David and Tim host an abbreviated TechFan this week due to technical difficulties and a storm moving in. Topics include Adobe advertising strategy, Dell departing from the cell phone business, the downward spiral of RIM, and Jeff Bezos finding the Apollo 11’s F-1 engine at the bottom of the ocean.
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The iZON Remote Room Monitor by Stem Innovation is an app-controlled device that becomes part of your Wi-Fi network. It watches and listens to room activity and sends the stream to your iOS device. Because your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is mobile, you can see and hear what’s happening wherever you are’”on another Wi-Fi network or out and about on Edge or 3G.
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If you have a website and an iOS device wouldn’t it be great to be able to edit that website through an app on the iOS device? I’ve been looking for such an app, and I was very excited when I was given the opportunity to try the HTMP Egg Web Page Creator.
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Gaz couldn’t make it this week so Elisa Pacelli and Tom Schmidt agree (perhaps against their will) to keep Guy company on the show. Some of the topics include people who throw lawyers at glass doors and a new podcast done by the Tech women of the Stoplight Network. Elisa has a lot to say about Google Play and Tom has an app that falls somewhere between Halo and Microsoft Word. Qualified beta testers should contact him at betatest18@gmail.com. All this, PLUS an interview with Drew Domkus of the Dawn and Drew show!
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Designed for 2.5″ SATA hard drives, the unit is very lightweight, weighing only 2 ounces empty, compatible with either Mac or PC computers and comes with a USB connecting cable and a carrying sleeve, the unit makes for a very economical way to reuse a hard drive that you may have laying around your house.
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Avid’s Sibelius 7 is new enough for there still to be a dearth of supporting materials. But James Humberstone’s substantial new book in the Avid Learning Series, Sibelius 7 Music Notation Essentials, sets very high standards and is a welcome resource.
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Other World Computing’s NuCube Vertical Stand, a polished clear acrylic stand that holds your Mac mini upright and reduces the mini’s fingerprint on your desktop. Weighing in at almost 2 1/2 pounds, the NuCube Vertical Stand allows you to stand your mini vertical and not to have any worries about it tipping over, even if the family cat thinks it’s a great addition to the desktop and something to check out when it sneaks into the room.
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Tim and David both got the new iPad, and share their thoughts. Also up for discussion: PSP Vita, the lovely attitude cell phone carriers have of their customers, the Qmadix Portfolio, a dedicated MAME handheld, and David falls out of love with Blizzard over Diablo III.
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iStopMotion is an application to create time lapse movies or stop motion animation. Boinx provided this application for some years on the Mac, but this specific version is built to run on iPad 2 or the new iPad running iOS5. On the new iPad it supports the retina display and 1080p capture.
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The GMen find a new sound that makes them laugh so naturally they play the heck out of it. Guy needs some solutions to arranging his laptop for his son going to college, Gaz gets his new iPad AND an Airport Express all in one week, and they have a lively discussion about Cloud file sharing/storage solutions. Oh, and apparently some guy in China makes tea from Panda Poop.
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In this new release, Adobe is expanding the Content-Aware features with Content-Aware Patch and Content-Aware Move tools. Adobe also addressed performance issues with the new Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine that uses the GPU to accelerate tools such as Liquify, Puppet Warp, Transform and Lightning Effects. The user will also experience a new user interface, vector layers and new type style features. Video creation features also get a huge improvement in Photoshop CS6.
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What you really want is to keep all the originals organized in your own folders or in your iPhoto albums, but put together a small selection of the best photos reduced to a manageable size so they can be sent easily. That can be a big, fussy, time-consuming task. Now’s the time for Photo Transformer from Prosoft Engineering.
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Productivity apps, especially note taking apps, are the new craze sweeping the Mac universe.
Scrawl is one of the competitors for you time and money. How does this very simple, elegant, and iCloud compatible app stand out in the crowded marketplace?
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In its raw form Food Fight is a game that borrows many elements from the wildly popular Plants Vs. Zombies. Its gameplay is strikingly familiar to its competition, but if you are looking for a new series of characters and weaponry then this may appeal to you.
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I love iOS apps, and felt like writing a review on six of the ones I have purchased as of late. I will try to keep it brief, giving you my opinion as terse as I can. Let’s begin!
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Gaz orders an iPad while Guy gives away an iPod Touch to his sister. Arnie gets REAL tired of Guy being unable to pronounce his name and takes drastic measures. We know we know, you’ve heard ALL about the new iPad and AppleTV well not yet you haven’t until the GMen give their view. Also why let technical details keep you from installing the new iOS iPhoto app on your iPad 1st gen? Confused? You won’t be after this episode of the MyMac Podcast.
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Looking for some cheap little utility type of apps for your Mac? Here’s a few that are available in the Mac App Store for
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The Who sang about a Pinball Wizard, while generations of teenagers spent countless hours playing the latest selection of pinball machines.
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David and Tim partake in some Guerilla Podcasting, by which we mean Tim tries to podcast while at the MACUL event from a booth during the down times. The new iPad is discusses, as well as digital whiteboards, the new AppleTV, and much more.
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