11/18 | View, search, and apply information to your photos easily.
If you shoot hundreds of photos every time you use your camera, you may not be happy with the way iPhoto handles large batches of files. The fact that it creates a whole set of copies buried inside a series of folders makes i ...
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11/14 | The largest and first quad core iMac takes the stage.
design updates: something borrowed, something blue
Ever since the iMac G5 debuted over five years ago, Apple has taken to a surprisingly conservative tack for its all-in-one computer design. The late 2009 iMac shares the ...
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11/10 | A comparison of 4 Mac OS X 10.6 Books
When a new Mac operating system appears on the scene, so follows a flurry of books to enlighten us on the latest and greatest features. The arrival of Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard is no different. Books arrived on my desk from ...
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11/10 | Turn your iPhone into a scanner and make PDFs.
Scanner Pro by Readdle purports to turn your iPhone into a portable scanner, as do other apps in the Apple App Store. I was skeptical because the iPhone has only a small, low-resolution camera that didn’t even have auto focus ...
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11/08 | Genius offers an economical tablet and mostly succeeds.
hardware and design
The EasyPen i405 is relatively small but functional, with a 4-inch by 5.5-inch drawing surface. The pen is of average size and weight, but it feels slightly cheap and could be better built. Inside the ...
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11/07 | Bare Bones Software’s solution to organizing your digital life.
Yojimbo, Bare Bones Software’s solution to organizing your digital life, provides a catchall place to file all those little bits of information that we all accumulate. Tidbits such as, notes, receipts, links, passwords, quote ...
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11/07 | Sonos excels with its first speaker equipped streaming hub.
design and the initial setup
A quick glance at the S5 won't draw much attention, but arguably the design accomplishes its ergonomic goals well. It looks elegant but unintrusive, as you would expect for an all-in-one audio ...
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11/06 | LaCie aims for the design crown in travel speakers.
design
We’ll take a moment to restate our introduction: the Sound2 Speakers are attractive. From the correct angle, they look like nothing more than speaker cones; in actuality, that's exactly their nature. The pair almo ...
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10/31 | Drag and drop PDF editing tool.
The scanning software for my multifunction printer lets me add each scanned page into a PDF document as I go, but it’s a one-shot deal. The pages are assembled in the order I scanned them, but if I’ve accidentally scanned an ...
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10/31 | VMware modernizes its platform for Windows 7 and Snow Leopard.
Setting up and the migration tool
Those who've used at least VMware Fusion 2 will find much of the version 3 setup process familiar at first; that's not necessarily a bad thing, as it's uncomplicated. The chief addition h ...
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10/31 | iHome has an alarm clock for 2 of you.
If there are two iPhone or iPod users sleeping in your bed, with two different wake times, and different taste in music, then iHome has an alarm clock for you! iHome has added another clock radio and stereo iPod/iPhone dock t ...
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10/28 | Prizmo shines when used with digital camera output.
Prizmo is the tidy little application you didn’t know you needed, because it ties together all the loose ends of an archivist’s dreams. No longer do you need a scanner and special character recognition software, because Prizm ...
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10/28 | Solar power for your iPhone.
From Scosche comes the solCHAT, a small solar powered hands free speakerphone kit for your iPhone or other Bluetooth phone. The solCHAT is very small, about the size of a business card, and less than 3/4 of an inch thick.
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10/19 | Edit photos easily.
If you search Apple’s App Store, you’ll find over 75 pages of photography-related programs. To be honest roughly 20% of those don’t really have anything to do with photography, such as BabyBuilder Lite or 100 Hot Women. Of th ...
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10/18 | Fujifilm brings better dynamic range to a lower price.
ergonomics, controls and expansion
Anyone who has held the F200 EXR will feel instantly at home with the F70 EXR both in design and in its feel in the hand. Both are positives: the design is reasonably compact and is extr ...
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10/15 | SSD storage will surprise you.
Other World Computing has added Solid-State Drive (SSD) storage to their Mercury portable hard disk product line. The Mercury On-The-Go SSD comes in 64 GB, as reviewed here, 128 GB, and 256 GB sizes, with prices of $299.99, $ ...
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