Picturesque is a program that does one thing incredibly well: it spruces up images that you want to display online. Picturesque is not intended to be an effects generator for printed photographs, but rather serves the purpose of adding some nice effects to web images that would take you a…
Hear is JoeSoft’s newest toy for Mac users, and yes you can spend a couple of days playing with it. Hear is a small application that installs a daemon in your system. It’s fun and it actually can make a bad pair of speakers or headphones sound much better, but…
Password managers and generators have been around for a long time. Some of them are plain useless, others look OK but you can’t help wonder how secure your data really is with them. And then there’s that third category: applications that just work well and really secure your data. 1Password…
If you happen to be in the market for a GTD application, you are certainly pampered when you’re running Mac OS X. Under Leopard, GTD applications have even seen an explosive boost as some of the synchronisation functionality offered in some of these programs heavily depend on Leopard technologies.
…On Monday, AppleInsider brought the story that Apple is using SproutCore to build web applications. SproutCore is an open source, platform-independent, Cocoa-inspired JavaScript framework for creating web applications that look and feel like Desktop applications, according to the public schedule for WWDC.
Ironic, isn’t it? At the same moment Microsoft has given up the struggle to improve Windows Vista, letting users downgrade for free (!) to Windows XP, Apple is previewing its next version of Mac OS X, code-named Snow Leopard. Equally ironic is that Snow Leopard will be the first Mac…
Just like the EyeTV Hybrid we discussed a couple of weeks ago, the EyeTV Diversity allows you to enjoy digital terrestrial TV wherever it is available, and regardless if you’re moving in a car, a train, or sitting in your office at home. The hardware resembles the Hybrid version --it’s…
Mobile computing is on the rise. An increasing mobility, consumerisation and alternative application delivery models are shifting corporate needs in new directions. In the U.S., 45% of the workforce was mobile in 2006, while in Europe some 80 to 90 million people are working from their cars, homes, hotel lobbies,…
FileGuard X5 is Intego’s idea of securing your data. It is comparable to Knox, another application which allows you to create disk images that you can secure with a password and encryption --a bit like Disk Utility, but with a couple of extras.
Prosoft Engineering developed Drive Genius 2 to be extremely easy to use and yet have all the functionality you expect from a first-class system utilities suite. Drive Genius 2 has a science-fiction startup interface, but once you get past that, it becomes a regular Mac OS X program.
Outspring Mail 1.0.5 is the e-mail client that has been on my system since it was released. In total, I’ve been testing Outspring Mail since version 1, holding off the review hoping the e-mail application would become more robust, faster, and less crash-prone. Version 1.0.5 certainly became less crash-prone, but…
The third wave of unified communications technology is characterized by robust, interoperable, server-based tools that integrate with desktop and mobile clients to give information workers access to voice, fax, e-mail, and other data from wherever they are and allows users to use the telephone to manage their email, calendar, and…
The LaserChamp barcode reader from SerialIO is a small, handheld, rubberized barcode reader capable of entering a large number of 1D barcodes into an equally large number of applications. The barcode device, manufactured by Microvision, comes with either a serial cable (with serial to USB converter) or a Bluetooth radio…
Creating disc labels is easy with Disc Cover 2, but just as with discLabel, you can ask yourself the question whether Disc Cover would be used by professional designers. Just like Bryan Bedell, I don’t believe designers will ever use tools that are primarily aimed at creating…
SmileOnMyMac has been making DiscLabel for quite some years now. Throughout that period, the application evolved from a simple disc labelling program to what seems like a powerhouse of disc labelling. With DiscLabel 5.x you can add automatically flowing text on a disc label, get access to an open source…
Enjoying digital terrestrial TV wherever it is available, receiving analogue or cable TV, or recording VHS tape recordings into digital format: it’s all possible with the Elgato EyeTV Hybrid. This hardware is a big USB stick with a coaxial connector at the top and a mini-USB connector at the side.…
When the new FTP client Flow was released, I decided it would be a good idea to compare three of the many FTP clients available for Mac OS X today. I ended up with Transmit, Interarchy and Flow. Transmit is the FTP client I use myself. Interarchy was my favourite…
Archiving to off-line media is a good idea, but it can be difficult to remember what exactly was on the media you archived to in the first place. Many disc catalogue programs will enable you to collect data about what’s on the disc, but often that data will be little…
I remember the days when Mac OS X Burn folders were new. The general conviction back then was that Toast would die. That seemed like logical; after all, who needed a DVD-burning application when it was built-in, right in the OS? Some people still think that way, but a large…
SmartBackup is a small application developed by Freeridecoding. It is small in memory footprint, and in visual appearance, but rather big in what it does: backing up and synchronising, and even creating bootable backups.
Personal Backup X5 is Intego’s latest version of the backup program that handles bootable copies as well as ordinary backups and folder or disk synchronisation. I ran Personal Backup through a number of tests and found it to be a solid performer.
Book Collector is Dutch firm Collectorz’s idea of a book collection software. Book Collector has built-in barcode scanner support, automatic downloading of book information from all Amazon stores, the Library of Congress, the British National Library, Librarie Nationale de France, Barnes & Nobles, etc. It has a full-blown borrowing management…
We tend to collect an incredible amount of media, books, folders and other “things” that we can’t throw away because they can have some value for later use. For example, I collect and save my editorial and other work on off-line media. At the time I used 5"25 MO-discs, but…
“Viruses on Mac OS X don’t exist.” “There’s no threat from viruses, Trojans, and other malicious critters when you’re working with Leopard.” Two statements we want you to take with a grain of salt. As Mac OS X becomes more popular, the threat will become more serious. And while I…
It’s the software, not the hardware --or at least, not just the hardware. That’s the credo Intelli Innovations must have had in mind when they released the IntelliScanner SOHO hardware/software bundle. The IntelliScanner SOHO bundle combines a barcode scanner with some nifty software to manage inventories, business items and collections.…
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