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Mac Companion


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The latest September issue of macCompanion Magazine is now available online. Steve Fyffe introduces himself in his first column "Under the Magnifying Glass". Jonathan Hoyle writes about software development with Xcode 3.0 in the up-and-coming Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Ted Bade catches up with VMWare, the Mac mini, iPhone bills and the end-of-life of AppleWorks. This free PDF download is around 105 pages.

Guest author and video technician, Chris Eschweiler, provides a follow-up on the earlier Mac ReviewCast question response regarding S-Video vs VGA for presentations. Rick Sutcliffe's Northern Spy offers his north-of-the-border look at the computer industry.

The book section has a review of an E-Book from Ravi Jayagopal, on "No Business Like E-Business" on making money with websites. With Hardware, there are reviews by Daniel MacKenzie on the XtremeMac MicroMemo iPod Recorder and their SportsWrap iPod armband and the Ace Bayou Xrocker Sound chair used by gamers. Wayne Lefevre posts his review on the Star-treky Jordi-like Myvu headset designed for the iPod video. And then there is Tim Verpoorten's review of the Sling Media Tuner, AV and Pro video-capturing devices.

Michael Potter wrote about his experiences with the freeware Open Source app named Scribus for doing professional publication in the Shareware section. In the Software section, there is professional music management and notation software from Make Music with Finale 2008 and Daphne Kalphon balanced that with a review of AVID's Sibelius 5 as a viable competitor.

GoldSeal's OSX Business management software is designed for estimating and accounting for both the construction industry and for small business. Keynote '08 was discussed earlier on the Mac ReviewCast. A review of the Morpheus Photo Animation Suite for the Mac from Morpheus Software was also posted. Then there are reviews of CS Odessa's Professional Project Management software, ConceptDraw Project 3 and WebAssist's Dreamweaver extensions.

The final article is a reprint of Linda Cameron's article on Web Security and Agile Web Solution's 1Passwd she published in the Mid-Columbia Macintosh Users Group's monthly newsletter, The Finder.

A new section has been added as Greenware

Jim Clyde who is the VP of marketing and business development with Infinia Corporation was interviewed about their move into commercial exposure for their sterling engine technology. They are taking their expertise of putting power modules on Mars and bringing that back to earth for developing what would be considered to be next-gen solar-to-electrical power generation beyond photovoltaics. They believe they can produce twice as much power in a smaller footprint with ground-based power from the sun than photovoltaic arrays for less price. Their sterling engine technology is being licensed to Rinnai in Japan and Enatec in the Netherlands for combined heat and power units for homes and those systems may be here in the US possibly next year.

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