An Apple patent (number 20100052870) for an intelligent infrared remote pairing has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. It indicates that Apple may be eyeing its own universal remote control or, more likely, expanding the range of the current (or future versions of the) Apple Remote.
Read MoreBlack Cat Systems has updated DX Toolbox (http://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/dxtoolbox.html) — a radio propagation/conditions analysis and forecasting tool for amateur radio operators, shortwave listeners, and other radio enthusiasts — to version 3.6.1. This version fixes bugs with the DX Cluster window, and display of solar flux values.
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Zenopolis has released Tiptoe 1.0 (http://www.zenopolis.com/software/tiptoe/), a privacy application for Mac OS X. It brings a “private browsing” like feature to all sorts of applications, enabling users to run these apps without a trail of their actions being stored.
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Well, Apple said late March, but Saturday, April 3 is close enough, it seems. That’s when the iPad will go on sale in the U.S. At least the Wi-Fi only version will; the Wi-Fi + 3G model will hit US store sleeves in late April.
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For those new to the column, Macsimum Migration is our term for companies moving from Wintel machines to Macs — or at least adding or increasing the number of Macs they use. A Migration Kit is an overview of Mac OS products for a particular occupation, such as dentistry, accounting, etc.) This week we look at inventory/stock control software for the Mac.
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