Archive for November 21st, 2009

Christmas Shopping Budgeting With Christmas Gifts List App

What if you have to buy Christmas gifts for parents, brothers, husband, sister, children, aunt, uncle and who else more but you have only particular amount of money. You must handle the challenge and be organized while shopping. In addition, you should better remember wishes of potential gift receivers

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WaveBoard

Waveboard is the first unofficial iPhone app to provide the Google Wave functionality for the iPhone developed by holtwick.it and available for purchase in the App Store for 99 cents. So why would you want to buy an app that basically just shows you the web based version of the Google Wave mobile app?

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Attention to Detail: What we love in an app

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Software , App Store Software. It doesn’t matter if it’s for a Mac or for an iPhone . There are certain qualities we just love, that make an app really stand out to us

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Shoeboxed

With their new iPhone app, Shoeboxed Inc. strives to make your life easier by keeping track of your expenses and receipts. The Shoeboxed app allows you to take a photo of receipts for pretty much anything while you’re on the go, so you can stop accumulating them in your wallet (you can also add

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Getting bit by the Gmail "exceeded IMAP bandwidth limits" bug

Filed under: Software , Tips and tricks , Bugs/Recalls , Troubleshooting , Snow Leopard I have a couple of Gmail accounts set up with Google Apps , so that Google is hosting my email using my own domain names. While those accounts have been working flawlessly for quite a while, I suddenly ran into issues a few days ago where Apple Mail couldn’t pull email from the server

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Super-panoramic showdown for Mac

Filed under: Software , Reviews , Graphic Design There are several photo-stitchers available for Mac (and several for iPhone as well ), and most do a stellar job for stitching together 3-4 images into a panoramic image. However, I recently completed a project that required stitching together hundreds of images into some very large panoramas of several locations around beautiful Peoria, Illinois. What I found is that some of the programs which do admirable work on small stitching jobs performed very poorly on larger-scale panoramas.

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Giving or getting a Mac for the holidays? 10 apps every new Mac user needs

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Odds and ends , Freeware All new Macs come with great bundled software. Between the iLife suite, Safari , iTunes , and TextEdit, plus the ability to access and use cloud applications for free, almost all of the most basic modern computing needs get met for most users

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Cisco adds Security Intelligence Ops to iPhone portfolio

Filed under: Security , iPhone , App Review Despite some security-conscious enterprise experts pointing accusatory fingers at the rather bleak encryption story and only-recently fixed ActiveSync policy compliance on the iPhone platform, there’s no doubt that IT and network professionals are grooving on the iPhone — there are many apps designed for administrators to take control of their operations with a touch of a finger, and now Cisco has stepped in with an informational and alert resource that fits in your pocket. The Cisco SIO (Security Intelligence Operations) to Go free app [ iTunes link ], requiring iPhone OS 3.0 or later, lets the paranoid properly alert and aware security professional keep tabs on the global threat landscape with Cisco’s Cyber Risk Reports, Threat Outbreaks and Mitigation Bulletins, along with podcasts, blog posts and a slew of other branded content. There’s also an IronPort-driven IP and email domain scanner, which will grab WHOIS data along with a brief reputation score for your hosts.

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Smoking kills… your Mac

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Hardware , Odds and ends It should be pretty obvious by now that smoking cigarettes is bad for your health . What’s not as obvious is that it might be bad for your Mac, too.

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iApplicate.tv Episode: Sonar Ruler

Here comes a new iApplicate.tv episode of Sonar Ruler, the iPhone app released by Laan Labs. This app takes iPhone to the extreme and is really great. Sonar Ruler helps users measure the distance of objects by making use of soundwaves! Perfect and now check out the video…

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