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This blog post was made last May, a full year after Facetime was introduced. The author, David Allison had previously written an article on Skype alternatives for Mac users. That caused him to revisit iChat. Continue reading »

This web site is also known as “Free Open Source Software Mac User Group.” They have a list of free and open source software. Continue reading »

The Loop Business Expo & iZone Expo, the only Apple-related Exposition for Business users, is on June 1, 2011 at the Emabassy Suites at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts. Admission is free to the event if you are considering becoming an Apple business end-user.

I don’t spend much time talking about PowerPC based Macs, but here is a web browser for those machines. Continue reading »

Micromat, Inc. has announced the release of TechTool Pro 6. For 20 years, Mac users have relied on TechTool for diagnostics, maintenance and drive repair. In this new version, Micromat has added features to help Mac users diagnose hardware problems and make it easier to fix issues on their hard drives, including those with internal solid state drives (SSD’s or flash storage), plus provide for dependable backup and recovery of Mac volumes.
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This web site points out that there is more to Apple icons that first meets the eye. For example:
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I don’t know if you were upset when iMovie took a nosedive — but I sure was. The new version suddenly looked nothing like the beloved iMovie I had been using … no timeline, stupid “events” and a new interface designed by developers with very, very thick glasses, and tiny hands. But maybe it doesn’t really suck as bad as it seems.
      Noteboom Productions thought it sucked really bad too. So they decided to help us old fogies get up to speed with Tutor for iMovie ’11.

This application is used to change audiobooks in MP3 format to MP4 bookmarkable (m4b) format. I prefer this nice GUI version, but there actually is a listing if you prefer to use Terminal (Command Line Interface.)
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This web page contains links to “Things eMail.” The web site itself seems to concentrate on Mac OS X and UNIX, but this particular page also talks about spam, anti-virus, mail on mobile phones, UCE Filtering, security, serving, hosting mailing lists and more.
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Synectics Business Solutions, Inc., developer and provider of the BackJack(TM) Online Backup Service for Macintosh, has announced the availability of a 4 GB Free Account to complement its well-established business service.
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With iOS 4.2, Apple introduced AirPrint to its iPod touch, iPad and iPhone OS. Last list I saw showed about 30 HP printers and a few Epson printers that supported AirPrint. However, do we really want to spend the cash to purchase new printers? Continue reading »

Noteboom Productions has announced that their latest Video Tutorial, Tutor for iMovie ’11 (v1.0), is now available on the Mac store. In Tutor for iMovie ’11, the user watches videos to learn how to use iMovie ’11, part of iLife ’11 for the Macintosh. Users can choose different video chapters to watch as they go through the video tutorial. All the videos are stored on the computer.
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BundlesForMac has announced the start of Web Development Toolkit 2.0. This bundle focuses on web development and includes six outstanding apps that will make your web development experience go smoothly. This bundle includes everything that you need to manage and maintain a static or dynamic website, manage databases, deploy content, check that it is all working correctly, and then bill your customer. All at an amazing 85%, the cost of this bundle is less than most of the apps included, so you can’t lose. Continue reading »

The subtitle of this web site is “iWeb tips, tutorials and inspiration.” The home page has the most recent article. The current one is “Custom accordion slider for your iWeb all in CSS3.” Continue reading »