<description><p>A new online video (<a href="http://www.memoryminer.com" title="http://www.memoryminer.com">http://www.memoryminer.com</a>) shows some of the best ways for using MemoryMiner, a digital storytelling application for Mac OS X. Designed an an complement the iLife suite, the software is all about capturing and exploring your life memories.</p>
<p>MemoryMiner allows anyone to zero in on the stories depicted in their photos by linking them to each other based on people, places and time. While photos are used as the starting point, the goal is always uncovering the backstory.</p>
<description><p>Ergonis Software has posted a video (<a href="http://www.ergonis.com/products/typinator/movie.html" title="http://www.ergonis.com/products/typinator/movie.html">http://www.ergonis.com/products/typinator/movie.html</a>) on Typinator (<a href="http://www.ergonis.com/products/typinator/" title="http://www.ergonis.com/products/typinator/">http://www.ergonis.com/products/typinator/</a>), its tool for auto-typing text and auto-correcting typos system-wide across all Mac OS X applications.</p>
<p>Seagate (<a href="http://www.seagate.com" title="http://www.seagate.com">http://www.seagate.com</a>) has unveiled the newest addition to its GoFlex family of hard drives -- the GoFlex Home network storage system. When it's connected to a wireless router, an entire household can centrally store, easily access and continuously back up files wirelessly from Mac and Windows systems on the home  network.</p>
<description><p>Summer is just around the corner, and if you’re human, you’re not going to want to be stuck inside an office when it’s gorgeous out. But you can’t just shirk your responsibilities either. Don’t worry, there is a way you can get out, enjoy the summer and stay productive. Set up remote access from LogMeIn (<a href="https://secure.logmein.com/welcome/default.aspx?originid=7872&destination=&WT.mc_id=7187" title="https://secure.logmein.com/welcome/default.aspx?originid=7872&destination=&WT.mc_id=7187">https://secure.logmein.com/welcome/default.aspx?originid=7872&destinatio...</a>) now, and you’ll be in business, wherever you are, all summer.</p>
<description><p>There's a new video demonstrating the features of SonicPcs for the iPhone. The app -- available in an US$2.99 and free, "lite" version -- is a tool for turning your images into custom slideshow movies that you can share with your friends online!.</p>
<p>SonicPics lets you add images from your iPhone's photo library or camera, arrange your photos, and then narrate the project to create an enhanced m4v video (complete with chapters). You can take photos of your kids, special events, weddings, vacations, the new pet, or first day at camp and narrate them with SonicPics.</p>
<description><p>Solid State Drives (SSDs) are gaining in popularity. So should you buy a SSD or a traditional hard disk drive?</p>
<p>Other World Computing (OWC) has compared the two types of drives. You can find the SSD vs HDD Shootout at : <a href="http://eshop.macsales.com/Customized_Pages/Framework.cfm?page=ssd-speed-test-feb-10_m.html" title="http://eshop.macsales.com/Customized_Pages/Framework.cfm?page=ssd-speed-test-feb-10_m.html">http://eshop.macsales.com/Customized_Pages/Framework.cfm?page=ssd-speed-...</a> .</p>
<description><p>OrigAudio has posted a video (<a href="http://www.origaudio.com/" title="http://www.origaudio.com/">http://www.origaudio.com/</a>) on the Rock-It, an US$49.99 vibration speaker system. </p>
<p>The Rock-It works with iPods, iPhones, laptops and more. It takes music from the device and generates it into vibration sequences. It sends those vibrations through the Rock-It "pod," which you can stick to any object.</p>
<p>The Rock-It requires two AAA batteries (not included) or an USB connection. It comes with an USB cable and four replacement sticky pads.</p>
<description><p>A new screencast (<a href="http://screencasts.smileonmymac.com/SCO170-pdfpen-Module01-832x468-h264_best.mov" title="http://screencasts.smileonmymac.com/SCO170-pdfpen-Module01-832x468-h264_best.mov">http://screencasts.smileonmymac.com/SCO170-pdfpen-Module01-832x468-h264_...</a>) offers an introduction and installation guide for PDFPen from SmileOnMyMac. </p>
<p>PDFPen is a PDF editing and form-filling tool for Mac OS X. PDFpen costs US$49.95, and PDFpenPro is $99.95. Family pack licenses, which cover up to five computers in one household, are $74.95 for PDFpen and $129.95 for PDFpenPro. Upgrades from earlier versions of either application are $25, and free to users who purchased after June 1, 2008. Upgrades from any version of PDFpen to PDFpenPro 4.0 are $50.</p>
<description><p>Open Door Networks (<a href="http://www.opendoor.com" title="http://www.opendoor.com">http://www.opendoor.com</a>) has posted a video (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqb1T5WERos" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqb1T5WERos">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqb1T5WERos</a>) looking at its Art Authority app for the iPad. </p>
<p>Art Authority is an US$9.99 app that offers a collection of works by over 1,000 of the western world's major artists, from ancient times to today. It offers detailed captions on the works, including title, date and location; multiple levels of organization including by artist name, period, movement and date; and overviews of major works by period.</p>
