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May 2, 2008

Alltop

Alltop.com, my new favorite news site has updated its topic list by adding some new topics.

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May 1, 2008

TheOSFiles

The OS Files is a one stop portal for all operating systems that run on the x86 platform. This includes Windows, Windows Server, DOS, DR-DOS, Unix (including Darwin, Mac OS X, Solaris, etc.), Linux, and others.

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April 27, 2008

Game Testers Wanted

A UGNN reader at a Norwalk, CT firm is searching to hire 3 game testers/gamers to work onsite at their client's facility in New York city. Pass this along ...

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April 25, 2008

Computer History

In the past, I have talked some about the Computer Museum and Apple Folk Tales as ways to relive the past.

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MacMinute & Stan Flack

I just came from the Mac Minute web site. The Flack family has posted a brief article in appreciation of the thoughts of so many people who worked with Stan over the years.

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April 20, 2008

Macheads get Religion

The Reverend Doctor Bobby Newton takes his message to the Big Screen in the upcoming film, "MacHEADS" -- a documentary about fanaticism and unconditional devotion to a corporate brand.

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April 13, 2008

Flip Video Non Profit Program

You read our review of the Flip Video camera last December. At that time we registered for the Flip Video Spotlight program. We've been approved for this wonderful opportunity. User groups and other non-profits can show how they are changing the world through this program...

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April 11, 2008

iSpoof

This site has a number of desktop pictures that resemble the iPod advertisements.

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April 5, 2008

Augusta GA Goes Wireless

The City of Augusta, Ga., has announced that it is ready to proceed with its plan to implement a wireless broadband internet network by the end of this year. The second largest city in Georgia and home to the PGA's Masters Tournament will be releasing its Request for Proposal (RFP) within weeks.

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.Mac for the iPhone?

At Roughly Drafted, Daniel Eran Dilger has speculated about how Apple could use .Mac to support the iPhone AND replace revenue that it is loosing to iPhones that are not on revenue sharing phone networks.

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April 4, 2008

25 Most overlooked and underrated features in Leopard

This opinion piece by Ryan Faas has been published in Computerworld.
His idea is to talk about the "hidden" features that we may not have heard about or even noticed.

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New version of iSync phone plugins released

As many of you know, i Sync has been not only the premier solution for syncing data with cell phones, in many cases, it has been the only solution. Now there has been an update to iSync to allow new phones to be synced with Macs. Cell phone owners can use the iSync plugins from nova media. The new 6.0 version adds 13 new plugins for phones from Nokia, Samsung and Motorola.

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April 3, 2008

Are iPhone and Air the Beginning of the End?

Dana Gardner has published a story with the above title on MacNewsWorld. She leads off with "There's only about two to three more years left in the client hardware innovation business before the end-points go pure commodity. Yep, that's right, the iPhone and the Air are the beginning of the end, just because there's not too much more innovation needed down there in the hardware space."

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March 29, 2008

Mac Documentary to Premiere

"Welcome to Macintosh - The documentary for the rest of us" is slated to premiere on April 6, 2008 at the tenth annual Wisconsin Film Festival, in Madison, WI.

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March 21, 2008

Apple updates Safari browser

On March 18th, Apple patched 10 vulnerabilities in Safari for OS X and 3 in Safari for Windows. Computer World discusses the flaws and quotes a security analyst.

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March 16, 2008

Cyber Attacks and Malware cocktails

Chinese Cyber Attack, Malware cocktails and then the bad news : Homeland Security's cyber defense update, Cyber Storm I and Cyber Storm II. Is it enough?

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March 14, 2008

One touch TV for your Mac or iPod

Miglia, a leading brand in digital media products, today announced the release of the Mac only TV Mini HD Express for US "free to air" digital television users.

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March 8, 2008

iPod Touch Giveaway

This is a great idea for getting software suggestions for the new SDK on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

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ZappTek updates iPresent It

As you may be aware, in the Microsoft Office 2008, Microsoft has made it easy to save Powerpoint files in JPEG format so that they can easily be ported to the iPhone or iPod to be displayed there. iPresent It however takes this concept at least a step further.

