Month: October 2006

ICY DOCK

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MyMac.com Labs tested the ICY DOCK portable FireWire enclosure on a 4 day road trip, and here’s what we found

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MyMac Mini Podcast 11

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The MyMac Mini Podcast returns this week with a Fenestration 11 from David Cohen, Thee Mac Guys in a hotel part 2, and a great use for a dead Firewire iPod from Robert Hazelrigg. Also up this week, Not Mac News with Guy Serle, and John Nemerovski starts a new segment, All Over the Mac.

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Playing Music

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An iBook Odyssey

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Guy does the unthinkable. He replaces his iBook hard drive without losing his soul. A couple layers of skin maybe and some time in purgatory for extremely foul language, but the soul is intact!

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Daylite 3
Review

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Daylite 3 is a productivity suite that can stand alone or, if desired, augment Apple’s Mail application to achieve the same kind of functionality as Entourage, namely a relational database behind calendars, contacts, projects, tasks, appointments, and notes. In a complex business environment this is an important addition to a the simple, currently available e-mail programs for Mac OS X.

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MicroSound Speaker
Review

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Based on the size of the speaker, the fact that it runs on 1 AAA battery, and my past experience with small battery operated speakers my expectations were not high. To my surprise, the MicroSound performed much better than expected. I could not believe how loud such a little speaker can get.

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Macspiration 55
Copy and Paste

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Believe it or not, there are still many people who barely get by using a computer. If you say “Copy and Paste” to them, they will probably look at you like a deer caught in headlights. So, I’ve decided to make a new extension of Macspiration called “Back to Basics.” For this first edition, I’ll talk about COPY and PASTE.

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The Digital Photography Book
Book Review

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Author, Photoshop guru, and photographer, Scott Kelby is widely known for his popular tips books about such creative software as Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Elements, Apple’s OS X, and even tip books for the iPod. So how is his latest book?

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MyMac Mini Podcast 10

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The Mini is back, and this time around Tim, Chad, and Guy join the show for the first of four segments. Also, Fenestration, Not Mac News, and Nemo has a partner to help him review a book on Garage Band.
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Merlin
OmniPlan
FastTrack Schedule 9

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MyMac Podcast 102

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Tim and Chad welcome Guy Serle to the show for a look at the weeks latest happening in the Mac world. PLUS, Tim looks at the Griffin Technologies Disko iPod case.

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Adium
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Adium is a free application that offers you a single user-interface to interact with all your friends, no matter which of the above services they use or prefer. How well does it work? Check out the review from Claus to find out.

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Shure I Series Integrated Sound Isolating Earphones + Mobile Headset
Review

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If I am listening to music on my earphones, and the phone rings, I have to remove the music earphones, and either answer on the phone itself, or grab a wireless headset to talk on the phone. But the smart folks at Shure solved this problem for both Treo owners and iPod owners with a very clever set of products: The i2c, i3c, and i4c (or i2c-t, i3c-t, and i4c-t) “Integrated Sound Isolating Earphones + Mobile Headset, selling at $119, $199, and $319 respectively.

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Fontifier
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Imagine being able to type a letter on your computer and the font is in your own handwriting. Fontifier is a web-based application that allows you to do just that. For only $9 you can have your handwriting turned into a font that works on both Macs and PCs.

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MyMac Mini Podcast 9

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The debut of Not Mac News, Fenistrations, and reviews from Robert and Nemo are features this week on the Mini Podcast.

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GorillaPod
Micromat
Send Station
OmniGraffle
ConceptDraw
VSD Conversion Service
Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture
Aperture Exposed: The Mac Photographer’s Guide to Taming the Workflow
Real World Aperture

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Beyond Snapshots
Book Review

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Though I’m not an historian of digital photography, I would say that second wave of the digital photography revolution was the advent of photo blogs. I’m not alone. The plethora of books published on the subject seems like a monthly occurrence, and the demand for them seems equally great. Here are two reviews of some of the latest.

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