MXL Studio 1 Desktop Recording Kit – Review



Is there a budding podcaster lurking inside the deep dark recesses of your content saturated mind? Well here is your opportunity to let your inner Rock Star out to play for a while. The MXL Studio 1 Desktop Recording Kit provides you with the basic audio hardware for digitally recording those thoughts and opinions that have been aching to see the light of day.

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Adobe InDesign CS4 – Review


Usually I feel very strongly one way or the other before I start the actual physical writing part of writing a product review. Not that InDesign CS4 isn’t a great upgrade; it is. I’m just not all that excited about an application for print publishing when we all know where that industry is headed.

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Fujitsu ScanSnap S300M – Review



In this busy world of deadlines and expense accounts, more and more weary travelers are choosing to take mobile scanners on the road and get those business cards and receipts into their personal data management programs. The ScanSnap S300M was designed by Fujitsu for this very purpose. Read on and find out if this little dynamo is right for the road worrier in you.

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iStik Hands-free 4th generation iPod Nano case and holder – Review



Ever not realize there’s a problem until someone comes up with a solution for it? If you own a 4th generation Apple iPod Nano and are physically active while using it, then you probably have some kind of case with a clip or a loop or some other less than convenient way of securing it. The iStik is a new way of doing just that. Does it work well? Read on!

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ArtRage Deluxe – Review

A couple of years ago I had the chance to review ArtRage 2 by Ambient Design and it is one of my favorite, low priced, paint programs for the Mac. For $25 you get a fantastic Painter like program. Since that review came out, ArtRage 2.5 has been released, and many new features have been added. It was time for an updated review!

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A Review of ivideosongs Music Lessons – Review


ivideosongs had a great idea when they decided to enlist the aid of accomplished musicians to give their various perspectives on how to approach playing your instrument of choice. Who better to teach you than the players of the stars? Russ Kunkel and Liberty DeVitto are two of the most recorded and accomplished players in music today.

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MacSpeech Dictate 1.3 – Review


As the Bell of the 2008 Macworld Ball, MacSpeech could do no wrong. Their, then, new speech recognition program, Dictate 1.0, was all the rage. For years, the Mac faithful had been relegated to subpar speech recognition products. Dictate changed all of that by creatively adapting the Dragon NaturallySpeaking engine to Mac OS. The 1.0 version of Dictate had some glaring limitations. Here we are post 2009 Macworld and MacSpeech has introduced a shinny new version of Dictate. Will this new version make good on the promise of version 1.0? Or, will those in the Mac universe seeking to dance at the speech recognition ball be left holding the em… golden slipper. Read on for the rest of the story.

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Eye-fi Explorer Card – Review



Want to be sure you pictures end up on your computer or a sharing website every time you take one on your digital camera? Can’t recall where you were when you took it? Read on, here is a product for you.

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Pinnacle Video Transfer – Review – UPDATED 2-25-09


Do you have an iPod Video, or maybe a PSP, and wish you could copy your TV, videotapes, PVR, or you playing a video game or some other video source and take them with you on that device? Well, have a look at this solution, no computer needed…

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showTIME – Review


If you own any iPod capable of playing video, or an iPhone, and you’ve always wished you could somehow play a video on a television or display, you’ll want to read about Scosche’s showTIME.

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