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<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-204875"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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>
<p>With MemoryMiner, you can directly record audio or video to capture the backstory of a photo. You can attach documents, web URL's, or other media to add depth and context. Each photo becomes a frame in a storyboard that can be browsed by periods in a person's life, where people overlap, by place, by time, or any combination.</p>
<p>MemoryMiner requires Mac OS X 10.5 or higher. It's Universal Binary so runs...</p> | <a href="/2010/08/26/video-looks-digital-storytelling-features-memoryminer">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-198603"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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>With thousands of predefined corrections for common typos and misspelled words for US and British English, German and French, Typinator is not only just a typing assistant that speeds repetitive typing tasks, but also a system-wide auto-correction tool that automatically fixes typing errors and misspelled words. You just define an abbreviation along with its replacement text or picture. Whenever you type one of your abbreviations in any application, Typinator inserts the corresponding...</p> | <a href="/2010/07/30/ergonis-posts-video-using-typinator">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195428"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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>
<p>The new centralized storage system simplifies the backup process by being compatible with the Apple Time Machine, as well as including a version of the backup application for both Mac OS X and Windows operating systems, says Darcy Clarkson, Seagate vice president of Retail Sales and Marketing. With the GoFlex Home storage system, families can also wirelessly stream photos, movies and music to most network connected DLNA devices, such as game consoles or a GoFlex TV HD media player, from any room in the house. </p>
<p>The GoFlex Home is available in 1TB and 2TB capacities at...</p> | <a href="/2010/07/19/seagate-introduces-goflex-home-centralized-storage">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-194063"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-193635"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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>
<p>When the recording is complete, you can publish your movie to your YouTube account or to your computer. You can view the video at <a href="http://www.sonicpics.com/public/index.php#4" title="http://www.sonicpics.com/public/index.php#4">http://www.sonicpics.com/public/index.php#4</a> .</p> | <a href="/2010/07/12/video-demos-sonicpics-iphone">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-189686"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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> | <a href="/2010/06/24/video-looks-ssds-vs-hdds">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-186267"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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> | <a href="/2010/06/14/origaudio-posts-video-rock-it">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-164643"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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> | <a href="/2010/04/17/screencast-looks-installing-using-pdfpen">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-156107"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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>
<p>The app also includes signature features of the company's Envi app line, such as full-screen slide shows, insightful thumbnail overviews, Ken Burns motion effect and access to information on artists and periods. The app focuses on western painting and sculpture from pre-history to present-day,...</p> | <a href="/content/video-looks-art-authority-ipad">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-143960"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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>
<p>Panorama is database software for Mac OS X and Windows from ProVUE Development (<a href="http://www.provue.com" title="http://www.provue.com">http://www.provue.com</a>). It's used for storing, organizing and analyzing information, available in both single user and server versions. Since 1988 Panorama has been in use all over the world for everything from custom accounting to medical research, from huge college track meets to blockbuster Hollywood productions.</p> | <a href="/content/video-takes-you-tour-panorama-6">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-105140"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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>
<p>"Our Dashboard-like engine also gives users the ability to have multiple copies of one mini app on screen. "I plan on having multiple mini Browsers open so I can go to all my favorite sites whenever I want," says Saied Ghaffari, CEO of It's About Time Products. "Mini apps is compatible with the majority of available Dashboard widgets on the Mac. It's About Time hopes to find developers with whom to partner to...</p> | <a href="/content/screencast-looks-its-about-time-ipad">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-104772"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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> | <a href="/content/norada-screencast-looks-using-solve360">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-104735"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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>
<p>SuperSync includes integration with iTunes so that any additions to the SuperSync music library can be automatically reflected in iTunes. SuperSync eliminates the need to manually add new music or remove broken links in iTunes. Also, the software includes a powerful library scanner that will clean up your SuperSync and iTunes music libraries, removing broken links to music and adding new tracks.</p>
