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TextPlus bills itself as a free way to text message with a single person or with groups.  The application says it is compatible with either the iPhone or the iPod Touch and requires either a 3G, Edge, or WiFi connection in order to work.  The application is free and they claim that they are able [...]

Focus Booster claims to be a productivity boosting piece of software which helps you to accomplish your goals through the principles of the Pomodoro Technique.  The company’s website, http://www.focusboosterapp.com/ , says that the product will change colors as time goes by and that it is fully customizable with alarms and time settings.  Essentially it is [...]

It doesn’t seem to have been widely documented or reported on, but Apple’s new QuickTime player in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard includes a screen recorder.  You can access the feature through the file menu.  You can select whether you want to use no microphone, the built-in mic, or an external microphone as well as [...]

In what is sure to be a waste of time, Psystar has decided to file an antitrust suit against Apple because they can’t violate Apple’s end user licensing agreement by running OS 10.6 on their computers.  Psystar’s lawsuit claims that “By tying its operating system to Apple-branded hardware, Apple restrains trade in personal computers that [...]

The OS X operating system is pretty solid, it very rarely crashes, and it has an outstanding lineup of creative software to make everything from home movies to music.  It has very few problems with malware or spyware and it is great for content creation.  It is the choice of artists, writers, teachers, and people [...]

I downloaded the latest build of the Chrome browser for OS X tonight and gave it a quick once over to see how it compared to other browsers on the Macintosh.  The first thing you notice, and I’m sure they will fix this before the final release, is the massive font they use for the [...]

Microsoft recently commissioned a report about the Apple tax and how much more it would cost for a typical family to buy and support Apple computers versus the price for lower priced Windows computers.  Not really a big surprise that Windows came out ahead of the game considering that they paid for the report.  What [...]

I have always enjoyed writing, I may not really have anything to say at times but I have always enjoyed it.  One of the problems I run into when trying to put my ideas into text is that my hands can start to hurt if I am using a poorly designed or cheap keyboard.  That [...]

I remember when Windows Vista was first being released, there was a lot of talk about these wonderful new gadgets that would be attached to all the new computers that would allow you to do simple tasks like play music, check your email, and see how your stocks were doing - all without turning on [...]

My first computer of note was an NEC computer that I got for college in 1996, it ran Windows 95 and came with all sorts of great programs that seemed like they could change my life for the better.  If I wasn’t sure how to do something on my computer I could call up the [...]