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4th Quarter 2006
December 2006
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Shareware for the holidays... includes: Sudoku for Christmas * Free "Invasion" screensaver * New RSS-based news reader for Mac * Desktop Transporter * Custom knitting grids and diagrams * and More reliable connections with the outside world...
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New Landscape and Garden Design Designing a home? Remodeling? Sprucing up the grounds? CS Odessa has rolled out ConceptDraw 6.2, technical diagramming software, which now includes a complete and extensive set of landscape and garden design libraries!
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Magic Sharpener Amazing image sharpening Photoshop-compatible plug-in for Windows. It allows a user to get dramatically improved the look of images without color halos and increased color noise.
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Picture Roller: ultimate picture manager Windows users can now organize, create albums, slideshows, and share your albums via web or e-mail -- just like iPhoto on the Mac. It's easy and quick -- even works with your Windows-based iPod iPhoto!
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PulpMotion takes the 'ho-hum' out of iPhoto iPhoto's drone has lulled Mac users into a generation of bleary-eyed photo-lemmings! To find an antidote check out Aquafadas in France and wake up with a little PulpMotion!
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When the lights go out... where is your web site and server? In the dark. Unless you're using solar power to supply power to server and web sites -- when the power goes out, these sites stay online...
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Mastering Landscape Photography Thirteen essays on landscape photography by master photographer Alain Briot covers practical, technical, and aesthetic aspects of photography -- helps build and refine your skills
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Burning DVDs Just got Hotter Disco is the missing solution for disc burning on your Mac - jam packed with tools designed to appeal to average and pro users alike... so hot it even smokes (on your screen!)
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Reduce Mobile Phone Crime Reduce your chances of being a victim of mobile phone theft - Simon Burgess BSc shares tips on how to protect yourself from the ever increasing wave of cell phone crime
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iPod Missing Manual iPod: The Missing Manual, Fifth Edition -- the iPod with video does everything - videogames, movies, TV shows, and music videos -- now learn from the best as J.D. Biersdofer reveals all her secret features, tips, and tricks...
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Swiss Army Knife for Color (Win Shareware) ColorCache Swiss Army Knife for Color packs in a color picker, color scheme generator, web preview tools and much more
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Restore Deleted iPod Files (Win Shareware) Apple iPod Songs Data Recovery software is easy safe Read-only and Non-Destructive iPod Data retrieval software utility.
November 2006
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UGN Salutes: VMUG The Village Macintosh User Group, Hot Springs Village, Arkansas
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Preparing artwork for print Today's easy computers and operating systems has brought more and more Rob Cubbon, DTP and publishing expert helps beginners learn how to prepair artwork for print.
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Password Manager For Safety With the discovery of keychain vulnerabilities to phishing, Lava Software is now shipping PasswordVault v5.1, a simple and practical enterprise-level password manager for Windows, MacOS X (Universal Binary), MacOS Classic and Linux(i86) -- to safely deal with passwords.
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Free QuarkXPress Tools... XChange International limited time offer of a free ProPack with the purchase of a QuarkXPress 7 upgrade or full product - special one-time offer XPert Tools and QX-Tools upgrade to ProPack 7 for QuarkXPress 7 ... if you plan to upgrade, this is a killer deal!
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Illustrator to DXF / CAD - import CAD standard DXF files to Adobe Illustrator
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Batch Noise Removal - If you're into perfecting batches of images from your digital camera, AKVIS has a new version of the AKVIS Noise Buster V.3.0 for Windows and Macintosh.
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Phishing for ICANN -- The old saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem." Are ICANN and rogue domain resellers like Sedo in league with organized crime? It would sure seem so. This UGN crime trackers report takes a look at how ICANN figures in to online crime, phishing and scams... Phishing for ICANN
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November 6: Phishing Report -- Phishing schemes are getting more costly * Not just a U.S. problem... UK at risk of 'spamdemic' * Phishing Tool Kits for Sale * New Phishing e-Mail Identity Theft Scam * Less Spam, more Phish * Social networking latest target * clusters of phishing servers * Go Daddy Supports Extended Validation SSL * New weapon against ID theft ... many others
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Writing Software documentation The ideal software would be free of errors and so easy to use that everybody would be familiar with it the minute they start the application. However, this is not the case in real life. So it needs really good documentation
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GoMom tips for Moms holiday success GO MOM !NC shows Moms how to make their 2006 holiday season one for the memory books. By tackling their schedule with a month at a time mentality, Moms will realize their goals to truly enjoy their family through the wonder of the season.
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Produce Better Color no matter which type of digital camera is used to shoot an image,the computer, software, monitor, and output device (printer, projector, oron the Web) must work together to reproduce the actual and intended color for display
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Take the drag out of file transfers Ambrosia's Dragster, a file transfer utility for MacOS X 10.4 or later that takes the drag out of file transfers. Just drag and drop files or folders on Dragster's icon in the Dock, and away they go!
