Archiver Compression Manager Archiver 2 Overview Archiver is one of those staple applications that you need to get through your day. Archiver 2 is the long awaited new version of the popular Mac OSX compression manager. It provides a number of new features and a snazzy new interface. There really isn’t much to say except [...]
If you find yourself working with and creating PDF files on a regular basis, the latest version of Adobe Acrobat is well worth a long look. Acrobat XI really beefs up overall performance, especially on a Mac. This new version also comes integrated with Adopbe’s powerful new electronic signature service called Adobe Echosign — which nothing short of rocks!
Pixa is an essential tool for designers, icon makers, web developers and any one who has libraries icons, stock photos, graphic elements, or stock photos or any kind of images.
Blotter Desktop Calendar Blotter present your iCal calendar events and reminders right on your desktop with this stunning calendar viewer. Blotter has quickly become one of my crucial ‘can’t live without this‘ apps. The idea is so incredibly simple.. A calender on your desktop. There’s really not a whole lot else to say except it [...]
Rosetta Stone 4 Language Learning Software Rosetta Stone v4 for Mac and iPad app is a great product for anyone looking to learn a new language. I’m sure you’ve heard of this language-learning software as the company pumps a lot of resources in its marketing and advertising. But don’t be under the impression that consumer [...]
Have you considered that your applications are constantly sending out bits of personal information. How much of that is safe, and not being sold? If you’re not sure, read this review of Little Snitch 3 for Mac OSX.
Shimo Multi-client VPN Software If you haven’t tried Shimo, then now is the time to jump on board. Shimo is the perfect VPN software solution for Max OSX. It supports almost every VPN protocol and let’s you organize all of your connections in one place. Shimo has a track record of providing Mac users with [...]
After a long trial of many online and native SEO tools for Mac OSX, the SEO Powersuite by Link Assistant is a clear winner. It is, by far, the most powerful and robust SEO tool on the market, and is available for both Mac OSX and Windows. Suite apps include: Rank Checker, competitor keyword spying and keyword research tools, backlink strategy builder, and a very powerful website auditor.
Over the last few months, I’ve been testing out some of the various premium filter packages for Lightroom 4. A note on the Lightroom 4 preset engine: While initially writing this article, I ran across a few obstacles in trying to use the new Lightroom 4 presets. Mostly, it appeared as though all of the [...]
Adobe Fireworks CS6 incorporates jQuery Mobile framework allows you to quickly customize, modify, and export themes and skins, extract CSS code in one step, and easily build and export CSS sprites. This review focuses on the ease of using the CS6 functionality to develop a mobile theme design.
Dreamweaver CS6 has added new tools for working with sites that scale from desktop, to tablet, to phone, using some of the latest CSS features. Even so, it’s still the familiar Dreamweaver with the same mix of design and code, and support for just about any web authoring technology you can think of. Newly added support includes: Fluid grid layouts, CSS3 transitions, Enhanced jQuery Mobile support, Updated PhoneGap Build integration
Lightroom 4 is a substantial upgrade which provides users with additional granularity, quality, and control in the image editing process. The additional improvements to areas such as the video editing capabilities continue to solidify Lightroom as an industry standard.
Review of Techsmith’s Snagit 2.0, and why it has taken over as my favorite screenshot utility for mac. Snagit allows you to take a picture or make a video of anything on your computer screen. With Snagit it’s easy to create and share images and videos for quick communication.
Caffeinated takes reign as the ultimately Mac OSX RSS reader — It’s Beautiful, Slick and Fast. The perfect compliment to any OSX system.
Join Together automates the process of joining the files of selected iTunes tracks together with QuickTime and exporting them as a single AAC Music or Audiobook file/track.
Over the next few months, I will be writing a series of reviews on Rosetta Stone, and my wife’s progress in learning Italian.
Vega has quickly become the first tool in my web vulnerability and pen testing arsenal. It’s fast and copiously comes up with more results than any other scanner I’ve come across. It’s also a free (open-source) tool, with a host of great features. It also runs sm on Mac OSX and Linux.
Due to the fact that WPS is an expanded EAP type, SecureState added support to the EAPScan tool of the EAPeak Suite to actively probe an access point to checkif WPS is enabled.
An overview of 6 of my favorite, and most used, Mac OSX apps. The apps included in this article are DayOne Journal, Jumsoft Money, YummySoup Recipe Manager, Mac Family Tree Maker, Timing personal time tracker, and Investoscope stock tracker.
We’ve teamed up with Parallels to give away 4 copies of their new Parallels Desktop 7 product. We will be announcing 1 winner each week. All you have to do to enter is retweet a message. You will be allowed to enter the contest each week with a new retweet for more changes to win!
Parallels 7 vs VMWare Fusion 4 Desktop Virtualization Head to Head for Mac OSX I started using Parallels 7 to run virtual machine labs to practice my security assessment skills. I’ve read a ton of reviews comparing Parallels 7 to VMWare Fusion 4, but I wanted to try testing the two myself. I’ll save you [...]
Growl has been (and still is) the defacto standard notification system for your mac. This latest update revives the interface and modernizes the app. Growl is one of those rare apps that instantly becomes indispensable, and you just can’t live without.
Navicat delivers incredible functionality database management functionality, wrapped in a perfectly designed package. while handling support for the major database types including MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite, Oracle and PostgreSQL.
Quickbooks 2012 Business Accounting For those of you that don’t like to read long winded reviews, I’ll get right to the point: As an OSX user, you probably share the distaste left by Intuit over the previous Quickbooks product releases. In fact, at the time that Quickbooks 2012 was announced, I was in the process [...]
Since the G2700 ISO 27001 / 27002 certification was an open book exam, I needed a way to quickly find the material I was looking for without having to go through mounds of papers during the exam. Having a printed Index seemed like a logical solution. I tested several applications and was extremely happy with PDF Index Generator.