Archive for October, 2009

Todo Management Cross Platform Freeware

Arten Science announced today that ooSooM is now available for free of charge download for Apple Macintosh OSX (including Snow Leopard) and Microsoft Windows (including Windows 7). ooSooM is a Todo Management and Secure Digital Filing System. Continue reading »

3D modeling solution for Mac

Cheetah3D is a super cool, very popular 3D modeling solution for Mac OS X. It’s now been upgraded to 5.0, adding completely new node based material system, optimized render engine, extended modeling tools, and many small UI enhancements. Continue reading »

Developers Shift to iPhone

A national survey of application developers results show a dramatic increase in mobile application development. Developers and entrepreneurs alike change course and thrive as iPhone app development increases. Continue reading »

iMac now is the “Mac to have”

That is a quote from Computer World. They start out saying:

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HDR photography for Mac OS

Photographers are beginning to get into HDR Photography, a relatively new technique that involves capturing more than one photo at different exposures, then using software to combine these exposures into a HIgh Dynamic Range Image. Ohanaware’s HDRtist helps facilitate this technique. Continue reading »

Search Files Quickly

Spotlight on the Mac has many frustrating moments — now, DataLore front end to Spotlight for Mac OS X makes it much easier and faster to search and share files both locally, as well as on the network. Continue reading »

ArtOptimizer for Illustrator

ArtOptimizer will reduce Illustrator job size and speed up processing by eliminating excess image data and performing essential image adjustments Continue reading »

Thweet Tweets

Some of the more interesting, unique, weird, useful, amazing, cool, informative, educational, valuable, free, beneficial tweets we’ve seen recently in the blogosphere and tweetosphere … Continue reading »

Name Squatters gotcha

Age old practice of grabbing names that ‘may’ become valuable has spread to all corners of the online world Continue reading »

Macintosh Computer Expo

At the Macintosh Computer Expo more than 25 vendors showed their products. Some were even selling products made for the Mac. This conference was held in Petaluma.

What is astounding to me is that a throw away line at the end of the story seemed to generate the most comments.

“People at the conference are all part of a large family who worship the same thing.

“It’s definitely a cult following,” Hannigan said.”

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FTC: Bloggers need better disclosure

Last week, this became big news. The FTC is saying that bloggers must disclose freebies and payments when reviewing products. Personally, I have always thought that most web sites were provided with product. I know that newspaper and magazine people almost always are given or loaned products for review. Continue reading »

The Secrets of Da Vinci: the Forbidden Manuscript now available for Mac

The Secrets of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript is the first ever game created about the life and work of Leonardo Da Vinci. Players come to discover and delve inside the mysteries surrounding the hidden enigmas of the works of the great genius. “The Secrets of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript” is a major investigation and adventure game, a thrilling mystical quest into the heart of the Renaissance. It is now available for Mac OS X. Continue reading »

Let me Google that for you

One of my pet peeves is having someone send me an email about some thing that at least to me is an obvious urban legend. Of course some of my friend actually send it to me expecting me to do the Snopes search. Continue reading »

Apple App Developer Giving away Their Earnings

Little Elm Texas – Have you ever looked at some of the applications (known simply as apps) on the Apple App Store, read about the amount of downloads they are receiving and thought, “wouldn’t it be nice to make that kind of money?” Meet a development group with a different mindset, Silver Lining Ideas of Little Elm Texas, whose approach to Apple App development isn’t about making money, unless you want to give it away. Continue reading »

iPhone Drunks (iPod too)

If you drink, specially if you drink a lot, you should check out iAlcohol — unique blood alcohol concentration app for iPhone and iPod Touch. The only problem is, it’s not a breathilizer. It works on assumed statistics. But it’s still better than a D.U.I. Continue reading »