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B/W Styler for B/W conversion B/W Styler is a Photoshop plugin for B/W conversion, working with Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop Elements, Photo-Paint, Photo Plus, IrfanView and PhotoImpact. It supports 8bit and 16bit RGB images.
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DEVON Updates DEVONtechnologies updates all its commercial applications: the document and information managers DEVONthink Professional and Personal, the Internet research agent and alternative Web browser DEVONagent, and the intelligent notepad application DEVONnote.
October 2006
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Configuring a Windows Server 2003 cluster This how-to article by Team uCertify gets you started on planning and setting up a Windows server cluster
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Future Sonic FS1 Apple Consultants Network's Gail Murphy reviews Future Sonic FS1 high definition earphones for the iPod
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Language of the Web The must-have reference to the Language of the Web ... HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy
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Fine Art Printing for Photographers Sooner or later you're going to want to get some good, high quality, archival prints of your digital photos or art. So you're probably going to need this book
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Opendocument Template Competition Submit templates and clip art to arm the new Openoffice and win prizes, fame and fortune in the Openoffice.org Documentation Project Template and Clipart Competition.
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Macromedia Flash 8 Courses TeachMeIT has released the introductory course on Macromedia Flash 8 Professional -- stay on the leading edge ... easily
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iView MediaPro 3.1.2 MediaPro now delivers significantly more robust performance, including clearer error reporting and improved memory handling for both Mac and Windows customers, as well as a number of minor feature enhancements.
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DVD Slideshows for Windows Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder 2.0 Released ... create slide show presentations using digital photos, video, music and transitions in Windows
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UGN Salutes BAM - Bay Area Mac Users Group of West Central Florida
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Fighting Phishing - Looking for Way to Fight Phishing -- If you read the news, you would think something is getting done.
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iPod Virus - Finger pointing, blame game as Apple's rising star suffers from a little sniffle ...
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Network Media Primer This is an extensive and well sourced primer on the tools, terms and equipment network mechanics and managers need to know about... Network Media Primer an extensive glossary of networking terms and tools
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Intellectual Property Rights at risk Intellectual Property Rights Remain Unprotected as Russia Seeks WTO Accession. International Anti-Piracy Caucus co-chairs urge caution on U.S.-Russia Agreement
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SAFARI books online SAFARI books online provides unlimited web access to more than 4,000technical books with safari library service
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Power Recipes for Programmers Staying abreast of all the dramatic changes in Flash Player and ActionScript languages can frustrate even the most innovative coders. Here's your cookbook for success...
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SearchInform full text search SearchInform: the program of full text search and search for documents of similar content successfully implemented into YurCallCenter
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linkOptimizer for Adobe InDesign Zevrix Solutions has rolled out version 2.0 of LinkOptimizer, the solution for reducing the size of images linked to Adobe InDesign document - save valuable storage space, time and reduce production costs by eliminating excessive image data.
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AVnex Voice Changer (Win) AVnex Voice Changer -- a Threat or a Great Help for Voiceover Talents? It looks like the bell has tolled on voiceover talents. A Voice Changer can now do it all.
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Phishing Report Update: Internet attacks are more hidden, creative * EarthLink helps smash phishing ring * FDIC Consumer Alert * ISPs urged to filter spam and phishing attacks * Spamhaus: Yahoo major phishing site host * PhishTank * OpenDNS * Community Anti-Phishing Site * Microsoft Anti-Phishing * UK banks * IE 7.0 * Best Anti-Phishing Filter * Cybercrooks turn to home PCs... two-page report
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New Ideas For Our Intelligent House What is the intelligent house like? Conjure some ideas on what the house of the future will be like...
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Kenbushi Remote PDA Control Any PDA With Wi-Fi Can Remotely Control Free Kenbushi v6.2 Media Center Lava Software is now shipping Kenbushi v6.2, a fast and efficient file sharing, data backup and remote media player product.
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ExpressCard modem with MacBook Pro Use the Merlin XU870 ExpressCard modem with a MacBook Pro - First Macintosh support for wireless HSDPA ExpressCard modem available
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PopChar X 3.0 completely redesigned Ergonis Software and Take Control Books today announced a special offer that gives Macintosh users buying a copy of PopChar X 3.0 a 30% discount off Sharon Zardetto Aker's "Take Control of Fonts in Mac OS X"
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Weather for your site... Remember when it used to be a real pain to get a local weather button in your site? Not any more -- with Accuweather's free button service
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IM Across the Net? Do you believe computer IM users would give up watching American Idol in order to IM with people on other services? That's what Yahoo and Microsoft say...
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