PhoneTransact has introduced Credit Card Reader for iPhone and iPod touch (http://www.phonetransact.com/credit-card-reader-for-the-iphone/), their plug-in hardware accessory that allows the user to swipe credit cards. Its sleeve design purportedly fits snugly and plugs in to the 30-pin charging connector of the iPhone or iPod touch, providing bi-directional card reading meeting ANSI/ISO standards.
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Adobe today announced the immediate availability of Photoshop Express for iPad and iPhone. Formerly known as Photoshop.com Mobile, the newly-branded application now brings photo editing, organizing and sharing technology to the iPad.
Photoshop Express for iPad delivers all of the photo-editing features iPhone users have enjoyed, such as crop, rotate and flip, as well as effects like Vibrant, Pop, Border, and Vignette. There are one touch adjustments to exposure, saturation, tint and black & white.
Read MoreOn this week’s “Tech Night Owl,” Gene Steinberg, the Owl himself, and guests look at Mark Papermaster’s departure from Apple, a possible downturn in computer sales and the upcoming Office 2011 for the Mac.
You can tune into the live broadcast stream Thursday nights from 6-8 Pacific, 9-11 Eastern from http://www.technightowl.com/radio ; an archive of the show will be available for downloading and listening at your convenience within four hours after the original broadcast. You can also access our show’s podcast feed, now available at http://www.technightowl.com/nightowl.xml .
Read MoreI’m still mulling over the possibility of selling my current 27-inch, “tricked out” iMac and buying one of the new models so I can see how the new memory, new graphics card and an SSD drive feels.
On the other hand, those features are nice, but my current iMac is plenty fast enough and Apple didn’t include any “gotta have” features in the latest rev of the consumer/prosumer desktop. I was certain that Apple would include USB 3.0, but they didn’t. Why? Who knows. I’ve written Apple about the exclusion, but — no surprise — I’ve received no answer.
This MacNews Category Review is the first of our multi-part look at retail management software for the Mac. Products covered include 3in1 FileMaker Pro Template: Retail Planning Catalog, 7Office Sales Cycle Management, Advanced SaleSmartz Pro, AdWorks, AlfsIt, AlphaMag, ArsMagna, Auction Tender, AuthPay, AutoPrice, Barcode X, BC Boutique, Biz Basics Gold, BusinessMind, Checkout, Clothing Organizer, CRM, Days Off Calculator, DB Retailer’s Advantage, deCount, deLUXE, EB Suite CRM, Equisis Detail, fileWorkerFILIAEL, Filobase Gestion, FloristWare, FrameReady and gBoutique