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Real People Reviews: New WD My Passport Studio
Making an external hard drive stand out when there are so many to choose from can be quite a challenge, but Western Digital (http://www.westerndigital.com) has always been an innovator in this realm. In addition, they... Read more »
Review: Eos unveils Converge system for Macs, PCs, iPhones
If you want wireless audio throughout your house and office -- and don't mind spending some not-inconsiderable scratch to make it happen -- the Eos Converge from Eos Wireless (http://www.eoswireless.com) offers a... Read more »
Review: Mach Desktop can bring your Mac desktop to 'life'
If you want more than still images on your desktop, Mach Desktop (http://www.machsoftwaredesign.com/desktop.html) for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 spruces up your screen with Quartz Compositions, QuickTime movies or even web... Read more »
Macsimum review: Adobe Director 11.5 is pretty slick but pricey
By Tamara Fry-Pietsch Adobe Director 11.5 (http://www.adobe.com) will be familiar to users of previous versions but some additions improve productivity, for example: multiple undos/redos, stage docking, enhanced user... Read more »
Review: Everplay smoothly brings together iTunes, Last FM radio streams
If you use iTunes (and if you're reading this, I know you do) and Last FM, you'll find life easier with Everyplay from Snarb.tk (http://snarb.co.uk/everplay.html). The US$19.95 app plays music from your iTunes music... Read more »
MacNews Migration Kit: grant writing software for Mac OS X
For those new to the column, MacNews Migration is our term for companies moving from Wintel machines to Macs -- or at least adding or increasing the number of Macs they use. A MacNewsMigration Kit is an overview of Mac... Read more »
Review: NTRConnect offers a solid tool for accessing a home computer when you're away
If you need to access your home computer from work, can you? How about access your Mac at home from your PC at work? Or your Mac at work from your iPod touch or iPhone? How about if you could do all that for free?... Read more »
Review: BeaTunes makes a fine companion app with iTunes
Tagtrum's beaTunes (http://www.beatunes.com/) is a pretty cool iTunes tool for Mac and Windows users. It can detect various types of metadata, such as beats-per-minute and musical key, as well as find and fix typos and... Read more »
Freshly Squeezed Reviews: First and Goal
The Super Bowl has come and gone. Now, I do have baseball beginning -- my favorite sport. But what if I crave a little pigskin from time to time? "Think YOU have what it takes to make first-string? Are you Pro-material... Read more »
Macsimum review: FreeForm AE good at what it does -- but you won't use it every day
After Effects has had z-space for what seems like forever and you can do a lot with it, but it’s limited to the point that many people refer to it as 2.5D instead of real 3D. Digieffects (http://www.digieffects.com) has... Read more »
Macsimum Migration Kit: notarial software for Mac OS X
For those new to the column, Macsimum Migration is our term for companies moving from Wintel machines to Macs -- or at least adding or increasing the number of Macs they use. A Macsimum Migration Kit is an overview of... Read more »
MacNews review: FolderGlance for Mac OS X will speed up your workflow
Once you've used Yellow Lemon Software's FolderGlance (http://www.scsc.no/products/folderglance/), a utility for browsing files and folders, you may wonder how you lived -- or at least used your Mac -- without it. The... Read more »
Head-to-Head: Parallels vs. VMware
So which virtualization product do you go with? Which solution is faster? Should you run Windows XP or 7? 32-bit or 64-bit? One virtual processor or more? In short, there are different answers for different people: it... Read more »
Kool Toolz: BookEndz
Laptops are great, but those who use them as their primary computer probably connect them to an external monitor, printer and other devices when they're at home or at the office. That can mean lots of peripheral... Read more »
Kool Tools: Nutrition Products
There's more to life than tech and computing. There's also food designed to help keep us using our tech and computing. At least that's the take of Brain Toniq (http://braintoniq.com) and GamerGrub (http://www.gamergrub.... Read more »
Kool Toolz: Catching Up with Screen Capturing
There are lots of screen capture apps available for the Mac, but these four stand out in the crows. TechSmith Corp.'s Camtasia for Mac as screen-recording, or screencasting, software. Voila, an image capturing,... Read more »
Norton Online Backup a simple online back-up solution
Norton Online Backup: If you’re not backing up your data, you’re living on dangerous ground. So back up your stuff, already. In fact, you should consider both back-ups on-site (whether that’s a home or... Read more »
Backup help for Mac OS X Parachutes in
Dare to be Creative’s Parachute is a new, useful, US$39 backup application for Mac OS X. Designed by Apple Design Award Winner Dietmar Kerschner, it allows users to easily run automated, scheduled backups to a wide... Read more »
‘Wi-Fire’ makes hot spots hotter
If you’re having trouble maintaining (or finding) an adequate WiFi signal, hField Technologies’ Wi-Fire’s US$59 USB WiFi Adapter for Macintosh can give you a boost (pun intended). It sports an integrated high gain... Read more »
 

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Combo Quest (Games)
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