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March 6, 2008

iPhone SDK

I just watched the iPhone SDK Special event on Apple's web site and WOW!!
Push email, support for email/calendar syncing direct from the Exchange Server to the iPhone. Additionally ...

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March 1, 2008

MacBook Keyboard Problems Fixed

Adam C. Engst is reporting on the continuing saga of MacBook keyboard woes...

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Looking at Mac mini

The Apple Mac mini (2-GHz Core 2 Duo) seems to be getting a lot of press these days...

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February 27, 2008

iTunes set to be largest music retailer in U.S.?

By now you have probably seen that Apple is claiming to be the #2 music retailer in the U.S by surpassing Best Buy and Target. (NPD is making this statement.)

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February 26, 2008

Hordes of Orcs Invade Mac OS X

Hordes of Orcs Tower Defense ... watch out, they're coming to get you

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February 25, 2008

Norrkross Movie maker

Serious about making movies? Keep reading...

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February 24, 2008

40 bucks 20 Apps for Leopard

20MacApps brings you a Bundle of 20 Apps for 40 Dollars with No Repeats

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Dualy Extreme Adds Five Times the Wireless Performance

QuickerTek has upgraded the high-end Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station (802.11n). Dualy Extreme with 1 Watt of RF power, enables the Base Station with additional speed and range - up to five times the standard wireless range. The increased power seeks out more distant wireless signals and locks onto them with twin 500 milliWatt transceivers (or 1 Watt Transceivers) coupled to two antennas that create two combined signals paths for up to five times more wireless range.

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February 23, 2008

AllTop

Alltop is a new site that specializes in listing All the Top stories of the day in a number of categories.

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Welcome to Macintosh: Festival Event

Hertzfield, Kawasaki, and a score of other Mac notables (Real ones!) come together for "Welcome to Macintosh - The documentary for the rest of us" exploring the many ways Apple Computer has changed the world.

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February 20, 2008

Multiple Session DVD burning

Tired of using only half of the DVD? Now you can burn again...

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Get to know Leopard

KnowMac's KnowLeopard is an innovative new software product to help make learning about Mac OS X Leopard easy.

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February 19, 2008

Sync iCal across networks

BusyMac's BusySync has a new upgrade to its calendar sharing utility that now supports synching over the Internet...

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February 10, 2008

Campfire chat

Campfire Chat is just that, the ability to chat on the Internet. You can sign up on their web site and then conduct chats privately over the net. It is aimed at businesses primarily, but there is a free account.

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MacBook Air soft treatment

We're learning that Mac products are really a lot more fragile than they should be. Tracking the results of wear and tear on Powerbooks over the past five years shows they really need careful handling and some protection...

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February 9, 2008

BEWARE: iPhone theft

There's a good chance your new iPhone will be stolen. iPhone theft has become more popular now than iPod theft. After all, there's a lot more identity to be stolen on an iPhone than an ipod.

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Circuit City to Sell Used Games

Circuit City has been struggling to maintain market share for a number years. In order to increase traffic in their stores they are going to go after the gaming market.

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February 1, 2008

Microsoft offers $31/share for Yahoo!

I remember when Guy Kawasaki turned down being the CEO of Yahoo because he didn't see how a search engine could make money. Now Microsoft is offering $44.6 Billion in cash or stock. Payable per stockholder.

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PimpMyNews.com

PimpMyNews was announced at Macworld Expo. It is a "talking social news application" for the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

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MacBookLounge

We have all been familiar with what started life as the iPod and later became iLounge.
Here is a web site that aims to provide forums and other support for the MacBooks in general and the MacBook Air in particular.

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January 27, 2008

MagicJack

We have all heard of VoIP products such as Skype or Vontage. Thanks to the Daily Giz Wiz podcast of Dick DeBartolo and Leo Deporte, we now have MagicJack.

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January 26, 2008

"The CPU that Intel built just for Apple"

In this article by Jon Peddie, it is pointed out that Intel got its start making custom chips for its customers. Thus it isn't too surprising that Apple was able to get a low power, powerful chip from Intel on an exclusive basis for its new MacBook Air.

