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March 2004

• iBooks Invade Virginia Middle School These Montevideo Middle School students how much fun you can have with a wireless Apple iBook lab!
• Grab the entire web site! Web Dumper downloads parts or entire web sites to your local drive
• Very Cool Vector/Raster Pattern Maker Artlandia Bridges the Gap between Vector-Based and Raster-Based Patterns
• Games: Modern Twist to Retro Shoot'em Up Kaijin: Retro Shoot'em Up ... with a modern twist
• How valuable is your data? valuable information to anyone who owns, operates or contributes to servers or computers with lots of data
• FileMaker Pro 7 gets Activated Troi Automatisering's Activator for FileMaker 7 and 6 is a very powerful tool for triggering scripts across the network, even over the Internet
• 950 Royalty-free Photo Textures Photo Galaxy collection of more than 950 royalty-free digital photos on CD-ROM sorted into 118 different categories.
• High End Color for Mac The BabelColor Company has launched the first Mac version of "BabelColor", a color comparator and translator formerly available only for the Windows' platform.
• Track time with TimeCache Macintosh time and expense billing application makes it easy to track time and bill clients
• Finding A Web Hosting Company MaMug's Dan East takes a new look at hosting companies, their offerings and the potential problems of growth beyond their means.
• Sharing files between Macs and PCs PC-Mac-Net FileShare v3.2, is a product which allows users to share files easily and securely between all varieties of Windows and Macintosh computers over a Local Area Network
• Got GarageBand? Get the Beat easy beat is the MIDI sequencer software for anyone who doesn't want to spend big money, nor take the time to climb the steep learning curve of other, huge and complicated sequencer tools.
• iPod Mini gets a new skin a fashionably cool way to protect the iPod is now available for the Apple iPod Mini
• FlashRestore recovers Flash Media Contents of a digital camera can also accidentally be erased - FlashRestore is your best chance for recovery
• Photoshop Healing tool comes to Elements Photoshop Elements gets a new Healing Tool just like big brother Photoshop
• Entourage Manipulator Plug-in Entourage Manipulator Plug-in the first Entourage FileMaker Pro plug-in to arrive for OS X

February, 2004

• Tactile Pro Keyboard for Mac by Matias Dan East tests the Tactile Pro Keyboard for Mac by Matias
• MacXware LogoCreator Dan East reviews MacXware LogoCreator, a fun, simple to use logo creation tool
• Web Pages made Easy CreativePage 3.2 (X)HTML editor for W3C compliant web pages code
• WebPrint Plus X WebPrint Plus X from MacEase collects pages or info from almost anywhere for easy saving and printing
• Network Management Software LANsurveyor helps network administrators and IT managers diagram their networks, monitor key network components, remotely manage systems, solve network problems, and create network and desktop asset reports.
• Printing and Imposition Printing and Imposition for magazines, newsletters, long text files can be tedious, but BookLightning makes it easier
• FlipAlbum Pro 3 Dan points out some good points but also finds fault...
• Peak 4 High-End Music Mixing Peak 4 for audio recording, editing, mastering and sound processing for the advanced amateur to professional studios with a lot of bang for the buck. While this may not be quite enough for the "serious professional," this newest release gives the big dogs a good run for their money.
• Mac OS X Maintenance Victoria Maciulski from CVMUG shares her overview of Mac OS X Maintenance
• Adobe InDesign cs Victoria Maciulski from CVMUG reviews Adobe InDesign cs
• Troi File Plug-in for FileMaker Updated plug-in lets you manipulate your files and folders and use file and folder information directly from your FileMaker Pro databases.
• Slope Rider interactive snowboarding game This is a really fun interactive snowboarding game that isn't just for kids.
• Ultra-Mini Optical Mouse Daniel East reviews the Targus' Ultra-Mini Optical mouse -- "This is one small mouse! Designed for portability and affordability"
• Stop Motion Animation, Time Lapse Recording Frank Petrie reviews iStopMotion - "the ideal software for creating Stop Motion Animation (Claymation) and Time Lapse Recording."
• Send your spam to SpamSieve Frank Petrie looks at SpamSieve spam filtering software with Bayesian spam filtering
• Music Merchants meet Garage Band Daniel East reports on NAMM Conference 2004
• Free Photoshop-compatible Plugins PhotoFreebies is a collection of 10 Photoshop-compatible plugins for performing useful photo manipulations and effects.

January, 2004

• Bored with iSite yet? Software Review: Frank Petrie picks up Boinx Software's new iRecordNow shareware to show you some pretty cool tricks you can do with iSite.
• Mac Pilot v1.1.2 Mac Pilot is a one-key solution to all the under the hood tweaking that you could want to do in X
• OmniWeb v4.5 This state of the art browser for OS X is still playing catch-up with the competition
• Easily to build yet powerful teaching aids - Studycard Studycard multimedia flashcards - 2.0 adds printing, import, export
• Want to see who's snooping your system Objective Development's Little Snitch for Mac OS X shows you who's opening ports, and trying to snoop into your system
• Turbo Photo Library and Freebies New CD-ROM for budget-conscious graphic designers makes stock photos more affordable than ever
• Running the Panther O'Reilly Releases "Running Mac OS X Panther" - the inquisitive user's dip into the core of Apple's most ambitious OS to date
• Stupendous Bundle: iMovie Plug Ins 1.15 A huge collection of iMovie plug ins to do just about anything you can think of with iMovie - from titles to effects to PIP
• Nik Color Efex Pro Dan East takes a look at Nik Color Efex Pro, from Nik Multimedia
  
• Mercury FireWire hard drive Dan East from MaMugs files this report on the Mercury "On-The-Go" external and portable FireWire hard drive
• Mercury Pro External FireWire SuperDrive Dan East of MaMugs puts the Mercury Pro External FireWire SuperDrive through the paces
• eMail Extractor 1.6.3 Dan East reviews eMail Extractor 1.6.3 by MacProg - a direct emailing program
• ROXIO Toast Titanium CD burning software for Mac users -- reviewed by Dan East, President, The Mid-Atlantic Macintosh User Groups Team

Archive of Articles and Content

• Special: Avoiding Spam Traps
  Dispite recent legal actions against criminal "UBE" email, spammers have no end to creative methods of sucking your email users into their lists. Protect yourself from these new tactics being tested by spammers exploit human nature and the fast pace of the net to elude the new laws and evade commercial filtering.
• Password is not a 4-letter word
  Read this important story posted by Fred last week -- all about identity theft and protecting your passwords
• The Top 10 New Year's Resolutions for User Groups - January's 60-Second Window column #165 urges you to pump some new life into your user group with any or all of these resolutions... (this one is posted a bit early, so you can pass it along during December!)
• 60 Seconds: Top Ten Tips for Using Email This month's 60-Second Window column #164 reflects on a post to the User Group Forum in December of 1993, ten years ago -- and asks: "Has anything changed?"

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