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Freeware of the Day: Max 0.7.1 Audio Converter
Posted by: admin on Monday, January 22, 2007 - 08:32 AM
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 Max 0.7.1 is a powerful audio conversion utility that goes above and beyond the audio ripping capabilities of iTunes. For those who want a littany of options in their audio ripping, or prefer the use of a small utility rather than the very large iTunes application, Max 0.7.1 is a great and free alternative.
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OS X Freeware of the Day: Google Earth
Posted by: admin on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 07:07 AM
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 Most people have used one Internet mapping service or another to find directions online. But a whole new level of navigational and explorative wonder awaits those who use the Google Earth software client to access Google's database of geographic data. Only fairly recently has an OS X client been available for Google Earth, which started out as a Windows only program. In today's FOTD, we take a closer look at Google Earth, which is available for free download directly from Google.
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OS X Freeware of the Day: Netfixer website image capture tool
Posted by: admin on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 07:22 AM
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 If you have ever wanted to have a photographic record of a particular web page, you probably know that getting a good, complete image of an entire web page is not an easy task. Sure, you can print the web page to paper or PDF, but that is not a representation of how the web page is actually displayed within a web browser. You could take a screen capture of the web page, but that will only show you the portion of the page that is visible in your browser window -- most web pages are longer than a single browser window. And so, you are stuck -- that is, until you have Netfixer.
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Nintendo Wii and the Mac User
Posted by: admin on Friday, November 17, 2006 - 11:15 AM
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 For many months now, I have been captivated by the mystery and lore of the soon to be released Nintendo Wii -- Nintendo's latest gaming system, which is to be launched this Sunday, November 19th. As should be obvious by my involvement with this site, I am also a long time Mac fanatic, having founded a Mac User Group when I was in colleage and otherwise having been a believer in the Jobsian fantasy since the early 1990s. Other than my recent fascination with the Nintendo Wii, I have not ever been an avid video game player, other than a rather common fascination with arcade systems and some of the earlier Nintendo iterations when I was of the "typical" gaming age (i.e., 12 to 17 or so). So I recently wondered why it is I am craving a Nintendo Wii like I have only before craved the latest hot product from Apple. In this article I attempt to analyze this question and explore whether there is a nexus between Mac users and Wii fanatics that might be larger than anyone might think.
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OS X Freeware of the Day: Smultron Text Editor
Posted by: admin on Friday, November 17, 2006 - 08:52 AM
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 From hard core code jockeys to the average home user wanting to keep shopping lists, everyone needs a solid text editors that's reliable, has good editing and searching features, and (of course) is free. For this reason, we are always excited to learn about OS X programs fitting the bill and our freeware pick of the day, Smultron, certain fits in this category. For code warriors, Smultron offers all the common programmer-friendly features you'd expect, such as syntax highlighting for dozens of different languages, advanced search-and-replace (including multiple document searching), snippet storage, HTML preview, and the like. And, for the casual user, Smultron has an easy to use and intuitive interface that will have you working through text files in no time.
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CNN on Microsoft Zune vs. iPod: Not So Much
Posted by: admin on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 09:06 AM
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The early release of Microsoft's supposed iPod competitor has reviews showing up all over the web. Not surprisingly to anyone who has ever heard of either Microsoft or Apple, the Zune is simply not cutting the mustard. Indeed, it is entirely unclear why anyone thinks (or thought) that an MP3 player for Microsoft of all companies was ever going to get close to the coolness factor of Apple and their iPod. The Zune, like so many other iPod competitors, is nothing more than a clunky black box that plays MP3s. Oh, it has a radio and wireless. Woopdy do. I haven't looked yet, but I'd be surprised if Creative or some other company didn't make the exact same thing. The Zune is apparently also heavier than the iPod an it looks like, well, crap.
In the video below, CNN gives a hilarious review of the Zune and ends up completely trashing it. Then one of the anchors of the show whips out her new iPod Shuffle, which wasn't even supposed to be part of the segment (she actually had just bought one and happened to have it with her), and everyone seems to think that's where it's at. Priceless.
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OS X Daily Dose: Battle for Wesnoth: Free Mac Roll Playing Game
Posted by: admin on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 07:15 AM
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Today's Daily Dose is an open source roll playing game called Battle for Wesnoth. This game is a turn-based RPG akin to many other popular action-based RPGs like Warcraft. As an open source project, the game has been developed for multiple platforms including Mac OS X, Windoze, and Linux. Fortunately, the game has advanced multi-player options, including network play, so all of these platform choices mean you can play against any of your friends, regardless of what platform they have. Read on for a look under the hood at Battle for Wesnoth.
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Fans of the popular Internet phone application Skype will be pleased to know that the latest iteration of their client application, Version 2.5, has been released in beta form for Mac OS X. The latest version allows sending of SMS messages and conference calls for up to ten people, among other features..
Reports are now coming in on the latest system update to Mac OS X, and they indicate that speed improvement for non-Intel native binaries is significant. These improvements stem from Apple's changes to the Rosetta sofware that allows PPC binaries to run on Intel Macs.