<description><p>There's a new video (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/provuedevelopment" title="http://www.youtube.com/provuedevelopment">http://www.youtube.com/provuedevelopment</a>) that takes you on a quick tour of what's new in Panorama 6, including Total Recall (crash recovery), new Data Sheet features and more. </p>
<p>It teaches how to make effective use of Panorama's RAM-based technology for common database tasks. The video assumes that you're already familiar with Panorama 5.5.</p>
<description><p>It's About Time Products has posted a screencast on It's About Time for the iPad. You can find it at <a href="http://vimeo.com/10576929" title="http://vimeo.com/10576929">http://vimeo.com/10576929</a> . </p>
<p>"It's About Time" is an iPad application that allows you to access and utilize multiple "mini apps" with different, customizable types of information. It will be available soon at a special launch price of $0.99. </p>
<p>Mini apps 1.0 ships with a 1984-style mini Calculator, Browser, Sticky, Weather, and NASA image of the day, all of which run at the same time.</p>
<description><p>Norada (<a href="http://www.norada.com" title="http://www.norada.com">http://www.norada.com</a>), a provider of the Solve360 communicating and collaborating Web solution for small businesses, has posted a screencast (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyTdr2eq-10" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyTdr2eq-10">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyTdr2eq-10</a>) explaining its product, which the company describes as "CRM meets project management."</p>
<p>Norada Corporation's Solve360 integrates the functionality of business-class email, CRM contact management, group calendar, task, document management, and invoicing into a single web-based application. A demo is available at the Norado web site. Contact the company for pricing options.</p>
<description><p>A new screencast (<a href="http://supersync.com/intro.php" title="http://supersync.com/intro.php">http://supersync.com/intro.php</a>) walks you through the use of SuperSync, Mac OS X compatible software that acts as a music collection’s central hub, retrieving, organizing, and syncing all music and movie files across machines and disk drives in order to create one consistent, complete music library.</p>
<description><p>A screencast by Pearson looks at "Learning iPhone Game Programming." You can find it here: <a href="http://www.informit.com/podcasts/episode.aspx?e=9e7d48e6-ff5b-46de-bd20-25ea1a4e8c6a" title="http://www.informit.com/podcasts/episode.aspx?e=9e7d48e6-ff5b-46de-bd20-25ea1a4e8c6a">http://www.informit.com/podcasts/episode.aspx?e=9e7d48e6-ff5b-46de-bd20-...</a></p>
<p>Author Mike Daley provides an overview of his book, "Learning iPhone Game Programming." The screencast shows you some basics on writing ames on the iPhone, iPod touch, and the iPad.</p>
<p>Daley currently runs the Europe Middle East and Africa Sales Consultant Product Specialists group for Oracle Communications. He's been programming games since getting his first Sinclair Spectrum 48k computer in 1983.</p>
<description><p>Robert McHale's "A Practical Legal Guide to iPhone Application Development" white paper is now available as a downloadable PDF.</p>
<p>By examining the iPhone SDK Agreement, Apple’s End User License Agreement, and federal copyright and trademark registration, this article provides an introductory overview of the common legal issues surrounding iPhone Application development, and the measures developers can adopt to minimize liability and maximize protection of their intellectual property rights.</p>
<description><p>Creaceed (<a href="http://www.creaceed.com" title="http://www.creaceed.com">http://www.creaceed.com</a>) has posted a screencast (<a href="http://www.creaceed.com/prizmo/screencasts.html" title="http://www.creaceed.com/prizmo/screencasts.html">http://www.creaceed.com/prizmo/screencasts.html</a>) telling how to use Prizmo and a digital camera as a scanner. It teachers viewers how to take a picture of a document, and then take it into Prizmo and have it converted to a PDF.</p>
<p>Prizmo is a Mac OS X application for scanning everything thanks to a digital camera. Current cameras often have 10-megapixel sensors, and a 10-megapixel image is roughly as good as a 300 dpi US-Letter scan. With some image processing and binarization, you can even go beyond 600 dpi.</p>
<description><p>Eltima Software has posted a screencast on restoring an FLA or Flex project from SWF using Flash Decompiler Trillix. You can find it at <a href="http://mac.eltima.com/swftofla-converter.html;" title="http://mac.eltima.com/swftofla-converter.html;">http://mac.eltima.com/swftofla-converter.html;</a> click the Play button on the left hand side of the page.</p>
<description>Ever wonder what graphics really looks like side-by-side comparing VMware Fusion 3 to Parallels Desktop 5? This video will show you a wide variety of graphics tests, running on side-by-side machines so that you can see for yourself.
