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Info Manager Year-End Wrap-Up
The InfoManager takes a Look at the hottest and most popular topics of 2005, and includes his annual "Quotes" round-up!
- The Year in iTunes
- The Year in ipod
- The Year INTEL was in the air...
- The Year in Spam
- 2005 InfoManager Favorite Quotes
December 2005
- Helplogic from Electric Butterfly If you provide help services, or information to an audience, you can save time and do a better job with HelpLogic's integrated Workshop, Visual TOC Builder, HTML Editor, and Link Manager. Quickly generate Web-based Help, Apple Help, Microsoft HTML Help, UniHelp, and now PDF!
- Kitchen Companion IntelliScanner Announces Kitchen Companion 100 Grocery Management System, Featuring Barcode Scanning And Bluetooth Wireless Technology... Portable Grocery Scanner For The Home Builds Shopping Lists, Tracks Nutrition With Barcode Technology.
- iStar Composer What a great idea for parties... get a projector and iStar Composer, and your guests can sing along with all their favorite music! The ultimate keroke machine! Automatic syncing of song lyrics for viewing in iTunes and on the iPod
- GREAT GIFT: Makers GREAT GIFT: Makers: Amazing People / Amazing Inventions... brings a unique look at some amazing inventions from Flamethrowers, Monowheels, Voice-Activated Blenders, to New Robots, and much, much more!
- Skype Me! From single user to small enterprise and beyond, Michael Gough of SkypeTips.com shows you how to install, configure, deploy, and secure Skype -- the VoIP technology to know
- OS X for Hackers at Heart ... shows hackers how to torque the most powerful features of OS X for wireless networking, wardriving, software development, pen testing, automation, and more.
- Special Take Control Deals Two important new "InControl" ebooks from TidBits are on special for the season... get 10% Mug discount off "InControl of Backups" and a whopping 50% off "Take Control of Digital Cameras" -- since possibly losing all the data on our PowerBook that caught fire, you can bet I've already ordered the "Backup" book.
- LaunchBar LaunchBar offers an amazingly intuitive and efficient way to search and access any kind of information stored on your computer or on the web.
- SW: Home, School, Office... Holiday package: Christmas Crisis Game, Christmas Quest scavenger hunt quiz show, Find-A-Word Wizard Language Worksheets, Photoshop Elements BOOSTER, Montage Librarian, Photo Drop, Shrook RSS and mor
- Lable Discs with Style Disclabel 3.0 fives you automatic design generation, folders, a visual design element selector, and much more. disclabel. The free demo allows users to create and print CD labels of albums purchased through the iTunes Music Store without purchasing disclabel. Requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or later. Organizational Gold Mine for Photographers Every time you shoot, scan, or store a photograph, you are involved with DAM or digital asset management... you'll be needing this book!
- Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 One-on-One Yes, Deke is back with another barn-stormer -- not only do you get the lessons, you get the DVD with more than two hours of video training plus lots of files!
- Something about a Mac Pickup Man Put Mac Mini in your pickup truck... or Chevy Nova, or Jeep Grand Cherokee
- Dreaded iPod video conversion rate TVMyPod Introduces Pre-loaded Video iPods, where consumers can buy brand-new iPods pre-loaded with the DVDs of their choice -- skipping the agonizing drill of converting video to iPod format!
- Join the mobile video revolution
- Now you can TALK to iPhoto... MacSpeech's new ScriptPak for iPhoto and Tiger installs over 100 commands into iListen that allows you to do virtually anything by voice in iPhoto that they would normally do using keyboard shortcuts or menus.
- Build Fonts in OS X ! At Last
- Convert PDF files to Office Files The age-old problem: the capability to convert PDF files to the Microsoft PowerPoint 98-2004 Macintosh and PowerPoint 97-2003 Windows formats is an important thing these days. PDF2Office even recreates the original construction and layout of the document - forming paragraphs; applying styles; regrouping independent graphic elements; extracting images; creating tables; and processing headers/footers, endnotes/footnotes and columns/sections, all automatically - without any manual intervention
- Total Commander comes to MAC OS X In this new version 1.5.6, Disk Order now has the ablility of background FTP download and upload that allows user to work with the application while downloads are in progress. Also, FTP support now has a special feature for editing files right on FTP server, without having to download files, edit them and upload them back.
November 2005
- InfoManager for November 28 2005 This week's Info includes: Sober Mail virus * FAQ: TiVo Jumps on iPod, PSP wagon * Another iPod competitor goes down * Samsung accused of Dumping to Apple * Stuff: When is a Laptop a Laptop... * Alarm: PowerBook Spits Fire, Smoke * DTP: Grab Free Christmas Images * Games: Be the Zombie! * SW: Something for everyone... * IM: Not ready for prime time * Quotes and morees and a lot more!
