By ‘Doctor Dave’ Greenbaum
Although I’m usually a huge fan of Otterbox products (http://www.otterbox.com), the current iteration for the iPhone 4 has been disappointing. The new “Reflex” case (US$44.95) for the iPhone 4 leaves me bored and unimpressed.
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iHome’s SD63 retro-style, hi-fidelity stereo headphones (http://www.ihomeaudio.com/SD63/) are cool looking, but didn’t sit on my noggin especially well and lacked some oomph in the bass department.
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By Jay Nelson
The text-handling tools in Photoshop are mostly adequate, assuming you know which fonts you want to use and have them activated. But what if you’re exploring and you want to try combinations of fonts that aren’t currently active, and maybe get a little advice on which of your hundreds or thousands of fonts complement each other? Or maybe you’re almost happy with a font choice but want to see others like it? That’s where TypeDNA (US$39) comes in.
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If you’re an audio/video enthusiast (and who isn’t these days?), Akitio’s (http://www.akitio.com/) Taurus Mini Super-S provides an easy-to-use, reasonably priced (US$199), 2.5-inch, dual bay SATA enclosure, compact in size, which is complete with a built-in LCD display and two FW800 ports for daisy chaining.
Extremely flexible, the Taurus Mini Super-S sports eSATA, FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 connectivity and is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. It worked just fine with OS X 10.7 (“Lion”) in my experiments.
Read MoreDear Panda has released version 2.0 of their CourseNotes (http://www.coursenotesapp.com) note-taking app for the Mac, adding support for Mac OS X 10.7 (“Lion”). It also adds support for rich text editing
Students can add underlined, bold and italicized text throughout their notes as well as change font sizes to emphasize sections of the text. Along with CourseNotes’ bullet summary mode, students now have a set of tools with which to structure their notes.
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