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Apple Builds ‘iPad ready’ Showcase for non-Flash Video Sites

Stephen Antonucci — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:40:14 +0000

Apple has posted a website that showcases what they say are 'iPad ready' sites that have compatible with the iPad. Basically video sites that are non-Flash based and are using HTML5 to deliver their video content. The sites include: CNN, Reuters, NYTimes, Vimeo, Time, Major League Baseball, The White House, Virgin, Sports Illustrated, Flickr, People Magazine and TED. iPad features Safari, a mobile web browser that supports the latest web standards — including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Here are just a few of the sites that take advantage of these web standards to deliver content that looks and functions beautifully on iPad. You can submit your site here. Apple also has posted technical information so you can preparing your web content for iPad. I expect this list to grow pretty fast!

Yahoo Publisher Network Calls It Quits

Stephen Antonucci — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:33:18 +0000

Yahoo! Publisher Network beta program to close the program effective April 30, 2010. I guess their experiment with competing with Google Adsense has not exactly worked out.

Ballmer on Yahoo Deal The Puppet Edition

Stephen Antonucci — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:13:36 +0000

Very funny! See Video.

Quiznos Goes Viral to Sell Sandwich

Stephen Antonucci — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:01:02 +0000

2 Hot Girls and 1 Long Sub, Quiznos new viral ad produced by Playboy for "Tasty Torpedo" Quiznos sure know how to sell a sandwich! See video.

The Conficker Worm and Mac OS X

Stephen Antonucci — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:14:47 +0000

This worm, called Conficker, as well as Downadup and Kido, has infected unknown millions of Windows computers, and is expected to become active on April 1, 2009. For now, researchers are unsure of what the worm may do; it is just sitting on infected computers waiting for instructions. Researchers think it will connect to remote servers and download code and then become virulent. This worm, which affects Windows computers, has no effect on Mac OS X; at least not yet. Intego's Virus Monitoring Center is on full alert in case a Mac OS X variant of this worm should appear, but, so far, Mac users are in the clear. However, Mac users who run Windows on their Macs are at the same risk as those running Windows on PCs. Is it hype or will it be Armageddon? See ComputerWorld FAQ: Conficker clock ticks toward April 1 deadline. I guess tomorrow Windows users will laugh or cry!

Watch Out MS-Sony-Nintendo, OnLive is Coming

Stephen Antonucci — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:44:54 +0000

a href="http://www.onlive.com/">OnLive a startup company will delivers high-quality, streaming 3-D gaming to Macs and PCs or Internet-connected television. This may surely shakeup the gaming industry and especially the console makers. The service is expected to launch in the winter, was unveiled Tuesday at the Game Developers Conference. The demonstration showed how it streams 3-D games from a data server to the consumer using proprietary compression techniques.

Pandora Comes to Blackberry

Stephen Antonucci — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:41:14 +0000

Pandora Radio is your own FREE personalized radio now available to stream music on your Blackberry. Just start with the name of one of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and Pandora will create a “station” that plays their music and more music like it. Already a Pandora user? Even easier. Just sign in. Pandora on Blackberry is fully integrated with Pandora on the web. Enjoy all your existing stations - and create new ones right from your Blackberry. Joining Slacker and IHeartRadio, Pandora comes to some Blackberry models. It seems T-Mobile users may be out of luck however. Get Pandora here for Blackberry. I applied a few hours ago and I am still waiting for my download message for my Blackberry Curve. I will review Pandora and compare it to the iPhone app as soon as I get my hands on it and try it out.

TweetDeck Tutorial Videos

Stephen Antonucci — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:25:15 +0000

If you are using Twitter and would like some tips of using TweetDeck a popular desktop app you may like to watch these tutorial videos by John Haydon. Enjoy! Follow ReelSmart on Twitter.

What Twitter Apps I Like

Stephen Antonucci — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:38:12 +0000

I have been recently asked what apps I like for Twitter. So here you go. On my Macs I use TweetDeck [free based on Adobe Air]. I have tried several other apps like Twhirl [free] and Twitterific [$14.95], but keep coming back to TweetDeck. On my iPhone I use Tweetie [$2.99 iTunes], I have tried most all of the Twitter apps for the iPhone as there are many to choose from, but Tweetie is my favorite. For Twitter integration for ReelSmart.com WordPress blog I am using Tweeter Tools by Alex King. This free plugin allows for each post to be tweeted, your current tweets to be displayed on your blog and it also allows you to send tweets directly from your WordPress blog. For those who have never used Twitter and are trying to figure out why you would want to use it. Check out Twitter in plain engish. If you have a favorite Twitter related app I did not mention let me know. Also don't forget to follow me on Twitter.