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January 25, 2008

Napster opens MP3

Been hankering to grab some music? If you got an 20,000 tune iPod, and filled it with iTunes, it will cost you $20,000. Napster has announced it will shift its entire download sales catalog to the MP3 format in the second calendar quarter of 2008 with low monthly downloads...

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January 24, 2008

Sony Mylo ... yes or no?

The Sony Mylo looks like a hand-held game player -- but is really much more. So why did it miss its market and will the newest version captivate young people at last?

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January 23, 2008

Windows iPhone?

Did we see the "Windows iPhone" at CES? Maybe. Here, you'll find a whole collection of images and commentary on the next Windows device...

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January 20, 2008

The Digital Lifestyle

I have mentioned this site before, but they recently hit the one million minutes of viewed content benchmark.

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January 19, 2008

Explaining the Macintosh Surge

David Pogue has written an article with the above title on his blog.
In starting his blog he lists some impressive stats for Apple, the Apple products and MacWorld Expo.
These include at Expo 475 exhibitors, 100 more than last year. 50,000 attendees, 10,000 more than last year.

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January 17, 2008

Lotus Notes For iPhone

According to an article in InformationWeek IBM is looking to work more closely with Apple. This includes porting its Informix "Cheetah" database to Leopard and introducing a version of its Lotus Notes e-mail client for the iPhone at Lotusphere conference next week in Orlando.

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January 16, 2008

MineSweeper

MineSweeper is an attempt at taking over a Mac through the web.

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January 15, 2008

Apple's latest in D.C. area

Washington Apple Pi, will play host to Aaron Davis, from Apple to discuss and demonstrate the innovations you saw announced today at Macworld Expo...

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January 13, 2008

Free Macworld Passes

Freeverse, developer of some of the best games and creative software for Mac OS X, will be hosting a booth at Macworld Expo & Conference in San Francisco. Freeverse is also giving away 100 free Exhibit Hall passes.

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Jobs Keynote Streaming

Stevenote Live is a new way to get your fix of Apple's Macworld keynote, with live streaming of pictures and audio of the event. A panel of guests from around the world will share their opinions with viewers

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Live coverage of Macworld

The Digital Lifestyle will be teaming up with several Mac-related sites for live video coverage of Apple's Macworld announcements. Using live streaming technology from Mogulus, The Digital Lifestyle will provide live anchored coverage of the first day of Macworld, along with live reports from the MacMost podcast team, theiLife blog, and iJustine, in and around the show floor.

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January 12, 2008

Microsoft Charges Some Customers Not Others

WindowsSecrets.com says that when comparing different Microsoft programs they find that Microsoft charges some customers for what is provided free to others.

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Hess Memorial MacWorld Events List

I wanted to make one more reminder that Ilene Hoffman has published her MacWorld Event List, which is the 23rd anniversary of this list started by Robert Hess

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January 8, 2008

Macfun Free Games

Relaunch of Macfun.com, free copy of 3D Hearts Deluxe

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January 7, 2008

Better Search for Leopard

Houdah Software Announces HoudahSpot 2: Leopard Edition

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December 31, 2007

Giant Final Cut Pro "SuperMeet" Announced

Tickets are now on sale for the seventh annual FCPUG "SuperMeet" to be held January, 16

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December 28, 2007

RIP Netscape

Earlier today, the Netscape group at AOL announced that they were going to shut down their development work.

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December 23, 2007

How's your Mac's Health?

app4mac has released CheckUp Preview 2, an innovative tool to check the health of a Mac computer. The computer monitoring software allows you to view the activities of a Mac and control the health with an innovative user interface.

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Syndicate Yourself in RSS

Cynical Peak Software has updated Cyndicate 1.1, their next generation RSS/Atom aggregator and content management application for Mac OS X. Version 1.1 brings better Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard compatibility and adds a number of new features.

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Game: Hidden Relics comes to Mac

One of the best-selling games on Windows is now available for Mac users -- Help the Professor track down 100's of stolen antiques as you travel the globe to retrieve priceless antiques and hidden artifacts.

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December 21, 2007

Big prizes for graphics experts

If you think you've got what it takes to be a world class graphic artist or designer, here's your chance...

