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May 2008

The InfoManager for May 5, 2008 ... IMHO - Meeting Topics, Who gets Yahoo?, Alltop, Little Snitch 2, Xslimer, TheOSFiles, Top 40 Most Useful Mac Freeware, More Free Clip Art from Jumsoft, TimeTable keeps you solvent, Remove grain from photos, 1Password Mac or iPhone, WYSIWYG HTML Editor, Sound Grinder Pro, Rename lots of files at once, Quotes: for Mothers' Day and more
Who gets Yahoo? In the latest 60-Second Window, Fred takes a look at the prospect of a $47-billion dollar purse on the table for Yahoo. As of now, it means too much for Microsoft -- but seriously, folks, what could you do with just the capital gains on that pile of cash?
Free Clip Art from Jumsoft... Yet more great clip art icons for your presentations and publishing projects. Freshly drawn, this clip is well worth a look
TimeTable keeps you solvent At the end of the week, do you know how much your time cost? Do you know who, specifically, should pay for it? With TimeTable you can recover what you're worth by accurate time tracking
Remove grain from photos Today's digital cameras are far more capable of low-light photography than ever before. But with that benefit comes grainy photos. Now you simply drag an image on to Denoise and watch the magic
1Password Mac or iPhone In today's world of dangerous online crime, your passwords are at risk -- they are the hacker or criminal's gateway to stealing your identity...
WYSIWYG HTML Editor If I've heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times: "Give me a WYSIWYG html editor!" HyperEdit solves that problem and adds a lot of coding power as well ...
Sound Grinder Pro So far, Ambrosia's "WireTap" has been the best audio hack program on the Mac... well, until Sound Grinder came along! If you work with audio files, you should see this
Rename lots of files at once... Nothing is more frustrating than dozens of folders with digital camera files all named with stupid numbering schemes. Now you can rename with meaningful names, all at the same time!
Online crime exploits phishing and botnets Topping this latest round of reports are some scary new developments in cypercrime -- dramatic increases in attacks from China -- one China hacker claims hacks on the Pentagon. They'll be targeting next week's IRS stimulus payments with new phishing tools that let criminals cover their tracks... ALSO: PayPal anti-phishing to block browsers * Spam Hits Google Calendar * hacker attacks via Orkut, Facebook * Subpoena Phishing Attacks Rise * and others in this SafeNet Phishing Alerts issue
iPhone: Cool Stuff from April What should the next iPhone have? * Quake 3 Ported to iPod Touch * 3G iPhone: Walt Mossberg * 3G iPhone pics * Nokia offers Tube as iPhone rival * Samsung's iPhone Killer * iPhone software * iPhone TV streaming * iPhone Blu-Ray Player Remote * Chinese know iPhone * Sync your Firefox bookmarks with the iPhone * iPhone slashes prices in Germany * and many others
Mac runs your retail store? For some, running a retail operation with a Mac seems... well, just cool. Now it can be done, and done well. See Checkout
VectorDesigner adds PDF and EPS import TweakerSoft has added PDF, EPS import and improved SVG import to their latest upgrade of VectorDesigner -- the perfect application for vector drawings, diagrams and illustrations, raster image handling, filtering and color correction

April 2008

Morphing Images on Leopard Fred sez:
Morphing is one of the cooler manipulations you can do with images -- and Morph Age Pro now puts face recognition to work for itelligent morphing! Very cool.
Cool Clip Art from Jumsoft It's zippy, flippy, hippie, and trippie... you'll like Jumsoft's new collection of clip art! They say it's for Apple's Pages... but you can use it anywhere!
SiteGrinder comes to MAC This easy-to-use plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, effortlessly lets users convert their Photoshop designs into CSS-rich, standards-compliant webpages from within Photoshop with just a click of the mouse
FotoMagico Sharing Assistant The new Sharing Assistant makes it super easy to create the files you want for making a DVD, putting them on your iPod, iPhone or Apple TV, or playing in full quality on another Mac. PDEE (Personal Digital Export Expert)
Chopper is BACK... Fred sez:
This wonderful game is truly reminiscent of early Mac games -- which thrilled us back at the dawn of graphical games on the computer! Chopper Rocks!
HUGO Create The aim of the challenge is to give designers, illustrators and photographers the chance to show the world their abilities by the creation of a stunning tribute to the iconic HUGO Man bottle ... and win $500
SmileLab free Smile data visualization software, plotting interface makes easier to plot data by importing files, specifying intermediate computations and access display settings, all in the same interface -- for most people who need to visualize data, particularly engineers and students (Free Student License!)