Yahoo Announces Search Pad

Stephen Antonucci — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:23:13 +0000

Yahoo brings a nice tool for people using Yahoo Search for research. It's is a simple research tool that helps you organize web bookmarks and notes around a specific topic. If you're searching for information about a topic, repeating particular phrases and refining your searches Search Pad [see video] will become active and automatically start taking notes for you.

Amazon Holding Press Event on Feb 9

Stephen Antonucci — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:26:40 +0000

Amazon today said it would hold a press event on February 9th at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City. No details have been released, but the second generation Kindle is a good bet. The Kindle 2 maybe a major overhaul to the original reader with a smaller, more rounded and more ergonomic design with a directional pad instead of a touchstrip and more comfortable keys. Most expect the new Kindle to continue shipping with free 3G cellular access for downloading books and viewing websites but to shed the SD card slot for built-in flash memory.

Last.fm Comes To Android Platform

Stephen Antonucci — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:05:15 +0000

Last.fm has launched an official, feature-rich application for the Android platform that enables users to stream radio stations, get up-to-date concert information and also offers the ability to track users’ listening habits based on their Last.fm profile.

Jott Ending Free Services on February 2nd

Stephen Antonucci — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:58:50 +0000

Due to our economic times, Jott has announced on their blog that they will be ending free services - Jott Basic and Jott Notepad for the iPhone on February 2nd. Plans for current paying customers will not change. Users that want to upgrade to a pay account can do so with a discount. Simply go to your account page to change your plan, type in “JOTT” and your phone number (e.g. “JOTT2065551212”) as the promo code for the annual Jott plan, or “PRO” and your phone number (e.g. “PRO2065551212”) for the annual Jott Pro plan at $3.95 per month. Then enter your billing information. ReQall (similar in some ways) remains a free (beta) and does a good job of voice transcription. ReQall also has an excellent iPhone app.

Former Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz Becomes Chief Yahoo!

Stephen Antonucci — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:44:34 +0000

Former Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz will be the new sheriff at Yahoo becoming the new chief executive while Yahoo President Sue Decker resigns. Bartz sits on Cisco’s board of directors with Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang. She also is on Intel’s board with Yahoo president Decker. She stepped down from CEO of Autodesk in April 2006. Her resume also includes working at Sun, Digital Equipment and 3M. Turning the company around in a bad economy might end up being Carol Bartz biggest challenge yet. No word if a dramatic overhaul of Yahoo is coming. Stay tuned.

Electing a US President in Plain English

Stephen Antonucci — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:28:21 +0000

CommonCraft give us an explanation in plain English how the process works.

Yahoo! and AOL May Become One in October

Stephen Antonucci — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:13:02 +0000

Reports are emerging that claim that fast tracked merger discussions are on the way to bring Yahoo! and AOL together. Yahoo! may actually be acquiring AOL (content, services and advertising), minus their subscription dial up business. With Microsoft spending their cash on their own stock's buy back this may spell the end of Microsoft's take over of Yahoo!

Google Gears Comes to Safari

Stephen Antonucci — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:43:58 +0000

Google has announced an official release of Google Gears for Safari, its open source browser extension that adds support for local data storage and helps web application developers manage resources to make web applications work offline. Gears-enabled sites include Google Docs, WordPress, and Zoho Office. Google Gears for Safari requires Safari 3.1.1 with Mac OS X 10.4.11 or Mac OS X 10.5.3 and up.

Pandora May Be Nearing The End

Stephen Antonucci — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:30:48 +0000

Pandora has been my favorite web radio service for some time that I have written about many times. One of the very first iPhone apps I downloaded was the free Pandora app from the iTunes App Store. Why should free web-based radio have to pay almost twice as much as in royalties as satellite radio that charges a monthly subscription or traditional radio that pays no such fee at all? Well because the power of the RIAA and SoundExchange say so. "We're approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision," said Tim Westergren, who founded Pandora. "This is like a last stand for webcasting." The Washington Post has a good article on how webcasting may soon be in the dead pool. I makes me wonder how the RIAA thinks this will help business, slow P2P file sharing, or help artists?