and read the most comprehensive and definitive set of benchmarks in the industry about virtualization on the Mac. Thousands of real world tests run, primarily with a stopwatch, to give you the best answer possible on which is faster in each area and by how much.</description>
<description><p>Akvis has posted ascreencast (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AKVISvideo#p/a/u/1/fjyc_W5CwGo" title="http://www.youtube.com/user/AKVISvideo#p/a/u/1/fjyc_W5CwGo">http://www.youtube.com/user/AKVISvideo#p/a/u/1/fjyc_W5CwGo</a>) showing how to use AKVIS Smartmask to remove someone from a background. </p>
<p>Smartmask (<a href="http://akvis.com/en/smartmask/" title="http://akvis.com/en/smartmask/">http://akvis.com/en/smartmask/</a>) is an image selection and masking plug-in for the Mac and Windows platforms. It's designed to save time on complex selections. With the app, there are two pencils, red and blue. Draw a line with the blue pencil inside the object being selected (for example, yourself in a group photo) and then outline the same object with the red pencil to define the areas that should be cut out.</p>
<description><p>You probably don't like paying taxes. Who does? But everyone really hates preparing their taxes. </p>
<p>Now IGG Software (<a href="http://www.iggsoftware.com" title="http://www.iggsoftware.com">http://www.iggsoftware.com</a>) -- which makes personal and small business apps for Mac OS X -- is offering a white paper on the "Top 10 Tips for Managing Your Money Year 'Round -- Or When Tax Time Looms." It serves up suggestions on how to mind your finances year round to make tax prep a lot easier.</p>
<description><p>Mac adoption is rising, even in the enterprise, and IT departments and support staff can't afford to ignore the Mac any longer. A recent survey by the Enterprise Desktop Alliance (<a href="http://www.enterprisedesktopalliance.com" title="http://www.enterprisedesktopalliance.com">http://www.enterprisedesktopalliance.com</a>), an organization that helps IT departments integrate Macs into the corporate environment, shows that 66% of 322 IT administrators from large organizations with both Macs and PCs stated that their organization expects to increase the number of Macs in their sites.</p>
<description><p>The highest performance, expandable, directly attached storage can be achieved at low cost by moving the server or work station’s PCI bus “outside” and taking advantage of the benefits of the architecture when adding storage subsystems as needed, according to JRM (<a href="http://www.jmr.com/" title="http://www.jmr.com/">http://www.jmr.com/</a>), which specializes in storage technology.</p>
<p>JRM -- which has written a white paper (attached) on the subject -- says that to make use of high performance, high capacity, low cost SAS3 and SATA disk drives for mass storage, a bridging interface is required from PCI Express (PCIe) to SAS.</p>
<description><p>Many CTOs and system/network administrators feel that tape is something to be avoided. But a new white paper by the Tolis Group (<a href="http://www.tolisgroup.com" title="http://www.tolisgroup.com">http://www.tolisgroup.com</a>) -- which makes back-up solutions for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Unix systems -- begs to different.</p>
<p>The Alupad from Just Mobile (<a href="http://www.xtand.net/products/show/productid/10" title="http://www.xtand.net/products/show/productid/10">http://www.xtand.net/products/show/productid/10</a>) is an US$49.99 mouse pad with an anodized aluminum surface ensuring lasting durability with style. It's designed to complement Apple's Magic Mouse and Apple Aluminum Keyboard.</p>
<p>The pad supports all optical mice for precise movements. The design complements Mac desktops and laptops. What's more, non-slip feet keeps Alupad staying secure on your desk.</p>
<description><p>With screen sharing, Mac users can control the mouse and keyboard of one computer while sitting at another computer across the room or on the other side of the world. In a new ebook, "Take Control of Screen Sharing in Snow Leopard," networking expert Glenn Fleishman walks readers through the steps for identifying, configuring, and using the screen-sharing option that best meets their needs.</p>
