Fission v1.0.0
Company: Rogue Amoeba Software
Price: $32
http://www.rogueamoeba.com
Think !! quickly !! of the most life-altering third-party software tools you have that are affordable, easy to use, and that instantly enhance your computing experience. For Nemo this list is short: Roxio’s Toast, Micromat’s DiskStudio, Prosoft’s Picture Rescue, Netopia’s Timbuktu, SuperDuper from Shirt Pocket Software, StuffIt Expander by Allume, and Senuti by Whitney Young of Fadingred.org. Did I forget any of your favorites? Let me know in our Article Discussion area below, please.
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I usually recommend freeware, or free software, in Macspiration. This week I’ve decided to stray from that path, and suggest three small pieces of shareware that are just fun. Not only are they fun, but they are cheap, too. You can buy all three of these programs for less than $30. All of these programs have downloadable demos, so try them out!
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Voice Candy is the audio version of Photo Booth. Make your voice sound like a mouse, a chipmunk, or even Darth Vader. Once you record your message, you can send it straight to an email or a file. Kids of all ages will love this program, and it is only $12.95.
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This week, all the guys are back for segments galore, including part three of Tim, Guy, and Chad in Grand Rapids, David Cohen, Nemo, and Levis pants? Yes, Levis pants!
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Even though Guy’s G4 keeps locking up during the show, we manage to put another podcast to bed. New MacBook Pro’s, updates to the MacBook, Stolen iPods, upgrading iMacs, Green Peace at London MacExpo, and much more.
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The London show is not directly Apple sponsored, like those in Paris or San Francisco, but they do have a good record of attendance, and this year is no exception.
When I attended last year, the show was abuzz with the new iPod Nano and iPod with video, which had been launched a few weeks previously, and the then G4 Powerbooks had just received an incremental speed bump and screen update.
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When I first started writing this column in July I said we weren’t going to strictly do a help letters column. I say we, of course, because without your letters there is no help. This one’s going to be more of a commentary, partly because the letters are a bit thin this month (need help? click here!) and partly because an idea popped in my head. Something that’s been bugging me for a while.
AppleWorks 6 has been my main productivity application ever since I switched from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X. I also have Microsoft Office 2004, but it doesn’t have a database and FileMaker Pro is too expensive, and overkill, for an individual. The only reason I have Office 2004 is because “everybody” has it. I get documents emailed to me from the city (I’m on the Planning Commission) in Word format, and from the schools. People always ask for everything in Word format. I only use it when I have to. It can’t replace AppleWorks, and something needs to.
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Owen’s great article on essential shareware and freeware got me thinking about my must have software. I welcome your comments, rebuttals, and additions in our Article Discussion area below (registration is free).
Stating the obvious, Apple’s iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and Garage Band should be here, as could iChat, Mail, Preview, Dashboard, and DiskUtility, not to mention
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As a new member of the MyMac.com staff I have come to know, if only casually through their articles and blogs, some of the great writers and talents that make our publication such a compelling organization. Some of these folks spend oodles of their time behind a computer in order to contribute their knowledge and expertise for all the world to see and hear. They do this voluntarily, with no expectations or grievances. And this is after working for many hours, in most cases, at jobs that put them behind that same computer.
Nowadays it’s common for a lot of people to spend several hours daily sitting at a desk, doing work that needs to be done, rising only to eat, or use the bathroom.
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REALbasic 2006 Release 4
Company: REALbasic
Price: $99 (Standard Edition); $500 (Professional Edition)
http://www.realbasic.com
Programming in REALbasic essentially consists of designing an interface and then applying snippets of code to the various interface elements such as buttons and menus. The incentive effect of seeing a standard Mac interface appear simply by dragging and dropping elements like buttons cannot be underestimated, and the relative ease with which the basic coding can be learned is just as significant. As a result, REALbasic is easily the most popular rapid application development tool on the Mac, and has been for many years, at least since the demise of HyperCard.
