Type of Article: MacNews Web Site

‘Tech Night Owl’ looks at Papermaster’s departure, Office 2011, more

Posted by | Aug 13, 2010 | |

On this week’s “Tech Night Owl,” Gene Steinberg, the Owl himself, and guests look at Mark Papermaster’s departure from Apple, a possible downturn in computer sales and the upcoming Office 2011 for the Mac.

You can tune into the live broadcast stream Thursday nights from 6-8 Pacific, 9-11 Eastern from http://www.technightowl.com/radio ; an archive of the show will be available for downloading and listening at your convenience within four hours after the original broadcast. You can also access our show’s podcast feed, now available at http://www.technightowl.com/nightowl.xml .

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Category Review: retail management apps for Mac OS X, part one

Category Review: retail management apps for Mac OS X, part one

Posted by | Aug 13, 2010 | , |

imageThis MacNews Category Review is the first of our multi-part look at retail management software for the Mac. Products covered include 3in1 FileMaker Pro Template: Retail Planning Catalog, 7Office Sales Cycle Management, Advanced SaleSmartz Pro, AdWorks, AlfsIt, AlphaMag, ArsMagna, Auction Tender, AuthPay, AutoPrice, Barcode X, BC Boutique, Biz Basics Gold, BusinessMind, Checkout, Clothing Organizer, CRM, Days Off Calculator, DB Retailer’s Advantage, deCount, deLUXE, EB Suite CRM, Equisis Detail, fileWorkerFILIAEL, Filobase Gestion, FloristWare, FrameReady and gBoutique

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Why no USB 3.0 on the latest iMacs, Mac Pros?

Posted by | Aug 13, 2010 | , |

I’m still mulling over the possibility of selling my current 27-inch, “tricked out” iMac and buying one of the new models so I can see how the new memory, new graphics card and an SSD drive feels.

On the other hand, those features are nice, but my current iMac is plenty fast enough and Apple didn’t include any “gotta have” features in the latest rev of the consumer/prosumer desktop. I was certain that Apple would include USB 3.0, but they didn’t. Why? Who knows. I’ve written Apple about the exclusion, but — no surprise — I’ve received no answer.

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Paragon releases SlovoEd dictionaries for Mac OS X

Posted by | Aug 13, 2010 | , |

Paragon Software Group, a software developer for mobile devices and desktop computers, has released 54 SlovoEd dictionaries for Mac OS X users.

The SlovoEd 7.0 series offers original premium content in more than 30 of the most popular languages directly from the world’s top publishers. They contain the most up-to-date dictionary databases in complete accordance with the published originals and provide the user with any needed information 10 times faster than with print editions, according to the folks at Paragon.

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ShareTool update delivers iTunes Home Sharing across the Internet

Posted by | Aug 13, 2010 | , |

access all of your Bonjour services from anywhere in the world, to version 2.1. The upgrade delivers iTunes Home Sharing across the internet, the ability to run ShareTool as a background service, and more.

Formerly known as Rendezvous, Bonjour lets you create an instant network of computers and smart devices by getting them connected to each other. ShareTool automatically configures routers supporting NAT-PMP or UPnP. Remote services automatically appear in the Finder, iTunes, and other applications.

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