60 Seconds: Crime gets a free ride from ICANN Over 800 spams in a single day -- I discover that nearly 200 of them advertise the SAME product, yet send the unweary victim to a different domain. One spammer has thousands of domains... but wait -- they change about every five days! Organized crime on the web is getting a free ride from ICANN by "Domain Tasting" ... here's how it works
Doozla Drawing for Kids! Here's a new full screen vector drawing application for kids that will knock you out! Doozla features simple free-hand drawing and color tools, webcam & tablet support, entertaining color-in templates and inspiring background images.
Surviving the Economic Downturn The financial news of the past few weeks has left many a business owner panicked -- but David Giannett says you can actually use the economic downturn to create a better organization.
Record your screen While we are completely satisfied with Snapz Pro, ScreenRecord 2 offers a lot of benefit as an easy-to-use screen capturing tool that records actions on the screen as a Quicktime movie.
Burger Shop for the Macintosh After receiving a set of strange blueprints in the mail, you build an extraordinary food-making contraption and open a restaurant. It's a cool game requiring some pretty demainding thought ... but it also has lots of laughs!
WOWODC 2008 The WebObjects Community Association, BoxOffice Tickets and OS communications informatiques have announced plans for their WOWODC 2008, the annual conference dedicated to Apple's WebObjects Web development framework.
Moms Rule! at RiffWorld I stumbled onto this and had to pass it along... the RiffWorks site has a wealth of music in lots of categories. Find an indie musician, and collect the music! RiffRumble X, an online song collaboration contest for RiffWorks recording software users. Makes me want to dust off the old Hammond B-3! The theme for songs will be - Moms Rule!
Taking Your iPod touch to the Max Taking Your iPod touch to the Max provides a thorough and enjoyable introduction to the iPod touch, covering all the best, and undocumented tricks and shows readers exactly how to use and enjoy Apple's latest iPod.
Freeway MUG Deal... Freeway producers offer a good opportunity for user groups to own Freeway, and give members a 25% discount...
Kudos Rock Legend Unique, challenging, and highly entertaining, Kudos Rock Legend is part role-playing game, part life-sim game, and part Tycoon game, blended to create an experience that truly immerses the player in the game's high energy storyline
Zero-configuration CMS I've had bad experience with Joomla... it's geek CMS for geeks -- not normal people. If you want a high-power CMS without the geek, get MovableType... if you want really easy, quick CMS, then you need to check out SkyBlueCanvas
Codeless web sites If you would rather not dig under the hood and work directly with web html code, then Freeway 5 could be for you. With its traditional page layout approach, Freeway makes it easy to create dynamic websites without the need to write code.
Pope Benedict XVI gets The Saint John's Bible in today's world of instant publishing, blogs, wikis, and all manner of desktop publishing wizards, and on-demand printing -- isn't it nice to learn that for the first time in 500 years, there is a bible written, illustrated and bound completely, 100%, by hand! ...
Download Mac Cult Books... No Starch Press Turns Table on File Sharing Posts torrent versions of best-selling tech books with 11,000 combined downloads in first week
Drag-and-drop Website creation If you're one of those who wants to spend time developing your life and not your website, you might want to take a look at Sandvox. It's really perfect for low-tech users without formal knowledge of web site production.
Download YouTube Videos Something people have wanted to do for some time -- now available for the Mac
Kenbushi Media Lava Software is now shipping Kenbushi Pro v7.3, free home server software containing a powerful media entertainment center (like AppleTV), file sharing and data backup functions.
Codeless web sites If you would rather not dig under the hood and work directly with web html code, then Freeway 5 could be for you. With its traditional page layout approach, Freeway makes it easy to create dynamic websites without the need to write code.
Make your Money Dance Now there's a financial management for the Mac with a familiar checkbook-register interface and banking, online bill payment, investment management, budget tracking and much more.
Ultimate photo retouch kit High powered masking, outlining has now joined forces with high-tech retouching for a thoroughly professional solution to image manipulation.
Conference Velocity Designed to help break barriers and build a better internet for all users and customers, the conference shares the skills and knowledge crucial to building successful web sites that stay fast, scalable, resilient, and highly available.
