There are times when I find my life becomes just too busy. Between planning my high school science classes, grading papers, writing reviews for MyMac.com, maintaining a home and running about for our children, I really need to keep track of my constantly changing schedule without being tied to my iMac. The folks at FileMaker have come up with an elegant solution for iPad owners with Bento for iPad.
Skullcandy 50/50 Earbuds with Microphone – Review
Skullcandy 50/50 earbuds/microphone; the right pair for you?
Guitar for Dummies CD – Mac version – Review
No way was Guitar for Dummies made by a bunch of dummies
MyMac Podcast 288 – Where’s MY Bloody iPad
Download the show here, and subscribe in iTunes Neil Worton joins us as a listener invite and we spend the majority of our time talking about the iPad. Neil uses a Mac for astronomy but most of the software he uses are Windows based. He’s looking for Mac equivalents. Here is what he’s currently using:
Read MoreGuitar for Dummies CD – Review
As a relative beginner to playing the guitar, I’m always on the lookout for ways to improve my playing skills. I take weekly lessons and I learn a great deal from my guitar teacher, but perhaps there is a way to improve myself, and perhaps even impress my teacher a bit in the process. When I saw Wiley’s new Guitar for Dummies CD, I knew this was a piece of software that was right up my alley, and I wasn’t disappointed.
Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 Color Image Scanner – Review
Luckily for me, my scanning problems are over.
Quicken Essentials for Mac – Review
Quicken Essentials is easy to use, easy to understand, and functional. I’m really delighted to learn that Intuit developed Quicken Essentials from the ground up for Macintosh OS X. Typically accounting and money programs are first developed for a Windows operating system. It’s quite nice to have simple yet effective financial management software that isn’t bloatware.
MyMac Podcast 287 – A Laptop Full of Hurt
The iPad is coming (but we don’t just go ON about it). Guy is planning to go to the Clarendon, Virginia Apple Store on iPad day April 3rd to talk to the early adopters and ask them why they’re getting an iPad. Gaz and Guy talk about Gaz’s sister’s problems with her HP laptop with Vista (because Vista just SCREAMS quality!). Guy recommends Windows 7…say WHAT?!?
Read MoreArctic Sound and Thinksound Rain Earphone Reviews
Listen up! Three earphone reviews.
Atlona DVI to Mini DisplayPort Converter AT-DP400 – Review
Craving an Apple Cinema Display but your older Mac does not have Mini DisplayPort? Atlona’s converter box may be what you’re looking for.
iDilemma
Like many others, I was on the fence about the iPad. It seemed to me to be another cool product from the gods of Mount Olympus that I was sure to own one day, but I couldn’t really justify spending the money for a jumbo iPod Touch, or so I thought. And then it hit me…
ColcaSac MacBook and iPhone Sleeves
In this world gone green, ColcaSac has developed a line of protection products that stand out from the sea of also-rans while at the same time reducing the overall carbon footprint of that discerning Apple lover. Read on to discover my over all impressions of these well made sacs for your precious Apples.
Hear – Review
Hear is an application for Macs that will dramatically improve the quality of the sound coming from your computer’s speakers. It doesn’t matter whether the sound is music, dialogue from a movie, or an Internet telephone conversation with your friend in Scotland. Even using the default settings in Hear, everything will sound richer and clearer.
PCSync Version 6 – Review
Many people own more than one computer. And when you have more than one computer, you immediately begin to have problems with file synchronization. Files created (or updated) on one machine are not the same any more on the other. Which one is newer? Did I make a change over there? Or what if you moving from a PC to a Mac? How do you move it all?
HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible, Fifth Edition – Book Review
HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible picks up where my college education left off, and is now part of my web design/coding library. Anyone with an interest in HTML/CSS will benefit from this book.
MyMac Podcast 286 – The Yank, Brit, and Canadian
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The G-Men sit down with Steve Hammond who may (or may not) be from Canada and a big photography fan. Steve talks about his path through the minefield of Mac Photo software and his current favorites. The question of, Would you buy an Apple alternative (not a killer) to Photoshop? More build-up to the iPad and Gaz says he’s buying one when they’re available in the UK, but Guy says he’s holding out.
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Data Rescue 3.0 – Review
Unless overwritten with new data, files don’t vanish simply because they’re deleted, and just because a hard drive has been corrupted somehow, it doesn’t mean the data on that disk can’t be recovered. Data Rescue 3 is an application from Prosoft Engineering that performs both these functions via a relatively intuitive, if quirky, interface.
ArtStudio – Review
I have tried a bunch of art apps for the iPod Touch/iPhone. I have even reviewed quite a few. Most recently, I was given the opportunity to try out a new kid on the block called ArtStudio. After playing with ArtStudio (and I mean playing, because it is fun) for many days I have to say this is the best drawing/painting app I have tried for my iPod Touch. It is FANTASTIC! and probably the closest thing to Painter or ArtRage for the Mac desktop.
MyMac Podcast 285 – The G Men
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This weeks episodes features Guy and GazMaz (The G Men) talking about changes to Mac OS X 10.6, WWDC and Mac OS 10.7, Guy’s adventures in shipping to the UK, Valve coming to Mac, and Windows on the Mac: Bootcamp vs Virtualization.
Interview with Corliss Blakely
I recently reviewed ArtStudio for MyMac. ArtSTudio is a fantastic painting program for your iPhone and iPod Touch. While reviewing the app I discovered Corliss Blakely- a wonderful painter who paints on the iPhone with ArtStudio (among other apps). I contacted her and she agreed to answer a few questions about painting on the iPhone.