Year: 2010

‘MacVoices’ looks at working on the iPad

Posted by | Jun 7, 2010 | |

On the new “MacVoices” (http://www.macvoices.com), Mac expert Joe Kissell, author of the new “Take Control of Working with Your iPad” title, talks about his new book.

Working on your iPad may not be the first think you think of, but he helps set expectations, explaining what the iPad is and is not good for, talking about whether it can or cannot replace a laptop, and even if it should. If you adopt a pioneering spirit, and are willing to do a little planning, you can get a lot of work done with your iPad.

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2010 Mac OS X Ars Design Award winners announced

2010 Mac OS X Ars Design Award winners announced

Posted by | Jun 7, 2010 | , |

“Ars Technica” has named its 2010 Mac OS X Ars Design Award winners, honors the publication decided to bestow after Apple limited its 2010 Worldwide Developer Conference Awards to iPhone OS apps. You can read all about the Ars Design Awards — including who the judges were and what the prizes are — at http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/2010-ars-design-award-winners-for-mac-os-x-software.ars?old=mobile, but here are a list of the winners:

° Best New Mac OS X App: Transmit 4 by Panic
Runner up: 1Password 3 by Agile Web Solutions

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Jedit X text editor for Mac OS X gets maintenance update

Posted by | Jun 7, 2010 | , |

Artman21 (http://www.artman21.com/en/jedit_x/) has updated Jedit X, the Cocoa-based text editor for Mac OS X, to version 2.22. It’s a maintenance update with four improvements and two bug fixes.

Jedit X is an Universal Binary app so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. It requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. The cost is US$28 for a single-user license, though version 2.22 is a free update for registered users.

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Review: Eye-Fi Pro is feature-rich, wireless SDHC card

Review: Eye-Fi Pro is feature-rich, wireless SDHC card

Posted by | Jun 7, 2010 | , |

By Brad Moore

The Eye-Fi Pro from Eye-Fi Inc. (http://www.eyefi.fi) is the latest, most feature-rich wireless SDHC card in the Eye-Fi lineup — and it should be given that it costs quite a bit more than your typical 4-GB SD card.

Setup is easy: Plug the card into your computer using the supplied card reader, install the software, set up your account, tweak your settings, stick the card in your camera, and snap away.

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