Pingology search engine While setting up the User Group Network (UGN) in Pingology this morning, I discovered an interesting results of a search for my keywords -- who is knocking off the UGN trademark...
Mac Documentary to Premiere "Welcome to Macintosh - The documentary for the rest of us" is slated to premiere on April 6, 2008 at the tenth annual Wisconsin Film Festival, in Madison, WI. ...
Video Editing for the rest of us With the fiasco of iMovie 8, many movie lovers will be out of luck, and out in the cold until they discover MediaEdit. Apple has removed some of the most important video editing features and changed essential functions that have been the hallmark of producing good movies. Keep your iMovie 6, and get MediaEdit
Tagging email power If you're a mail hoarder like I am, you may want to check out Indev Software's new release of MailTags 2.2. If you've been sorely disappointed with Apple's Mail.app, like I have, then you definitely need to take a look.

March 2008

Play Pool on the Mac MacPool 9.0 pool simulation game for Mac OS X realistic physics, user options and online gaming, MacPool engaging game play for all ages. Version 9.0 adds a new online game mode allows play remotely via email.
LightZone The latest version of LightZone gives users access to extensive video tutorials providing visual explanations of the innovative tools light crafts offers. LightZone 3.5 is the newest addition to the award winning LightZone photo-enhancing software.
Digital Photography digital photography from the ground up - a comprehensive course in the principles & techniques of modern photography
Phishing: Botnets in the news Phishing' tops of IRS list of taxpayer scams -- 2008's Dirty Dozen Scams * 7.3 million unique botnet intrusions on an average day -- worse yet, Botnets used to blackmail targeted sites : Cyberextortionists * But PayPal launches multi-pronged attack on e-crime * these and others
Drawing with Scribbles Scribbles is a drawing tool with a revolutionary user interface and a slew of user-requested enhancements, including a visual eyedropper, the ability to translate, rotate and scale layers independently, automatic updating, and optional grid overlays.
60 Seconds: What if Star Wars? this morning's news brief footnote recognizing the twenty-fifth anniversary of President Reagan's "Star Wars" speech grabbed my attention. I was reminded of all the controversy stirred by that speech back in March of 1983. So I decided to dig it up and imagine where we would be today...
Phishing Report for March It's time to get tough... the number of fake IRS phishing sites has increased twelvefold -- beware this tax season -- plus: Why You Shouldn't Trust (Some) IRS eMail * The Criminal Ecosystem * Black Hat : Honor Among Thieves * Google phishing attempt * Police say computer crimes on the rise * SPAMfighter Warns of Political Phishing * Malware * OpenDNS Web filtering * Security Web 2.0 * The myth of the Ninja Hacker * and a dozen others... three full pages ... Phishing reports from February to March
iPhone Update: March
iPhone musicians tinkle the touch screen -- do NOT miss the crop of Apple iPhone spoof videos on YouTube... also: * unlocked iPhone's impact * iPhone SDK * There Will Be No Flash * Apple kills third-party background processes * BBC iPlayer Now Works On Apple iPhone * Flexii iPhone zoom lens * Will the iPhone be Bigger than the PC? * Advice for Apple iPhone start-ups * Ten Questions I Still Have About iPhone Software * Apple's iPhone software strategy moves me * Drizzling on the iPhone Parade * Can iPhone Beat BlackBerry? * Sun to build virtual machine for iPhone * What iPhone 2.0 Will Let You Do * and many others
Digital Photography Companion the practical photography advice you can take anywhere - information that shows you how to take control over your digital camera today to improve your photography skills, boost your picture-taking and image-editing knowledge, and, ultimately, shoot better images that truly reflect your creative spirit.
Toolbox gets vector graphics Opcoders has launched the third public alpha of Toolbox, the visual programming tool which enables the combination of bitmaps, vector graphics and effects into amazing works of digital art. This latest release includes support for vector shape editing and filters.
Photonic for Flickr Barton Springs Software Photonic for Flickr Mac OS X's first full Flickr application. Using Photonic, you can upload new pictures to your streams, sets, and groups, browse and search Flickr, and explore your friends' streams and favorites
LifeShaker gets booklet printing Funky Cloud has updated LifeShaker 1.1, a free update to the innovative to-do list application for Mac OS X. LifeShaker revolutionizes the humble to-do list with its unique interface and novel approach to getting stuff done.
