Year: 2010

MonitorMyMac for Mac OS X now free to parents

Arten Science is offering MonitorMyMac (http://www.monitormymac.co.uk) for Mac OS X free to parents. The software takes timed snapshots of your computer Screen and/or takes snapshots from your connected webcam.

These images can be stored locally, or remotely and are also optionally uploaded to your FTP server. This means they can they be accessed from anywhere with Internet access. MonitorMyMac is the “big brother” of ScreenAudit. It has a built-in image viewer and the ability to automatically send images to a remote server via FTP.

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‘MacVoices’ looks at the importance of fonts

On the new “MacVoices” (http://www.macvoices.com), Jay Nelson of Design Tools Monthly and Design Tools Weekly talks about the importance of fonts in a world that seems to be increasingly moving away from paper.

Understanding and choosing the right font for the job may be the easiest way you can improve the look of your projects, no matter what the medium. Nelson is also penning a new column for Macworld, and tells us what what we can expect to learn from it.

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Two analysts think AT&T’s iPhone exclusivity in the US will extend beyond 2010

Once most pundits were sure that Apple would enter into an iPhone agreement with Verizon this year. Now two analysts think that our favorite tech company will extend its exclusive agreement with AT&T through 2011, reports “AppleInsider” (http://www.appleinsider.com).

Analyst Vijay Jayant of Barclays Capital told clients that the iPad announcement, with no-contract 3G data plans available exclusively through AT&T, showed that Apple remains content in its ongoing partnership with the nation’s second-largest wireless carrier.

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