<p>A copy of SuperSync is recommended for each Mac and PC that has music on it. SuperSync is priced at US$29 for two copies. For an individual synchronizing or remotely accessing...</p> | <a href="/content/screencast-looks-using-supersync">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-104716"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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> | <a href="/content/screencast-looks-iphone-game-programming">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-102596"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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>
<p>R | McHale (<a href="http://www.rmchale.com/about.htm" title="http://www.rmchale.com/about.htm">http://www.rmchale.com/about.htm</a>) is a Boston-based law firm offering legal services in the following practice areas:¬† Corporate Law, Litigation, and Business Immigration. Founding partner Robert McHale has corporate and litigation experience representing individuals, start-ups, multinational corporations and Fortune 500 companies.‚Ä®</p> | <a href="/content/white-paper-offers-practical-guide-iphone-application-development">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101606"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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>
<p>Scanning with Prizmo isn't limited to documents. As the software corrects lens distortion and perspective, they can scan almost everything: common documents (invoices, receipts) as well as less usual documents (boards,...</p> | <a href="/content/screencast-looks-using-prizmo-digital-camera-scanner">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100424"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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>
<p>Flash Decompiler Trillix for Mac (formerly known as SWF to FLA Converter) converts Adobe Flash SWF files back into FLA format and SWF files created in Flex back to Flex sources, which can be edited in native Flash or Flex environment. Every group of objects such as morphs, shapes, texts, fonts, sounds, scripts, etc., are placed in separate FLA library groups with appropriate names to simplify using and working with the resulting FLA file.</p>
<p>Flash Decompiler can extract any object (images, sounds, videos, shapes, text, morphs, scripts, etc.) used in SWF files into various file formats just in several clicks. The latest...</p> | <a href="/content/screencast-looks-restoring-fla-or-flex-project-swf-using-flash-decompiler-trillix">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99793"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">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... | <a href="/content/graphics-virtualization-vmware-fusion-vs-parallels-desktop">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99664"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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>
<p>The selection algorithm analyzes the image and your drawing, and creates the selection you want. Akvis SmartMask features three selection modes are tailored to...</p> | <a href="/content/screencast-looks-using-smartmask-remove-someone-background">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-98728"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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> | <a href="/content/tips-managing-your-money">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-98727"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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>
<p>Additional responses show management priorities and organizational approaches to managing Macs. The respondents cited user preference, increased productivity, and ease of technical support as leading reasons for choosing Macs.</p>
<p>Increased Mac usage can only mean increased Mac-related support issues. Unfortunately, most remote support products simply don‚Äôt support Macs at all, and many of...</p> | <a href="/content/white-paper-looks-mac-adoption-enterprise-markets-and-some-support-issues">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-98726"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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>
<p>PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) is a serial connection that operates more like a network than a bus. Instead of one bus that handles data from multiple sources, PCIe has a switch that controls several point-to-point serial connections.</p>
<p>SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) is a computer bus that moves data to and from computer...</p> | <a href="/content/white-paper-looks-using-pcie-attached-storage">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-98486"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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 Tolis Group says that no longer is tape a performance, usability, or cost gating factor. In fact, the white paper says that LTO-4 technology is actually faster than the filesystems that feed it, the reliability is excellent, and the life expectancy of written tapes is measured in decades. The same can be said for other fine tape formats, though throughput performance varies.</p>
<p>What's LTO? It stands for Linear Tape-Open, a magnetic tape data storage technology . IT developed jointly by IBM, HP and Seagate as an open alternative to the proprietary Digital Linear Tape (DLT). Developed jointly by IBM, HP, and Seagate.</p>
<p>LTO-4 cartridges...</p> | <a href="/content/disk-vs-tape">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-98400"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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>