Ted Stevens Gets Caught in his Tubes

Stephen Antonucci — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:44:50 +0000

84 year old Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, who worked against Net Neutrality with his ridiculous "the Internet is a series of tubes" rant, has been caught for allegedly failing to report $250,000 in gifts from the Alaska oil pipeline company, VECO Corporation. Guess he thought he could make money from all the tube companies. The now famous rant: “Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. “… the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand those tubes can be filled, and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.”

Google Pushing Higher to Almost 70 Percent in Search

Stephen Antonucci — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:46:58 +0000

This chart says a lot. Look at the rise of Google search and the drop of Yahoo and Microsoft. Add Yahoo and Microsoft together and Google still easily doubles their collective numbers. M.G Siegler has a good article called Google pushes towards 70 percent of all U.S. searches; Yahoo, Microsoft push towards zero percent take a look.

Apple Preps For MobileMe Launch

Stephen Antonucci — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:33:24 +0000

Apple is prepping its users as well as its infrastructure for the MobileMe launch this week. Soon we will say goodbye to .Mac and hello to MobileMe. This will be the biggest transition Apple has made to its online service since the iTools to .Mac transition which seems like a distant memory. See the guided tour of MobileMe here. From the .Mac site:

MobileMe Launch 7/9/2008, 6pm-12am PT As part of the MobileMe launch, www.mac.com will be taken offline at 6pm PT on Wednesday, July 9th. Members will be unable to access www.mac.com or any .Mac services during this time with the exception of .Mac Mail accessed via a desktop application, iPhone, or iPod touch. MobileMe will be available as soon as possible during this maintenance window.

MobileMe should go live between 6PM-12AM tomorrow!

New Firefox 3 Browser Arrives

Stephen Antonucci — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:17:31 +0000

Mozilla has made the latest version of Firefox available for download. The Firefox developers are attempting to break the Guinness World Record for most software downloaded in 24 hours. I hope they make it. Get it here. Here is a list of the new features.

Ballmer Spreads the FUD Using Privacy Scare

Stephen Antonucci — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:41:25 +0000

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is spreading the FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) about a "rumor" that Google may be getting ready to display ads based on people's surfing habits, this quite a bit different than using Google search. Does Ballmer have a point? Maybe. But with Microsoft trailing so badly behind Google in search and on the web, he has reasons to spread FUD. Microsoft may be using the same tactics.

The AP is Dead to Me

Stephen Antonucci — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:16:00 +0000

The Associated Press, a cooperative news organization owned by about 1,500 daily newspapers has decided to go after some bloggers for linking and quoting stories. Imagine "linking" on the Internet! NY Times link. The linking we are talking about usually falls on "fair use" and even probably adds traffic to the original story from the AP. I will follow Michael Arrington's lead and just forget the AP exists. I encourage all bloggers and websites follow and let's see just how old the AP will look on the net!

Safari 4 Browser Seeded to Developers

Stephen Antonucci — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:38:55 +0000

Based on the latest version of Webkit, Safari 4 which scored a perfect 100/100 on the Acid3 test, sporting some new exciting features has been seeded to Apple developers. This new version of Safari can save webpages as desktop web applications (similar to Fluid). You can also specify whether new tabs or windows open with; home page, same page, empty page or bookmarks. Safari 4 is said to be significantly faster as compared to Safari 3.1. Apple may be using the SquirrelFish JavaScript engine which allows for faster Javascript processing.

Adobe Launches Acrobat.com Beta

Stephen Antonucci — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:45:14 +0000

Adobe in their move to bring services to the web (they recently launched Photo Express) has launched a beta of Acrobat.com that offers file sharing and storage, PDF converter, online word processor, and web conferencing — you can use to create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others. The service is free.

One of the services being offered is Adobe ConnectNow a free version of Adobe's web conferencing solution they acquired when they bought Macromedia (Adode Connect was Macromedia Breeze). Adobe ConnectNow is web conferencing that utilizes the Flash plugin already installed on 98% of computers, so it requires no installation. Adobe ConnectNow allows users to conference online using nothing more than a web browser to share ideas via audio and video, share screens, chat, remote control desktops and use a whiteboard as they meet in a virtual room.

