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Adding up the Apple tax

Through the graces of an anonymous benefactor, I have a recent-vintage white MacBook to use for the next few months. As a newbie Mac user, I paid special attention to Apple’s announcements of new MacBooks last week. And Microsoft paid special attention, too, as I received multiple e-mails from folks...

Tags: Apple Inc., Taxes, Free Trade, Notebooks, Financial Planning, Finance, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Bott, Apple Macintosh, Tax, Apple MacBook, RAM, Mac Way, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-21

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Snard 2.6.2 (Mac)

Snard is the Swiss Army Knife of launcher programs. It provides many of the functionalities of the old Apple and Application menus, yet it can be customized to your heart's content. Snard can be used as a system menu, hot key activated popup menu or you can assign individual Snard...

Tags: Menu, Apple Macintosh, Gideon Softworks, Snard, Mice, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Keyboards, Desktops, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-07

SEEdit Pro 1.8.0 (Mac)

With SEEdit's fast and powerful Editor Toolbox, insertion of code and classes are always just one click away. SEEdit's handy advanced Tag Editor also handles CSS classes and Javascript functions. Other powerful features to assist professionals and hobbyists worldwide include Tidy Checker for standards-compliant code, the Quick CSS Tool for...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Insertion, Sven E Olsson, SEEdit, Insert RSS Item Tool, CSS, Xhtml, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-07

Thunderbird 3: Near-final version due next week

Thunderbird 3It's about time. Thunderbird, to date, has been a disappointment when compared to its place in the email client sector, compared with Firefox's place in the browser sector.I haven't seen it or read the features yet, but I hope they have made real progress as I would be delighted...

Tags: E-mail clients, Mozilla Thunderbird, Thunderbird 3, Microsoft Outlook, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

MacNote3 2.4.0 (Mac)

Features of MacNote3 1. SimplicityThe most important feature of MacNote3 is its simplicity. It can be used in a fairly intuitive way, and there is no need to pay any attention to its file structure, or worry about saving data. New data is saved automatically and in a manner compatible...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, Page, AppleScript, SYW Mac Software, LinkThe User, AppleScriptMacNote3, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-06

Lighthouse Keeper 1.1.6 (Mac)

Lighthouse on your Mac: The best issue tracker on the web is now coming to your Mac in a big way. With the comprehensive coverage that Lighthouse Keeper provides you will rarely need to go into Lighthouse to manage your tickets. Comprehensive access. Lighthouse Keeper lets you add, view, modify...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Ticket, MCubed Software, Lighthouse Keeper, Desktops, Channel Management, Hardware, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-06

jalada Collage 1.2.2 (Mac)

jalada Collage is the fun, recent way to keep in touch and share life's moments with friends and family. With jalada Collage you create and share your personal photo collage within minutes. jalada Collage enables you to create eye-catching collages, posters, invitations, wallpapers and more with your favorite photos. ...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Photograph

Software downloads 2009-11-06

MacPilot 3.4.5 (Mac)

Scared of the terminal or can't be bothered to remember those commands to customize your system the way you want. MacPilot is your digital savior. Easily enable and disable hidden features in Mac OS X, optimize and repair your system, and perform numerous routine maintenance operations with the click of...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Koingo Software, MacPilot, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-06

ZippyRippy 1.0.4 (Mac)

ZippyRippy is a new program developed with one goal in mind, ripping DVD media for use on personal devices. ZippyRippy is set apart by the idea that DVD conversion should be automatic without the need to endlessly tweak controls. If a DVD with a valid VIDEO_TS folder is detected when...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Zippy Software, ZippyRippy, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-11-06

Sizerox 1.3.6 (Mac)

Sizerox is the simple way to Resize, Rename, Crop, Rotate and Watermark hundreds or thousands of your Images with a single Drag-and-Drop using presets. Mostly when you want to email your friends pictures, post images on your website, or upload them to your iPod or iPhone,you recognize that the images...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Image, Omid Pajuhideh, Sizerox

Software downloads 2009-11-06

MBC4 4.30f1 (Mac)

MBC4 produces barcodes as EPS files for use in XPress, Photoshop, FreeHand and Illustrator as well as many other graphics packages.It has all of the ease-of-use, accuracy and and safety of MBC3 and the previous versions of MacBarcoda, but now has new barcode types, new features and greater support for...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Bar Code, MBC4

Software downloads 2009-11-06

Windows 7's default UAC bypassed by 8 out of 10 malware samples

RE: Windows 7's default UAC bypassed by 8 out of 10 malware samplesyawnWho can I trust *now*....Even Ed Bott said '7' was more secure!The Windows Infect Season is not over yet.. Nothing's changed.... That people even USE Windows these days is quite remarkable.... It must be the power of habit...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, malware, UAC, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic"

RE: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are One report has at 4% market share the weekend of launch so im sure its past that already.Has Windows 7 marketshare eclipsed total OS X marketshare yet?Just wondering. :)MSFT: 1/2000 = $56. Today, $28.40Win 7 may not be the catastrophe the last...

Tags: Sales strategy, Businesses, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, stock split, Win7, recession, Steve Ballmer, sales, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Verizon's HTC DROID ERIS may be the best $100 smartphone

Power of the Linux distro model!Yes, the claimed 'niche' Operating System as theMS fans scream does not appear to be a 'niche'anymore...;)Sorry butMS fans by their nature will consider anything that is not a PC to be a niche product.The whole point of Android is it can be done either...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Smart phones, phone, Verizon Communications Inc., HTC Droid Eris, smart phone, OTA, phone company, High Tech Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon [Q&A]

Why the hate for drag and drop?Almost every review I have read faults the Droid because you can't auto-sync music:"(You can dump your music on a microSD card and pop it in, but it?s a copy-paste files affair, not a ?load my music? integrated experience.)"The Droid ships with a 16...

Tags: Smart phones, Motorola Droid, Droid, Apple iPhone, Revisiting, music, Verizon Communications Inc., Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Open source needs successful champions

Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...

Tags: Linux, software cost, Linux Distro, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...

Tags: Layoff, MSN, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Motorola Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Storage, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-11-05

HoudahGeo 2.3.5 (Mac)

HoudahGeo is a one-stop geocoding application for the Mac. With HoudahGeo you may "pin" photos to the locations where they were taken. The thus created information may be exported to EXIF tags as well as to Google Earth KML files. Such a file allows for browsing your photos within Google...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Google Earth, Houdah Software, HoudahGeo, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-05

iWeb Buddy 1.5.0.9 (Mac)

Do you like using iWeb but wished it had some advanced feature that you simply need for your website? Perhaps you want Google Analytics on your site or you want to add Social Bookmarks to your blog posts? Perhaps you just want to have more than one Domain file. iWeb...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple iWeb, Zarra Studios LLC, iWeb Buddy, RSS, Financial Planning, Blogging, Internet, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Yep 2.0.3 (Mac)

Every computer has loads of PDF, Office and iWork files, probably scattered all over your hard disk. Use Yep to search, view, and manage all these documents wherever they lie on your hard drive. Think of Yep as iPhoto for your documents. Yep does not move or change your files...

Tags: Hard Drive, Apple Macintosh, Adobe PDF, Ironic Software, Yep 2

Software downloads 2009-11-05