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March, 2004

• Info Manager for March 22, 2004 - iTunes Makin' Dough for Apple * Incentive to recycle * Antitrust penalty * Google Web Search Features * Samsung offers new laser printers * AOL to offer free online bill payment service * Chat Gets Pushy * Hot mail tips * SW: Mac Office 2004 peak * Celebrities that use Macs * and a lot more... 25 briefs in all!
• 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.
• Handheld 802.11b/g Wi-Fi Receiver System Yellowjacket is a passive, network independent device with the ability to see the "whole picture" as well as pinpointing channel interference and hackers
• Shadowgate comes to the Palm Shadowgate Classic immerses the player into a compelling world of fantasy, on your Palm
• Protect that iPod with iSkin iSkin new and improved protector for the third generation Apple iPod
• Design, Color and Type Tools for OS X New tool fills design void in OS X for graphics professionals
• GPS Comes to OS X Mac users who are interested in GPS can have their own interface-mapping software -- MacGPS Pro 5.0.
• 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 WindowsÕ platform.
• iTunes make dough for Apple The 50 millionth song, purchased last Thursday afternoon, was "The Path of Thorns" by Sarah McLachlan.
• Addictive Solitaire Game: Aki Mahjong New game for Mac OS X from Ambrosia Software based on ancient Chinese game of Mahjong
• Track time with TimeCache Macintosh time and expense billing application makes it easy to track time and bill clients
• PhotoShow for Mac... PhotoShow lets you arrange and display your digital pictures in a slide show, making your Mac a true digital photo album
• QuickMix Video Editing QuickMix Edits any video, sound, and music formats supported by QuickTime, including DV
• If you like iPhoto, You'll Love PhotoReviewer PhotoReviewer is Blazingly fast photo viewing, organizing app adds support for raw images from any source including digital cameras
• Do you have sensitive data? If you have important business to conduct -- important data and information to protect, you should give a good look at the latest version of CipherDisk from SubRosaSoft.
• 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.
• Book News: Adobe Photoshop CS One-on-One Learn to Edit and Manipulate Images Like a Pro O'Reilly Releases "Adobe Photoshop CS One-on-One"
• Info Manager for March 7, 2004 - File Sharing Vulnerability Discovered in Mac OS X; Roxio imitates iLife; "Cannibals Descend on MP3 Players"; Self publishing; Corel to update WordPerfect Suite; New food pyramid; Trackle*; AARP Offers Internet Resources On Aging; Garage Band demo ideas; 19 briefs in all!
• New Books this week include: Linux Pocket Guide by Daniel Barrett, the new Dreamweaver MX 2004 Missing Manual from David Pogue, and the new WebLogic: The Definitive Guide for the WebLogic server and the management consol. See them all in the User Group Bookstore...
• Top Picks from Wired Digest of news from Wired for week of March 5th through the 7th... includes: First Can-Spam Lawsuit; Microsoft Memo Is Legit; Borgs Invad Vegas; in Tune With Sharing; Hands Off Kids' Data; Buy Offline, Get Spammed; Hands Off! That Fact Is Mine
• Apple Educator News for March Learning Wirelessly at Fremont High * Build Your Own Digital Media Solution * Spring Comes to iLife * Your One-Stop Information Shop * Getting to Know Panther: Expose * Jot Down These Notes * save up to $200 per projector * Onset's HOBOware * PowerSchool Student Information System (SIS) 3.7 * About eNews for Education
• Apple eNews for March 5 Tackling Herculean Tasks with the Power Mac G5; Tips for Ten: Putting Your Mac on a Schedule; Getting Smart with iPhoto; What's New? Save $700; 3D landscapes; Symantec Updates anti-virus; Faxes on a LAN; Now Up-to-Date; Apple Pro Day; Plus seven others
• iPod Mini gets a new skin a fashionably cool way to protect the iPod is now available for the Apple iPod Mini
• iClip is Back for Mac OS X Inventive's new release of iClip 2.8 improves Picture Clipping Handling, and Features Enhanced Drag-and-Drop
• New QuicKeys comes to Panther CE Software has rolled the latest version of QuicKeys X2
• Mapping the World with Azimuth Azimuth software is designed by a cartographer who makes maps in a design and graphics environment
• Merging Email Made Easy Email Merge is a program for creating mailings of individualized email messages. It combines a database and an email message template to create customized email messages.
• Top news items of note... Digest of news from Wired
• Post.Office for Mac OS X Tenon's Post.Office Mail server (and list server) is upgraded, includes SpamAssassin plug-in, McAfee's Virex scripts and scripts to quarantine unwanted attachments.
• MacHack becomes ADHOC MacHack becomes ADHOC but the conference stays the same
• 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
• iMsafe 2: Backup for Mac OS X iMsafe 2, the backup tool for Mac OS X makes quick work of backing up your Mac, iPods, Pendrives and remote Macs on the network to your USB or FireWire HD.
• Trisection Game with Aqua Style Trisection top-quality shareware Game

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