Marketing mistakes groups make This issue of Fred Showker's 60-Second Windows: It's been a while since we shared marketing tips for user groups in this column, so this is overdue! If you organization is lagging behind, you'll want to understand these Top 10 Marketing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
David Pogue: Switching to the Mac If you wanted to switch from Windows to Mac, this is the guide to help you make a smooth transition - David Pogue gets you past the challenges of switching: transferring your stuff, assembling Mac programs so you can do what you did with Windows, and learning your way around Mac OS X
iPresent It slideshow-to-iPod utility ZappTek's new iPresent It slideshow-to-iPod utility for Mac OS X allows anyone to easily convert PowerPoint, PDF or Keynote presentations into slideshows that are synced with their iPod
Get Mental Case Mental Case is a revolutionary new flash card application designed to integrate into your daily work flow. Version 1.2 introduces an advanced slide show navigation bar, automatic database backup, and the ability to correct your answers.
Get your dates together John Maisey has done us all a favor by upgrading and improving his great program for Dates to iCal 2 -- the replacement for Apple's birthday calendar for iCal in Leopard
Security Strength Meter Are your passwords weak? Do you have any built-in protection at all? Are you inviting trouble? Password Strength Meter that allows you to quickly find weak passwords that need to be replaced with a stronger password, as well as a Generic Text Importer
Print that Window! Searchware Solutions Print Window 4.0 window printing utility for Mac OS X integrated with the Mac OS X Finder tool to print file/directory listings of the currently selected window or folder -- complete control over the way file listings work, what folders are listed and the final printed format.
iForm processes HTML forms iForm is a program that you use to serve and process HTML forms. Its basic functionality collects form data submitted by a web browser and then emails that data using formatting templates to select recipients, as well as saving it to a text log file which can be imported into a database.
Finance to go... Fastforward Software FinanceToGo 1.6.3 is an effective small business finance application for Mac OS X that solves many of the tedious operations -- while making accurate financial tracking easy to learn
FluidNoise natural images Fluidmac application for Mac OS X - FluidNoise uses natural looking random noise to create images and movies from scratch - simple interface generates anything from clouds, fire or water to marble, wood grain or rusty metal.
PTHPasteboard PTHPasteboard PRO 4.3 adds support for powerful new Web Enabled Filters. The Language Translation Filter, translates to and from various different languages using Google's Language Tools.
Digital storytelling GroupSmarts MemoryMiner is a fantastic complement to the iLife suite, MemoryMiner lets anyone zero in on stories depicted in their photos by linking them to each other based on people, places and time
Facebook: The Missing Manual Facebook: The Missing Manual -- Finally! A Missing Manual to Help You Navigate the World's Most Popular Social Networking Site
iPhoto '08: The Missing Manual David Pogue and Derrick Story Inside Apple iPhoto 08: The Missing Manual find everything you need to know to start using this popular digital photography software
New Wiki Editor ProjectForum, a wiki-based collaboration application for small and medium workgroups, has been updated to version 6.0, a major new release. Highlights include an innovative new wiki editor, and a new site-wide user accounts option, previously only available in the high-end Enterprise edition. Anyone can install this powerful but easy-to-use workgroup wiki on Mac OS X in minutes.

February 2008

AddMovie joins movies or images AddMovie combines multiple movies or images into a single movie and batch exporting movies to any format supported by QuickTime
Hard drive diagnostic scanning Is your hard drive okay? How do you know? SMART Utility hard drive diagnostic scanning application highlighting failing drives, expanding drive listings, to scan the internal hardware diagnostics system of hard drives
Direct Mail management for Mac OS X e3 Software has rolled out Direct Mail 2.0, a major update to their incredibly popular mailing list management and mail delivery application for Mac OS X.
Adobe InDesign CS3 Nothing comes closer to a personal coach than Deke McClelland. In this impressive book, Deke works with you to learn the most important skills in Adobe's InDesign software. Get Deke to train you One-on-One
ZeusDraw vector drawing ZeusDraw is a vector drawing program with a fluid, graceful interface, great brushes and a host of other features. If you don't own Adobe Illustrator, then you should strongly consider ZeusDraw
iMaginator and Create iMaginator and Create are two powerful publishing tools for Mac OS X -- including 17 applications, a widget and even a screen saver. Brought to you by 'Stone Works' an impressive new Mac developer .
Free "How-To" Podcasting Guide "PoducateMe: Practical Solutions for Podcasting in Education" is a comprehensive, fully illustrated guide detailing how to create and distribute podcast recordings to students through the Internet. Best of all, it's FREE.