Reducing travel costs especially with gas prices going through the roof, save time, and increase productivity is the goal of web conferencing. Having the solution that is easy to access and simple to use is key however.

Also part of Acrobat.com is Adobe Buzzword that allows you to write and collaborate on documents online as well as creating and converting PDFs. Drag and dropping of files and folders from your local computer directly into your Acrobat.com account, and browsing, previewing, sharing or publishing files easily from your computer can be accomplished using Adobe AIR.

.Mac to Loss iCards When Transformed to MobileMe

Stephen Antonucci — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:23:19 +0000

.Mac users, you better send the last of the iCards you once loved. After the transformation to the new MobileMe service, iCards are not going to make the cut and get left behind it seems. Web access for your bookmarks and Mac slides will also say goodbye. Oh yeah, there is "one more thing," Panther users, upgrade if you still want to sync! You will still be able to keep your @mac.com email and iChat addresses. You will also have access to use @me.com for these services also.

Apple’s Keynote Goes Online, Well Sort of

Stephen Antonucci — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:06:18 +0000

What happens when you take two ex-Apple employees and let them create in a new start-up? Well in the case of 280slides you get an online presentation app that looks a lot like Apple's Keynote which just launched in beta. Looks like a nice start, 280slides can output in PowerPoint format and is free (at least for now) online tool that may make you somewhat forget you are creating a slideshow in a browser instead of a desktop app.

Vanity Fair: How The Web Was Won

Stephen Antonucci — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:52:38 +0000

Vanity Fair, to commemorate the 50th anniversay of ARPA, has posted a "must read" for anyone who is interested in the creation and history of the Internet called How the Web Was Won.

Pandora Goes On Air

Stephen Antonucci — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:51:18 +0000

Pandora has released their own free desktop application based on Adobe Air technology for Mac and Windows users. Pandora is free personalized Internet radio, that uses trained music experts who can recommend music you will probably like based on a song, artist, or lyrics that you choose. You can see what is playing, change channels, or create new ones. In the past you needed to use a flash enabled browser or a third-party desktop solution. It is nice to see Pandora providing a desktop app themselves.

80′s Bands Find Lead Singers on the Internet

Stephen Antonucci — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:24:49 +0000

Seems like a trend. Famous band from the 80's needs new lead singer and they turn to YouTube and MySpace for help.Journey's needed a lead singer to replace Steve Perry and Neal Schon found Arnel Pineda on YouTube. Of course there is only one Steve Perry, but Arnet filled Perry's stylings pretty, Faithfully. Next it was Boston's Tom Scholz who needed a singer to replace Brad Delp who tragically committed suicide last year.

Thanks Starbucks!

Stephen Antonucci — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:58:59 +0000

Starting Tuesday at Starbucks: Complimentary WiFi for Starbucks customers When you register your Starbucks Card and use it at least once a month, you’ll receive two consecutive hours a day of complimentary WiFi, courtesy of AT&T.

Will Bribery Help Microsoft in Search?

Stephen Antonucci — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:58:15 +0000

Unless you have been visiting another planet I am sure you have heard that Microsoft has been busy trying to take over Yahoo. Microsoft's desperation is all over this deal, $44 billion, then $47 billion offered to buy Yahoo, the distant number two in search to Google who of course dominates. Now Microsoft is planning on offering money just to use their search. Sounds like the 1990's all over again with the folks from Redmond trying to "buy" their way into a market. Well hell it worked before. This time things are a little different. Microsoft, the company with a disputable 90 percent of the desktop, has single digits in search. They have been chasing the search leader Google for years without much success. In fact, the April search numbers are out from comScore, the guys that track this sort stuff, showing Google again extending their lead in the U.S. Google search grabbed a record-high 61.6 percent of the U.S. market in April, up from 59.8 percent in March while Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, and Ask all dipped lower. The numbers stack up in U.S. search like this for April: The numbers stack up in U.S. search like this for April:

Google 61.6 percent
Yahoo! 20.4 percent
Microsoft 9.1 percent
AOL 4.6 percent
Ask 4.7 percent