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ShadowClipboard 3
Company: StupidFish Programming
www.stupidfish23.com
Price: $15
Have you ever had something copied into your clipboard and accidentally replaced it by copying something else to the clipboard before you were able to paste it? Now you have to go back and find the original item you copied, copy it again, and paste it to its destination. Before you do that, you have to paste what you have in the clipboard already, so you don’t lose that too. Sound complicated? ShadowClipboard 3, by StupidFish Programming, is just the utility to help you out.
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If you are new to a Mac, for whatever reason, you might thing why write an article about ejecting media on a Mac? You only have to pull out a thumb drive or push the button on the CD tray to eject it, right? Wrong. Ejecting media on a Mac is a little more complicated than that, especially if you are used to using a PC.
First, by media I am referring to any external storage device or item you might connect to the computer. This would include thumb drives, CDs and DVDs (internal and external drives), external hards drives, iPods, and sometimes cameras.
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It’s true. I write about the Mac, but my wife lives it. It is in every part of her day. She is a teacher, and also a student getting her final degree, so her trusty iBook goes with her everywhere, and often when she is home, she is in front of her new iMac, working away.
Being a teacher means long hours, full weekends, and often little sleep. Grades have to be entered, and tests and homework needs to be graded, curriculums written, and so on. But, she loves her work, and I am happy that she does. She excels in about everything she does, and she is also about the most organized person I know.
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David Cohen, John Nemo, David Weeks, Robert Hazelrigg, Tim Robertson, Guy Serle, and George Bush. Can you guess which of these people are not on this weeks podcast?
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smcFanControl
Author: Hendrik Holtmann
Price: Free – Donate-ware
www.http://www.conscius.de/~eidac/index.html
Since I started using the MacBook Pro as a replacement to my 1GHz PowerBook G4, I have been complaining of heat issues with this new machine. Not that the PowerBook was a cool running laptop by any means, but this MacBook Pro simply runs HOT. I have called the MacBook Pro, during our weekly Podcast, the perfect solution for do-it-yourself male sterilization. This puppy just gets HOT.
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Red Nanos, a little blue language, and infected iPods attack Windows. Tim, Chad, and Guy look at the quarterly financial results from Apple released this week, plus some listener feedback. All that, and a ton more, on this weeks MyMac Podcast.
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TuneCenter
Company: Griffin Technology
www.griffintechnology.com
Price: $129.99
If you can’t wait for Apple’s iTV (or whatever it is called when released), you might want to try Griffin’s TuneCenter. TuneCenter will allow you to take iPod and play it through your television. What makes that different than using Apple’s iPod cables? Well, read on to find out.
TuneCenter is what Griffin calls a “Home Media Center for iPod.” Basically, it is an iPod dock on steroids. When you connect your iPod to the TuneCenter, and connect the TuneCenter to your TV, you can control most of your iPod functions through the television via an iPod-like menu and the included remote control. Your iPod will also charge when docked, but you cannot sync your iPod through the TuneCenter.
You can access any audio file on your iPod through the on screen menu. Just like the iPod there are menus for artists, playlists, genres, podcasts, audiobooks, etc. Once selected, your choice plays through the television with a display similar to the iPod display.
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Disko
Griffin Technology
Price: $29.99
www.griffintechnology.com
Ah, I love iPod cases. Each one seems to give new life to your iPod, or at the very least, it changes the personality of the iPod itself. A boring white iPod can look hip and fresh anew with a cool iPod case. And the hip and cool class of iPod cases is just what Griffin is going for with the new Disko.
The Disko brings what has always been missing to the iPod: flashing and chasing lights. I didn’t say you were missing this feature, just that the iPod was missing it.
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Every time I email a long website address (URL) from my Mac to a PC the URL link usually breaks. I have been trying to find a solution to this for a while now, and a post at Apple’s Discussions site many months ago got me nowhere.
The only solution I could figure out was to copy the URL into Safari and use the feature that emails the entire webpage. This works great. However, I don’t use Safari as my default web browser, and I don’t like bouncing between browsers.
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