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Daily News Recap (March 8, 2010)

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  • Written by: Charlie

Posted onMarch 8th, 2010

Still busy figuring out how you never heard of the Hurt Locker? Steve was in Disney capacity last night and in his Disney clothes, not his normal Apple garb. For those of you not in attendance, Apple showed off their iPad ad (three times) last night during the Oscars. (Yes, it’s smaller big brother the iPhone did the same thing) Apple has a new idea, it’s called the iKey. All Things Digital believes we might see some ridiculous numbers regarding Mac sales for February. Portal 2, Steam and other games from Valve are now officially coming to the Mac. Patently Apple found some more information regarding the changes to Apple Remote. Apple and a bunch of other companies got yelled at by Richard Durbin for not testifying before the Senate Human Rights Committee.

9 to 5 Mac (and everyone else) examined the aforementioned iPad ad and found that books are available from $7.99-$14.99, as well as some other stuff. A team of executives are heading from Cupertino to the UK to negotiate iPad pricing. IDC believes that the iPad won’t be helping Windows tablets. HP and Adobe decided to show off Flash working on the (HP) Slate. TUAW finally asked the logical question: will all the iPhone apps find their way to the iPad?

O2 decided to correct their mistake from last week regarding video calls on the iPhone. Gizmodo explained how Time Warner is going to make AT&T’s network “suck less.” The never-ending saga of the China Unicom Wi-Fi iPhone continues. AT&T tried an Android phone, the universal opinion on it: try again. Regarding the HTC lawsuit, Apple has 3,013 patents? Fact check, Patently Apple, anyone?

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Review: CleanMyMac (Coupon Inside)

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  • Written by: Daniel

Posted onJanuary 20th, 2010

Probably one of the most advertised Mac applications in the market, CleanMyMac has quickly become the standard application for keeping your Mac clean and healthy. CleanMyMac is an application that helps you to remove all of those files that can limit your computers performance and take up valuable disk space. Unlike any other application, we can only say good words about this amazing application. TheMacFeed’s updated review of CleanMyMac follows. 

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Review: Camtasia For Mac

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  • Written by: Daniel

Posted onJanuary 5th, 2010

Today, if you were to go onto Youtube, you would find thousands of videos with tutorials on a wide array of topics, from Photoshop tutorials to glitches on your favorite game. In fact, there are entire websites devoted to these tutorials. And with the high demand for screen recording applications to record those tutorials, many screen recording applications have presented themselves out there in the Mac world. Now, we would like to introduce you to Camtasia, the single application that has exceeded our expectations in every single way, and to this day we have yet to find any other application that brings the power and functionality of iMovie to a screen recording application.

When you first open Camtasia, you are greeted with a small box with your recording controls that has options on recording the following: you on camera, computer audio, and mic audio. Strangely, the recording area cannot be chosen until after recording, which actually is good because you can get in the cropped area just right after you know what you need to see (versus before when you have to guess what area you will need). This first pre-recording box is nothing compared to the post production window which gives you the customization features that many screen recording applications fail to include.

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Review: Ecoute

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  • Written by: Daniel

Posted onDecember 23rd, 2009

iTunes is probably one of the most used applications on my Mac, but the size of the player is sometimes a problem. Sometimes I end up having to have continuously switch spaces so I can get on iTunes and change a song which serves as a tedious task. Wouldn’t it be better to have a smaller player on the same space as Safari? Introducing Ecoute – my knight in shining armor – a standalone player that allows you to “browse your entire library. Play your Music, Podcasts, Movies or TV Shows without having to launch iTunes.” The best part is that it brings one of the most beautiful user interfaces that I have ever seen.

While using Ecoute, I have found that it works beautifully, smoothly, and overall… it Rocks. Puns aside, the UI is something worth bragging about. With its smooth lines, dark colors, and round edges there is nothing you can hate about this application. The preference popup is extremely simplistic having only 5 panes (that have options for the app) and an additional pane for your registration. In the preferences you can choose from: general, shortcuts, themes, remote, social, and registration.

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Review: Tweetie 2 on the App Store

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  • Written by: Wesley

Posted onOctober 20th, 2009

Tweetie has been designed and developed by atebits. Atebits has also developed other applications like Tweetie for Mac and Scribbles. Scribbles is a simple drawing program for Mac. Tweetie is designed most obviously just for Twitter. Atebits originally brought out a Tweetie application before Tweetie 2. On the new Tweetie there are a lot more features and also a better UI (User Interface). Some of the new features include user accounts so you can control more than one account. Another great feature is geo-tagging. This allows you to be able to tag where you’re posting the tweet from. You can also search other people who have geotagged around your area.

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Review: CameraBag Desktop

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  • Written by: Jeremy

Posted onOctober 11th, 2009

As film photography fades into the past, digital photography still struggles to provide the same authentic experience of the film cameras of old.  In the past, the processing of film lead to many effects that could be applied to a shot during development.  One could apply tint or accomplish many effects using chemical processing techniques.  Today, many people rely on software to apply similar artistry to their shots. Enter CameraBag Desktop from Nevercenter, Ltd.

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Review: Mariner’s MacJournal 5

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  • Written by: Jessica

Posted onOctober 10th, 2009

There are many reasons to be excited about Mariner’s newest version of MacJournal, a popular boggling tool. To begin, MacJournal is no where near a new tool that will allow the casual user to catalog their thoughts into a very neat and well organized user interface. MacJournal has been around long enough to satisfy the tougher critics and thus far, it has done everything that it claims it will do.

I’ve had MacJournal for over a month now and it has been the tool that brought you any previous post I have been credited with to date, including the one you are reading now. I have found some uphill battles but of my time with the software has been smooth sailing.

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