In my home office, I have a 32-inch Vizio display attached to my iMac. I can use it as a secondary monitor and/or watch Blu-ray movies (since I can’t do that natively on my Mac — thanks, Apple) due to the Kanex iAdapt HDMI V2 (http://kanexlive.com/products/iAdaptV2.html).
Read MoreRecently I lamented that Apple seems about to drop iDVD from the iLife suite. I think that’s a mistake, but “Macsimum” reader John Konopka points out that Apple often gives us a replacement if they drop something.
Could it be that the giant server site that Apple is building in Maiden, North Carolina, will be the replacement for iDVD? Rather than burning DVDs Apple may want us to send movies to the cloud from which they can be accessed almost anywhere.
Read MoreBizness Apps (http://www.biznessapps.com) is a start-up company that will provides high-end, affordable iPhone applications to small businesses that are looking to expand their existing marketing efforts.
It has purportedly developed a system that lets them offer iPhone application development, hosting, marketing, and maintenance at an affordable rate. They currently have specialized application packages for restaurants, bars & clubs, realtors, lawyers, and stock brokers.
Read MoreHamrick Software has released Vuescan 8.6.48, a new version of the VueScan software for Mac OS X that’s designed to let users produce better digital images from color snapshots, negatives, slides and documents. It’s a maintenance update with some bug fixes.
The Standard Edition of VueScan costs US$39.95 and the Professional Edition is $79.95 for a single user license. Multi-user licenses are available. A fully functional, trial copy of VueScan is available for download from the Hamrick web site (http://www.hamrick.com).
Read MoreLimit Point Software has released Mailings 1.9.78 (http://www.limit-point.com/Mailings/Mailings.htm), an update of the application for batch emailing that delivers any web page or plain text document with attachments to multiple recipients for marketing, news announcements, product updates, etc. In the new version, a new button on the Mailer window named “Progress” enables you to preview the settings on the progress window, or re-open the progress window when a mail batch has completed or been aborted.
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