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Adobe Captivate 5 for the Mac The application can build tests into training modules, supports the SCORM database format that’s popular in educational environments, and test results can be stored on Acrobat.com as well. A special Adobe AIR-based application is available, too, for reading test result data that’s stored on Acrobat.com. Captivate 5 lets users…

The comments from Mr. Narayen came on the heels of an open letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs that attacked Flash as a closed, proprietary solution that isn’t suitable for mobile devices. “Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice,” Mr. Jobs wrote in his letter. “Flash is a successful business…

BackgroundLet’s start with some background, though, as I do obsess about context. Up until now, there have been a few specific advantages of playing poker on your computer. You can play whenever you want, in whatever state of dress you can manage. You can play many, many more hands than you can live, which is…

The Mac version of the Kindle application supports ebook purchasing, multiple font sizes, displaying notes and highlights, and viewing books in color. Amazon plans to add text search support and the ability to edit notes and highlights soon.Kindle for Mac OS X is free and available for download at the Amazon Web site.

Maybe you can make an appointment at the Apple store and carry your Mac in, but you really hate to do that every time you have a little question. If you are lucky you have a friend or family member who can help you. (If you are really lucky you belong to a Mac User…

Once you start CoolTerm, the first thing you’ll want to do is select Options, which will let you select your serial port, as well as the baud rate (speed) and number of data bits, parity and stop bits. These are often represented in a shorthand such as 81N (8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no…

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on the suit, which was filed in a U.S. District Court by Michael E. and Holly S. Robbins on behalf of their son. According to the suit, unnamed officials at Harriton High School in Rosemont, PA, spied on the student through the camera, and an assistant principal at the school then…

One school of thought says that resources have been diverted from the new MacBook Pros to Mr. Jobs’ pet project, the iPad. I believe that because while Apple is rich in revenues and cash, it still runs very lean organizations. I’m betting that Bob Mansfield, SVP of Mac Hardware Engineering is busier than [fill in…

Founded by former LucasArts employees who had a hand in Monkey Island and other adventure games released in the late 1980s and 1990s, Telltale publishes its games as “seasons” consisting of multiple episodes each released a few months apart. Tales of Monkey Island features five episodes that take hapless wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood on a…

Like MacSpeech Dictate, Scribe requires the user to create an individual speech profile by training the software to recognize their voice. Scribe recognizes 13 different English dialects, and it supports up to six speech profiles. If the user wants to ensure punctuation is included in the final transcript, they’ll need to speak it while creating…

What kind of stuff? Well, you can make menu selections. No, wait, you can do that far more easily with a keyboard or mouse, and you wouldn’t be smudging up the screen with your fried chicken/mustard/mayonnaise/gravy covered digits. Ok, you can do those cool Minority Report gestures. Except that the screen is only 22” and…

The report claimed that Apple will add touch screen support to the iMac in order to better compete with all-in-one style PCs.Additional details on what features the alleged new iMac will sport are thin, but hopefully if the China Times report is accurate, the touch sensitive iMac will include a display that doesn’t show finger…

Lily Sussman’s post-border check MacBookShortly after that, she heard three gun shots and was presented with her laptop bearing three new holes. Luckily, the hard drive wasn’t hit, and Israeli officials said they would replace her laptop.While Ms. Sussman’s experience is unfortunate, it’s also a great reminder to always back up your data before traveling…

Amazon’s Kindle platform is currently the world’s largest platform for Ebooks and digitally distributed magazines and newspapers. With rumors that Apple will be making its much-expected, but still unannounced tablet device a major Ebook platform, Apple and Amazon could become competitors for the first time. For now, however, Mac users will have access to Ebooks,…

“We are working hard to fulfill orders as quickly as possible,” an Apple spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal. “We apologize for any inconvenience or delay in delivery this may cause our customers.” Both 21.5″ iMacs have an shipping estimate of 24 hours on the online Apple Store as of this writing, while both 27″…

It was just about a year ago that I reviewed Thunderbird 3 Beta 1. I said that version 3 was becoming a viable alternative to Apple’s Mail.app, and that’s still true. However, it’s one year later, and my personal expectation was that TB3 would not just become a viable alternative, but become the best mail…

Airlock requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 or higher and an iPhone or iPod touch with built-in Bluetooth support. It is priced at US$7.77 and is available for download at the MHA Web site. 

Apple Juicz Solar ChargerThe Apple Juicz solar charger is available in 27 Watt and 55 Watt versions, and includes a 12 volt car outlet connector,, MagSafe connector, a three foot extension cable, and a messenger bag-style carrying case.The Apple Juicz is priced at US$700 for the 27 Watt version, and $1,200 for the 55 Watt…

The latest edition features a 3D match engine with over 500 individual player animations that show gamers what is happening on the field during a match. That engine is also key to the game’s two other key new features: the ability to set up and execute drills, including practice matches, and the set piece creator,…

Four game types are included: Survival, a single-player mode in which Starfleet captains must blast through waves of enemy ships while grabbing power-ups and taking care not to lose all three of their lives; Team Deathmatch, pitting teams against each other in winner-takes-all battles; Conquest, in which teams protect and conquer control points in space;…

When one lives on the Internet daily as I do, in the realm of Apple, it’s impossible to avoid the continuing ritual of Switchers who must deal with what seems, at first, to be a single button mouse on the Mac. It’s one of those myths that just won’t go away, as in, “AppleTalk is…

MacUpdate Desktop acts as an interface for the company’s database of more than 30,000 Mac apps and your Mac. It monitors your installed apps and lets you know when there’s an update to the third party apps on your drive. The release notes for the update: Fixed bug causing no apps to be found on…

The game was found by Takashi Katsuki, one of Symantec’s engineers in Japan. In the video and screeshots below, Symantec shows what happens when you play the game with a Finder window open next to the game’s play screen. Mr. Katsuki said that the game promises consequences to destroying the alien ships, while alluding to…

Imagine sending a Twitter message from wherever you happen to be, containing a command such as “open Safari,” and having the requested command carried out on your Mac back home. That’s the way TweetMyMac works. To get this set up, you need two Twitter accounts: your main one and a special one set up just…