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38% of Americans hit (or nearly hit) by cell phone distracted driver

Posted by | Jul 26, 2010 | , |

I know you just love talking on your new iPhone 4 (and, nope, no “antennagate” jokes here). But puh-leeze don’t do it while you’re driving.

U.S. drivers say they are seeing first-hand the danger of driving while distracted — or DWD; add a new acronym to your vocabulary. A new public opinion poll conducted by Harris Interactive for Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company shows nearly four out of 10 (38%) drivers say they have been hit or nearly hit by a driver distracted by their cell phone.

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CleanApp for Mac OS X revved to version 3.4

Posted by | Jul 26, 2010 | , |

Synium Software has released CleanApp 3.4 (http://synium.de/products/cleanapp/index.html), a new version of the uninstaller and system management tool for Mac OS X. Files that have been deleted while using Path Finder are now detected, and you can now search for duplicate files.

CleanApp requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or 10.5. It’s Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.

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News Corp. exec: iPad, other tablets great for the news industry

News Corp. exec: iPad, other tablets great for the news industry

Posted by | Jul 24, 2010 | , |

Tablet computers such as the iPad may allow the news industry a “re-set” and to start charging for content after years of giving it away for free, News Corp. chief digital officer Jon Miller said Friday,

He added that it was too early to make any judgements about the experiment of News Corp.’s The Times with a paid website but charging online readers was “an idea whose time has come,” according to an “AFP” report (http://macosg.me/2/l9).

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Next MacBUS meeting will look at using Google tools

Posted by | Jul 24, 2010 | |

The next meeting of The Macintosh Business Users Society of Greater Philadelphia (http://www.macbus.org) will be held on Tuesday, July 27, at 6:30 pm.

At this month’s meeting, MacBUS member Chris Urban will review Google AdWords and Google Webmaster Tools. Do you or your business have a presence online? Are you trying to drive traffic to your site? Urban from Tetra will review two important tools from Google that may be able to help you: Google AdWords Manager and Google Webmaster Tools.

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