As a relative beginner to playing the guitar, I’m always on the lookout for ways to improve my playing skills. I take weekly lessons and I learn a great deal from my guitar teacher, but perhaps there is a way to improve myself, and perhaps even impress my teacher a bit in the process. When I saw Wiley’s new Guitar for Dummies CD, I knew this was a piece of software that was right up my alley, and I wasn’t disappointed.
Category: Review
Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 Color Image Scanner – Review
Luckily for me, my scanning problems are over.
Quicken Essentials for Mac – Review
Quicken Essentials is easy to use, easy to understand, and functional. I’m really delighted to learn that Intuit developed Quicken Essentials from the ground up for Macintosh OS X. Typically accounting and money programs are first developed for a Windows operating system. It’s quite nice to have simple yet effective financial management software that isn’t bloatware.
Arctic Sound and Thinksound Rain Earphone Reviews
Listen up! Three earphone reviews.
Atlona DVI to Mini DisplayPort Converter AT-DP400 – Review
Craving an Apple Cinema Display but your older Mac does not have Mini DisplayPort? Atlona’s converter box may be what you’re looking for.
ColcaSac MacBook and iPhone Sleeves
In this world gone green, ColcaSac has developed a line of protection products that stand out from the sea of also-rans while at the same time reducing the overall carbon footprint of that discerning Apple lover. Read on to discover my over all impressions of these well made sacs for your precious Apples.
Hear – Review
Hear is an application for Macs that will dramatically improve the quality of the sound coming from your computer’s speakers. It doesn’t matter whether the sound is music, dialogue from a movie, or an Internet telephone conversation with your friend in Scotland. Even using the default settings in Hear, everything will sound richer and clearer.
PCSync Version 6 – Review
Many people own more than one computer. And when you have more than one computer, you immediately begin to have problems with file synchronization. Files created (or updated) on one machine are not the same any more on the other. Which one is newer? Did I make a change over there? Or what if you moving from a PC to a Mac? How do you move it all?
Data Rescue 3.0 – Review
Unless overwritten with new data, files don’t vanish simply because they’re deleted, and just because a hard drive has been corrupted somehow, it doesn’t mean the data on that disk can’t be recovered. Data Rescue 3 is an application from Prosoft Engineering that performs both these functions via a relatively intuitive, if quirky, interface.
ArtStudio – Review
I have tried a bunch of art apps for the iPod Touch/iPhone. I have even reviewed quite a few. Most recently, I was given the opportunity to try out a new kid on the block called ArtStudio. After playing with ArtStudio (and I mean playing, because it is fun) for many days I have to say this is the best drawing/painting app I have tried for my iPod Touch. It is FANTASTIC! and probably the closest thing to Painter or ArtRage for the Mac desktop.
iStopMotion 2 – Review
Look out Rankin-Bass, here comes iStopMotion 2!
BusyCal – Review
BusyCal is the OS X appointment calendar that iCal should be. It is smart, attractive and configurable in ways that iCal is not. Unlike iCal, however, it is not free.
Kensington’s Sound Amplified iPhone Cradle – Review
Kensington’s latest iPhone accessory may be just the thing for those of us with long commutes to work each day.
EcoRunner and SportShell Convertible for iPod Nano 5G – Review
I’ve been lucky enough to give the SportShell Convertible for iPod Nano 5G and the Marware EcoRunner a really good workout.
ArtRage 3 – Review
In November of 2005 I first wrote about ArtRage. Since that time I have reviewed ArtRage 2 and ArtRage Deluxe for MyMac and each new version has made ArtRage better and better. It has also become a standard in my art classroom on my iMacs and my students love it. Well, I am thrilled to be writing a review of the newly released ArtRage 3. Just like previous updates, it keeps on improving.
LogMeIn Pro2 – Review
Need remote access to your home computer? LogMeIn Pro2 can do it all, but is it for you?
Eos Converge Wireless Audio Transmitter, Receivers, and Speakers – Review
There is a sweet spot for each indoor and outdoor placement of Eos components, whether at standard or extended transmission range.
GR8 In-Ear Headphones – Review
I spent the last four afternoons outside in the late-winter sun of southern Arizona, evaluating GR8 while listening to dozens of free Amazon download tracks in a wide array of musical styles. The sound is immersive, placing my hearing senses fully and exclusively within the headphones’ immediate performance space.
Westone 2 True-Fit Earphones – Review
Every genre of music performs beautifully.
OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini – Review
A fast portable drive in a great aluminum enclosure