- SW: Something for everyone ... This week we tap into every department of the software library from: "Help" authoring, Palm Desktop, Adobe InCopy, InDesign InEffects to a great Party Game. (This week's Windows Shareware is at: www.ugnn.com)
- Video Game Violence... Daniel Punch makes observations about Video Game Violence to be considered before letting kids play them
- Helping Windows users switch As easy as Mac OS X is to use, making the jump from Windows is still a daunting proposition -- unless you have help from Scott Knaster and his latest Take Control book...
- Mastering Elements of Elements 4 this update to the bestselling "Photoshop Elements 3 Missing Manual" from Barbara Brundage, carefully explains each and every Elements 4...
- Boost Early PowerBook to 1.92 GHz... Early PowerBook G4 Aluminums Now Running at 1.92 GHz... Daystar announces last stages of development for the XLR8 1.92 GHz CPU Upgrade for the 15" PowerBook G4 FW800 systems!
- SW: Multimedia, Video, Audio, and more This edition takes a look at eJamming MIDI, Sound Byte, EasyWMA (WMA to MP3) iPod Updater, Pod2Go, Cast Easy, podcasting, VideoSpace, CoverBuddy, iTunes Cover Art, MegaSeg DJ, VODcaster and more...
- The Reference That Defines Unix What exactly is Unix? It's a simple question, but it leads to a long and complicated explanation. Tom Robbins rewrote the book that covers a cross section of the Unix world today...
- Thinking about a digital camera? Lopa Bhattacharya writes about the latest technologies and coolest features of sleek and sophisticated cameras in all pixel categories, from one to ten megapixels... then Fred adds his most recommended cameras!
- Employees Time Billing on the Mac Simplify yet another step in the payroll process for your Business -- save time and money on processing your employee hours, overtime and payroll... Mac and Windows
- TopXNotes ultimate NotePad TopXNotes a modern note pad for Mac OS X -- brings back the utility of NotePad plus loaded with handy new features
- Icons For All Who knows what you'd do with icons, but if you need them or use them, there's an excellent source...
- SimpleDrive Mini 1-Inch Hard Drive Put four gigs into a one-inch space about the thickness of a pack of gum. (2.05in. x 2.56in. x 0.55in.) Pretty cool.
- Browseback to the future Browseback is an innovative visual web history tool -- users can easily find and retrieve web pages previously visited because they're saved as PDF files.
October 2005
- Beating Adware, the Sneakiest Software Don't think you could be tricked? Don't be so sure until you've checked out these most common ways people have been tricked into allowing malware to be installed on their machines.
- FlashPoint - A New Generation in USB Flash Drives Xmultiple has redefined the concept of "pocket drive" adding three new models to the FlashPoint ShareDrive product line -- which are interlockable!
- Just Say No To Microsoft Entertaining guide helps users kick Microsoft habit... makes compelling case for other operating systems and programs, and shows how to make the switch painlessly
- Propellerhead Reason Tips and Tricks This book covers everything you need to know about using Reason sequencer to unlock the full creative potential of making the best and most effective use of your talent and the software.
- ColorWasher photo correction ColorWasher photo correction corrects colors, contrast, exposure and saturation for Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Illustrator, Fireworks, Painter, Canvas, Photoline and GraphicConverter
- FotoMagico for Photographers and iPods FotoMagico 1.2.5 and the new iPod do for photographers what previous iPod models did for musicians: always take your work with you. Present at any time. Impress your clients. Close the deal.
- Atlanta: Apple Training classes Classes for November and December teach how to effectively configure Mac OS X computers to access directory services, and how to configure Mac OS X Servers for better IT jobs.
- SW: Home and School Shareware Home & School... this week the Shareware Manager looks at educational games, home Video surveillance, the GIS, Kid-safe browsing, and more...
- Scott Kelby Books in case you're a Scott Kelby fan, here are our favorite collection of his online articles and book references...
- Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 Here comes a great lineup of books designed to guide readers through Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 and Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0, Adobe's newest digital image and video editing tools for Windows
- Articles & Books online The bookshelf is overflowing with great books as we approach the holiday, gift-giving season. Here are articles and excerpts from our top listed books... Microsoft vs. Illustrator? * Terry White * Color Correct in Preview * Convert InDesign * Digital Photography * Pages and iWork * Web CSS * Set Up Backup 3 * Podcasting and more!
- Photoshop Recipes for Success This new series features hundreds of full color images, tips, tricks and techniques to provide everything the Photoshop user needs to retouch, create effects, use blending modes and much more
- Internet Forensics Few people consider the real threats of Internet crime to be more than a nuisance -- but don't forget: there's real criminal intent behind them and they're targeting some of the most vulnerable members of our society. Experience the Internet Forensics Crime lab
- Power Mac G5 Quad and Dual With quad-core processing, a new PCI Express architecture, and the fastest workstation card from NVIDIA, the new Power Mac G5 Quad is the most powerful system Apple has ever made.