<p>Aesthetically, it matches just about any aluminum "flavored" Mac, from the 13-inch MacBook Pro to the Mac Pro. To view a video about the Alupad, go to: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/myjustmobile" title="http://www.youtube.com/myjustmobile">http://www.youtube.com/myjustmobile</a> .</p> | <a href="/content/screencast-looks-just-mobile-alupad">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-93663"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><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. For those who want to get the most out of Apple's MobileMe-based Back to My Mac file- and screen-sharing feature, Fleishman has also written a companion ebook, "Take Control of Back to My Mac." Each title costs $10, or they can be purchased together for $15 at <a href="http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-screen-sharing" title="http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-screen-sharing">http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-screen-sharing</a></p> | <a href="/content/take-control-screen-sharing-snow-leopard">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-63070"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p><strong>Porting Visual Basic Applications to Linux and Mac OS X: A How-To Guide for Visual Basic Developers</strong></p>
<p>Leverage your experience in Visual Basic. Port your code to REALbasic where you can compile your applications for Linux, Mac OS X and all 32-bit versions of Windows, including Windows 98, NT, ME, 2000 and XP.</p>
<p>In this white paper, I'll show how you can preserve your investment in Visual Basic by porting your code to Linux and/or Macintosh using REAL Software's REALbasic. I'll provide some examples, share some experience and give you a roadmap for how to port—and how not to port—your Visual Basic applications cross-platform. My intent is to save you some time and pain.</p>
<p>For porting our VB projects, we will use REALbasic 2006 for Windows, a modern software development environment that is quite similar to Microsoft® Visual Basic in terms of the GUI and syntax. I also don't intend to provide a full comparison of Visual Basic and...</p> | <a href="/content/porting-visual-basic-applications-linux-and-mac-os-x-how-guide-visual-basic-developers">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-33361"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Find essential advice for running Windows on your Intel-based Mac! Using an Intel-based Mac means you can choose the best of both worlds—running Mac OS X or running Windows, but what's the optimal way way to go about it? Cross-platform expert Joe Kissell has distilled untold hours of testing into this ebook to help you understand the pros and cons of Apple's Boot Camp versus virtualization software and to give advice and step-by-step instructions for installing and using either Windows 7, Vista, or XP in Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop 5, VMware Fusion 3, and VirtualBox. <a href="http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/windows-on-mac" title="http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/windows-on-mac">http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/windows-on-mac</a></p> | <a href="/content/take-control-running-windows-mac-fourth-edition">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-63064"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Learn how to sync your data with another Mac, iPhone, iPod, mobile phone, or PDA!</p>
<p>With clear directions and a humorous touch, expert Michael Cohen walks you through exactly how to sync managed data from a Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard with a variety of devices and services. Whether you want to sync phone numbers between your Mac and your mobile phone, share calendars and keychains between Macs, or move only new podcast episodes to an iPod, you'll find useful advice and directions. ("Managed data" is data that you can't usually see as separate files in the Finder—data such as iCal events, Address Book contacts, Safari bookmarks, and anything you store in iTunes.)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-syncing" title="http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-syncing">http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-syncing</a></p> | <a href="/content/take-control-syncing-data-snow-leopard">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-63065"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Configure file sharing to be fast, effective, and secure with networking guru Glenn Fleishman! This detail-packed book makes file sharing easy, whether it's between two Macs on a local network, among a mixed-platform office workgroup, or between far-flung computers on the Internet. You'll learn how to select and configure the right hardware and software for your needs and budget, consider the pros and cons of different file-sharing options, find set-up steps for each of the core Mac OS X file-sharing services—AFP, SMB, and FTP—(with tips to help you avoid problems and security risks), and learn how to connect to Mac file servers from a variety of major operating systems. The ebook discusses Snow Leopard's Wake on Demand feature and the quirky Snow Leopard firewall, as well as how to share files from iPhoto '09 and iTunes 9.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-sharing" title="http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-sharing">http://www....</a></p> | <a href="/content/take-control-sharing-files-snow-leopard">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
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<p>Installing a major new version of Mac OS X should be exciting and fun, but without proper guidance you may find it nerve-wracking or even lose valuable files. Fortunately, many thousands of people have upgraded Mac OS X calmly and successfully with Joe Kissell's previous best-selling Take Control of Upgrading... titles. Joe's friendly, expert steps—developed over innumerable test installations—help you to avoid trouble, understand what's going on when you install Snow Leopard, and easily recover from problems that might arise.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-upgrading" title="http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-upgrading">http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-upgrading</a></p> | <a href="/content/take-control-upgrading-snow-leopard">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<p>What development enviroment should you use? Already you are faced with a plethora of choices: cross-platform or for Mac only? Standalone programs or ones that need a runtime? Just for fun or might it develop into something more serious?</p>
