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Adobe Elements Buffs Up for Mac October 26, 2009 
Mac jocks miffed at Adobe for releasing Windows versions of its Photoshop Elements photo editing and organizing application before getting around to its OS X editions of the software should be pleased with the simultaneous release of the product's new version for both operating systems this month.
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GoToMyPC Gets Ready to Go to Your Mac October 19, 2009 
More and more workers require remote access to their personal computers at their offices, and often those office computers are Macs. That trend has induced a major maker of remote access software to tailor one of its offerings for the Applesphere. Citrix Systems is close to releasing GoToMyPC for the Mac, currently in open beta trials.
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QuickBooks Courts the Mac Crowd October 12, 2009 
Over the years, Intuit's QuickBooks has had its detractors in the Mac community, but with the release earlier this month of a new version of the accounting software, the company hopes it can win more hearts and minds in the Applesphere. QuickBooks 2010 improves on the "Mac-like feel" of its predecessors and has new features aimed at making small businesses more profitable, according to Intuit.
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Bento Takes Up Photography With v3 October 05, 2009 
A new version of the database for the rest of us was released by FileMaker recently. The program, Bento 3, is designed for people who, in most cases, wouldn't touch a database with a fork. Its original version actually made creating databases fun. Its latest version adds to the frivolity. Chief among the Bento's new features is better integration with Apple's iLife application iPhoto.
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Parallels Greases Wheels for PC-to-Mac Switch September 21, 2009 
Apple's switch to Intel processors for its computer lines removed a major obstacle to greater adoption of its Macintosh platform among Microsoft Windows users. That's because by throwing its lot in with Chipzilla, it opened up its hardware to run Windows applications and breeched a barrier that many PC users believed to be insurmountable.
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Logic Express 9 Gives Pro Chops to Amateur Music Makers September 14, 2009 
It used to be a rule of thumb in software that the power of a program was directly proportional to its complexity. The rule was the silicon version of "no pain, no gain." Then Apple came along and turned that rule on its head with applications that were as easy to use as they were powerful. What's more, they made the process of creation as much fun as the finished creation.
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Gorilla Tames the Movie Production Beast September 08, 2009 
Apple computers' reputation as a favorite of "creatives" in filmmaking is well known, but they've also captured the hearts of those dealing with the more prosaic tasks of making a movie, thanks to programs like Gorilla from
Impression Arms iPhoto With a Watermark Weapon |
August 31, 2009 
Digital photography has made sharing photos easy -- sometimes too easy. Work posted to the Web by lens-slingers can be misappropriated with abandon by the naive as well as the nefarious. One way shutterbugs try to protect their images is by watermarking them. A watermark is a logo, legend or other sign superimposed on a photo to identify its origin.
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Pen Computer Maker Draws a Bead on Mac Users August 17, 2009 
For more than two decades, technologists have spent considerable cognitive power trying to marry the power of the pen and the computer. Up to now, their efforts have largely ended up in the gutter of a dead end-street for gadgets. Those past failures haven't deterred Livescribe from rebirthing a pen-as-computer product.
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Microsoft Outlook Sets Its Sights on the Mac August 13, 2009 
If there were any lingering doubts about the Mac's penetration of the enterprise, they were dispelled on Thursday when Microsoft announced it would ship its Outlook e-mail client in Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition next year. Outlook will replace Microsoft's Entourage e-mail client in the Business edition, but not in the Home and Student editions.
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Mailplane Gives Gmail a Landing Pad on the Mac Desktop August 11, 2009 
For a long time, Web-based email programs were poor relatives of their desktop counterparts, but that's not the case anymore. Cloud-based applications like Google's offering, Gmail, boast a rich array of features that give premise-based competitors a run for their money. Nevertheless, two problems persist with Web mail apps.
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Ntractive CRM Tethers the Mac Desktop to the Cloud August 03, 2009 
In the architecture of heavy-duty business programs, customer relationship management software is a load-bearing beam. It's a mission critical application that can be a key to success. It's also the sort of app that operates very comfortably in "the cloud" -- that metaphor for the Internet and platform-agnostic computing.
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Palm Digs a New Tunnel Into iTunes July 24, 2009 
Just over a week after Apple cut off the Palm Pre's ability to sync with iTunes, Palm has restored that capability with an update to its webOS operating system. In announcing the update on the Palm blog, Palm vice president of business products John Traynor was somewhat circumspect, focusing first on the platform's enhanced support for the enterprise, then slipping in the news about restored iTunes synching.
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How Long Can AT&T Keep Its Beloved Ball and Chain? July 24, 2009 
Empty pockets and tight budgets are in style this season, but it looks like Apple missed the memo. The company reported an unfashionably prosperous third fiscal quarter, growing its revenue nearly 12 percent year over year to $8.34 billion. Its gross margins shot up to 36.3 percent, compared to last year's 34.8.
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Microsoft Spiffs Up Office for Mac July 20, 2009 
Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit has introduced its second service pack for Office for Mac 2008. The pack increases the productivity application's speed and provides additional sharing tools. New is the Document Connection for Mac, which allows users to browse documents using SharePoint and Office Live workspace.
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Calf Trail Geotags the Road Not Taken July 20, 2009 
In 1895, during the era of Horatio Alger, an obscure poet named Sam Walter Foss published "Calf-Path." It's about men following the road of least resistance and what we call today "thinking outside the box." "For men are prone to go it blind/Along the calf-paths of the mind," Foss wrote. "And work away from sun to sun/To do what other men have done."
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