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the region's largest Macintosh event returns for it's third year at Cerritos College in Norwalk, CA for three huge days, Friday-Sunday, November 12-14. Over 40 companies are participating at the event ... Read more...
The nation's most notorious junk-fax sender agrees to the terms of a court order forcing it to stop its ink-depleting ways. But that hasn't convinced a longtime Fax.com foe to drop a $2.2 trillion lawsuit against the firm. By Ryan Singel. Read more...
A number of news sources carried stories last week that Apple will use SigmaTel's controller chips for a digital music player -- perhaps even by Christmas. Unlike Apple's hugely popular iPod and iPod Mini players, the new player would use solid-state flash memory, which has less capacity but can make for a lighter, cheaper player ... appleinsider.com
Tinkerer Iain Sharp couldn't bear to part with his first computer -- a Mac SE/30 -- so he turned it into a powerful media server using a mini PC motherboard and a software emulator. By Leander Kahney, Cult of Mac [Pictures: 1; 2;] ... Read more...
PodSalvage is an easy to use application that recovers music files that have been deleted intentionally or accidentally from your iPod, MP3 player, hard disk and most other types of storage. Now you can get them back ... Read more...
Adam Engst's "Take Control" ebooks store has released two new titles that promise to get you up to speed in Microsoft Office Word 2004 ... Read more...
Author Wallace Wang is at it again with a new title dedicated to the controversial world of online file sharing -- go beyond the misconceptions and examine how the popular file sharing services really work. Read more...
PhotoReviewer 1.4 from Stick Software Blazingly fast photo viewing and organizing app adds support for QuickTime video, configurable key controls. Once you've used PhotoReviewer, you'll never look back ... Read more...
We've been quoting Leander Kahney, and his wonderful Mac resource called "Cult of Mac" and now you can download the Cult of Mac T-Shirt - Iron-On-Yourself (1.4MB PDF) and the Cult of Mac Poster - Print-It-Yourself (2.1MB PDF). Best of all, you can download a sample chapter from the book: "Tales of Macworld" (2.9MB PDF). Visit Leander's active and fun Mac Blog at the ... Cult of Mac
The Walker Art Center wants to put the 'public' back in the public airwaves. It's distributing tiny radio-transmitter kits so people can broadcast from their own personal radio stations. Michelle Delio reports from Minneapolis. Read more...
Yan Feng, president of the Beijing Macintosh User Group, was just 9 when he first laid eyes on the Mac Classic. It was love at first sight. So it was perhaps inevitable that the smitten young Chinese would eventually found the biggest Mac user group in the world's most populous nation.
Feng is head of the Beijing Macintosh User Group, which boasts 400 registered members of 14 different nationalities, including Japan, South Korea, the United States and several European countries. (Picture) ... Read more...
This week we play a little Golf, and see some dramatic results converting Photos to Art... other favorites include * Moving Tunes with iPodDownload * Parsnips new PIM * TextMate Text Editor * OmniWeb Gets Upgrade (Beta) * Japanese language text editor ... In the Shareware Department
DesktopEarth 3D brings live 3D animations of the earth -- in all it's glory -- to your Mac OSX desktop! It uses a combination of satellite imagery and calculated data to provide real time views of the entire globe -- true WOW potential! Read more...
"The Core" Contact Manager is the perfect starting point for any organization which covers all the basic needs of contact management. Built from the ground up in FileMaker Pro 7.0 ... Read more...
Kodak's new Digtal plug-in family gives "great value and results" says MaMug's Dan East - Roc Pro, Gem Airbrush Pro and Gem Pro ... Read more...
More shareware for October -- four top favorites for the Mac OSX user! Drop Drawers, MacDrive, Quickie Web Album are sweet -- but the real prize is the revival of the classic Mac space shoot-em-up game Solarian! Don't miss them... Shareware Department
"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
- Jack Benny
"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people
who have the habit of making excuses."
- George Washington Carver
Have a great week...
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