- Aperture Tool for Photographers Apple Aperture all-in-one post production tool for photographers offers an advanced and incredibly fast RAW workflow that makes working with a camera's RAW images as easy as JPEG.
- Here comes iTunes 6 Here comes iTunes 6 with 2,000 Music Videos, Pixar Short Films & Hit TV Shows ABC's 'Desperate Housewives' & 'Lost' Episodes Available for Just $1.99. Please read the instructions though!
- Apple Enhances PowerBooks Apple Enhances PowerBooks With Higher-Resolution Displays, Longer Battery Life -- now even more desirable for business and creative professionals
- SW: Business & DTP- Shareware Manager looks at Fontz; E-Mail Commander; MailTags Metadata; CVSNT syntax; ZeboPhoto; RSS widget; Two Due list management; X2 Print; Accounting checkBox; Tiler Banners and Posters, and more...
- Using Keyword Optimization Nowshade Kabir says: "Search engine optimization is a complex issue comprised of a number of aspects, i.e. valuable content, meta-tag optimization, keywords optimization, back links etc. However, if you just concentrate and work on one aspect -- keywords, you will be able to increase site visibility dramatically"
- 2005 New York AES Conference Wrap-Up What's hot in the world of professional music production? Daniel M. East reports on the 2005 New York AES Conference, Jacob Javitz Convention Center, New York City
- New iMac G5 new iMac G5 brings built-in iSight video camera, remote control, thinner profile, bigger hard drive, faster memory and more...
- SW: October Fest - something for everyone from most departments: NewsMac Pro 1.1 RSS reader * chartConstructor * PatternMaker PostScript patterns * Chameleon Photoshop plug-in * MacMemoriesManager * JunkMatcher spam filter * Rondo MIDI player * SimpleMovieX * FTP Suite * SafariSnapShotter * Sinbad and others
- Superstars HD Powertools This is the first library of royalty-free, high resolution images for print and high definition animations for broadcast. "Clip Art" for your movies and motion special effects!
- Book News: Too many excellent books... - This week we introduce a hot line-up from O'Reilly including the iLife: The Missing Manual; Cult of iPod; eBay: The Missing Manual; iPod Shuffle Fan Book; Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition; and Halo 2 Hacks -- discounts up to 35%
- Take Control of Your iPod Use the iPod just for music? How boring! iPods are fairly expensive, and this new ebook helps you put your expensive gadgets to cool purposes other than playing music!
- Optimize Your Online Business Optimize Your Online Business Through Data Analysis -- O'Reilly's Web Site Measurement Hacks gives some pretty slick tricks you'll need to lead...
- Asterisk: The Future of Telephony The author says: "...this phenomenon was going to radically alter the telecommunications industry" -- VoIP, Voice over Internet is coming. Be ready
- Degunking Windows, 2nd Edition The first edition of this book, written by Joli Ballew and Jeff Duntemann, became a bestseller within weeks of its debut. Why? Because Windows insists on getting gunked up.
- Pandaware Timecache Do you have to track your time for billing purposes? TimeCache is the most recommended time-tracking software for the Mac.
- Malware and Antivirus Software Warning: most antivirus programs will not protect you against all forms of malignant software (often called "malware") on their own. Find out how to protect yourself (primarily for Windows users)
- Free X-Ray Magazine X-Ray Magazine, the definitive source for all things Quark, will send your members four complimentary issues of X-Ray Magazine -- completely free, no subscription required.
- Cult of iPod Here's a follow-upt to the bestselling "Cult Of Mac" that examines the iPod phenomenon... Apple's popular MP3 player gets the star treatment in this new book by Leander Kahney of Wired News
- Attracting traffic with banner ads Nowshade Kabir shares tips and tricks for attracting traffic with banner ads in this how-to article for webmasters and web site owners
- 5 Tips to Prevent MS Access Corruption Kevin Sparks is a technical writer for Kaizen Software says: "While the potential causes are numerous, I've found that the majority of actual cases can be prevented by following these 5 simple tips."
- Adware Installation Stealth Tactics When adware can't trick you into installing it, it often resorts to a secretive invasion. Joel Walsh shows you how to identify it and how to defend yourself.
- Record Audio / Video I reported on WireTap last summer and if you haven't discovered how cool this app is, you need to check it out now. WireTap Pro allows you to record any audio on your Mac.
- Data Recovery for Mac OS X SubRosaSoft Salvage Suite Data recovery software for Mac OS X includes features improved accuracy in salvaging, additional file type support, faster shredding, and MP3 file name recovery.
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