2006 November

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 [...]

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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 [...]