<p>My own requirements in a development tool were: easy to learn, good graphical user interface, cross-platform, and if possible, cheap, preferably free.</p>
<p>So, based upon my requirements, that excluded X-Code (though I still have it on my Mac), Tcl, Python, and a few others and left me seriously looking at REALbasic, Java, SuperCard and Revolution. I tried all of them for a few weeks and REALbasic came out on top by a mile. I had used the old HyperCard extensively and I found SuperCard and Revolution to be quite limited. I hadn’t previously appreciated the difference that a fully object-oriented language would make. Java is object-oriented and cross-platform, but it is intended mainly for...</p> | <a href="/content/why-realbasic">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-63067"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Explore Snow Leopard's native habitat with an expert guide!</p>
<p>Read along as Mac expert Matt Neuburg takes you on a Snow Leopard safari. With dry wit and infectious enthusiasm, Matt shines a light on the major and minor changes in Snow Leopard, with an emphasis on how to customize your Mac's interface, navigate quickly around your disk, and use special features like a pro.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-customizing" title="http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-customizing">http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-customizing</a></p> | <a href="/content/take-control-exploring-customizing-snow-leopard">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-63068"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Start podcasting or take it to the next level with our step-by-step guide!</p>
<p>Beginning a podcast is easier than starting a radio station, but it's still hard to assemble your hardware and software, and learn the tricks of the trade. You can easily meet that challenge with start-to-finish guidance from long-time podcaster Andy Affleck. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/podcasting-mac" title="http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/podcasting-mac">http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/podcasting-mac</a></p> | <a href="/content/take-control-podcasting-mac">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-63073"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>As a professional software developer for more than twenty years, I have chosen a lot of tools. Some say "practice makes perfect," so after a quarter century, I should be pretty good at it. I picked my first development tool in high school. I was using a TRS-80 calculator that came with BASIC, so that ended up becoming my first tool by default. That is the way many of us choose our first tool, simple convenience. I can't say this method hurt me too much, as I sold my first program as a sophomore and took my first development position while still in high school. Sometimes the only tool is the best tool because it is your only option. When this happens, you can be sure you made the right choice.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.realsoftware.com/support/choosingadev.php" title="http://www.realsoftware.com/support/choosingadev.php">http://www.realsoftware.com/support/choosingadev.php</a></p> | <a href="/content/choosing-development-environment">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-63071"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>The Rapid Release Model for Software Development</p>
<p>Summary</p>
<p>Moving software development schedules to a 90-day cycle offers substantial benefits for both software consumers and software developers. For software consumers, it means gaining faster access to new features and functionality and better software quality. For developers, it means reduced risk, improved project management and market agility.</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>For the past 20 years, commercial software has been packaged and sold using the same sales model as other household products such as breakfast cereal and laundry detergent; in an attractive box on the shelf of a retail store. The software industry has grown up trying to fit within this well-established system of selling consumer products.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.realsoftware.com/support/rapidrelease.php" title="http://www.realsoftware.com/support/rapidrelease.php">http://www.realsoftware.com/support/rapidrelease.php</a></p> | <a href="/content/rapid-release-model-software-development">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-63069"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>REALbasic can export and import REALbasic projects in XML format. XML is a structured, text-based data format that provides a standard framework for representing data.</p>
<p>For a brief orientation to XML documents in general, see What Do XML Documents Look Like?. The XML produced by REALbasic is well-formed, but it cannot be "validated" because it does not include a "document type declaration." Most of the content should be self-explanatory, with the aid of the reference below. Whitespace is significant only in the content area of the innermost tags; whitespace between one tag and another is not significant.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.realsoftware.com/support/xml" title="http://www.realsoftware.com/support/xml">http://www.realsoftware.com/support/xml</a></p> | <a href="/content/realbasic-xml-project-format">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
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