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January 2005

  • Google Hacks Second Edition To keep up with Google's extended reach, the new edition of "Google Hacks" by Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest has been updated and expanded to cover Google's new services and capabilities.
  • Shareware: Living the iLife: music, video - This week iView Media Management, Audiocorder recording, iTunes2Web, iDive digital video management, iStabilize, iDrum Beatbox, SimpleMovieX Editor, Rondo Midi files, SubtleStatus 1.1, Voice Dictaphone... and more! Enjoy this week's download fun!
  • NAMM notebook MaMug's Dan East goes to NAMM and files this report on what's new and what's happening in the music biz
  • iClip among Top Ten iClip, productivity software for Mac OS X, has been named one of the top 10 Mac products of 2004 by Macsimum News -- store, organize, and access snippets of information without having to save them as entire documents.
  • Analog to Digital Video Transferring your VHS tapes into high quality digital duplicates is now easy with Director's Cut! iDive enables Director's Cut users to capture and organise footage from analogue video sources...
  • LightMachine Photo Corrections LightMachine is a Photoshop plugin for performing all kinds of light adjustments in photos, combining shadow/highlight, virtual lighting and color-based correction tools
  • Veenix: Font Tools Veenix: Font Tools - a set of twenty easy-to-use Macintosh OS X font and design tools for graphic designers, web designers, illustrators, typesetters or anyone who uses fonts on a Mac.
  • iWork... Create, Present, Publish Apple's new iWork '05, productivity software is designed to take advantage of both Mac OS X and iLife '05 to help users easily create, present and publish professional-looking documents and presentations.
  • Most Affordable Mac Ever Just two-inches tall and weighing only 2.9 pounds, Mac mini redefines design for the sub-$1,000 desktop computer -- ideal desktop computer for anyone looking to get started with Mac OS X, iPod, iTunes and features like iLife '05.
  • iPod shuffle Smaller and lighter than a pack of gum, the new iPod shuffle is a breakthrough digital music player based on iPod's legendary shuffle feature -- starting at just $99. (also see Dan East's review in the Library)
  • Apple Announces iLife '05 Apple has announced iLife '05, the must-have upgrade to Apple's award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications, featuring major new versions of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD and GarageBand and including the latest version of iTunes.
  • Toolbars, Desktop Search and Mac Users Courtney Heard shows you everything you can do with your Toolbar or Desktop search of choice, you can do with the software that comes built-in on your Mac!
  • iPod shufffle from Apple MaMug's Dan East says : "iFashion, iBling, I like it!" in this first review of the new iPod shufffle from Apple
  • Final Cut Express HD Final Cut Express HD is a major upgrade of Apple's advanced video editing application for video enthusiasts, students and aspiring filmmakers
  • Auto Leaders Boast iPod Integration in 2005 Apple has teamed up with Mercedes-Benz USA, Volvo, Nissan, Alfa Romeo and Ferrari to deliver iPod integration with their car stereo systems in 2005
  • New Year (Financial) Resolutions There could not be a better time to mull over the changes needed in our life style than at the beginning of a New Year. Nowshade Kabir shares ways to improve your financial picture during 2005
  • BittyDock Microdrive Access Now you can connect even the smallest 1.8" Toshiba and Hitachi Drives and 1.0" Microdrives to your Mac through Bus-Powered USB - with WiebeTech's smallest DriveDock product
  • Readers loving the new MacTech MacTech celebrates its 20th anniversary with a great new design, a greatly expanded page count and a greatly expanded page count with even more great "How To" articles
  • January 24: DTP, Photos, Graphics apps for the visual arts including: Cheetah3D 2.0 lean, fast 3D modeller, Juicer Extracts Images , FlexoStep Flexographic Step-N-Repeat, Thumbnails with ThumbBorker, Image Interlacer for images, Neat Image cleans up digital photos, ImageConverter , Easy Batch Photo processing, Veenix: Design, Type Tools 2.3 and others!
  • Flip4Mac Windows Media on Mac The Flip4Mac Export Component is the first product to provide encoding in Microsoft Windows Media 9 Series SD and HD on the Macintosh.
  • This Chameleon Stands Out This photo editor plug-in offers beautiful results for users with very little experience with photo editing software, since this tool does not require precise selection of objects.
  • ShutterBug 1.0 for Mac OS X From the makers of ImageWell, XtraLean Software introduces ShutterBug, a refreshing approach to web album creation and updating content on the fly. .. Clean, Powerful Approach to Web Album Creation
  • 60-Seconds: TEN Years Later, still lonely Is your web information up to date? Are you lost and lonely out there along the internet highway? Fred revisits a ten-year old article looking for answers to the question... has anything really changed? 60 Second Window #171
  • Silence on the Wire This first book by Michal Zalewski unravels the mystery behind many security and privacy dangers -- the author is long known and respected in the hacking and security communities...
  • Sophisticated Circuits Updates Sophisticated Circuits has released three new Macintosh software updates: PowerKey 4.3, Kick-off! 1.7, and iDo Script Scheduler 1.6. Power management for your appliances...
  • Picture Address Book 6.0 Picture Address Book 6.0, telephone and address application, is now fully integrated with Internet, Mac OS X and Mac Classic.
  • Business Card Composer BeLight Software has released Business Card Composer 3.0, a new version of this do-it-yourself business card tool, to be released in January, 2005. The package is a complete boxed solution containing the software, 2 CDs with 23.000 clipart images
  • iGetter Download Manager iGetter is a full featured download manager and accelerator -- a nice replacement for your browser's download manager.
  • Shareware Manager: Business MORE business apps for 2005, including StevePerfect 6 Word Processor & More, Graphing Calculator is Back!, iUnit Converts Measurement Units, TaskTime Time Billing, Synchronize your Mobile Phone and Entourage, Synchronize FileMaker and SQL on Web, GRASS GIS System, EvoBarcode iSight Barcoding, Troi File Plug-in, Redlien Account Executive, and more! Enjoy this week's download fun!

