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1st Quarter 2007 UGN News
March 2007
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Most Influential People In Mac - MacTech 25: Cast Your Vote in People's Choice Voting -- it's time for YOU to choose the most influential people in Mac technical community
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Home Business Trio '07 Home Business Trio '07 is a bundle of easy-to-use applications for small or home-based business for Mac OS X ... includes three applications: Money 2.1 for accounting, Relationship 1.0 for customer relationship management and Operation 1.0 - for project management.
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Travel and PHOTOGRAPHY Off the Charts Reader Scott Eccleston says: "This book is a delight, one of those books that you feel fortunate to have in your hands. And it's really more than one book – it's five books slipped into one cover"
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I-SPY Prevention Act of 2007 Rep. Lofgren and Rep. Goodlatte Introduce Internet Spyware (I-SPY) Prevention Act of 2007 -- the bill Criminalizes Spyware Offenses, passed in the House, goes to the Senate -- Washington, D.C.
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LicenseKeeper LicenseKeeper The Easiest Way To Capture And Organize Software Licenses -- what you need to keep track of all your products, upgrades and passwords
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SuperDuper SuperDuper 2.1.4, improves many aspects of this Eddy-award winning application, and adds compatibility support with Leopard for developers using the pre-release version.
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iCal to MS mail Groupcal 3 - the program that lets you use your Microsoft Exchange calendar from iCal has been updated
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Mac-to-Mac Sync - Without Subscription SyncTogether is a new Mac-to-Mac synchronization software for individuals, workgroups and families who need to share and synchronize information.
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Kurdish for QuarkXPress ArabicXT with Kurdish Support, or "KurdishXT". With KurdishXT, users can now create and print Kurdish language layouts within QuarkXPress -- impossible to do before this!
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Vendor-neutral certification Leading Organizations in Printing, Document Imaging Market Join CompTIA Certification Initiative Effort aimed at heightening technology skills of technicians -- a new development in training for cross platform software
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2007 Economic Outlook This is a web seminar ("webinar") -- 2007 Economic Outlook Webinar with Dr. Joe Webb veteran of the graphic arts industries, he was the developer of the influential TrendWatch information service
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Design Management Design Management: Managing Design Strategy, Process and Implementation, by Kathryn Best - This book should be required reading for all senior design students
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'POP' Pattern Font This highly versatile graphic elements font -- "POP" -- is designed for creating unlimited numbers of graphic patterns. It's a commercial font, but is very cool!
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Smart Card for Mac The Mac has been blocked from many available software structures since the beginning. This new development enables Mac OS X users to join Microsoft AD environments that require two-factor authentication via smart cards.
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WYSIWYG Charting for Windows Perpetuumsoft Chart ModelKit WYSIWYG charting solution allows fast creation of a required chart includes predesigned charts: bar, line, spline, candlestick, pie, stepline, bubble, points, stock
February 2007
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All-in-one Digital Camera When my brother showed up at a reception with one of these little 'palm-sized' cameras, I have to admit I was skeptical. (Being a digital imaging professional!) But, when I began to really take a look at the results-- WOW -- I was blown away. You'll like these...
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InDesign ImageSwapper If you use Adobe InDesign for high-end projects and printing, ImageSwapper is a flexible and time-saving plug-in which streamlines the process of replacing low resolution, for-placement-only (FPO) images with the high rez counterparts.
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Optimizing for MSN? Is It Worth the Effort? Whenever you need to find something on the web, you "Google" it. Most of the web surfers do. For the percentage of those who "Yahoo" or "MSN" for information is considerably lower. Now you can capitalize on this...
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Traditional to Digital Photography Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives provides the knowledge necessary to bridge the gap between analog (traditional) and digital photography.
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Steve Jobs on DRM Last week, Steve Jobs put out a public letter calling for the end of Digital Rights Management. Here, we present a brief overview of just some of the industry pros to cons...
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Money Dancing Moneydance 2007 is being called the most intuitive personal finance manager for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
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Ethics in Graphic Design Graphic design is in ethical flux. This book, GOOD: An Introduction to Ethics in Graphic Design, seeks to answer ethical questions about the design industry .
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3D content from still images Strata Foto Now for Mac and Windows and Strata Live Upgrades a powerful tool for creating professional quality 3D content from still images
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Freelance Time Tracking Atelier Software has released Fanurio, a Windows time tracking and billing application designed for freelancers.
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iPhone craze has begun - Now there are no less than three "unofficial" iPhone blogs about this yet nonexistent product! Here are just a few of the more interesting entries
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Hot Topic: Free Internet Our blog is picking up traffic, and comments. One hot topic is "Free Internet" and you can read all the comments posts by your fellow UG members
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Freelance Time Tracking Atelier Software has released Fanurio, a Windows time tracking and billing application designed for freelancers.
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3D content from still images Strata Foto Now for Mac and Windows and Strata Live Upgrades a powerful tool for creating professional quality 3D content from still images
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Microsoft Office Training The TeachMeIT MS Office 2007 helps users master new features added by Microsoft such as ribbons, galleries, live preview and contextual tabs
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Ethics in Graphic Design Graphic design is in ethical flux. This book, GOOD: An Introduction to Ethics in Graphic Design, seeks to answer ethical questions about the design industry .
