Archive for October, 2011

GoodReader for iOS 5

pic GoodReader, the document reader which achieved the rank of #2 best-selling iPad app in 2010, has been updated to support the newly releases iOS 5 for iPhone and iPad. GoodReader now also provides iOS 5 users with support for iCloud, Apple’s new online storage service that allows users to seamlessly push file changes across multiple devices. Continue reading »

Dragons Rage

pic Released in the Mac App Store on October 11th, by Touch Village Inc, Dragons Rage is an addictive, medieval, action arcade game where users take the place of an angry dragon. They must fight to defend themselves against an onslaught of enemies like knights with swords, archers and pike men. With iPhone, iPad and iPod touch versions already seeing success in the app store, the new Mac version is in good company. Simple controls and bright, fun graphics make this game a blast on the big screen!
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Five Siri alternatives

This Macworld.com article by Elizabeth Fish addresses the fact that those of us who aren’t upgrading to iPhone 4S don’t have Sjri available for our iPhones. Continue reading »

GPS Navigation 2

pic skobbler has announced the release of GPS Navigation 2, the industry’s first universal, online-offline (“hybrid”) navigation app for iPhones and 3G-equipped iPads. Powered by the dynamic open-source mapping project, OpenStreetMap, skobbler’s GPS Navigation 2 delivers the most versatile voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation product currently available on iOS devices without a monthly subscription.
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VRC – Bare Bones Software

Bare Bones Software has become the latest addition to our Vendor Resource Center. Great products and great support of Mac User Groups.
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Pictures from the past week

Of course, pictures have been a big thing in remembering Steve Jobs over the past week. Here are some that I found interesting. I don’t have attributions, as I saw them a number of different places. If I need to remove any, please let us know. Continue reading »

WPXO Office for Mac

 WPXO Office for Mac Indie developer Dale Gillard has announced the release of WPXO 1.0, a companion app for Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 users. WPXO is a simple app for your Mac’s menu bar that’s all about speed and convenience when using Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook applications.

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Generating QR Codes Just Got Easier

 Generating QR Codes Just Got Easier QR Encode is an innovative new utility developed specifically for Mac OS X. Generating QR codes couldn’t be easier. Featuring a beautiful, intuitive interface, QR Encode allows anyone to generate various types of QR codes. QR Encode comes feature packed with the ability to change the background and foreground colors of generated QR codes as well as many other adjustments.

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Connect anywhere, anytime

 Connect anywhere, anytime Fieldforce for Jive integrates Fieldforce mobile productivity app with Jive 5 to make life easier and more productive for today’s increasingly mobile professionals. With Fieldforce with the Jive Apps Market, enterprises will be able to extend the power of the Jive 5 social enterprise out “into the field” and likewise, those mobile field professionals who increasingly rely on their smartphones as their primary productivity tool can now easily share with their colleagues “back in the office.”

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Morph Faces to See Offspring

 Morph Faces to See Offspring FaceBooth for iPhone Free 1.0, is an Entertainment app that performs advanced image morphing of a male face and a female face to produce a photo of what the pair’s grown child might look like. With sophisticated face-detection technology, the powerful app permits one-button swapping of the main and secondary faces plus continuously variable control over the influence of the main face on the final image. The app allows the user to morph Camera photos, Photo Album photos, or built-in Model (sample) photos.

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iPad InfoManager 1110-10

UGNN InfoManager news all about Apple and Apple computers The big question is what next? But iPad seems to still seems to be stirring the pot with lots of new rumers, news and views including:
* Apple iPad Killer: 10 Reasons Why It Will Never See the Light of Day
* Apple iPad is Kindle ‘Fire-Proof’
* With iPad Apple’s Steve Jobs Changed Course of Health Care
* Apple’s Siri: Better Suited for the iPad?
* Android apps work on IOS thanks to Alien Dalvik 2.0
* Apple unlikely to be major seller of Jobs bio
* The Apple falls far from the dream
* How to run Android apps on your Apple iPad?
* Study: Will iPad And Tablets Displace Searches On Laptops?
. . . and more

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iPhone InfoManager 1110

UGNN InfoManager news all about Apple and Apple computers With the passing of Apple’s icon Steve Jobs, the reception of the latest iPhone is less than stellar – more than ever!
* Apple iPhone 4S preorders begin; Sprint has unlimited data
* Analysis: Apple’s iPhone is still the hottest ticket around
* iPhone 4S not revolutionary, but not bad
* Queens mom grateful for iGotYa app after iPhone is stolen
* Apple Sells Through Initial iPhone 4S Stock
* Apple’s iPhone 4S preorders may be the ‘most successful ever’
* NUTS: Apple Remembers Steve Jobs, Forges Ahead With IPhone 4S
* iPhone 4S Siri Assistant, The Love Affair
and more …

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Apple Update 1110-10

Interesting news, views and rumors from Apple Again, another full page of the more unique and interesting articles revolving around Apple and Steve Jobs, including :
* Steve Jobs’s Mac allowed City Year to pursue its dream
* For the love of Apple
* Final tribute to a genius
* Wired Remembers Steve Jobs
* The Associated Press: Apple’s Steve Jobs remembered
* The Best Steve Jobs Stories: the Macintosh Years
* A Female Engineer’s Ode to Steve Jobs
* Lee Clow Reflects on Steve Jobs’ Passing in Memo to TBWA
* Jobs authorized biography so his kids can know him
* Who was Steve Jobs
… more and more

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Convert InDesign CS5.5 To Quark 9

Markzware, the developer of file conversion technology for InDesign CS5.5 and Quark 9, has announced the upgrade ID2Q v6, its popular Quark XTension. ID2Q v6, for both Macintosh and Windows, allows graphic designers to convert InDesign CS5.5 documents within QuarkXPress 8 or 9 with a click or two. Continue reading »

Default Folder X 4.4.6

pic St. Clair Software has announced the immediate availability of Default Folder X 4.4.6. This release fixes compatibility issues in its award-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs. Honored with Macworld Magazine’s Editors’ Choice Award for Best System Enhancement Utility, Default Folder X makes Open and Save dialogs “work the way they should.” Continue reading »