The numbers in Europe favors Google even more with Google pushing close to 80 percent of searches. Microsoft's search technology has been horrendous with promises year after year of it being better than Google. All the wasted time has now got Microsoft chasing a verb. Even if Microsoft gets control of Yahoo they would still lag way behind Google. If they convert Yahoo to their own technology, they may lose engineering talent from Yahoo and all they really bought was some web traffic that may not stay. Microsoft's recently announced "cash back" plan shows their innovation plan may be failing, so spending dollars to get at least some footing in the market is the gimmick. Even Microsoft does not have that much money. More important do they have the time? I think not. This week Time Warner announced another split after the AOL merger fiasco. They are now shedding Time Warner Cable. This shows how big mergers where corporate culture is so different rarely works. Microsoft should spend more time listening to the old Smith-Barney ads. Remember? “We make money the old-fashioned way. We EARN it” (Smith Barney).

AT&T Laptop Connect Users Get Free Wi-Fi

Stephen Antonucci — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:20:31 +0000

AT&T has announced that Laptop Connect customers can now access the AT&T Wi-Fi network that include 17,000 Wi-Fi hot spots free of charge. This gives HSDPA and EDGE users a free extra option. Free Wi-Fi isn't available to AT&T smartphone users yet, but will be arriving "later this year," according to a AT&T press release. I am guessing the official launch of free Wi-Fi for smartphones will arrive with the 3G iPhone launch in expected on June 9 at the WWDC. Just my idea of course.

Comcast Blocking P2P 24/7 for Some Customers, Lied to FCC

Stephen Antonucci — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:41:12 +0000

Contrary to their FCC testimony, Comcast is blocking BitTorrent traffic pretty much all the time according to new data being reported by TorrentFreak. Now "that's Comcastic!"

CBS Buying CNET for $1.8 billion

Stephen Antonucci — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:55:57 +0000

According to both companies, BS has signed an agreement to acquire CNET Networks in a deal valued at $1.8 billion. The acquisition will make CBS one of the 10 most popular Internet companies in the United States, with a combined 54 million unique users per month, and about 200 million users worldwide.

Comcast Buys Plaxo

Stephen Antonucci — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:29:07 +0000

“Comcast’s ambition is to make more and more content available to consumers across all platforms,” said Samuel Schwartz, executive vice president for strategy and development at Comcast Interactive Media, in an interview. “When you add the social dimension to these products, you can navigate through those platforms based on what your friends are doing.” See more at the NY Times Bits Blog.

Yahoo Acquires Inquisitor Plugin

Stephen Antonucci — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:07:03 +0000

David Wantanabe has announced that Yahoo has acquired the rights to his popular Inquisitor plugin for the Safari browser. Inquisitor is a software extension that provides instant search as-you-type within the Safari web browser. Wantanabe says he will continue to be the lead developer behind Inquisitor for Safari, but will not be joining Yahoo! as an employee.

AP Launches Mobile News Site

Stephen Antonucci — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:02:47 +0000

The Associated Press (AP) has launched a nice Mobile News Network website that is optimized for Safari and the iPhone and iPod touch. Be sure to check out the Settings page, which allows you configure the stories that appear on the home page as well as for your local news.

Microsoft Takes their Ball and Goes Home? Yahoo Deal Withdrawn

Stephen Antonucci — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:11:16 +0000

If Jerry Yang at Yahoo wanted to kill the Microsoft deal, he has been successful. His strategy to hold out for a lot more money and making deals to outsource paid search to Microsoft's nemesis, Google seemed to have worked, at least for now. Steve Ballmer has taken his ball and is going home. Ballmer also says he is ruling out a direct offer to Yahoo shareholders saying a direct proxy battle is not worth it. This has me asking, what next?

Share Your Tunes over Internet for Free

Stephen Antonucci — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:30:54 +0000

Sharing your music across the Internet the easy way. Works with iTunes and Winamp. SimplifyMedia is available for free on Macs and PCs and there is some experimental support for Linux and even the iPhone!

ZOHO Sheet Now Supports VBA Macros

Stephen Antonucci — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:11:47 +0000

Why may I ask can Zoho add support for VBA Macros on their FREE "online" spreadsheet while the expensive Office for Mac 2008 upgrade can't? Zoho has announced a huge update to Zoho Sheet that includes the ability to import and create VBA macros in your spreadsheets. Granted they only support about 50% of the functionality at this point, but it is better than the 0% I got for paying Microsoft $240 for an upgrade. Let's not forget that NeoOffice the free open source Office alternative also supports VBA Macros. Sounds like a good incentive NOT to buy an upgrade to Microsoft Office if you are on a Mac. More information on ZoHo Sheet over at Cybernet.

