Archive for December, 2009

Writing center for students

Achievers Writing Center apps can help high school and college students — anyone for that matter — write better essays and papers. This is an innovative new app for the iPhone that can really help.

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The Evolution of Web Design

David Drucker, a friend of mine from our days in the Boston Computer Society posted this link on Plaxo for our enjoyment. I thought it would be interesting to all of us that are doing anything on the web.

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UGN Salutes McMug

The McCormick County Mac User Group is in full swing, and Jim Richards, Secretary / Apple Ambassador, passes along this note

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UGNN Salutes: TMUG

The Trilogy Macintosh User Group now has more than 60 members, SALUTE…

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Your Own Handwriting Fonts?

Here’s a great idea — for yourself or for a gift: YourFonts.com is an online service that allows you to make a TrueType font out of your handwriting

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iPhone aids the Color Blind

By simply pointing the camera preview on any object, Retina provides a simple method to differentiate colors in a fast, efficient way.

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DrawIt Vector-Drawing for Mac

DrawIt 3.10 has become a lot faster when working on a large canvas or when having a large number of layers. This might be a good candidate for an alternative to Adobe Illustrator! Continue reading »

Apple Tablet: Truth or Rumor?

The news channels have ramped up again with a number of mentions of an impending Apple Mac tablet based computer. It’s what I’ve dreamed about for some years, and it would seem, we’re getting closer!

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More iPhone iPod games

This week … Checking them out for sure … Including: Defense Net color matching game * Play Golf * Jiggle Balls: Spikes! * reMovem Christmas Edition * Kids Jigsaw Puzzle * Cover Match * WW2 Beachhead * Juggz ball juggling … more on the way!

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69 Free Snow Leopard apps

Actually, the story is entitled “69 Awesomely Free Snow Leopard Compatible Apps” and it is written by those fine folks over at Mac|Life,

They are not all completely free, the staff admit that some are donation ware.

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Download Software Updates in OS X 10.6

According to Ronald Carlson on this web site, it is no longer possible to download software updates in Snow Leopard. Of course, I didn’t know it was possible in Leopard. But apparently it is.

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Everplay

Do you want to listen to music in the background. Do you feel that iTunes is to resource hungry? Maybe Everplay is for you.

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Apple buys Lala

According to the New York Times and others, Apple agreed yesterday to purchase a four year old music company Lala.

The company is based in Palo Alto, California, not that far from Apple own base.

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13 Performance Enhancing Tips

The actual title of the article is “13 Mac Performance Tuning Applications and Tips”

We have talked about many of these utilities in the past, but there are a few new ones here.

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Review of Snow Leopard

On a web site called Geekology, the author talks about what is new in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

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