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2nd Quarter 2007

June 2007

• Anime Studio Rose Agent Rose Agent is fully vector-drawn and "bone rigged" with video clips that will help even the newest users draw and create compelling animations
• AdWords Campaigns? There can be no good commerce without proper marketing. Adriana Iordan shares tips and techniques for proper marketing to boost sales reaching a specific range of potential customers.
• Customers & Gaboon Vipers Trials and tribulations of an Apple Serviceman leads George Engel to share this humorous excerpt from his book "the Naked Serviceman" -- about support customers you don't want to hear from.
• 40 Digital Photography Techniques 40 Digital Photography Techniques provides dozens of tips for taking better pictures and getting creative with digital photography
• Snapz Pro X Universal Binary Ambrosia Software Snapz Pro X is a quantum leap in video capture technology, adroitly capturing full motion video of anything on your screen. It's our most recommended screen capture utility for Mac.
• Safari for Windows Considering the successes of Apple's other Windows products, we knew it wouldn't be long before they would be playing in the big boy's browser sandbox. Apple has introduced Safari 3 for Windows PCs and Macs.
• Mac OS X Leopard We don't know what "near final" really means, but we do know Apple has been promoting it since June 10, when Steve gave us a little tour of the latest and greatest (near) operating system Mac OS X Leopard
• AKVIS Noise Buster AKVIS Noise Buster -- Noise Suppression for Digital and Scanned Images - digital camera or scanner introduces digital noise - noise removal software removes noise while keeping fine details of a picture.
• It's All Geek To Me Maria O. Arguello from the Main Line Macintosh Users Group reviews the new show from David Pogue, NY Times technology columnist ... "brilliant, informative, and entertaining -- understandable, funny and non-intimidating"! Read Maria's review
• Low Budget Shooting Low Budget Shooting is the one-stop source where you will find instructions and a shopping list on how to build an array of useful and inexpensive photographic tools.
• Watermarking Photos You work hard to take great photography and should be rewarded for your efforts. Watermarking your images is a way to reduce theft and to get recognition for your creative talents.
• Adobe GoLive 9 With GoLive 9, designers can master the basics of web design and then grow into building more sophisticated web experiences using the industry-leading tools in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software.
• Apple Updates MacBook Pro Apple Updates MacBook Pro Latest Intel Core 2 Duo Processors, Memory Up to 4GB and Higher Performance Graphics Across the Line
• Most Influential In Mac Community Recognize any names? MacTech Magazine has announced the 2007 MacTech 25: The Mac technical community's most influential people. I'll bet you know a few of these
• iPod becomes PDA with iPda Apple's iPod with iPDA serves as an excellent replacement PDA -- Word, PDF, Apple Pages, RTF or text documents -- along with information from Entourage, Stickies, Mail, Address Book and iCal, can all be easily imported into iPod.
• LaCie Announces 2 Terabyte Storage One Terabyte equals 1,000 gigabytes... LaCie now delivers 2TB network storage For Home and Small Office Use in a single solution
• Affordable Scanners The Microtek ScanMaker s450 is a versatile scanner designed with both photo imaging and document imaging features -- to meet the diverse needs of a home office
• Beach Blankets and Business You'd love to spend a week lounging on the beach with your family. Problem is, you're an entrepreneur with no time for such frivolities. Right? Wrong! Ty Freyvogel says you can balance your work and your personal lives this summer--and here's how.
• Human Resource Metrics HR to the Rescue! In light of the looming labor shortage, organizations must maximize the contributions of their human capital. Ultimate Performance: Measuring Human Resources at Work, a new book from Wiley, explains how.
• RAGE MapDesign 1.0 RAGE MapDesign provides a WYSIWYG user interface that allows web developers to visually add hot spots to a single image file which link to multiple web pages.
• EagleFiler information manager EagleFiler information manager -- lets you archive and search mail, Web pages, PDF files, word processing documents, images, and more. Use it to collect information from a variety of sources
• Mac Entertainment Center Kenbushi v7.0 is a powerful media entertainment centre with built-in file sharing and data backup. Simply connect a PC or Mac to your TV and sound system, and Kenbushi will provide a gorgeous, fast and powerful way to browse, search and play all your movies, music, TV shows and other media