Sony To Buy Gracenote for $260 Million

Stephen Antonucci — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:19:28 +0000

When you put an audio CD into your web connected computer and it fetches the track information, you can thank Gracenote. Sony is buying Gracenote, the digital media company for about US$260 million “plus other consideration,” reports TechCrunch.

Walt Mossberg’s Take on Broadband & Video

Stephen Antonucci — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:30:48 +0000

WSJ Tech Guy, Walt Mossberg's take on the state of broadband. I found this interesting, especially the points of the Apple TV and what he says about a 3G iPhone going 3G in 60 days (around 6:53 in). I could not to agree more.

Microsoft-Yahoo Bid Becoming Turning Hostile

Stephen Antonucci — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:19:13 +0000

Seems clear what the Yahoo board members think of the $44.6 billion bid from Microsoft to take them over. Microsoft's offer is about to turn well, hostile. In a letter from Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer to Yahoo's board of directors, the threat is clear.

If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders, including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an alternative slate of directors for the Yahoo! board.... It is unfortunate that by choosing not to enter into substantive negotiations with us, you have failed to give due consideration to a transaction that has tremendous benefits for Yahoo!'s shareholders and employees...

A hostile takeover of Yahoo will be ugly. While things in Google-land are not too shabby with the recent A-OK from the EU, on the Double-Click acquisition, Google's search share rising, the "win" of its will on the 700 MHz spectrum auction without spending for a license and Andriod making headlines. I still think a Microsoft-Yahoo merge is a bad idea for both companies and will NOT help stop the freight train that is Google.

Adobe Opens Web-based Photoshop Express

Stephen Antonucci — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:42:54 +0000

Adobe has launched a new free web based Photoshop called Photoshop Express. Windows, OS X, Linux users with a browser, Internet connection and the latest Flash installed now have a place to work on their images on the web which is kinda of a cross between iPhoto and Adobe Bridge CS3, according to Ars Technica that has posted a nice review.

Starplayr: Put Sirius Radio on your Mac with Recording Features

Stephen Antonucci — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:12:00 +0000

If you are a Sirius Satellite Radio subscriber and use a Mac you will want the free Starplayr by NiceMac. Not only does Starplayr allow you to listen to Sirius on your Mac, but it can also record the Sirius channel converting the broadcast ASF format to MP3’s which are then automatically added your iTunes library. Now this is cool. You can even record one channel while you listen to another, think TiVo for Sirius on your Mac. You can record the Howard Stern Show for listening on your iPod using the included iCal scripts, allowing you to automate the recording of your favorite shows. No more waking up at 6 AM to record or listen. You can even Pause the music. The music player can display track information like - artist, title and album. Starplayr can also display album art of the currently playing track, but does take up quite a bit of desktop real estate. Maybe we will see an iPhone version of Starplayr in the App Store coming in June. That will give you Sirius Radio on your iPhone and iPod touch!

1Password Updated for Safari 3.1

Stephen Antonucci — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:13:55 +0000

Agile Web Solutions have announced the 1Password 2.5.12 with support for the recently released Safari 3.1 for Mac users. This update also has added the ability to access Go & Fill from the Dock icon, an integrated Help system, a new setup assistant, and also improved Palm synchronization support. 1Password 2.5.12 is priced at US$39.95 with the update is free for all registered users. See my review of 1Password.

Apple Brings Safari 3.1 Update

Stephen Antonucci — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:28:31 +0000

Apple has updated Safari 3.1 their cross platform Web browser now the first to add support for HTML 5 video and audio tags, and CSS animations. Safari 3.1 also supports CSS Web fonts, and Apple claims it loads Web pages 1.9 times faster than Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2. The browser requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher, or Windows XP or Windows Vista. Safari 3.1 is free and available via Apple's Software Update application, or as a download at the Apple web site.

Using Google Docs in Plain English

Stephen Antonucci — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:20:01 +0000

Why you should consider using free collaborative online word processors like Google Docs instead of the expensive Office products of yesteryear. This video in plain english should help you understand the power of online collaboration.