The next meeting of The Macintosh Business Users Society of Greater Philadelphia — or MacBUS (http://www.macbus.org) — will be held on Tuesday, March 30, at 6:30 pm. MacBUS member Ben Romney will demonstrate how to manage your business finances with Intuit QuickBooks.
Read MoreOne Software (http:/www.ononesoftware.com) has announced the immediate availability of two fully-functional Photoshop plug-ins: PhotoTools 2.5 Free and the new PhotoFrame 4.5 Free.
The free plug-ins for Photoshop are based on the versions of PhotoTools 2.5 Standard Edition and PhotoFrame 4.5 Standard Edition and are compatible with Photoshop CS2, CS3 and CS4.
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USA Solar and Digital Communications Technologies, aka Muzatch, have developed a 9.8 ounce solar power station specifically for the iPhone series as well as the iPod nano.
The MZH-1200 iPhone power station is now available worldwide through the Muzatch web site (http://www.muzatch.com). It comes in five colors — white, black, blue, silver and green — and is available at the introductory price of US$49.59.
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MacTech Magazine (https://www.mactech.com) has released video of graphics running on commercial virtualization solutions running on Intel-based Macs. MacTech‘s goal was to answer the often asked questions about how graphics perform under virtualization.
The video (https://www.mactech.com/graphics-virtualization-vmware-vs-parallels) is online now and was inspired by the very large suite of over 3,500 tests that was performed comparing the MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac and Mac Pro that MacTech released in February.
Read MoreEver 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.
Interesting in the full analysis of which product is faster? Check it out at:
https://www.mactech.com/articles/special/1002-VirtualizationHeadToHead/
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.
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