Use Your Mac - To The Max!

The biggest Apple Show in Europe, the Apple Expo, is held these days in Paris.

Unfortunately, there was no Keynote this year. Some days earlier, Apple revealed the new iMac line, along with the new Mac Mini. A press conference was held in San Francisco, for the opening of the Apple Expo, transmitted to some reporters, invited to follow the event, in... London.

New iPods and a forthcoming movie selling service through iTunes Store, were the most attractive products, Steve Jobs demonstrated, during this press conference.

Our crew visited the Apple Expo and brings you some photos.

Tags: Apple, iTunes, iPod, Apple Expo

Tags: Apple, iTunes, iPod

Last Monday at the Apple WWDC 2006 Keynote. Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller spoke long about the new Mac Pro (btw, a wow! machine!). They often mentioned that, in similar configurations, the Mac Pro is quite cheaper than the well known as low priced Dells.

However, they never really pronounced the word "cheap". Simply because a Mac cannot be cheap! Elegantly, both presented the new monster as... less expensive!

Apple has a scrupulous attention to detail.

Here is if you want to watch yourself the Keynote.

Tags: Apple, WWDC, Keynote

For some long years, one of the most helpful applications in our everyday life is been StickyBrain. Chronos' little software in the beginning was introduced as an intelligent alternative to the Stickies, the Mac come-along mini application. As years passed, it has become a full featured powerful app, combining most of the forces of the OS X underlayer, the unique OpenBase for managing all information in a smart and user friendly interface.

Needless to say that a lot of our daywork, such as grabbing info from Safari, gathering notes for publishing, managing dozens of logins and passwords, remembering deadlines, taking voice notes, sending mails or even blogging, is accomplished thanks to the tools provided by StickyBrain, being on its v4 by now.

Sometime in its life, StickyBrain saw a big brother coming in the Chronos software family: SOHO Notes. This was a somehow "StickyBrain Plus" app. It could do everything StickyBrain could, plus some more, pro user oriented features. Like synchronizing notes between multiple computers using a .Mac account, accessing multiple note databases simultaneously or even being multi-user capable which means users could share notes with others over a network using the product's client/server technology.

The two apps have run side to side for some time now, targeting each one a slightly different public. Till today that Chronos decided that there was no more any point having two almost identical applications. So StickyBrain goes off-scene, leaving the field to the more powerful SOHO Notes. Chronos says two reasons made them turn this way. First, they want to simplify their product line which eliminates confusion for users. Second, they want to focus their developing and support resources on a single product instead of two products. Which we find is a good thing.

So, StickyBrain has been officially replaced by SOHO Notes ($39.99). And what about us, registered StickyBrain users? Will we be left apart? Not at all!

Registered StickyBrain 4.x users can upgrade to SOHO Notes for FREE. Simply download SOHO Notes and it will automatically recognize and work with your StickyBrain database.

Registered StickyBrain 1.x-3.x users (that is at least last year's upgrade) can upgrade to SOHO Notes for only $25.

Here's why we said StickyBrain discontinued is Good News!

All you have to keep in mind is that, due to the maximum benefit, SOHO Notes takes from the Mac OS X enhancements, it needs a minimum of 10.4.7 (that's the actual) system version. You have it, isn't it?

Tags: StickyBrain, SOHO Notes, Mac, Chronos

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Tags: web design, expression engine

That's how long is, according to the editor, Realmac Software the New RapidWeaver, the famous site builder for the Mac.

When you sit down counting the lines of your code, it's because you have nothing else, left to do. That means, the much awaited RapidWeaver 3.5 will be on time, as scheduled, for Friday, June 2.

Registered users get a free upgrade. Others, you can start building sites like Use Your Mac, for $39.95.

Tags: RapidWeaver, Web Creation

One of the benefits of the integration of the iApps. When opening iPhoto, we see a dialog box, informing us that new QuickTime tutorials are available. With a link to their page.

I'd like to see more developers follow this example.

Tags: iPhoto, Mac

Apple released a new version of GarageBand, their music creating and recording software. Being part of iLife '06, GarageBand is going it's own way to the music creation area on Mac. More and more amateur musicians build their little home studio around GarageBand. The ease of integration and the numerous ad-ons make it a very good deal.

To get the new version, if you already have a GarageBand 3 installed, just go to the Apple Menu and ask for news in the Software Update. After analysing your system, the robot will propose you GarageBand 3.0.2 (that's the latest version).

There are no new functions or tools, just some fixes of known problems of the previous version. If you use this application, you should consider upgrading, it's always better to avoid the little troubles. You'll have to download 32.2 MB. That's one or two minutes through a broadband connection.

Tags: GarageBand, Music Creation, Mac

Karelia Software just released a new beta version of their now famous website creating software for the Mac, Sandvox. This Beta 15 faces lots of crash and memory issues, speeds up processing of graphics and more.

There is also a new pagelet that will allow you list the contents of a collection from your site. And a new function that lets you build local hyperlinks.

If you want to check out Sandvox by yourself, you can download a fully functioning copy of it from the Sandvox download page.

Tags: Sandvox, Web Creation