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

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 10:35 PM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 9:40 PM |

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 ...

Posted by Fred Showker at 8:24 AM |

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

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 11:46 PM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 10:35 PM |

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.

Posted by Fred Showker at 9:30 AM |

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...

Posted by Fred Showker at 7:48 AM |

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

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 9:35 PM |

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.

Posted by Fred Showker at 9:50 AM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 9:27 AM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 10:30 PM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 9:40 PM |

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."

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:46 PM |

"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.

Posted by Fred Showker at 6:06 PM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 12:22 PM |

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?

Posted by Fred Showker at 3:36 PM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 9:14 PM |

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

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 10:17 PM | Comments (0) |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 3:56 PM | Comments (0) |

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 ...

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 7:07 PM | Comments (0) |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:25 AM |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:15 AM |

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.)

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 7:44 PM | Comments (0) |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 5:18 PM |

Serious about making movies? Keep reading...

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:45 AM |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:44 AM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 11:39 AM | Comments (0) |

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

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 1:01 PM | Comments (0) |

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.

Posted by Fred Showker at 7:35 AM |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 4:30 PM |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:30 AM |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 8:49 AM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 11:39 AM |

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...

Posted by Fred Showker at 9:33 AM |

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.

Posted by Fred Showker at 7:08 PM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 10:08 AM | Comments (0) |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 10:04 PM | Comments (0) |

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

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:43 PM | Comments (1) |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:38 PM | Comments (0) |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 1:22 AM | Comments (0) |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 12:09 PM |

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...

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:40 AM |

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?

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:40 AM |

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...

Posted by Fred Showker at 8:45 AM |

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

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:23 PM | Comments (0) |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 9:58 PM | Comments (0) |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:24 PM |

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

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 6:21 PM | Comments (0) |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 7:11 PM |

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.

Posted by Fred Showker at 9:34 AM |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 9:24 AM |

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.

Posted by Fred Showker at 8:52 AM |

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

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 11:57 PM | Comments (0) |

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

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 10:28 PM | Comments (0) |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 4:06 PM |

Houdah Software Announces HoudahSpot 2: Leopard Edition

Posted by Fred Showker at 4:03 PM |

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

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:20 PM |

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

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 10:20 PM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 9:45 AM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:13 AM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:02 AM |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 4:35 PM |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 7:35 AM |

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...

Posted by Fred Showker at 7:25 PM |

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...

Posted by Fred Showker at 7:25 PM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 9:57 PM | Comments (0) |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:46 PM | Comments (0) |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 10:53 PM | Comments (0) |

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

Read the full article

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:15 AM |

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

Mojotones

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:30 AM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 9:51 PM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 9:07 PM | Comments (0) |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 11:45 AM |

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.

Posted by Fred Showker at 5:31 PM |

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)

Posted by Fred Showker at 5:20 PM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:50 PM |

Crimson Sky Software Introduces BitClamp - The AppZapper of Encryption

Posted by Fred Showker at 9:16 AM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 3:47 PM |

Yazsoft has rolled out Speed Download 4.1.16.

Posted by Fred Showker at 9:13 AM |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:10 AM |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:30 AM |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 8:46 AM |

Our good friend Ilene Hoffman has some good news

Posted by Fred Showker at 8:44 AM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 11:11 PM |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:45 AM |

MailSteward is the ultimate email archiving solution for the Mac.

Posted by Fred Showker at 1:45 PM |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 8:50 AM |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 8:38 AM |

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.
November 17

Posted by Fred Showker at 8:47 PM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 6:35 PM |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 10:11 AM |

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

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 11:49 PM |

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.

Posted by Fred Showker at 4:45 PM |

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...

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:26 AM |

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

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:53 PM |

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.

Posted by Fred Showker at 7:28 AM |

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

Posted by Fred Showker at 7:19 AM |

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...

Here's the full article...

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 12:32 AM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 11:35 PM | Comments (0) |

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.

Posted by Fred Showker at 3:34 PM | Comments (1) |

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

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 11:45 AM |

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.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 7:58 PM | Comments (0) |

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

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 11:40 AM |

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

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:44 PM |