Year: 2010

Task Timer adds daily total to dock and status menus for Mac OS X

Posted by | Mar 12, 2010 | , |

BKeeney Software has updated Task Timer (http://www.bkeeney.com/products/tasktimer4), a project management and time-tracking tool for Mac OS X (10.4 and 10.5), to version 4.3.3. The new version adds the daily total to the dock and status menus for Mac OS X users and fixes some minor bugs.

Task Timer allows users to track time spent on individual tasks and projects to the minute. It generates a variety of reports using relative and specific date ranges and other filters. Users may also synchronize their data on their local machine with a database server.

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Freshly Squeezed Reviews: Go for a Swim

Freshly Squeezed Reviews: Go for a Swim

Posted by | Mar 12, 2010 | , |

“Skin. It’s what holds your insides in.” – Allan Sherman

As always, the English vocabulary takes words and either morphs them into new meanings or adds another definition to the word. Like skin. He escaped by the skin of his teeth. After the hunt, he skinned the kill (with apologies to PETA). And the ancient “slap me some skin.”

In the tech age, skin has come to describe a cover that you place on any electronic device to make a statement or display your personality (or give you one).

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Fontcase 1.5 for Mac OS X adds auto-activation, more

Posted by | Mar 12, 2010 | , |

Bohemian Coding and Laurent Baumann have updated Fontcase (http://www.bohemiancoding.com/?Fontcase), a font manager for Mac OS X 10.5 and higher, to version 1.5. The new version adds auto-activation, duplicates detection, a speed increase and stability, among other things.

Fontcase focuses on metadata. For every font and weight, you can add a variety of metadata. You can set tags, genres, assign designers and foundries and more. They are not just pieces of text, but actually show up in the source list, right under your smart collections. Everything in the interface can be dragged.

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iPad now available for pre-order

iPad now available for pre-order

Posted by | Mar 12, 2010 | , |

The iPad and its accessories are now available for pre-order at the online Apple Store (http://www.apple.com). They’re due to ship on Saturday, April 3.

At least the Wi-Fi only versions will; the Wi-Fi + 3G model will hit US store sleeves in late April. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April.

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