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ShareTool – remote access for any Mac application or service that uses Bonjour

December 31, 2009 Review
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When my MobileMe account came up for renewal, I let it expire. I did not need it. I had found cheaper and better alternatives.
When Apple’s $99 MobileMe service was released I was quick to register. With MobileMe I could access my mail, contacts, and calendar information in the “cloud” and keep everything [...]

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OmmWriter Beta – Zen writing for the Mac

December 13, 2009 Review
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I was catching up on reading the news feeds this morning when I came across a post on the smoking apples blog about a new text editor called OmmWriter. I’m not sure why I downloaded it. Maybe because of what OmmWriter’s cleanly designed web site promised.
So here I am writing this blog [...]

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Google Chrome is faster than ….

October 27, 2009 Review
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For me the word Chrome evokes images of the shiny, the futuristic and the fast. Clean, efficient and well built. Google Chrome developer preview doesn’t disappoint. Google has taken WebKit, the same Open Source browsing engine that Safari is built on, and in a very short time developed a browser for Mac [...]

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Snow Leopard

September 22, 2009 Review
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On August 26 Apple released the latest version of it’s MacIntosh operating system, OS X 10.6, code-named Snow Leopard. Some have called it a service pack while other say it is a foundation for something bigger. Whether a service pack or future proof update, the sales figures have Wall Street buzzing causing Apple’s [...]

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Backblaze: Time Machine for the Cloud

July 31, 2009 Review
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Last year my friend had to deliver some distressing news to his wife. The external hard drive on which he had been storing their family photos failed. The problem had started a few weeks earlier when his wife mentioned that the hard drive was making some strange noises. My friend had planned [...]

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Dropbox and iDisk

February 2, 2009 Review
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When Apple released MobileMe as a replacement for .Mac I decided it was time to give it a try. Mind you, I already have a free Gmail account with 8GB (and growing), and a free Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Contact. I had already configured Leopard’s Mail, iCal and Address Book [...]

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