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September 2005

Font Manager for Windows Macs have had this kind of power for years. Now, Cfont Pro Font Manager brings support for Postscript Type 1 fonts and better support for OpenType fonts to the Windows platform.
Major Enhancements for .Mac A significant update to .Mac provides group communication, file sharing, file storage and protecting digital photos and videos, private groups, back-up and restore and new rates for single or family plans.
Photo Retouchers Tips and Techniques If you work with photos, you'll want this collection of real-world, straight-from-the-trenches advice on the practical commercial applications of retouching with Adobe Photoshop.
User-friendly reference for TCP/IP Finally, there's an up-to-date, well-illustrated guide to the TCP/IP protocol suite for network professionals, internetworking educators, and students ...
Go Behind Closed Doors Go behind the usual closed doors to learn how to become a better manager -- even a great manager - powerful tips on delegating effectively, using feedback, goal-setting, meetings, decision making and more...
Points to Consider before Web Promotion Doing business online is not as easy as it seems! Nowshade Kabir points out some important points of consideration.
Using icons Icon expert, Alexander Guerrero, talks about using icons for a better communication between user and application interface author.
el Ballo; get your funk on! Ambrosia's new game dances to the beat of a different drummer: el Ballo. This soon-to-be-hero jumps on the scene, naked and dirty. (Well, not exactly!) Have some fun...
AppleScript Handbook for Mac Danny Goodman's AppleScript Handbook, one of the best-selling AppleScript eBooks, by popular demand, is now available as a printed softcover edition...
Find and learn menu shortcuts KeyCue is for menu shortcuts what PopChar is for special characters. Just hold down the command key and KeyCue will show you all currently available menu shortcuts.
TuneTech for iPod Recover lost or damaged music, repair corrupted data structures, backup your iPod to an exact copy, permanently delete unwanted files, or optimize the file layout of your music and more...
Free image editor for Mac OS X Tiger 30 unique masks, new Core Image filter effects, LinkBack technology support... and it's free!
Apple Introduces iPod nano a revolutionary full-featured iPod that holds 1,000 songs yet is thinner than a standard #2 pencil ; color monitor ; photo support ; and more
Apple Introduces iTunes 5 new features; refined look; new Search Bar; organize playlists into folders; change the "randomness" of shuffled songs; Windows users sync to and from Outlook... and more
Mobile Phone get iTunes Get less done, have more fun... here's the world's first mobile phone with iTunes, 100 iTunes for Mac or PC -- from Apple, Motorola and Cingular Wireless.
New Cars with iPod Integration Acura, Audi, Honda and Volkswagen will deliver iPod integration with their car stereos for 2006 model lines, bringing iPod to some 30% of the new cars in U.S.
Voice Control for iTunes Speakables for iTunes is the first voice recognition software product to enable users to launch iTunes playlists by simply speaking the name the playlist
Browse Archives with Disk Order Need a file manager that can browse archives? try Disk Order 1.5.5 with improved tabbed interface for managing files, folders and archives on Macintosh
Slideshow Magic ... new version sports up to 25 new features, including the ability for transitions, sound effects, audio tracks, customizable titles and so much more!
New Stuffit Deluxe Arrives This new version of StuffIt Deluxe allows users to compress JPEG images and photos up to 30% with no loss in image quality.
Increase Wireless Range 5X With four new directional wireless networking Corner Antennas for G5 and G4 desktops, users can easily experience three to five times the wireless range over the stock Power Mac desktop
FileMaker Pro 8 FileMaker Pro 8 desktop database, offers new ways to work faster, share and manage information of all types, and be more productive.
New Now Up-to-Date, Contact Now, for Tiger, this favorite is updated for printing, shared calendars and contacts and overall reliability.
Timbuktu Pro for Mac OS X For nearly twenty years, Timbuktu Pro for Mac OS has been the standard for remote control on the Mac OS. Now, a host of new features come to Tiger.
Power Manager Power Manager is a system utility for scheduling automatic power events including start up, log out, and shut down.
CDFinder Gets Better one of the best little utilities you can purchase for your Mac -- CDFinder tells you where the needle is in the haystack!
iDive 1.4: Digital Video Shoebox import, catalog, and tag digital videos for easy searching and organization of movies -- if you edit iMovies or QuickTime, you'll want a digital shoebox

