Type of Article: MacTech Reviews

“Skin. It’s what holds your insides in.” – Allan Sherman

As always, the English vocabulary takes words and either morphs them into new meanings or adds another definition to the word. Like skin. He escaped by the skin of his teeth. After the hunt, he skinned the kill (with apologies to PETA). And the ancient “slap me some skin.”

In the tech age, skin has come to describe a cover that you place on any electronic device to make a statement or display your personality (or give you one).

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 psychology office management software for the Mac.

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Gridiron Software’s Flow (http://www.gridironsoftware.com), which costs US$299) cannot be fully explained in this amount of space — it’s too vast and too valuable. Instead, I’ll tell you what it does and what it’s good for. In my testing, it works as promised, and beyond.

Making an external hard drive stand out when there are so many to choose from can be quite a challenge, but Western Digital (http://www.westerndigital.com) has always been an innovator in this realm. In addition, they have the experience given that they are a leading provider of OEM (original equipment manufacturer) drives as well as with their own products that bring a little more to the table than just plain old storage.

If you want wireless audio throughout your house and office — and don’t mind spending some not-inconsiderable scratch to make it happen — the Eos Converge from Eos Wireless (http://www.eoswireless.com) offers a painless way to do so.

Eos Converge offers a way to stream music from a Mac, PC, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV or other audio source into every area of the house. It’s easy to set up and use, but costs US$89.95 per unit.