Claus Wolf, Author at MyMac.com

Club Nintendo – Level 170

August 30, 2017 #Podcasts, Club Nintendo 0

Tim, John and Aaron discuss the Nintendo World Championship, Splatoon 2, patent lawsuits and much more! Download and listen here RSS Feed for your

Canon Pixma iP4500 – Printer Review

February 13, 2008June 27, 2010 Macintosh, printer, Review 0

Canon labels the Pixma iP4500 as a premium photo and document printer, and when I bought it in early January my main purchasing criteria was high quality photo prints and the ability to print on DVDs and CDs.

RapidWeaver 3.6
Review

January 2, 2008January 16, 2011 Review 0

RapidWeaver has a number of advantages over iWeb but they mostly can be summed up as extensibility and .mac independent publishing. Should it replace your use of iWeb? Read the review to find out.

Back to my Mac for the rest of us

December 3, 2007January 16, 2011 How-To 0

With Mac OS X 10.5 (a.k.a. Leopard) Apple has introduced a very nice new feature called “back to my mac”. For those with a .mac account, you can now setup a secure way of accessing your Mac from on the road. Useful? Oh yes it is.

turbo.264
Review

August 2, 2007January 16, 2011 Review, Video 0

MPEG-4 is rapidly becoming the standard format for video and rightfully so, as it offers great video quality and small file sizes. It is supported by iPod with Video, AppleTV, PSP and many other devices, however compressing videos to this format is a time consuming endeavor. On my Mac Mini converting a recorded movie can take all night. Elgato has come up with a USB device called Elgato Turbo.264, which speeds up the process very much indeed, read the review for full details.

FRITZ!Fon 7150
Review

June 27, 2007September 9, 2011 Review 0

AVM is the market leader in DSL hardware in Germany and Claus take a look at their FRITZ!Fon 7150, a DSL modem and wifi router combination.

Keyword Manager
Review

February 15, 2007September 6, 2011 Review 0

Sweden has brought us lots of good things – Saunas, Ikea, Volvo, Saab, Astrid Lindgren… the list could go on – but Keyword Manager definitely impressing me much more than my Ikea desk or the Volvo I just can’t afford. I am not going to pretend that it brings me as much joy as the stories Astrid Lindgren has written, but for a software tool it is pretty awesome.

The Cost of Apple

February 9, 2007September 6, 2011 Opinion 0

While in Prague earlier this week I walked past an Apple Authorized Retail Store near Andel Metro Station. Prices here were considerably higher than at home. I decided to do a price comparison when I would be back home to see what was really going on. This short article presents my findings, but before we can take a look at those finding, we need to understand how I did the comparison.

Delicious Library
Review

December 12, 2006August 14, 2011 Review 0

Do you have a library full of books, a collection of DVDs, CDs and/or games? Do your friends drop by to borrow any of these items and can it be hard to remember who got what item at what time? Or is it even hard to remember what precisely you have? Then you may want to give Delicious Library a try.

Canon PowerShot A700
Review

November 27, 2006August 14, 2011 Camera, Review 0

When I decided to buy a new digital camera in June it wasn’t an easy decision. While I am not particularly talented, I expect a good deal from a digital camera. My main concern for a new digital camera was a better resolution, smaller size and more options. After some intensive reading up on the internet I decided on the Canon PowerShot A700, for a variety of reasons, but mostly because it offered 6 Megapixels, 6x optical zoom and lots of features in an affordable package.

iBank 2
Review

November 20, 2006August 14, 2011 Review 0

Have you ever gotten your credit card bill, looked at the total, and just knew the bank got it wrong? My answer to the problem is personal financial software. For me it is “can’t do without” software, the type you install the second you get your computer. Does iBank fit that need? Check out the review.

Canon CanoScan LiDE 25
Review

November 15, 2006August 14, 2011 Review, Scanner 0

Claus takes the CanoScan LiDE 25 for a spin, including all the bundled software. Find out if this scanner is worth your money.

Adium
Review

October 5, 2006August 14, 2011 Chat, IRC, Review 0

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.

MediaCentral 2.1
Review

August 31, 2006August 13, 2011 Review 0

Claus revisits his review of MediaCentral now that the programs has gone through a massive update. Is it a replacement to Apple’s Front Row? Check out the review to find out.

Kubuntu – Testdrive Linux on your PowerPC based Mac

August 11, 2006August 14, 2011 How-To 0

Since MyMac.com Podcast 93 we learned a new world – Ubuntu. I thought I quickly let you all in on how you can testdrive Ubuntu Linux without installing a single file on your computer.

FlickrExport 2
Review

August 4, 2006August 14, 2011 Review 0

If you are looking to use iPhoto with Flickr, this may just be the tool you have been wishing for

Project – Network Attached Storage for my home office

July 7, 2006August 8, 2011 How-To 0

Windows, Mac, backing up, and Sharepoints.

Project: A USB Cam, my Mac and iChat…

June 9, 2006August 1, 2011 How-To 0

The quest to get an old Logitech USB QuickCam to work with iChat.

iDefrag 1.2.2
Review

May 16, 2006August 1, 2011 Review 0

To Defrag or not to Defrag, that is the question. Or at least the reason for this review.

iPhoto Books
Review

May 10, 2006August 1, 2011 iPhoto, Review 0

As my brother is getting married in August I was thinking of something special to do for him after the wedding. I decided that it was time to try out iPhoto Books, the much touted feature in iPhoto that allows you to order books created with your own photos.