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June 2004
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Book News: The MacAddict Guide to Making Music with GarageBand - This book takes you through the good times of walking through GarageBand's dizzying array of features and capabilities to begin producing some pretty astounding tunes right away.
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Child Safe Surfing with KidsBrowser A powerful web browser, powered by Apple's Safari, is a very fast, internet browser designed just for Kids!
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GraphicConverter Now Updated GraphicConverter views, edits, converts most image formats
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This Old Mouse: All the news... NOW Tired of the same old network news? RSS NewsReaders will help your old mouse grab the news as it happens! (Part 2 has now been added!)
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Superior Mac for the creative class Apple seems to be pulling out all the stops with their all new Power Mac G5 line. Here's everything you need to produce designs, music, high-definition video or any other computing task your heart desires.
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Software / Shareware June 14 Here are short, bursts of new stuff you'll like
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New VolumeWorks with new powers Updated disk utility includes partitions shifting, disk jockey support and new bootable cd
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Protect your images from theft cross-platform application that creates allows you to easily watermark images allowing you to protect your images
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"Swiss Army Knife" for Mac OS X a graphical user interface to configure many hidden Mac OS X and Unix options
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HP 3380 All-In-One Dan sez: "Small offices will love the combination and simplicity."
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3D-Matrix from Digital Scores Major New Release of 3D-Matrix 1.6 is a powerful environment for creating 3D models.
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Better Expense Tracking You don't know how much to charge until you know how much it cost!
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After Dark is back for X After Dark is back for X with new modules
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Book News: Physics for game developers Reviewer Alex Restrepo is Master Programmer [r+d] at Aleriant, inc., and VP of ColombiaMUG
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Book News: Dan East Down & Dirty again...
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Software / Shareware Notes for June 1 Shareware shorts: RapidWeaver web design; FileXaminer v2.2; KeyCue; Listen Later
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MaxNews Usenet newsreader for Mac MaxNews is a very flexible and effective Mac OS 9.x / Mac OS X based Usenet newsreader supporting reading and composing both news articles and e-mail messages.
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Resize Partitions On-The-Fly the first OS X utility that enables a user to resize and manage partitions
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Troi File Plug-in for FileMaker Pro 6 a powerful tool for getting access to information outside the FileMaker Pro database
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Book News: Take Control of Spam with Apple Mail Take Control of Spam
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May 2004
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See it? Download it with Web Dumper Web Dumper is a full featured internet tool that allows users to download web sites for offline browsing.
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Headset solutions for your portable phone While any electronics superstore or even interstate rest area now sells hands-free products, if you want to be heard and hear well, there are a few products that do a better job than most
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FireWire 400 Hard Drive Enclosure A stand-alone hard drive enclosure for 2.5" IDE drives with Oxford 911 chip and FireWire 400 ports offering a cost effective housing that is extremely portable.
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EasyBeat adds GarageBand export feature The new release of the popular MIDI sequencer software easy beat, now offers musicians support for exporting songs to Apple's GarageBand.
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Fix your PowerBook yourself? Sure... MacFixit has released the free FixIt Guide series, a groundbreaking new set of Apple PowerBook repair instructions.
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Did you lose that Excel or Word document? OfficeRestore is a user-friendly application designed to retrieve Excel and Word documents that have been erased intentionally or accidentally.
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iClip 3 Productivity Software for Mac OS X Major Update Features Pop-up Previews, Launcher Capabilities, Dock-less Operation, Clipping Naming, Valentina Database Engine
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Ultimate SlotZone Parrot Interactive has rolled out Ultimate SlotZone for Mac and Windows users.
- Talk to your Mac: iListen types iListen gives you the ability to change conversational speech into text on your Mac using Apple's speech recognition technologies... "functional and fun if you really need this type of product"
- Photoshop Masks Quick & Easy Cinematte is an advanced plug-in for PhotoShop that can automatically create masks and clipping paths using blue/green screen technology.
- Book News: How Linux Works - This book uncovers the mystery of the boot sequence and other Linux processes
- Book News: Hackers and Painters - Big Ideas from the Computer Age - a collection of entertaining and thought-provoking essays on subjects of interest to programmers, IT professionals, and geeks at large.
- Book News: Network Security Hacks - An Arsenal of Useful Techniques for Network Defense - a wealth of useful techniques to make their job of detecting and dealing with intruders easier.
- Book News: JavaServer Faces - Deliver Simplified, Faster, Feature-rich Code to iron out the wrinkles in implementing JSF's crucial new technology.
- Next Mac OS: 'Tiger' Steve Jobs will kick off its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote on the next major release of Mac OS X: 'Tiger'
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Scam, spam, spoof and virus threats against Mac users This article was prompted by a post to the AUGD discussion list last week for leads to info concerning Macs and virus, worms and spoofs.
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InfoManager Scams, Virus, Hoaxes prompted by Fred's special "Scams, Virus, Hoaxes" white paper (above) this week, we've also posted the main references from past InfoManagers in a single file.
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SpamFire 1.5x MaMugs Daniel East updates his previous review for the all new SpamFire... "If you are getting SPAM, this is your lifesaver"
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DEVONagent, EasyFind, XMenu DEVONagent is the information finding tool of the next generation. It simulates the behaviour of a human web surfer scanning the Internet for a specific piece of information.
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KeyCue for menu shortcuts KeyCue is for menu shortcuts what PopChar is for special characters. It's a simple, unobtrusive utility application that helps you find, remember, and learn menu shortcuts. KeyCue automatically trains you to use menu shortcuts and makes you a power user of your favorite apps on the fly.
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Book News: Learning Web Design This new book takes an overwhelming subject and makes it clear for beginners and those who may already have created a web site but sense there is room for improvement.
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Book News: Going Wireless with Linux Linux has unbridled possibilities in terms of power and freedom for wireless. Here's a book that makes configuring wireless access for Linux less challenging than for other operating systems.
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Book News: All You Need to Get Started with Linux Here's a new book that will ease you into the world of Linux with a clear, no-nonsense introduction to the popular Red Hat distribution -- the key parts of the system and what you'll need to know to get over the humps.
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White Paper: What is Spyware? Are you at risk? UGNN Editor and Publisher Fred Showker takes an in-depth look at the latest hi-tech plague -- Spyware
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The industry take on Spyware UGNN Editor and Publisher Fred Showker takes an in-depth look at the latest hi-tech plague; Spyware. Here are pointers and links to leading industry white papers.
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UGN: Spyware, Adware Resource Guide Spyware, Adware Resource Guide... a look at what's available and what you can do against spyware and adware.
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FTC Announces First Can-Spam Act Cases The FTC has cracked down on two spam operations that have clogged the Internet with millions of deceptive messages and violated federal laws.
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Internet Crime Victim Pool: Children technology used by law enforcement to catch internet predators is available to parents to protect their kids online.
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Happy Birthday iTunes Music Story Launched one year ago today, the iTunes Music Store has revolutionized the music industry with its 99 cents-per-song pricing, free previews, one-click purchasing and downloading, and groundbreaking personal use rights.
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Mac Scan MacScan is detection and removal for keystroke Loggers and Trojans from your Macintosh
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Digest: April News Wrap-up... UGN News Editor Fred Showker cites his favorite news items from the Wired News service -- including the Google IPO, Spammers Canned, Legal Music Copying, iPod Ear bud shoot-out, Apple rebuffs RealNetworks, Online pirate drag-net, taxing the web, porn malware, TVO clones and more
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Book News: Digital Photography: Expert Techniques Digital Photography: Expert Techniques - O'Reilly's new Digital Studio series is geared toward turning high-end users into authoritative experts.
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