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So maybe you have heard the buzz and seen the goods, and if you are still wondering, i mean Apple’s new iTMS related widgets. This article highlights a few of the points as to why I think that the new Apple widgets for iTunes, for embedding on your web site, blog or social networking profile [...]

MacMP3Gain is an AppleScript Studio application which brings an Aqua GUI to the command line version of mp3gain, a utility that performs statistical analysis to determine how loud the MP3 file actually sounds to the human ear and performs lossless volume adjustments. And so if you want to make automatic equalizer adjustments to your mp3 [...]

You quickly learn the mantra as a developer or designer that you should “save early, and save often”. This might be easier said than done when applications either don’t have an auto-save function, or, if saving means that you wait for the best part of 30 minutes to write a high-res file with gigs of [...]

I was recently asked by a friend and Apple Creative Genius to write an article about Apple’s idiot-proof web design software, iWeb, and the field of search engine optimisation; more specifically, how to make iWeb more search engine friendly. Given my current interest in SEO, I was certainly excited about looking at iWeb and similar [...]

Recently announced from SentrySafe, and available after December 1st 2007, is the Fire-Proof and Water-Proof USB 2.0 Hard Drive case for Mac and PC. The model comes in 2 hard drive sizes, the smaller is 80GB and is priced at $260 (USD) and the larger is 160GB and priced at $320 (USD). Target Audience? The [...]

What Not To Do? As soon as you realise that you have lost your files, the worst thing you can do is continue on using the computer with the files on it. In fact, if you are looking up this exact topic right now using the computer you wish to recover the files from, you [...]

Are you a recent PC to Mac switcher? Are you lost with the one button mouse? Confused as to how to find the contextual menus on the mac that are just one click away on the Windows PC? Well you would be glad to know that the answer is VERY simple: Press CTRL on the [...]

Given that there is no easy way to simply export contacts held in Apple’s Address Book application for Mac OS X, it makes it nigh on impossible to actually use the data for a mail merge in MS word. Now that’s fine if you only wish to print labels, but what about if you want [...]

How many layers of Mac security can you have? Well according to SubRosaSoft, who this week (12 Nov ’07) announced the release of FileDefense, you can have more! In brief, it is an application that “forms the first line of defense in file access”. It is a set of programs that “provide an easy interface [...]

So far we have written articles about how to recover accidentally deleted files, how to secure erase data from your mac hard drive and how to import recovered data to applications like Apple Mail. Missing from this equation is an article on how to actually delete or overwrite data that you have already deleted, or [...]

The ability to create duplicate disk images of a boot device or external hard drive in Mac OSX can be useful for a variety of reasons, not least for backup purposes. There are a range of possible solutions for the task, but by far the easiest one of all is SubRosaSoft’s CopyCatX hard drive duplicate [...]

Sometimes it is impractical to send files via the internet. For one, most FTP servers will have problems handling files over 2GB in size, and if you try and transfer a file of that sze via an IM client it might easily fail part of the way through and you won’t be able to resume [...]

Developed and released over the last few days, MobileScrobbler is the first AudioScrobbler / Last.FM client that brings decent scrobbling capabilities to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. For those you not offay with the way in which Last.FM works, basically, whilst listening to your favourite songs in iTunes, MobileScrobbler allows you to scrobble your [...]

Have you ever wondered how hard it might be to print a mailing list, in paper form, on envelopes or as mailing labels? Well, actually it isn’t that hard, and in fact Apple’s Address Book software takes a lot of the pain out of the process, and makes it possible to sideline Microsoft Word’s Mail [...]

With so many domain name registration firms popping up left, right and centre, and with many providing at least semi-decent interfaces for updating the domain details yourself, it is extremely cheap and easy to set up a domain and then setup a dotmac account for your web site, whilst at the same time using your [...]

An Introduction Just out today is Easy Envelopes for Dashboard in OSX 10.4 (Tiger), from long time Mac games & utilities developer Ambrosia Software. It is a FREE widget that allows you to send professional looking envelopes in a 4 step process: Hit It, Address It, Print It, and Mail It! And because it is [...]