Archive for June, 2008
Saturday’s Apple: Bringing Your Mac With You On Holiday?
I know that many of you will be bringing your Mac with you when you travel for work or holiday this summer. In fact I’m writing this from Stockholm where we are for a few weeks for a combined business and vacation trip.
So what Mac is best for traveling? Even though the MacBook Air is [...]
Saturday’s Apple: Experience From Using a Windows PC
Recently I had the dubious pleasure of using a Windows Vista PC for a while. Over a few days during our holidays I had to use shiny new HP Pavilion notebook to get on the internet as it was the only computer that could get online where we were staying at the time. This was [...]
Saturday’s Apple: The iPhone Mess Continues
Last week I wrote about WWDC and the expected announcement by Steve Jobs of a new iPhone. And indeed we did see a new iPhone, one with 3G and GPS, but otherwise pretty much the same. The iPhone 2.0 software was also announced and it will be available within about a month and a comment [...]
Saturday’s Apple: The Mac Faithful Gathering Again
So here we are again on the brink of another big Apple event. In a few days time Steve Jobs again takes to the stage at WWDC 2008 to woo the audience with his “reality distortion field”, if you believe in such a thing. It seems at least twice per year we’re in a similar [...]
Why Not Mac?
Greg Hunt, Columnist for 7Days, talks to Shuffle about Apple, Mac, and his choice of personal computer.
by Magnus Nystedt
Q: Thanks for talking to Shuffle. Can you tell us something about yourself? Your background and what you do?
A: My name is Greg Hunt, and I’m a journalist and author. I write a column for “7 Days”, [...]
Adobe Tutorial: Deploying a Flash Video Movie to a Web Site
In this tutorial we’ll import a video clip into Flash, and publish it in a format so you can put it on a web site, including the player movie (SWF), Flash Video content (SWF or FLV), and HTML page. Most Web sites use JavaScript in the HTML document to detect whether the browser has the [...]
Peel the Apple
Q: Is there any way where I can save the book I create in iPhoto as a PDF or something, so that I can send it as an email to people?
A: Yes, you can. As with any application in Mac OS X print your book to a PDF file, then take that file to the [...]
Insert Video Into Powerpoint 2008
Most of us have sat through long and boring presentations using PowerPoint. They often look the same and are too full of text. Sometimes it would spice things up a bit if the presentation contained some video; and with PowerPoint 2008 it’s become easier than ever to put video in PowerPoint. So grab that digital [...]
WriteRoom: Wonderfully Yummy Mac Software
“Distraction-free writing” is something it seems more and more people talk about. It basically means that modern operating systems offer too much menus, gadgets, widgets, docks, and other stuff sitting on the screen, and all that takes away attention from the task at hand- writing. So WriteRoom makes it very simple. It blanks the screen [...]
Bento: the Personal Database
I’ve just got a copy of Bento a smaller version of FileMaker Pro with capabilities more aimed at personal use. I just had it for a little while, actually, I installed it today. By first impression it is a great little piece of software. If you need to do anything with database type of filing [...]
Three Products of the Month
NetBarrier and VirusBarrier X5
Faster performance.
Checks for more malware and
attacks than before.
Updated interface.
Command-line access in VirusBarrier.
Price: NetBarrier $50US, VirusBarrier $80US
From: Intego
Web: http://www.intego.com/virusbarrier/ and http://www.intego.com/netbarrier/
Knomo Hayden Black
Stylish, 17” Messenger Bag
High quality finish.
Makes a strong fashion
statement.
Protects your notebook.
Price: AED1510
From: Knomo
Web: http://www.knomobags.com/eshop/knomo_product.asp?SS=11&C=157&P=48
Logitech v470 Mouse
Wireless (Bluetooth).
Small, light and doesn’t require dongle.
Software is easy to use and makes mouse [...]
Quick Video Podcast Publishing
Podcast audio, video, and PDF.
You don’t need to understand RSS and other underlying technologies.
User-friendly interface with drag and drop.
Upload podcasts to .Mac or FTP account.
It seems like everybody and anybody has a podcast these days, whether it is video or audio. I know I listen to many podcasts myself and I also watch an increasing [...]
What Happened to iMovie HD?
When Apple introduced iLife 08 in August 2007, many were initially very upset with them for replacing iMovie HD with iMovie 08. Apparently Apple wanted to take a different path with the 08 version compared to the HD version, and many users, including me, thought they made the right decision, but many were also very [...]
Mac of the Month: MacBook Pro
Performance
There is plenty of power in the MacBook Pro. With a Core 2 Duo Processor running at speeds from 2.4GHz o 2.6GHz, this notebook can truly be a desktop replacement. It has 3 or 6MB on-chip shared L2 Cache. All this coupled with a fast 800MHz frontside bus, makes the MacBook Pro a true speed [...]
Simple and Reliable Backup Strategy
No doubt Time Machine (a feature in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard) makes more people backup their data, and that’s a wonderful thing. But Time Machine is not the only backup solution available to you, and has its limitations. In this brief article I want to present to you an alternative backup approach which is [...]
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