2006

Sharpcast today introduced a completely new and effortless way for Mac owners to back up and share their iPhoto albums online, and to view their iPhoto albums on a mobile phone or Windows-based PC. With the Sharpcast Photos iPhoto uploader, Mac owners can export iPhoto albums directly from their Macs into their Sharpcast Photos Web [...]

Macs and PCs are just different. Not just at the operating system level, but even at the hardware side as well. I’ve always felt Apple hardware is a superior design in computer technology but its lack of forward delete on its notebooks has been one con to using a Mac. Now, if you [...]

Run Windows, Linux, and more side-by-side with Mac OS X on any Intel-powered Mac, without rebooting. With Parallels’ award-winning virtualization technology, you can run Mac OS X and Windows at the same time. You can even drag-and-drop files between desktops!
Leading the way with our trademark innovation, Parallels Desktop 3.0 [20% off upgrade] [$10 off for [...]

I’ve been saying since last Christmas here at SvenOnTech that iPods need Wi-Fi for an assortment of reasons. One very strong case for it is wireless syncing. My dream is to have the car parked in the garage and sync from my glove box, but that seems to be just that at this moment. A [...]

DEVONtechnologies, LLC releases DEVONthink Professional Office as a public beta. The long-awaited extension to its DEVONthink product line adds email archiving, paper capture, and Web sharing to the only document manager for the Mac that is based on artificial intelligence.
Email Archive
The advanced email archiver connects to all major email programs and imports messages or complete [...]

Ever since I purchased my PowerBook (TiBook) back in 2002, I’ve really come to dislike widescreen displays on computers. I don’t get it. What world are most of you working in? Sure, for movies they’re great but for work? I’m not an accountant so I have no need to go right but rather down. Web [...]

When I had Vonage VoIP, I loved its CallVantage feature. It integrated with Outlook and let me select a contact and instantly dial it. Within seconds, my phone was ringing with the call in progress. But when I left Vonage due to lack of a data centers in the 209 area code (which it still [...]

Can it be that there’s a way to trick Microsoft’s Windows XP Genuine Certificate of Authority install? Well, maybe. Take a look at my Device Manager from my Parallels Desktop install of Windows XP SP2. Note the devices, which Windows uses to make your configuration unique, are all general notations. Meaning, every Parallels install will [...]

Once in a while, you may have a need to rename a few dozen or so files. Be it their file names or file extensions. Either way, if you’re not in need for utility to do this often, paying $20 for A Better Finder Rename (ABFR) is a bit steep, even though it’s probably the [...]

It’s Thanksgiving and Astraware would like you invite you to join our table and gobble up some great games this Holiday Season! Whether you’re traveling to see family, having a get-together at home, or simply recovering from turkey overload, we have some special offers on games that the whole family can enjoy!
We’re offering three simple, [...]

I’ve used many clipboard managers for the Mac from iClip to PopCopy. The latter is the one I stuck with. It was simple, out of the way, and quick.
The good folks at PopCopy have just updated its wonderful software and now have added an extremely useful feature, Hotkey. “Hotkey?” you ask. Yes, hot keys [...]

So here I am convincing my friend to ditch his PC and go with a new MacBook Pro for the past month. I loaded him up with the last five months of Macworld and gave him a personal 30-minute demonstration on my MacBook Pro (Rev A). We talked and I answered all his tough questions. [...]

I needed to review my backup schedule. I was backing up way to stuff in my opinion. For example: I don’t need to back up my iTunes library, bookmarks, or movies every day. What I need to back up every day is my email!
I don’t know about your situation, but my email is also my [...]

So here I am, working next to my MacBook Pro, which has its pretty lid closed and a glowing white light coming from the latch release. “Yup, saving power,” I think as I work on other things. But then I hear the SuperDrive mechanism going and stop what I’m doing to look at the Mac. [...]

Because I got my new MacBook, I needed to switch from Entourage to Mail. Why? Office is not yet universal, which causes the Office applications to be very slow. I spend most of my time in my email application, so it’s essential for me that my mail application works without hiccups and sluggish behavior.
Entourage is [...]

I stumbled on a really cool application created by Google called Picasa. I worked with this tool on Windows and really liked it. To be honest, I thought it was better than iPhoto, and I was a bit disappointed because (I thought) there wasn’t an OS X version available. Now I’ve discovered The Official [...]

With the new Intel chips in the super sleek MacBook Pros, one no longer has to worry about working on cold winter days. Slap that baby on your lap and warm up, homies! Now if you’re a bit on the wimpy side and become concerned with the extreme red mark left on your [...]

You know, those guys Down Under are a little different than us. Their toilets flush the water down in the opposite direction than ours up here in the States and they drive on the wrong side of the road. Most of the population is on the East Coast and pretty much cattle is [...]

I normally don’t write about the whole iPod hype, but in this case, I thought this was something worth mentioning.
Apple created a special edition iPod nano in the color red. Apple donates $10 of the purchase price to the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa!
Apple, I’m impressed; very, very good stuff!
[tags]red ipod, apple, global [...]

Yes, today is the day that I can finally use my “build to order” MacBook. First impression… Freaking awesome! This machine totally rocks!
I did not really know what my expectations were, but this machine really exceeded them. But if I have to give some criticism about this MacBook, it would be the lack of an [...]