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RAGE ButtonDesign the web developer's tool for creating professional web site buttons with mouse over and mouse down effects ... free update is now a Universal Binary
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Will your interent be taxed? Not if these representatives have anything to do with it. The Internet Caucus Co-Chairs voice their support for the Internet Tax Freedom Act
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#190 Phishing for Dollars Actually, I should call this "Phishing for YOUR dollars" ... 2007 is off to a blazing start with new Phishing ploys and techniques that befuddle even the most security-savvy banks...
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Media Sharing Copyright Violation - Early in the "rich media" revolution, we predicted it would turn out to be an intellectual properties nightmare. Now, it looks like that prediction is coming true.
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Federal Income Taxes - Yes, it is that time of year again. I found it interesting that TurboTax is now including the Mac version on the same CD as the PC version. That saves Intuit a lot of shipping and packaging costs without dropping support for the Mac. I applaud their effort here. By contrast, H&R Block's Tax Cut dropped support for Mac.
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Problems Plague New Microsoft Windows Vista - According to NewsMax.com, retailers are already experiencing problems with Windows Vista. Then the security holes allow hackers and criminals easy access...
Intro to Adobe Photoshop Elements Andrei Doubrovski has released version 5.0 of video-book "Animated Introduction to Adobe Photoshop Elements" including 76 embedded clips that can be played alone, or as a single full-length (2-hour) movie
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Getting yourself and your life organized In today's world, everything is digital. From shopping receipts to important research papers, peoples' lives often fill their hard drives in the form of emails, PDFs, Word documents, multimedia files and more. Now, you need this
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AKVIS LightShop AKVIS has released yet another awesome plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and Photoshop plug-in compatible software programs -- LightShop V.1.1 for Windows and Macintosh.
January 2007
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Mac Tablet -- ModBook, the first fully functional Mac tablet solution wins Macworld Magazine, Macsimum News, & PowerPage Awards ...
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Moneydance is built for people who want to manage their finances quickly and easily regardless of which operating system(s) they use. ...
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Finance to Go for Mac - Another good personal finance manager application for Mac OS X, now offers free upgrade path ...
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Phishing: how far is too far? How bad is it when the cures become worse than the problem? ...
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iPhone Skins anger Apple They always say: "Immitation is the best form of flattery... " but as you might expect, Apple's lawyers don't agree.
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Much ado about iPhone... -- Follow along as InfoManager tracks industry response, and news developments surrounding Steve's recent new product the "iPhone" ... iPhone Knocks off iPhone * LG Prada Phone * Ballmer laughs at Apple iPhone * Analysts Say iPhone Prices Might Drop ... And more
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Automatic Repair of Font Problems If Apple's font world was perfect, you wouldn't need Smasher.
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Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference Danny Goodman's latest comprehensive Resource for XHTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript
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Automatic PDF Forms pdf-FieldMerge 4.2 Automatic PDF Forms Fill in PDF form fields automatically from a database
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BBEdit: it doesn't suck You've heard us rave about BBEdit before. Now they've upgraded with a host of hot new features
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Screen Sharing for Mac Share live, real-time, screens from your Mac with other users anywhere in the world...
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2D/3D design come to Mac Pretty cool software -- take a look at this video demo and you'll be convinced
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Anti-Spyware for Mac SecureMac has rolled out the release of MacScan 2.3, the latest version of the company's industry leading anti-spyware package for Macintosh computers.
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Arctic Quest for Mac an amazingly beautiful game, which will fascinate you with thought-provoking puzzles, wonderful graphics and great gameplay.
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Office 2008 for Mac It's Coming: Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac - bringing enhanced compatibility and Mac-first, Mac-only capabilities.
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iPhone could be the one... - Fred may have found the ultimate hand-held device...
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iLawsuit: Mob Rules - Apple sez it's silly! But squats on the iPhone name hoping it'll stick...
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Site Monitoring for web developers Dejal Simon 2.2 checks web pages, FTP and DNS servers, local or remote ports, and other services for changes or failures, and notifies you via e-mail, sound, speech, or HTML reports.
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Web-based creative collaboration SeeFile Software has introduced the third generation of its web-based creative collaboration tool, which allows instant web sharing and messaging around large media files... turns any Macintosh computer into an interactive webserver
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QuarkXPress Gold CopyFlow Gold for QuarkXPress v7 with support for Universal Binary adds powerful page-assembly capabilities to QuarkXPress and provides menu selections which enable end users to automatically import and export multiple linked text stories
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The Indie Bible The Indie Bible is a directory that provides singers and song writers with a long list of music review channels and sites, independent artist music stations and album/CD merchants to solve their problem of reaching out to their potential audience.
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Stimulus is Back Tired of juggling between multiple applications just to enjoy your library of digital media files? Stimulus 4.1 For Mac Os X Includes a New Universal Binary Version, Redesigned Interface, Improved Speed, and Support for Additional Media Formats!
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Creative Forecast 2007 The Industry Measure sixth annual forecast of the graphic design and production markets ad agencies, graphic designers, Web designers and developers, corporate design and Internet departments, and commercial photographers in the next 12 months and beyond.
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Adobe InDesign gets PreFlighting InPreflight, a comprehensive quality control solution - Zevrix Solutions - quickly and easily locate potential problems and produce error-free documents
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B/W Styler Plugin B/W Styler for Windows is a Photoshop plugin for B/W conversion, creating traditional B/W effects and styling B/W photos.
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AKVIS Decorator AKVIS "Decorator" plug-in for Photoshop (Elements and many other programs) that cuts 90% of the work out of mapping image surfaces
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