August 2005

New Threat: Spear Phishing! Phishers are taking better aim -- the criminals have honed their phishing tools to target unwary computer users with a very pointed weapon: Spear Phishing. Education, Corporate, Government and Institutional computer users need to know about this new threat...
60-Seconds #175: White-washing porn... recent edition of NBC's "Dateline" missed the point about online crime -- white-washing spam and online porno in a prime-time TV show!
Safe Eyes comes to the Mac Safe Eyes, the No. 1 Internet Filter for Windows is now available for the Mac to eliminate those unwanted sites, content, popup windows, and chat rooms. This could be the best news for Mac-using families in a long time.
Build to the Sky While this is not necessarily about computers and software, we know lots of our readers love LEGOs. This book elevates those fun little plastic bricks for kids to an all new level -- showing you how to build some remarkable engineering feats.
Bubblomania Experience extreme bubble-popping action in this psychedelic arcade game -- full of thrill and action, featuring subtle gameplay, flashy graphics and great music!
Stock Layouts for CorelDRAW For graphic designers and business publishers who need to produce professional-looking brochures, newsletters, flyers, postcards, ads, business cards, letterheads and more. For CorelDRAW Graphics Suite versions 9 through 12
SW: Words, Widgets, Lyrics and even Tennis This week, once again, something new from each of our shareware/freeware libraries -- from an all new bbEdit to Widget Makers to iTunes lyrics extractors... we even have a Tennis statistics package and a game!
How to get un-banned from Google I am banned from Google...Help! What did you do to get banned? Can you get un-banned? Yes! But first you need to know what you did to get banned. Google will not tell you. Here, Joe Balestrino shows you how to fix it!
BBEdit 8.2.3, Universal Binary Bare Bones Software latest version 8.2.3 will for the first time, run natively as a Universal Binary for the Apple Developer Transition Kit hardware.
PC-Mac PasswordVault We've told you about PC-Mac PasswordVault before. The latest version runs directly off USB flash drives -- so it's now portable...
Macs in 3D-Space This is one of the coolest new utilities for the Mac in a long time. It gives the Finder interface a 3D appearance. See pictures in this article in the Shareware Department
Free Image Editor BeLight Software's "Image Tricks runs under Tiger and provides some 35 filters and functions found only in pay-to-own commercial plug-ins... it's FREE and compatible with any Photoshop plug-in friendly application!
Writing, Painting, Printing, Surfing This week we look at an assistant to help you write, Free painting package for Mac OS X, PrintMagic 4.0 from Steve Becker, MailPop, MacPoker Pro, iTunes dupes with TidyUp, Proteus instant messaging, LazyMouse, ClamXav virus checker, and more ... all in this week's Shareware Manager
Business Blogging and RSS Conference San Francisco August 17-19 -- BusinessWeek states quite bluntly that weblogs are "the most explosive outbreak in the information world since the Internet itself." This conference will fill you in ...
QuicKeys X3: Home run Startly Technologies' QuicKeys X3 for Apple's Mac OS X is certainly still one of the most recommended OS add-ons in the field. Many users have loved QuicKeys for years... find out what you've been missing...
Take Spectacular Nighttime Photos Photography expert Andrew Malek shares tips on taking spectacular nighttime photos with your Digital Camera ...
Making your BlackBerry more secure Your device allows access to your email account, so you must take steps to secure it against misuse by others. These instructions will help you get that BlackBerry secure
Books: Cool Mac Apps and selling on eBay Back to school and learning... catch up with several new arrivals in the bookshelf: Tiger is the big topic as are the iLife applications. With the holiday "gift" season just around the corner, we've also highlighted two wonderful books on preparing your photos of products to sell on eBay...
Apple Doubles Mac mini Memory Apple Enhances Mac mini with Double the Memory Across the Line New Features Include Built-in Wireless Networking & DVD Burning and more.
Faster iBooks on the way... Apple Unveils New iBook Line With Scrolling TrackPad & Sudden Motion Sensor Starts at Just $999. Here are all the details...
European Open Source Convention O'Reilly Media has launched its first European Open Source Convention (EuroOSCON). Registration has just opened for EuroOSCON, which will be held at the Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on October 17-20, 2005.
Academic Program Pricing for Bare Bones Bare Bones Software, developers of leading-edge power tools for the Macintosh, today announced new academic program pricing for their award-winning BBEdit and Mailsmith products.
Free Mac Do-It-Yourself Guides PB FixIt today announced a significant addition to their FixIt Guide Series, the Mac Mini FixIt Guide. PB FixIt is also making all FixIt Guides available as free downloadable PDFs. "There is no reason to pay Apple's ridiculous labor fees ever again," said Kyle Wiens, PB FixIt's CEO.
Website With a Conscience Donates All Rectifi.org is a groundbreaking new concept in online shopping and price comparison. Whilst helping the user find the cheapest prices around, Rectifi benefits a variety of charities by passing on 100% of the profits ...
Unlimited colors from ColorSafe ColorSafe is a filter plugin for Adobe Photoshop and compatible applications that provides fully interactive color pickers for the easy creation of almost limitless hybrid colors from the base colors in the Web safe palette.
Amara Flash Photo Animation Amara Software has just launched "Flash Photo Animation", allowing users to bring motion to their still photos in a slideshow -- with lots of options such as pan and zoom (the Ken Burns' effect), as well as pauses, text over picture, hyperlinks and background music. (Free Demo!)
Colorize and replace colors AKVIS LLC has released an innovative Windows image processing software for quick colorizing of B&W photos and replacing colors on color photos. Coloriage
Font Tools get and upgrade VEENIX (Mac) has added a number of new features to the Visual Font Database System, a robust, yet easy-to-use WYSIWYG font organizing, activating, viewing and printing system for both installed and uninstalled fonts.

