ?

Someone wrote in last week to ask why our comments are turned off. Rather than a lengthy explanation, the answer is spam and spam robots, and you’ll understand when you see these two screen captures … Continue reading »

Last call for Mac Jobs postings

MacSupportJobs is offering a free single job post until the end of September 2008 to promote the launch of the site dedicated to the recruitment of Mac support professionals. Continue reading »