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Fake memory cards

Nothing's worse than buying a gift which uses a memory card, but doesn't come with one -- except buying a card which turns out to be a fake! BEWARE

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December 19, 2007

iPhone #2 in North America

RoughlyDrafted found a report from Canalys that shows that Apple's iPhone is already the second best selling smartphone in North America behind RIM's Blackberry -- and tops the 2007 most searched for words in Google...

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iPhone amongst 2007 losers

PC World's Dan Tynan picks his choices for the year's biggest technology losers. We would agree with some -- others, maybe not. Apple's Leopard and iPhone are amongst the top 15 disappointments...

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December 14, 2007

The Apple II from Commodore? It almost happened

Recently, at what was billed as a 25th Anniversary of the Commodore 64, the story was told about how the two Steves invited Commodore to their garage to talk about Commodore building and selling Apple II computers with the Steves being employees.

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December 13, 2007

SWsoft renamed Parallels

Last Wednesday, SWsoft announced that it would change its name to Parallels, that will be more in line with its primary product. This name change will occur early next year.

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December 11, 2007

MacWorld Expo Tips

There have been 40-45 MacWorld Expos held in the United States. I have attended 3 Apple Fests prior the the Mac being introduced and nearly one half of the Expos. So, I got to thinking back to what I would have done differently and what would make it a better experience.

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December 8, 2007

Advanced Notebook for Mac

Notae 2.2 brings significant improvements over the previous version of the popular advanced notebook software

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December 7, 2007

Mac gets Voodoo

Mojotones 1.3 for Mac OS X is an easy-to-use utility for the creation of ringtones from audio files.

Mojotones

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December 6, 2007

REALbasic Developer Magazine's Clearance Sale

I have long wanted to learn REALbasic. This looks like a perfect opportunity to get instructions at a inexpensive cost. The publisher of REALbasic Developer magazine is offering all five years of back issues.

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Best Buy To Sell Dell

Once they hit Wal-Mart/Sams and Staples, you know it had to happen. According to CE industry trade journal, TWICE, Best Buy will start carrying Dell computers and notebooks in January. Best Buy will now carry the 5 most popular brands in the U.S.

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December 5, 2007

Microsoft Office 2008 to work with iPhone

It would seem to be a work around, but Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac's PowerPoint will let users port PowerPoint presentations to iPhones and video-equipped iPods.

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December 4, 2007

Uncovered: Mac OS X could run Windows apps soon

In the above titled article ArsTechnica points out that there is an undocumented loader in Leopard for Portable Executables. Portable Executables is a type of file used in 32-bit and 64 bit versions of Windows.

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Ford gets iPod hook-up

Here comes an iPod Cable that puts your iPod into any 2008 Ford, Lincoln or Mercury product ...

Ford gets iPod hook-up
(http://www.user-groups.net/news/ipod_sync_cable.html)

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November 29, 2007

Protect Yourself from the QuickTime RTSP Vulnerability

TidBITS has published an article with the above title. By now you have probably heard about the announcement from the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team concerning a vulnerability in Quicktime on both Macs and PCs.

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November 24, 2007

BitClamp Security

Crimson Sky Software Introduces BitClamp - The AppZapper of Encryption

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November 22, 2007

Directory of Museum Podcasts and Other Museum Information

I have subscribed to Research Buzz newsletter for about 9 years now. The most recent issue has a couple of article which I find interesting. The firs is about a Podcast that is a directory of Museums with some other museum information thrown in for good measure.

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Faster downloads for Mac users...

Yazsoft has rolled out Speed Download 4.1.16.

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November 21, 2007

Chroma Keying Plugin for Mac

DVDxDV Veescope Key 1.0, is a professional chroma keying plugin for Final Cut Studio and Motion.

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November 20, 2007

Calendar Sharing for iCal

BusyMac has rolled out BusySync 1.0, their multi-user calendar sharing utility for iCal.

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November 18, 2007

Quick SMS for iPhone

Mobile phone suite for Mac now includes SMS-Manager, Leopard-Ready, supports quick-dial and quick-SMS

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Macworld Expo

Our good friend Ilene Hoffman has some good news

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November 17, 2007

Apple using Facebook to look for iPhone engineers

According to a Fortune blog article with the above title, Apple is serious about developing more enterprise applications for the iPhone. They are using Facebook to look for the engineers.

