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Last week, when ABC evening news finally recognized the threat of hackers and phishing to the US National Security I cheered. The main stream media finally gets it: phishing attacks leading back to Chinese government servers, and hundreds of daily hacker attempts to breach US .gov computers. They thought it was news. It was to them, but not to Infomanager readers for the past five years. Now, there's yet more bad news for computer users...
With the release of the latest iPhone upgrade, many people if not all of them that hacked the iPhone are regretting their efforts. So how do you reverse the process? there hasn't been nearly as much research done on that procedure. (Read More)
I have not had a chance to test out Apple's new iWork beyond a cursory look. On that first skim however, it doesn't look like a program to rival the functionality of AppleWorks. Ted Bade also will miss Appleworks, as he writes in his latest column in "MacCompanion" ... See the full story...
Most of us individual users don't have the need to spend the dollars necessary for Photoshop. Of course, Adobe also has a version of Photoshop Elements available for the Mac. But there are other options. One is Pixelmator which was built from open source and Mac OS X technologies. See the full story...
As you probably known, one of the big problems with the Mac over the years has been Font files. If they became damaged, all kinds of problems could happen. Developers developed software to repair those files. Later we had similar issues with Microsoft Word documents and we had programs that were designed with those files specifically in mind. Now the pro-video market is coming up with many of the same issues. (Read More)
Field testing in Iceland turned out to be a stroke of brilliance," enthuses George Jardine, pro photo evangelist for Adobe Systems, about Mikkel Aaland's new book, Photoshop Lightroom Adventure
Showtime Networks Inc. has implemented Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium edition across its in-house creative agency, The Red Group. After successfully switching to Adobe InDesign (Read More)
three new Button Themed Sets for use in Adobe Photoshop, Elements and Illustrator as well as a corresponding Fonts Button Pack. Custom Shapes Pack consists of 200+ custom button themed shapes for digital scrapbooking, fashion designs, packaging, books and more See the full story...
Production Pack 5.0's plug-in interface integrates directly with the Workgroups 2007 suite, enabling users to quickly access information about the job or project they are working on. (Read More)
iWatermark is the popular watermarking package for Mac OS X and Windows - ease of use with efficiency for beginner and professional photographers to protect their work. Add digital signatures, url, email address or company logo to one, or a 1000 images at a time. iWatermark
Graphicxtras.com's latest set of royalty-free releases feature flames and fiery imagery: custom shapes for Photoshop and Elements; symbols for Illustrator; and font set for DTP and 3D and others
It is true that Macs don't have any active virus working on their systems. But now with the increase of the market share and the use of Windows on Mac systems the vulnerability is increasing. Thus Trend Micro announce that they will be distributing Intego's security software. See the full story...
Intego VirusBarrier X4 Dual Protection and Internet Security Barrier Antispam Edition could save your six by helping Mac users protect both Mac OS X and their Windows installation. (Read More)
This is kind of a strange year for Apple Expo Paris. Apple has been off making iPhone announcements all over Europe, but not doing much at the Expo. Of coruse, in the past Apple has made many product announcement in Paris. And since the demise of the east coast MacWorld Expo we have come to expect more from Apple Expo.
New Riders, Pearson's Web design imprint have announced a dedicated conference for the Web design community, VOICES THAT MATTER: WEB DESIGN CONFERENCE featuring speakers include bestselling authors and leading web design experts See the full story...
"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."
~ Orison Swett Marden
Have a great week... (See last week)
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