Developing a Business Plan Developing a Business Plan means Developing a Successful Business. But this can also apply to any organization, even your nonprofit user group or educational organization! Here are some basic ideas for making your plan better...
SmartBackup Backup Smart SmartBackup is the ideal application to perform all kinds of daily backups to hard drives, network sharepoints, webDAV, USB sticks, iPods etc -- it's very easy to set up and straightforward operating
DrawIt vector-drawing DrawIt is unique in that it presents the user with a simple and clean interface, yet packs an impressive assortment of useful, professional grade features. You'll find it's an easy-to-use, vector-drawing and image editing application for Mac OS X
Frames for your art? DropFrame is cross-platform application that allows you to easily add a picture frame to your images. DropFrame lets you give your digital work that extra touch and lets customers see your work just like it would look hanging on the wall
Don't grag it... CRAB it Blue Crab is a versatile program that you use to copy the contents of a website to your computer -- conduct fast offline browsing and searching without an internet connection, create a snapshot of a website for historical archiving, collect specific types of resources and more
Ready, Fire, Aim: Michael Masterson's Much-Anticipated New Book, Ready, Fire, Aim, Is Released Nationwide and Offers Nine Powerful Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Should Stop Procrastinating and Start Selling!
Relationship Resolution Even the smartest, most hardworking entrepreneurs depend on other people for their success. Ty Freyvogel, founder of MakingSenseOfYourBusiness.com, suggests you make 2008 the year you start showing them you know that. Follow along with Ty as he presents his Ten Ways to Strengthen Critical Business Relationships
Overhaul Your Project Management System If you can't prioritize the projects you already have, and make good decisions on selecting new ones, your organization will be in serious trouble. Rudolf Melik explains how to transform your project management "three ring circus" into a sane, smart, successful system.
Five Business Tactics for 2008 So you say you want a resolution? Quint Studer, author of the bestseller Results That Last, offers five simple tips for turning it all around... fast. These leadership tactics can make for a pivotal business year -- business moves that not only improve your bottom line but actually have staying power! Five Business Tactics for 2008
Image Processing for Leopard Jade uses state-of-the-art algorithms to enhance color, contrast and dynamic range -- it's an easy-to-use image enhancement and batch processing tool that will automatically improve digital images.
Sync music libraries between computers SuperSync lets music fans synchronize their personal music collections between their Mac and PC computers over any network -- two music libraries can be compared and merged, with new files automatically added to a user's iTunes library.
Azkend Game challenges your skills Azkend Game challenges your skills ... unlock 8 mighty talismans and unleash their powerful help as you make your way to the mysterious temple. Featuring loads of challenging levels, stunning scenery, and two game modes, Azkend is a magical adventure of puzzling fun.

January 2008

Benefits of Follow-Through Marketing Janice Jenkins writes about follow-through marketing experiences and why this can mean so much to your firm or organization -- she says: For all the business people reading this: Do what you promised to do!
Night Phoenix Ready for the Mac with holographic touch screens and voice command modules? Night Phoenix is a comic book character created by Chicago area artist, writer and Apple enthusiast J. Piv a.k.a PIVIT, who shows us computing twenty years from now!
The Big Mean Folder Machine What I can't figure out is why didn't Apple come up with this? The Big Mean Folder Machine is an easy to use file/folder management utility that works with large file collections -- merging files from several folders into a single folder, or split files into several folders, etc. On the Mac, you need this.
VectorDesigner We've been asked dozens of times how to use the web logo on Tshirts, banners and newspaper ads. Simply put, if it's a gif or jpg, you can't! TweakerSoft's VectorDesigner on the other hand is a resolution independent vector graphics application for Mac OS X. So you can create images that go from web page thumbnail to road-side billboard use... and you don't have to buy Adobe Illustrator!
Academic Reference Manager for Pages Apple designed Pages for people without skills or training in writing. That's why sophisticated literary notation is not a strong point of Pages. Here's the first academic reference manager to include native support for formatting citations and bibliographies in Apple Pages '08
Advanced Rails Advanced Rails shows experienced Rails developers how they can build large applications such as these, providing key information that previously they would have to glean for themselves by scouring dozens of developers' blogs
Flip Words 2 for Mac Any Scrabble lovers in the audience? Now, Red Marble Games Flip Words 2 game for the Macintosh provides hours of addictive word searching and phrase building fun -- Players can even let others share in the fun with Party mode
Conversion Tools Bundle All those programs like Quark, InDesign or Microsoft just don't play well together. Now you can save both time and money by converting documents to other formats automatically. Q2ID is a plug-in for converting documents from QuarkXPress to InDesign format. Q2ID now includes Universal Binary support as well as CS3 compatibility.
