Review – CarMD


Is that annoying Check Engine light on in your car? Is the car running poorly? Do you want to know why, or just how much it is going to cost to fix it? This device might just be your answer.

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Review – LogMeIn Ignition for iPhone/iPad


There are a number of VNC solutions on the market. However, with the popularity of the iPhone, iPad, and mobile computing in general, this technology has grown in popularity. LogMeIn Ignition for the iPhone/iPad is a non-browser solution that brings the power of VNC to these widely popular offerings which have fallen from that big fruit tree in Cupertino, CA. Does this App live up to the hype? Can it deliver the proverbial portable computing goods? Read on and find out.

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Guitar for Dummies CD – Review


As a relative beginner to playing the guitar, I’m always on the lookout for ways to improve my playing skills. I take weekly lessons and I learn a great deal from my guitar teacher, but perhaps there is a way to improve myself, and perhaps even impress my teacher a bit in the process. When I saw Wiley’s new Guitar for Dummies CD, I knew this was a piece of software that was right up my alley, and I wasn’t disappointed.

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ColcaSac MacBook and iPhone Sleeves


In this world gone green, ColcaSac has developed a line of protection products that stand out from the sea of also-rans while at the same time reducing the overall carbon footprint of that discerning Apple lover. Read on to discover my over all impressions of these well made sacs for your precious Apples.

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Hear – Review



Hear is an application for Macs that will dramatically improve the quality of the sound coming from your computer’s speakers. It doesn’t matter whether the sound is music, dialogue from a movie, or an Internet telephone conversation with your friend in Scotland. Even using the default settings in Hear, everything will sound richer and clearer.

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PCSync Version 6 – Review


Many people own more than one computer. And when you have more than one computer, you immediately begin to have problems with file synchronization. Files created (or updated) on one machine are not the same any more on the other. Which one is newer? Did I make a change over there? Or what if you moving from a PC to a Mac? How do you move it all?

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Data Rescue 3.0 – Review


Unless overwritten with new data, files don’t vanish simply because they’re deleted, and just because a hard drive has been corrupted somehow, it doesn’t mean the data on that disk can’t be recovered. Data Rescue 3 is an application from Prosoft Engineering that performs both these functions via a relatively intuitive, if quirky, interface.

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ArtStudio – Review



I have tried a bunch of art apps for the iPod Touch/iPhone. I have even reviewed quite a few. Most recently, I was given the opportunity to try out a new kid on the block called ArtStudio. After playing with ArtStudio (and I mean playing, because it is fun) for many days I have to say this is the best drawing/painting app I have tried for my iPod Touch. It is FANTASTIC! and probably the closest thing to Painter or ArtRage for the Mac desktop.

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BusyCal – Review



BusyCal is the OS X appointment calendar that iCal should be. It is smart, attractive and configurable in ways that iCal is not. Unlike iCal, however, it is not free.

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ArtRage 3 – Review



In November of 2005 I first wrote about ArtRage. Since that time I have reviewed ArtRage 2 and ArtRage Deluxe for MyMac and each new version has made ArtRage better and better. It has also become a standard in my art classroom on my iMacs and my students love it. Well, I am thrilled to be writing a review of the newly released ArtRage 3. Just like previous updates, it keeps on improving.

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Kensington Expert Mouse – Review


As a longtime user of Kensington trackballs, I was excited to try Kensington’s latest addition to this storied product line. The Expert Mouse follows in the pro level footsteps of the critically acclaimed Turbo Mouse. How would this modern version of my all time favorite pointing device compare?

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iSync Plug-ins for Mac – Review


What would you think if you were to hear the words “It’s now a piece of cake to use a Bluetooth enabled cell phone to send text-messages and dial numbers directly from your phone. Hey, even cake eaters would perk up their ears at that not to mention those of us who think of our phones as a piece of us.

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