Remember Print Shop? The app everyone used to make signs, greeting cards and more? Now imagine Print Shop on steroids. That’s Canva. If you
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Setapp Revisited
We live in a world of subscriptions. We watch movies and TV shows on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Apple TV+. We stream music through
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Art Text 3 – Review
Unlike Adobe Illustrator, which has a steep learning curve, Art Text 3 is easy to use and the main window is straightforward and minimalistic. The canvas or art board occupies most of the center space, with icons along the top left hand drawer that contain a library of templates, smart and custom shapes, backgrounds, canvas effects, and layers.
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Audio Hijack – User Report Review
Audio Hijack in its most basic sense is a way to capture audio from your Mac. If you want to record audio from a microphone, a website or an application, you can do that and a whole lot more. It looks so simple to use yet can also do many complex and rewarding audio tasks.
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Apalon Apps Apple Watch Apps – Review
The three Apalon Apps apple watch apps: Speak and translate; Weather Live; and NOAA Radar pro are some of the first released for the Apple Watch and highlight the Apple Watch’s utility for convenient interactions and useful notifications.
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TechFan #194 – The Case
The Case Show! Well, kinda. In answer to Neils question last week, FaceBook and Twitter weigh in on the case question for smart-phones. Also, is Apple’s software getting worse? Apple also stopped the Single of the Week promotion, and Tim, David, and Owen discuss this and many other topics.
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PageMeUp – Review
PageMeUp describes itself as designed for print documents and websites. At the price it is pitched against applications like Pages, SwiftPublisher, and iStudio Publisher rather than the big guns like Adobe InDesign and QuarkXpress.
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TechFan #182 – Been Too Long
Tim and David discuss the news from the Apple event this week, including the release of Yosemite, a new iMac and Mac mini, iPads, and much more. Plus, Tim has a new blog!
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“I don’t buy apps”
That’s the phrase I am hearing more and more from people when discussing apps on the iPad. I bring up a cool app that costs a couple of dollars and the person immediately states the above sentence. It seems as if buying apps is becoming more and more of the thing not to do. It is as if buying apps is a sin. Why buy apps when there are hundreds of free ones?
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iCookbook – App Review
In March 2013 I reviewed the CrockPot Recipes App and was very pleased with the variety of recipes. The developers of the CrockPot Recipes App have another fabulous cooking app that contains recipes for crock pot, oven, and grill, simply named iCookbook.
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iBike Coach and iBike Phone Booth – Review
I had the opportunity to review the iBike Phone Booth, a bike mount for the iPhone, and iBike Coach, a cycling computer app for the iPhone.
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Bookle App – Review
Bookle is a newly released EPUB reading app created by Adam Engst of TidBITS Publishing and Peter Lewis of Stairways Software. Its simple interface and built-in Mac gestures make Bookle an excellent way to read on your Mac.
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iPad 2: The Missing Manual, Third Edition
Book Review
Besides death and taxes, the only other guarantee in life is Apple will never incorporate a printed manual with any release of the iPad.
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Turbo.264 HD – Review
Turbo.264 HD Software Edition is a simple application that can convert almost any type of video on your Mac to a high quality H.264 file in standard or HD format. The resulting video can be played on iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Sony PSP, or sent to YouTube.
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Jetsetter – App Review
Do you like to travel? Do you find it difficult to navigate through web sites, looking for honest and unbiased reviews of hotels and destinations? Do you want to travel somewhere interesting, somewhere that you may not have thought of? If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, you might want to take a look at Jetsetter.
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Desktopr – Mac App Review
Desktopr is a small app that sets your Mac’s desktop image, or wallpaper, to whatever you want: photo, movie, even a web site like Facebook or Twitter. The app lives in the menu bar, and is easily customized.
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Adobe Touch iPad Apps for Photoshop CS5 – Review
Last April, Adobe released the powerful Creative Suite 5.5 and the Photoshop Software Development Kit(SDK). The Photoshop Touch SDK and a new script capability in the updated Photoshop CS5.1 offer developers the tools to design applications that interact between the touchscreen device and Adobe Photoshop. To herald this event, Adobe released three apps for the iPad: Adobe Eazel, Adobe Nav, and Adobe Color Lava. Each of the three apps can interact with Photoshop CS5 or CS5.1. They are not compatible with earlier versions of Adobe Photoshop.
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FileMaker Go – App Review
If you use a database for your job, chances are it’s a FileMaker database. And, chances are, you access the information from your desk. Wouldn’t it be nice to have the pertinent databases with you when you’re conducting business outside the office? FileMaker thought so too, and created FileMaker Go.
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Battle of the Note Apps
Day 4
Remember The Milk (RTM) is a popular note and to-do app for iPhone that, surprisingly, doesn’t have a dedicated iPad app. An online account is needed to use the app.
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Battle of the Note Apps – Day 3
Wunderlist is a list/task manager available for Mac, iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. It’s clean and streamlined user interface makes it easy to learn and easy to keep your life in order.
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