Fone 2 Phone iPhone media reader Fone2Phone is a sleek utility for Macintosh users that will copy data from an ordinary cell phone to the Macintosh computer in one streamlined operation. This little jewel takes care of the complete communication process, from connecting the cell phone to saving the files in the appropriate locations
Never forget anything ever again That's a big promise. But MenuMinder lets you create quick, simple alert, email and SMS Text Message (mobile phone) reminders using the system-wide menu that can be accessed from any application. This is very cool.
Sync iCal over networks BusySync 1.5 is a free upgrade to calendar sharing utility that now supports synching over the Internet. So if you also discovered how lame dot-Mac is, you'll really appreciate this new utility from BusyMac
Take Your Photography to the Next Level Written for the photographer who strives to achieve a higher level of results in their work this book tackles some of the rarely discussed, yet essential, aspects of successful photography.
Visualizing Data With all the data we've collected, we still don't have many satisfactory answers. This book shows how to make use of data as a resource that might otherwise never be used - a variety of basic visualization principles - how to understand data: how to get from a sea of numbers to meaningful information.
The Creative Digital Darkroom Katrin Eismann Teaches Photographers How to Sculpt with Light and Listen to Their Images - new tutorial provides digital photographers with much more than the quick tips and gimmicky effects of many of today's books
The Nikon D80 Dbook The Nikon D80 Dbook is the ideal companion for anyone who wants to get the most from their Nikon camera -- includes 620 PDF pages with the fundamentals on all aspects of the digital image creation process: digital photography basics, taking pictures, image optimization, lenses and more
Photoshop CS3 RAW "RAW data is the holy grail of digital photography," says Mikkel Aaland -- his latest edition focuses on the important features of Adobe Photoshop CS3, including Camera Raw's new retouching tools
Burn DVDs over and over Tired of trying to plan just enough data to fill a DVD before burning it? Don't you hate to burn a half-full DVD? Now you can burn multi-session DVDs -- and make meaningful backups over and over again
hierarchical menus in the Dock For years, Apple's spring-loaded folders let us put files where they belong simply by dragging and dropping into a series of folders. Then in OS X they took that feature away. What were they thinking? Well, now you can put hierarchical menus BACK in the Dock... and it's donationware!
Control fonts and tunes You Control: Fonts 1.3 is the system-wide WYSIWYG font menu, and You Control: Tunes 1.6 is the powerful iTunes controller and library browsing utility.
FinanceToGo 1.6 for Mac After the first of the year, you'll need to start getting your finances together. Fastforward releases FinanceToGo 1.6 accounting software for Mac, improves usability and more
LightZone First Professional Photo Editor for Linux Users LightZone photo-editing software is the only application of its kind that performs on all three major platforms -- which can improve every photo regardless of camera type -- from cell phone cameras, to point and click, to D-SLR's
iPhone becomes Business Tool Astaro Corporation has announced that iPhone users can now use two varieties of road warrior virtual private networks - you no longer have to open their laptop in order to access company or home network resources
Graphics of the Americas 2008 Five-Day InDesign, Pixel, Vector and Adobe Acrobat Conferences offer unprecedented peer schmoozing, tips, tricks, seminars and tutorials covering all the important graphics and imaging tools today's creatives need to master
How to Market Without Marketing Contributing writer, Janice Jenkins shares her tips and tricks for busy people who don't have time for a marketing course. How to Market Without Marketing
Ready. Set. ActionScript 3.0. Turn your programming dreams into a virtual reality with Learning ActionScript 3.0 from O'Reilly
Plan the route - journal the trip Berbie Software announces an update for TrailRunner 1.6, the outdoor oriented route planning and journaling software for Mac OS X
Norrkross Freeware Norrkross offers two cool applications that accomplish big tasks ... Norrkross Tint to adjust the color balance of images ... Norrkross Patterns to create palettes of pattern colors from images
Music Library Synchronization When you consider some of the bugs and design flaws in iTunes, SuperSync personal music library synchronization is a real treat. So, now you can synchronize music collections between computers over the Internet.

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