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Loopt 2.0 for iPhone brings more context to your location

Location-based social networking got a bit more interesting with the recent release of Loopt 2.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. This major new upgrade puts businesses, events, and even shopping coupons on the map, all while making it easier to stay in ...

From DAVID CHARTIER, Macworld,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Loopt

Mac developers band together for One Finger Discount

MacHeist threw a curveball this year by offering six Mac apps for free (well, in exchange for your name and email), so other developers got motivated to launch a good ol'-fashioned sale. Running in the same time frame as "MacHeist nano," the One Finger ...

From DAVID CHARTIER, NetworkWorld,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Gartner, Inc.,  BMC Software, Inc.

Delibar makes Delicious bookmarking easy

Delicious is a popular social-bookmarking service--so popular that Yahoo bought it--that lets you save bookmarks "to the cloud" (in other words, online). You can access your saved bookmarks from any browser on any computer, share them with friends, and, ...

From DAVID CHARTIER, NetworkWorld,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Yahoo!,  Google Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.

Apple TV software 3.0 on its way with iTunes LP

It's been some time since the Apple TV has received much attention from Apple, and no, dropping the 40GB model and the price on the 160GB model doesn't count. But just in time for the holidays, a new iTunes Store Terms of Service agreement may have let ...

From DAVID CHARTIER, NetworkWorld,  29 Oct 2009

Apple: Boot Camp will be late to the Windows 7 party

A new support document from Apple confirms that the company will indeed support Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate (the three "core" versions Microsoft pushes to the general masses) via its Boot Camp software. However, it sounds like ...

From DAVID CHARTIER, NetworkWorld,  22 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Intel,  BMC Software, Inc.,  Gartner, Inc.

Missing VisualHub? Stomp your videos instead

A year ago, indie developer shop Techspansion shut down, and the Mac lost VisualHub and iSquint, two mighty heroes of video conversion. Though they have both risen from the ashes as budding open source projects, Mac users may also be able to turn to ...

From DAVID CHARTIER, NetworkWorld,  21 Oct 2009
Related Topics: BMC Software, Inc.,  Gartner, Inc.

Acorn 2.1 gains AppleScript, more

It seems like only last month that Flying Meat released Acorn 2, its exceptional "image editor for humans," with a massive array of new features like mutli-layer screenshots, RAW support, and two heaping handfuls of other new tools. Oh wait, it was ...

From DAVID CHARTIER, NetworkWorld,  20 Oct 2009
Related Topics: BMC Software, Inc.,  Gartner, Inc.

Quicksilver lives again on Snow Leopard

Upgrading to Snow Leopard was a step forward for making Macs leaner, meaner, and snow-ier. But for many users who rely on productivity Swiss Army knife Quicksilver and its many useful plug-ins, Snow Leopard was really two steps back. Fortunately, a ...

From DAVID CHARTIER, NetworkWorld,  2 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Chill Pill brings RSS Fever to your desktop

Macworld - Today's RSS-client market is dominated by NetNewsWire and Google Reader, in no small part because both are good and free. But folks on the lookout for a different--better, some say--experience have been checking out Fever, a self-hosted, Web- ...

From DAVID CHARTIER, ComputerWorld,  8 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Pixelmator 1.5 adds Save for Web, Snow Leopard support

Pixelmator is a powerful photo editor with a gorgeous, HUD-is-the-new-black interface, and it's no secret that we're big fans. A major update released Tuesday adds some excellent new editing, color, and exporting features, including one at the top of ...

From DAVID CHARTIER, NetworkWorld,  8 Sep 2009
Related Topics: BMC Software, Inc.,  Gartner, Inc.

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