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November 13, 2007

PopChar for Leopard

Ergonis Software PopChar X 3.3, the popular tool for inserting umlauts and special characters into the text of any application.

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November 12, 2007

Better email for Mac

MailSteward is the ultimate email archiving solution for the Mac.

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November 11, 2007

Leopard Stock Market

Stocks down? Stocks up? Dollar down? Oil up? In today's topsy-turvy stock market world you won't know what's up or down without relying on someone else, or watching the trends on your own trusted computer! BeSoft has answers

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app4mac for Leopard

If you like App4Mac products like we do, then you'll really like...

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November 7, 2007

Learn how Leopard purrs

Washington Apple Pi invites you to hear what is required to install the new Leopard Operating System and listen to how it will purr on your Macintosh.
UGNN Alert November 17

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November 6, 2007

Solar Power for iPods

This wouldn't be a lot of news except for a deal that Current Energy, a Dallas outlet is doing for the military in Iraq.

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November 4, 2007

Google Gotcha

All those who wanted to monetize their web sites had a big boost a couple of years ago when Google rolled out their AdSense program. I jumped on board, just like I jumped on the new upstart named "Amazon" when they first appeared on the scene. Amazon has cut its affiliates commissions back to near-oblivion, in the interest of their profits -- why did we think Google wouldn't do the same?

Read: 60-Second Window #205: Google Gotch'a

November 3, 2007

Leopard' Server Gets Virtualization

Macintosh OS now lets users partition their Apple servers into multiple, virtual machines allowing for "other copies of Mac OS X Server software."

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Postino RSS Podcast reader

Postino RSS reader and podcast player gets advanced features such as audio and video podcast management, RSS feed auto-discovery, search subscription, multi-tabbed web browsing and PostinoLive, a guide referencing the most popular audio and video podcasts.

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Mac Security Alert

For the past day we've had 149 attempts to place links into the 'comments' here in UGNN which redirect the user to a download site where a trojan is downloaded. During tracking this criminal, we discovered this security notice published by Intego yesterday...

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October 30, 2007

Gold Plated MacBook Pro, iPhone and iPod

I don't know if this is just a Photoshop trick or if someone actually plated these devices.
But they really do look pretty.

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October 28, 2007

MyLifeBrand manages social networking

With the news that Facebook is valued at $15 billion after taking Microsoft as an investment partner, it is easy to see the importance of social networking and the impact it is making on the way businesses and communities communicate. To make social networking easier for users, MyLifeBrand is making some significant additions.

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Face Recognition at 6Sight Conference

If you're near Monterey, California you may want to check out the
2007 6Sight Future of Imaging Conference (November 8) FotoNation will be showcasing some of the best international research scientists on face-based imaging technology

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Red Marble Games Announces Holiday Fun Pack Bundle

I am always looking for new entertainment software. Red Marble Games is a Mac-only game publisher, who has announced the immediate availability of its Holiday Fun Pack bundle for the 2007 holiday season...

UGNN Alert Here's the full article...

October 27, 2007

Microsoft Updates Computers Again Without Permission

The Register has reported that Microsoft updated a search utility on PCs and Servers that administrators had locked down. The problem became apparent when the computers bogged down when indexing the hard drives.

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October 19, 2007

Apple to Ship Mac OS X Leopard

Apple Mac OS® X Leopard will go on sale Friday, October 26 at 6:00 p.m. at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple's online store is now accepting pre-orders.

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October 17, 2007

Leopard Menu Shortcuts

KeyCue 4.0 brings menu shortcuts to life by making them clickable.

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October 16, 2007

Top 5 Reasons Series 60 Touch Interface will beat the iPhone

I really don't believe that a phone has to have 5 reasons to beat the iPhone to be successful, but this article does seem to have them all.

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Audio Record, edit, play

Ambrosia Software's WireTap Studio: Record. Edit. Play -- totally fantastic!

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October 8, 2007

ICalViewer 2.1.1

Goiser Software announces the update of iCalViewer to version 2.1.1, their application/screen saver utility for Apple's calendar application, iCal.

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