Archive for August, 2009

ResearchBuzz

Tara Calshain writes this blog. I first came across it about 10 years ago when I was the Research Librarian at RadioShack. I found it to be a great source of new places to look things up. Continue reading »

History of Mac User Groups

As User Group officers and members age, and new members come along, there seems to be a renewed interest in the History of the Macintosh — both reminiscing and learning. Hopefully, the history of individual groups has been preserved by the groups that can still be found. Continue reading »

Bank allows check deposits via iPhone

ArsTechnica is reporting that USAA, an insurance company and bank is allowing its customers deposit checks to their account via iPhone by using a photo of a check. Continue reading »

Apple Tablet Could Ruin Computing?

Popular Science’s Tom Conlon posted this article yesterday and caught my attention immediately! Is this what I’ve been looking for? But he says “Apple Tablet Could Ruin Computing” Continue reading »

An App Store for the Mac

This article starts off with the statement: “The idea of an App Store for the Mac is nothing new but finally, one company is transitioning the idea from a website to an actual application. Bodega, inspired by the Spanish word for “small convenience store,” is a freeware app that does just what we want: It acts as a storefront to lots of great applications for the Mac.” Continue reading »

Court: Stop Selling Word

Judge Leonard Davis of the US District Court here in Texas has ordered a permanent injunction that says Microsoft can’t sell or import any MS Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or .DOCM files. Continue reading »

UGN Salutes PMUG

The Princeton Macintosh Users’ Group (PMUG) has been there since the beginning! These Macintosh computer enthusiasts are based on the campus of Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Through PMUG, members both new and expert share their interests, talents, and skills in the Macintosh environment so that others may benefit. Continue reading »

JobsSearch

idealius has announced the release of JobsSearch! 1.0 (Trabajos! for its Spanish version), their new job search engine utility for iPhone and iPod Touch. Developed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique abilities and interface, JobsSearch! offers a radically improved approach for job research and gaining employment. JobsSearch! aims to be the most comprehensive job search engine of search engine of search engines. Continue reading »

How to Automatically Sync Contacts & Calendar

The full title to this article is: “How to Automatically Sync Your Contacts & Calendar Between a Nokia Phone, iPhone, Gmail and Outlook / Mac iCalendar / Address Book on multiple computers.” Isn’t that a mouthful? I don’t have all of that, but I bet that it will have a lot of information about sync that will be useful in smaller doses as well. Continue reading »

TheMacBundles Announces Weekly Special

MacEase Software has announced that TheMacBundles has initiated a new program of weekly special offerings of high quality standalone titles at the lowest prices available anywhere. Continue reading »

Widgets for Web Designers and Developers

This is a list of 30 Widgets for Mac OS X Dashboard. There are many Widgets for dashboard, but many of them are as useful as the majority of the iPhone apps. Here are some that can be used for developing web sites. Continue reading »

iWeb FAQ

Apple would like us to think that we don’t need instructions to use iiWeb. In truth, it isn’t hard to use but there are always things that we overlook. iWeb FAQ is an unofficial web site dedicated to helping us use iWeb. Continue reading »

Newton updated

According to Ars Tecnica, the Apple Newton wasn’t going to be able to handle dates after this year. But it has now been updated by a third party to allow it to continue on for a long time. Continue reading »

The iPod Is Dead. Long Live the iPod

Thanks to Gary Kampel for sending in this interesting read by Arik Hesseldahl. What you do want the iPod to be? What will you do with your old one? Continue reading »

MacBUS MobileMe Meeting

Meet consultant and author, Ben Waldie who will teach you about MobileMe at the upcoming MacBUS meeting Tuesday, August 25th Continue reading »