By “Doctor Dave” Greenbaum
Yojimbo, according to my Japanese friends often translates to “bodyguard” and that’s a good name for a program that keeps and protects the little bits of information that come across our virtual desks on a daily basis. It’s no wonder Bare Bones (http://www.barebones.com) made it a featured app in the new Mac App Store.
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By “Doctor Dave” Greenbaum
Drive Genius 3 is ProSoft Engineering’s (http://www.prosofteng.com) latest version of its drive manipulation and maintenance application. If you can do it to a hard drive, Drive Genius supports it with an attractive and intuitive interface. The program requires an Intel Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 or higher and 512MB of RAM, as well as a DVD drive for some functions.
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By Chris Main
US$229.95 The Python blur by booq (http://www.booqbags.com) is a photo backpack designed to carry all of your digital camera gear plus up to a 17″ laptop with accessories. Booq is known for the quality construction of its bags, and the Python blur is no exception. The exterior is constructed of 1680 denier ballistic nylon with water-repellant coating. That means this bag has a rigid, tough exterior that protects everything you put into it.
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Like Photoshop Elements 9 (see my review at http://macte.ch/vr4xl), Premiere Elements 9 from Adobe (http://www.adobe.com)– which offers some serious competition for Apple’s Final Cut Express — is easy to learn. It admirably balances ease of use for newbies to video editing with more advanced features for semi-pros.
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By Neil Ticktin, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher
In 2005, Apple announced the switch of the Mac platform from PowerPC to Intel processors (the first Intel-based models were available in early 2006). This introduced some interesting opportunities for the Mac, including the ability to run operating systems other than Mac OS X on a Mac.
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