Tag: Software

Setapp – Review

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Setapp Setapp Limited $9.99 monthly, $8.99 per month for a year subscription (paid annually), education pricing available. 30 day trial subscription Setapp is a

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Typinator 7 – Review

Apps, Review 0

  Typinator 7 Developer: Ergonis Software Download: $ 25.00 Typinator expands abbreviations you create into text. As an example, say you often close your

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Setapp – A New Way to Receive Software

Opinion, Review 0

The software world is slowly shifting from a purchase to a subscription model. 1Password, Text Expander, Office 365, and Adobe Creative Cloud are just a few of the software companies that now prefer to lease or rent you the software you need rather than selling it to you.

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Corel AfterShot Pro 3 – Review

Mac, Photography, Review 0

Photographers who manage and edit their photos on the Mac have fewer options than they used to. Apple’s Photos app, while great for tossing general family and daily photos into, isn’t adequate for serious landscape or portrait photos. Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop are expensive and are pushing people towards subscriptions. Pixelmator and similar native Mac apps hold promise but fall short of meeting the needs of pure photographers.

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Fantastical for Mac – Review

Apps, Macintosh, Review 1

Why in the world would you want anything other than the Mac’s built in Calendar? It does a pretty great job, right? Hold on. Fantastical can shake your world up. At least that’s what Flexibits says they can do with Fantastical 2 for the Mac.

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Take Control of Audio Hijack – Book Review

Audio, Book Review, Mac, Review 0

In addition to writing for MyMac.com, I record a podcast, 3 Geeky Ladies, with Suze Gilbert and Vicki Stokes, also MyMac writers. When we were preparing for launch, I put out feelers on social media about what I should use for recording the podcast. Most responses were Audio Hijack Pro. I got a copy and hit the ground running.

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Sibelius 8 from Avid

Sibelius 8 – Review

Music, Review, Tablet 0

Jean Sibelius, the 150th anniversary of whose birth we celebrate this year (he lived from 1865 to 1957), officially composed only seven symphonies. Certainly only seven were published. Yet fragments of an 8th do exist; and indeed were performed in 2011 barely three minutes long, though. Sibelius certainly withdrew and tried to suppress his 8th.

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Fotomagico 4.6 – Review

iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, Photography, Review 0

Photographers like to show their work to people around them, and on the Internet. There are multiple ways of doing it, such as a web sites, image sharing, or social sites (Flickr, Google+, Facebook), but nothing comes close to a good slideshow. Read on to see how Fotomagico 4.6 can help you create good looking presentations.

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ScreenFlow 5 – Review

Apple, Mac, Mac OS X, Macintosh, Review 0

Recently I was given the opportunity to review ScreenFlow 5 for MyMac.com, so I jumped at the chance. I had bought a previous version of ScreenFlow in a bundle, then did nothing with it. Now I would have to take some time and learn how to use the application. I’m so glad I did.

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Dragon Dictate for Mac – Review

Apps, Mac OS X, Review 0

I learned how to type when I was a freshman in high school. Of course, that was on a manual typewriter. Now, decades later, I’m still typing and just as good and as fast as I did in high school. The only fly in the ointment is the fact that arthritis has raised its ugly head.

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 10-A Beginner’s
Review Part 1

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When Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 was released a number of years ago, I decided to buy it, even though I had no graphics experience whatsoever. I even bought a book to teach me how to use it. Sadly, I used PSE6 mainly to create coupons for my husband’s business, slightly edit screen shots I take for MyMac.com articles, and superimpose faces on other people’s bodies (Don’t ask. It’s silly.) So when the opportunity arose for me to review Adobe Photoshop Elements 10, I jumped at the chance to really sit down and learn about some of the fun and powerful techniques I could use with this software.

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Sibelius 7

Sibelius 7 – Review

Audio, Book Review, Review 4

When Sibelius 7 was released recently, its appearance was sufficiently different from that of Sibelius 6 to have thrown some (long-time) users. Avid was criticized on those listservs and forums which do such a sterling job of supporting Sibelius owners and prospective owners. Since so many creative professionals and enthusiasts have so much invested in a piece of software which they use for extended periods each day and to the ways of which their muscle memories had become fully used, change seemed particularly hard.

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Adobe Creative Suite CS 5.5 Master Collection – Adobe Illustrator CS 5 & Adobe Flash Catalyst CS 5.5, Part One – Review

Features, Review 0

Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform that is used to create vector animation and interactivity to a web page. Flash Catalyst CS5.5 is an exciting application for you to create interactive elements on a web page without writing code. I have to admit I was skeptical. Adding Flash animations has been intimidating at best, as I am not a web developer nor do I write code. Flash Catalyst allows you to import an Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, or an Adobe Fireworks file to use for your animation. Adobe has made Flash Catalyst a robust, yet easy to use, Flash experience for new and experienced web designers.  As I decided to use an Adobe Illustrator CS5 file to import into Flash Catalyst for my animation, let’s discuss what is new in this software.

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