Author: dsellers

Naarak Studio releases iCollections 3.0 for Mac OS X

Naarak Studio has released version 3 of their iCollections, the Mac Desktop organizer. It’s a “launcher” application that allows users flexibility in organizing and accessing frequently used files and applications.

It helps to eliminate desktop clutter and repeated searches in disks, folders, and on the Internet, by placing drag-and-drop modifiable palettes on the desktop. A palette can handle a user’s files, folders, and applications all in one location.

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The Northern Spy: Close Encounters

By Rick Sutcliffe

The Spy is late again with this column. His reason is the first encounter.

Some time back a tree trunk some seventy-five centimetres thick broke off a big leaf maple some 10 metres up and fell across his neighbour’s barbed wire fence. Fortunately cattle no longer graze there, so nothing escaped. His tree, his responsibility, so after recovering from painkillers following dental surgery (another encounter with technology), he cranked up his Stihl 261 chain saw (yet another) and bucked the part that was over the fence.

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SyncMate 6.5 for OS X is here with iOS 10 support

Eltima Software has announced SyncMate 6.5, an upgrade of their synchronization tool for OS X.

It will sync Mac computers with iOS and Android devices, other Macs, MTP devices, as well as with online storage accounts such as Google, Dropbox, iCloud and Windows Services, including Outlook, Office 365 Home and Business accounts. Easily mount devices as Mac disks, manage mobile SMS on Mac and lots more. The latest version of SyncMate features iOS 10 support.

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FileMaker launches mall Business Toolkit, Idea to iPad Bundle

FileMaker, Inc. (www.filemaker.com) has released the Service Business Toolkit and Idea to iPad Bundle.

Both are designed to help small businesses plan, create and deploy a custom app that will enable them to maximize customer satisfaction, drive growth and increase profitability. The Service Business Toolkit is free and the Idea to iPad Bundle is available for sale at local Apple Stores and directly from FileMaker, Inc.

The free Service Business Toolkit offers:

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