May 2007

• Drop the PowerPoint Crutch Presenters from salespeople to CEOs have embraced PowerPoint, but they're using it incorrectly and undermining their own messages. Paul LeRoux, author of Visual Selling, offers six tips for regaining control and delivering presentations that truly persuade.
• Capturing the Clicks After over a decade, we've gotten pretty Internet savvy. But one concept that still eludes many professionals is effective online advertising. A new book by experts at The Advertising Research Foundation teaches you how to chase the clicks that really pay off.
• Flash CS3: The Missing Manual Here's a reader-friendly animation primer and a guided tour of Flash's program's tools and capabilities. Beginners will learn to use the software in no time
• CDFinder Upgraded CDFinder is the unique software solution to organize your disk and data archive, and to keep track of digital media assets. I've used it for years -- and can't do without it...
• LightZone Photo-Editing Light Crafts Unveils LightZone 3.0 -- Easy to Use Photo-Editing Software -- the first product to fulfill the photo-editing needs of all photographers
• Notes on Maps MapMemo 3 is a a significant upgrade to the industry's unique software, which does some prettty cool stuff -- linking files to a map.
• Adobe CS3 for $89? How many people do you suppose fall for that headline in thousands of illegal email messages they received over the past week? New spam wave offers Adobe CS3 as bait to steal identity and scam unweary computer users... BEWARE...
• International Piracy Watch List In an effort to combat international copyright piracy by calling attention to countries where piracy has reached alarming levels the Caucus announced they will closely monitor the serious problems of copyright piracy in the following five countries: China, Russia, Mexico, Canada, and Malaysia.
• How to Write End User Agreements Whenever you install software on a computer, you will have to face the inevitable: agreeing to the EULA (End User License Agreement). Avengate.com's Adriana Iordan will help you write the effective EULA.
• Designing BSD Rootkits Traditionally, rootkits are used to covertly give a remote attacker complete control of a computer... but you can write offensive rootkits to protect against malicious ones! Here's how...
• Apple iPhone Update Yes, it's delayed, no it's not delayed, it's delayed, it's not delayed, yes, no? Which is it? At least we know it's gotten the FCC Approval! Lots of rumors about the iPhone.
• Phishing on the rise This month's Phishing coverage includes: * Google ads used in spyware phishing scam, then Pulled By Google, * Hackers, Phishers join you at Starbucks * New forms of identity theft * Call Forwarding Masks Fraud * PayPal security measures * Phishing techniques revealed ... And several others in UGN Safenet
• B/W Styler for Mac Photoshop B/W Styler is a Photoshop plugin for B&W conversion, creating traditional B&W effects and styling B&W photos - for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop Elements, Photo-Paint, Photo Plus, IrfanView and PhotoImpact
• 12 Mistakes Presenters Make If you ever had to sit through one of those boring Powerpoint presentations -- heed this before producing your own... Paul LeRoux tells a story about a multimillion-dollar sales presentation to which "Murphy" paid a visit
• Resistance to Change? Resistance to Change ... an article by George M Engel from The FoxWood Lake Estates Computer Users Group Newsletter ... "Being an old veteran of the Macin tosh Service Bench, I was hesitant to be an 'Apple Pioneer.'"
• Closeup Shooting Closeup photography is one of the most fascinating photographic genres -- with Macro Photography, the digital camera photographer can capture tiny objects beautifully in photographic images.
• Judiciary Committee says "NO" to Spyware The I-Spy Prevention Act overwhelmingly passed the House of Representatives in the 108th and 109th Congress, addresses the most egregious activities that are conducted via spyware
• AOL Gone Bad... revisited a reader responds to Fred Showker's -AOL Gone Bad- article in 60-Second Windows... are they treating you bad enough to cut and run? This reader thinks so.
• DEFCON for Mac OS X here comes the game -- inspired by the 1983 cult-classic film, WarGames, superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion surrounding the Cold War era.
• Cure ugly online presentations WINDOWS: WildPresenter is the only presentation software that allows users to instantly re-create all multimedia elements including images, video, audio, quizzes, text effects, and screen recordings
• Light Crafts Completes Adobe's Creative Suite Lightzone's purpose-built photo-editing capabilities adds advanced photo-editing capabilities to Adobe graphic-design and video-editing suite for Windows and Mac
• Own a Color Jonathan Munk shares important considerations for your Logo, color scheme and identity program
• Print with any printer in the world What to do when you can't print at home? Printeranywhere.com is a software that lets you to print your document with any printer -- anywhere in the world.
• Creating Information Architecture Author Ivy Hastings shares her insights into building information architecture -- the easy and best way! And, it's not what you think.
• Be a video weather forcaster Who's the next weather anchor? MyAccuWeather Video Challenge gives weather fans the opportunity to post their own Video Forecasts on AccuWeather.com
• Curtains plugin filter for Adobe After Effects. AlphaPlugins plug-in filter for Adobe After Effects for eye-catching dynamic pieces of fabric, waving flags, gauzy curtains, heavy tableau curtains and many fantastic transition effects.

