2006
Glossy Printable labels DVD Media
Verbatim extends its range of printable DVD media - with a new surface coating, which delivers shining results.
Yojimbo, your daily information manager
Yojimbo is Bare Bones Software’s information manager. ON their web site, it says “Master the onslaught”. Yojimbo is described as your effortless, reliable information organizer for Mac OS X.
Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized…
Virtual Storage
The term “redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks” and its associated acronym “RAID” were originally coined in 1988 in papers written by Professors Gibson, Katz and Patterson of the University of California (UC) at Berkeley. It presented a relatively simple way to increase performance and fault tolerance by grouping…
Buying storage
It shouldn’t come as a surprise: data storage requirements keep increasing. Many creative applications, such as video, audio, and photography dramatically increase requirements for storage capacities. Add to that compliance regulations and disaster recovery deployments in enterprise environments, and it is not hard to see that storage needs are still…
Marketcircle acquires LGO
Marketcircle announced the strategic acquisition of LGO, a veteran IT consulting firm based in London, UK.
2005
Seagate Barracuda SATA 400GB
With Western Digital SATA Generation II disks causing trouble in Power Mac G5 machines equipped with only the original SATA controller, I decided to ask Seagate for one of their Gen II SATA drives. After emailing back and forth, I received a Gen I SATA 400 GB Barracuda disk.…
TOLIS Group announces BRU Server 1.2 for Mac OS X
TOLIS Group, developer of the BRU brand of data protection solutions, today announces BRU Server 1.2 for Mac OS X, whose human interface was influenced by the input of hundreds of experienced Macintosh users worldwide.
Sony DRM analysed by Gartner
On 1 November 2005, media reports indicated that some CDs produced by Sony BMG install operating-system-level software when played that cloaks its presence and alters the functioning of the user’s machine. Gartner analysts took a look and condemn Sony for its use of what they describe as spyware.
Sony DVD RW DRU-810A Review
Sony has a tradition of not supporting Mac OS X, but the Sony DVD-burner DRU-810A is an external device which works excellently with Apple’s OS, although the box content would have you believe otherwise.
Verbatim on Optical Media
IT-Enquirer had a short conversation with Torsten Leye, DVD Product Manager at Verbatim, when he came back from a business trip that took a few weeks. We asked him about his opinion on DVD quality, compatibility, the arrival of Blu-Ray discs on the market and Verbatim’s market position.
Western Digital 400 GB SATA SE16
The Western Digital SE16 range of hard disk drives is Western Digital’s top range of SATA drives for desktop use. These drives have 16MB of cache memory, and they are available in 300 MB/sec models and the mainstream 150MB/sec Buffer to Host models. Western Digital sent me a…
An Interview with Pioneer
When Pioneer released its latest DVR-110D DVD-burner, we thought it might be worthwhile asking Pioneer about their view on the future. And so we got to speak to Brendan Sheridan, Product Planning Engineer for the Components and Mass Storage Division at Pioneer Europe.
Pioneer DVR-110 D
The Pioneer DVR-110D is Pioneer’s latest multi-media burner. How else do you call a device which burns CDs, and DVDs and will read DVD-RAM version 2 and later? I had the chance to test-drive the Pioneer DVR-110 with the latest firmware, version 1.22.
Data Rescue II 10
Prosoft Engineering released a new version of Data Rescue, their data recovery utility in September. It is the first version to have been worked on by Prosoft in collaboration with DriveSavers from Novato, California. Data Rescue II 10 is probably the safest data recovery utility available for Mac…
LinkageDesigner Application for Mechanical Design with Mathematica
Wolfram Research Announces New LinkageDesigner Application for Mechanical Design with Mathematica. LinkageDesigner is a new application package for virtual prototyping of linkages with Mathematica.
TEXTML Server 3.6 Announced
IXIASOFT, the native XML database and search engine developer, announced TEXTML Server 3.6.
CD and DVD media: quality pays
Your Superdrive or LaCie external DVD-writer can effortlessly burn 16x DVDs and 40x CDs. Toast Titanium 7 offers an upgrade path to 32x DVD burning. Why is it then that some of your DVDs seem to take forever to burn? One possible reason could be the media itself.
OD4Contact - Customer Relationship Management for Individuals
Mac OS X has not a lot to offer in the area of CRM. There’s Daylite from Marketcircle and there’s the Web-browser based Creative Manager. But that’s about it, except when you’re self-employed or have a very small business with up to about 5 people. Then there’s also OD4Contact, a…
TOLIS Group On BRU for Mac OS X
In a follow-up to our recent interview with the Sr. Product Manager at EMC/Dantz on the subject of Retrospect, we had an interview with Tim Jones, President/CTO at TOLIS Group, the makers of BRU and BRU Server for Mac OS X. The interview was conducted by e-mail with Tim answering…
Omnigraffle Pro 4: The Ultimate in Diagramming
Omni Group released Omnigraffle 4 Pro a couple of weeks ago, while we had the chance to play with the new version for a bit longer. Without a doubt, Omnigraffle 4 Pro is the best diagramming application on Mac OS X. If it were available on Windows, it would give…
Merlin Project Management
German developers ProjectWizards have cooked up version 1.3.6 of their project manager, Merlin. Merlin knows quite a few more tricks than when the program was first covered here.
Wolfram Digital Image Processing 2 introduces over 60 new functions
Wolfram Research adds major new functionality to Digital Image Processing for Mathematica
DYMO LabelWriter Twin Turbo 400
Dymo radically changed their range of LabelWriters, adding a model that handles two rolls of identical or different labels, and a model that includes a labelmaker, the Duo. I tested the Twin Turbo and was very impressed.
FileMaker Pro 8: new tools
The newest version of FileMaker Pro reads like a manual on how to seduce your customers with new features. FileMaker 8 doesn’t add more scalability or new functionality towards the integration with enterprise databases. It is all about new features that make the setup and usage of FileMaker databases easier…
DayLite 1.8
Marketcircle announced DayLite v1.8, a free update of its business-relationship manager. It contains the ability to create rule-based scheduling.