July 2005

Hear that Faint Whir in Your System? Listen to your computer ever so carefully and what do you hear -- besides the blasted fan? It's your hard drive. It's winding down to its final hours just waiting to die at the positively, absolute worst possible moment. You know it...we know it. What are you going to do about it?
Web Content Strategy 101 Your web content makes or breaks the profitability of your site. In this article, Joel Walsh shares tips and tricks on how you can develop a strategy to make the most of your site's content.
Books: Photos, spam, Tiger, more... This week we'll bring some more free chapters, downloadable PDF chapters and insights into the latest books for computer users... from Creating a Digital Family Album to the latest Photoshop CS2; a little about Spyware and Cookies; plus a Draggable Dock tip! Then we look into the latest iLife and some of the real tips and tricks for upgrading to Tiger. School season is just around the corner so grab this...
Start Your Engines If you've ever considered programming your own computer game -- and you're hankering to get on the race track you'll need "Start Your Engines" - the First Book on Developing Driving and Racing Games by game programming expert Jim Parker
Linux Made Easy ... Is it easier than Windows? Linux For Non-Geeks author returns with guide to Xandros; includes Xandros Open Circulation on CD, plus SkypeOut coupon and more to help you take the uncertainty out of switching operating systems.
SW: Business and the Internet This week we focus on great new internet and business applications: Safari Prairiefire kills dead links, and there's a new Firefox Web browser! Plus: Search for Patents with Patent Grabber; a Graphs Widget; SMTPit Pro FileMaker SMTP; AB Transfer; the latest OmniOutliner; the super ConvertIt Pro and more... all in this week's Shareware Manager
Free Stock Photos Online Following Lynn's note about TurboPhoto, here's a fully confirmed listing of sites on the web offering free or almost free stock photos!
SW: Living the iLife: This week we feature some swell shareware and freeware apps for living the iLife... Apimac Slide Show 6.4; Boom Recorder 64-channel recording; Health Tracker; HistoryHound Web Indexing; iTMS Estimator tracks iTunes countdowns; iTunes Library Manager; LilyPond music notation; LiveDictionary Safari extension; Media Rage tools; Movie Montage quick access to movies and more...
Conference to Help Women Do Business on the WEB! This year's theme is "Women and ECommerce - Connecting, Inspiring, and Thriving Beyond 2005"
60 Seconds: Online Crime in charge of the Internet? -- It seem like an uncomprehensible statement, but look closely and you may realize it could be true. Now the only question is: what do we plan to do about it? This month's 60 Second Window looks at online crime...
Apple Online Seminars... Digital Media, 3D Modeling, Servers, Networks, Asset Management, Creative Workgroups, Biotech, Xserve RAID, Color Management, ColorSync, Computational Clusters, Storage Deployments, Workgroup Services, Font Management, Presentation, Information Lifecycle Management, Sci/Tech, Scientific and Technical Computing, Managing Creative Assets, Application Performance, Mobile Workstation, Office-on-the-Go, Perfect Color, and more
SW: OS, Development & Utilities: This week it's utilities for the OS and Development: Code Stylist, PHP, Studio, code, XHTML, SQLiteManager, SQL, Meridian, iListen, MacSpeech, MenuCalendarClock, PC-Mac-Net FileShare, PeeCees, iSay, voice messaging, File Synchronization, MainMenu and more...

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