SidewinderX is priced at US$19.95, and is available for download at the Hendrickson Software Components Web site.
Virginia Tech Xserves Crank Out 15 Million Hours
Virginia Techis Xserve/Infiniband Cluster.
World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Preview
By Chris Barylick Coming Into Its Own: World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade While itis one thing to create and sell a new video game, expansion packs are an entirely different beast altogether. Perhaps a game was successful enough to warrant new content; not a sequel, but a series of additions to keep the player base…
Design Greeting Cards in iPhoto
Start by selecting a picture from your iPhoto library, and make any edits you need. The picture I chose had a building near the bottom, so I cropped that part out. When you are finished, click the Done button. Edit your image before using it in a card.
SpamSieve 2.5
Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam. Without the aid of SpamSieve, Iim sure my eyes would bleed and angels would wail in despair every time I checked my email. For those not already in the know, SpamSieve is an add-on application that uses a Bayesian filtering algorithm to learn what types of…
Apple Hot Deals Update For Macconnection, Sweetwater Sound
The new Macconnection Hot Deals page has offers on the Speck Products iPod case 3-pack for 60GB 80GB fifth generation iPods free with iPod purchase, LaCieis d2 Extreme 500GB hard drive with FireWire and USB 2.0, Acrobat 8 Pro with a free Logitech wireless notebook mouse, the TuneTalk stereo iPod voice recorder for 5G iPods…
Consumer Reports: Don't Buy the Extended Warranty (Unless It's AppleCare)
"This holiday season," said the report, "shoppers are expected to spend a whopping $1.6 billion on extended warranties for laptops, flat-screen TVs, other electronics, and appliances. And almost all of it will be money down the drain." The magazine reached this position based on failure/repair rates throughout a variety of industries, and from comparing the…
Ted Landau's User Friendly View - MacMania and the Mac Collector
I did it. Earlier this month, I attended my very first MacMania cruise. In fact, it was my first cruise of any type. I was one of ten speakers that together provided more than thirty sessions over the course of the week. Topics ranged from the basics of digital photography to the nuances of running…
Track Temperatures Throughout Your House on Your Mac
"The new HOBO Temperature Logger Kit stems from the need of many homeowners who want to go beyond free home energy audits and really understand their energy usage," said Frank Deshaies, Onset product marketing manager, in a statement. "Itis all about giving homeowners greater control and allowing them to focus in on the real opportunities…
Life2Go 1.6.4
Iill admit it: Iim an information junkie. Much to my delight, and chagrin, there are plenty of applications out there to turn my Mac into an Internet data siphoning monster. The trick is finding one with the right balance of flexibility, ease of use, and portability – something like Life2Go 1.6.4. Life2Go
Apple's "Get a Mac" Commercials Turn Japanese
Apple’s "Get a Mac" campaign has been unleashed on Japan, with Japanese actors taking the place of John "I’m a PC" Hodgman and Justin "I’m a Mac" Long. Apple Japan has posted three commercials on its Web site, each "an almost exact translation" of the first three "Get a Mac" commercials launched in the U.S.,…
Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #78: Sorting Downloads, Easy VPN, and Troubleshooting From The Pros
Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For November 13th, 2006 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Enhanced Version (courtesy of eval(unescape(‘%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%6d%6a%6f%68%6e%73%74%6f%6e%40%6d%61%63%6f%62%73%65%72%76%65%72%2e%63%6f%6d%3e%4d%69%63%68%61%65%6c%20%4a%6f%68%6e%73%74%6f%6e%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29’))Michael Johnston). Want to be sure you’re sorting your downloads by the date you downloaded it? Perhaps you need to set up a quick and easy VPN? Or maybe you just want…
NewsMac Pro 1.2.5
Information overload is easy to come by, especially in this age of pipes and dump trucks full of internets. Focusing your information gathering technique is critical if you want to effectively gather news and other data through the Internet. Enter NewsMac Pro. NewsMac Pro is an RSS and Atom news reader application, meaning it recognizes…
Podcast - Weekly Roundup: Portable Media Mergers and Microsoft Feature Creep
Direct Link: MP3 Version NVIDIA purchases Portal Player, and Microsoft will start selling TV shows over XBox 360. In this week’s Context Machine Ricky and Jeff take a look at why portable media mergers are the new hotness, and why Microsoft is loosing the digital downloads war even where it’s winning the features battle. Also,…
Dr. Mac: Rants & Raves - How I Save Time & Effort Every Day
Episode #71 I spend a lot of time in front of my Macs — 8 to 10 hours on most days. And this is the way things have been for the better part of the last twenty years. Since I’m inherently quite lazy and computers are supposed to improve my productivity, I’m always on the…
FireWire Depot Introduces tNASi RAID
FireWire Depot announced the immediate availability of the tNASi RAID 5 NAS/SAN Tower on Friday. The tNASi is a network-based file storage system that offers Gigabit Ethernet, RAID 0, 1, 5 and 6 support, up to 8 hot-swappable SATA drives, and supports volume sizes over 2TB. It also supports NFS, SMB/CIFS, HTTP/WebDAV, and FTP, account…
Apple Settles 17-inch Display Suit
Apple Computer has settled in a class action lawsuit that claims there is a defect in the company’s 17-inch LCD Studio Display. The Allen v Apple Class Action suit claimed that the inverter board in the display was faulty, causing half of the display to dim and the power light to constantly blink. Members of…
Apple Isn't Feeling the gPod Love
Ichiro Kameda’s sound-activated vibrating beat generator is designed to put a smile on a woman’s face, but Apple Computer isn’t exactly grinning over the product’s name: gPod. Mainichi Daily News reports the problem started when Mr. Kameda’s company applied for a trademark on the gPod name. Apple objected, stating that the gPod name was too…
OWC 320GB Mercury Elite Pro-AL Quad Interface
Flexibility and versatility are great things to have in your data storage devices, and Other World Computingis Mercury Elite Pro-AL Quad Interface hard drives deliver. These drives feature USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800, and eSATA connectors, Seagateis 7200.10 Barracuda drive mechanism, and an aluminum case that matches Appleis Pro-level Macs. I tested the 320GB…
Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #77: Core vs Core 2 - Who Cares About 64-bits?
Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For November 8th, 2006 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Enhanced Version (courtesy of eval(unescape(‘%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%6d%6a%6f%68%6e%73%74%6f%6e%40%6d%61%63%6f%62%73%65%72%76%65%72%2e%63%6f%6d%3e%4d%69%63%68%61%65%6c%20%4a%6f%68%6e%73%74%6f%6e%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29’))Michael Johnston). With more and more Macs using the Core 2 Duo processors, Dave and John take you on a tour of exactly what this means, why it matters, and whether or…
Quick Image Correction in Photoshop
Iim starting with an image that has a noticeable blue tint. Unfortunately, these elk wouldnit wait for proper lighting. Colorado snow isnit usually this blue.
A Better Finder Rename 7.5 Available
A Better Finder Rename 7.5 is priced at US$19.95, and is available for download at the publicspace.net Web site.
Docktopus 1.0.2
The Dock in Mac OS X is a perfectly fine tool, but it could do so much more. Startly Technologies is trying to make that happen with Docktopus. Docktopus is an application that enhances the Dockis functionality by adding icon badges that display additional information about your running applications. The badges display several types of…
Solving the "Finding New Music" Quandary with Pandora
The biggest problem with iTMS, however, is that it has no really good way to discover new music; the store only gives you 30 second peeks at music, which is just not enough to know if a tune youive never heard before is something you want to buy. iTMS does offer free music, highlighted on…