December 2004

  • InfoManager for December 20, 2004 This week's Info includes: AOL * 'Woot!' * Video * Microsoft Anti-Spyware * New California Law * Apple financials * Road Runner * Shareware Manager: Business, Home & School * Macworld Editors' Choice * Apple OS X Update * More Battery Power for iPods * Free myCumulus * This Old Mouse: Got gadgets? * MacWorld Expo Events * 200 Million iTunes * DropDMG Disk Images * Onward to the new year... and more
  • Shareware Manager: Business, Home & School - Getting ready for the new year with business, home and school programs including: Quicken 2005 for Mac * Convert Powerpoint: iPresent * Stock Investment Guide 1.5.6 * TaskTime 3.2 Billing Time Tracker * Office 1.5.1 - GNOME Office * TimeClock Professional 5.0 * FileWrangler file renaming utility * MenuCalendarClock /calendar * RAM-based PDF viewer * SimpleKeys macro program * Sticky Windows 1.0.1 browsing experience for the Desktop and more
  • Best Books for computer users ... Here are all the books we feel are the best books for user group members and computer users at large... we have new titles and reviews in almost every topic area from Mac OS, to Business, DTP, Design, to Multimedia and the iLife. So many, we had to include a special 'jumplist'
  • 200 Million iTunes Songs Downloaded Music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 200 million songs from the iTunes Music Store.
  • Easy Mac OS X Disk Images DropDMG is the easiest way to create Mac OS X disk images.
  • "Mind Hacks" Authors Tom Stafford and Matt Webb delve into your brain
  • Mac Annoyances "Mac Annoyances" is a handy book providing solutions to scores of common problems faced by Mac owners -
  • Take Control of Buying a Digital Camera New Take Control book from TidBits
  • G5 WOWs PeeCee Business Users Mac Evangelist Joe Showker takes the G5 iMac to a business conference of PC users -- who agree that Mac is a lot more than "pretty pictures and cutsy sounds..."
  • Shareware Manager: Games, iPods Games, iPod and iLife top this week's Shareware Manager!
  • Revisiting the Epson 2200 if you are looking for outstanding professional grade output, this is your printer
  • Mac Gift Guide Fred reviews gifts for Mac users including Ford Racing, LensavRz, OmniCleanz, GarageKey, MIDI Keyboard, PodSleevz, Missing Sync, iKey and others.
  • Revolution in the Valley The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac was Made "Revolution in the Valley"
  • Adam Engst Letter to User Groups Take Control of Mac OS X Backups
  • Apple 15" Powerbook 1.5Ghz Dan shares a look at the new Apple PowerBooks
  • Canadians Get iTunes Music Store Apple has launched its revolutionary iTunes Music Store in Canada, giving music fans in Canada the same innovative features and breakthrough price of $.99 CDN per song that have made iTunes the number one online music service in the world.
  • iPod Boombox Portable Stylish iPod Boombox is the perfect way to add fun to any gathering...
  • Audio Hijack Audio Hijack is the perfect tool to record any audio on your computer
  • This Old Mouse: Laptop vs. Desktop: Fred replies to concerns from readers and a few questions following his article about his new G4 Powerbook

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