April 2007

• LeVitus, Breen at UGs in May: Mac celebrities Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus, and Macworld's Chris Breen are coming your way next week
• Portland MUG MacCamp: Deep in Oregon's rain forest, the folks who attended April's MacCamp ate, slept and lived Macintosh for three days.
• April 23 Net Neutrality Update: The first Net Neutrality online Survey (strongly recommended * Musicians Establish National Net Neutrality Campaign * Google Fools: Web Through the Toilet * AT&T jumps in * Death Cab, REM, Leo, Wrens Rock * FCCing time * Rogers' packet shaping * Quarantining Verizon's union workers, and 8 others
• Jobs on iPhone Comedy: Comedy piece on the "Apple iPhone" (Sent in by a reader)
• Ten Things You Should Know About...: This web site has a great concept. It gives you "10 Things You Should Know About various topics. Including the two Steves of Apple. ...
• Goodbye Apple Computer: Leander Kahney of the "Cult of Mac" asks : "What's Happening to Our Lovely Cult?"
• The Downing of Internet Radio: This past week, Chris Breen gives us a warning about Internet Radio. It seems that the greed of the RIAA is once again proving that they can kill their own business.
• All about Mac Loyalists: "Why Apple's customer base is so loyal and enthusiastic" is the title of an article on the BlackFriar's web site. i believe that it is right on.
• ZabaResearch: I was told about this search engine by a co-worker today. It is a little bit scary
• MySpace stats falsified?: I came across an article in today's Fort Worth Star Telegram about the Pew internt & American Life Project. In it, it quotes online teens as saying they exaggerate their content on Myspace or FaceBook.
• iTunes Painfully Slow: That's the first complaint of the guy who owns the world's largest iPod collection.
• External Boot for Mac: DasBoot makes most any external device a boot drive -- for Mac users
• LinkOptimizer for Adobe InDesign: LinkOptimizer is the solution for reducing the size of images linked to Adobe InDesign document automatically.
• Thunderbird 2: Mozilla released version 2 of Thunderbird earlier today.
• Ghost gets it done: Ghost Action is a Mac application that helps you get organized, increase your productivity, and make better use of your time.
• Window Voodoo on Mac: Atomic Bird has a pretty cool program called MondoMouse that allows some unique movements of windows in Mac OS X 10.4.
• BlackBerry Missing Sync: ...move your information between your Mac and BlackBerry handset successfully.
• Net Neutrality Debates Updated - Net Neutrality Never Really Existed? * Discussions of the profit motifs of Net Neutrality * The Human Face of Net Neutrality * Death Of The Internet Greatly Exaggerated * Big Internet Slowdown? * and others...
• IPv6 Ongoing Report - IPv6 Internet is for Porn * IPv6 Comes to Harrisonburg, Va * Clean-Slate Work * Innofone * Innofone IPv6 Summits * Apple bolsters AirPort base station security * Fix released for Airport * 3.5-Gigahetz Spectrum * HP Unveils Breakthrough * and others
• Print On Demand : A Definition and a Comparison Author Michael LaRocca shares a good overview of Print-On-Demand publishing as an alternative for the aspiring author. It has its strengths and its weaknesses.
• Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers Did you think the web is pages only? This guide to writing webbots, spiders, and screen scrapers shows you how to harness the Web using automated agents with PHP/CURL
• TypeCon2007 Call for Speakers TypeCon2007 Call for Speakers for the Education Forum - devoted to addressing issues faced by type educators and the institutions they represent.
• Flash and Search Engine Optimization Adriana Iordan, Web Marketing Manager at Avangate B.V. Avangate writes about optimizing web site performance when using dynamic features such as Flash.
• PitStop with Adobe Acrobat 8 support XChange International has rolled out new versions of the Enfocus product range, including the industry standard PitStop Professional, PitStop Server, Instant PDF and PitStop Automate with Adobe Acrobat 8 support.
• Wildform WildPresenter Pro 3.1 Wildform, Inc. has released WildPresenter Pro 3.1, a major update to its powerful and award-winning multimedia presentation software.

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