Holiday 2009 Gift Round-up


It’s that time of year, with Black Friday and Cyber Monday behind us, and Christmas fast approaching, that the mind turns to gifts. I have assembled a few ideas for you – products I have either been reviewing for MyMac Magazine or that I have bought for myself over the last twelve months.

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NewerTech Voyager Q Hard Drive Dock – Review


The ever falling price of hard drive storage means that we can now own and manage terabytes and terabytes of space if we wish. But the ongoing increase of capacity and fall in price leads to a new problem – if you are anything like me, you will have a shelf littered with external drives, surrounded by a detritus of data cables and multiple “wall wart” power supplies. Mine act like a series of time capsules – the further back in time you go (based on when I bought each one), the smaller they become and the more disparate the type of data we retain.

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Mercury Pro 8x Blu-ray Writer – Review


It is always a pleasure to try a brand new technology on the Mac. There is something satisfying that comes with using a computer or gadget in a way that you have never experienced before, and the pace of technological development is such that there is always some new feature or bauble on the latest hardware or software to play with and coo over. Most often, this is something fancy and new that Apple has built in to their products, but in this case it is a Blu-ray writer from Other World Computing that is under consideration.

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Yazsoft (Speed Download’s developer) and MacHeist fall out

MacHeist, the scheme that bundles a large number of quality Macintosh applications for a low price, has courted controversy in the past. Questions have been raised in the past among the Mac community about whether it offers good value to either end users or participating developers.

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