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Today’s Tom Sawyer, he gets high on you, and the space he invades is your personal computer. Well, if you’re using GarageBand ’09, anyway. The GarageBand Lesson Store has added three new lessons to its arsenal, including the classic tune by the Canadian progressive rock band.

Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson contributes two lessons to the new assortment, “Tom Sawyer” and “Limelight.” The new offerings are rounded out by John Legend, himself a veteran of Apple events, who explains how to play his song “Ordinary People” on the piano. Each lesson costs $5 and consists of a video of the artist walking you through the piece, in some cases with both simplified and more complicated versions of the song. All three lessons are available from the Lesson Store in Garage Band ’09.  Read more... (136 words, estimated 33 secs reading time)

Mailsmith, the OS X email client from Bare Bones Software, has been handed off to Stickshift Software, a new and separate enterprise run by Bare Bones’ CEO. Under Stickshift, Mailsmith has become freeware and continue on as a labor of love. Mailsmith 2.2, the first free version, is available now.

Mailsmith is a powerful text-only mail client that’s been gathering a devoted following since 2002. Version 2.2 was initially announced back in ‘07, but remained in various stages of beta until this announcement. In case you’re not familiar with Mailsmith, some of its biggest selling points are its excellent support for message filters and its finely-tuned text editing options. It also integrates nicely with Apple’s Address Book.  Read more... (122 words, estimated 29 secs reading time)

If you’ve got an iPhone, take the time this weekend to update your software to the latest version, 3.0.1. It doesn’t have any flashy new features – sorry, no MMS just yet – but it closes a major security loophole that was made public at the Black Hat conference on Thursday. The exploit allows remote code execution on any iPhone, just by sending an SMS message.

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The iPhone can now be used as an authenticator in accessing enterprise applications and resource.

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, announced the availability of the RSA SecurID Software Token for iPhone Devices that enables an iPhone to be used as an RSA SecurID authenticator, providing convenient and cost-effective two-factor authentication to enterprise applications and resources. The RSA SecurID Software Token App is now available on the App Store at no charge. The required RSA SecurID software token seed as well as RSA Authentication Manager — the software that powers the RSA SecurID system — are both available for purchase worldwide.  Read more... (194 words, estimated 47 secs reading time)

Remember when it was first revealed the Windows XP could be installed and booted off of a USB flash drive? Well, great for Windows users. What about Mac users? We were left out in the cold. If one were to search hard enough in the vast Web index that is Google, one could find just the snippets of how to boot a system from a USB drive, how to set a drive as bootable, yadda yadda yadda. Nothing guiding the way to creating a bootable installation of Mac OS X on a flash drive. I’m here to help.  Read more... (147 words, 2 images, estimated 35 secs reading time)

We all know the importance of backing up our data. We also know we should have more than one backup routine and have an off-site repository for backed-up data. Yet it remains at the bottom of that ever expanding to-do list, while we tell ourself that Time Machine will rescue us if worst happens. Well, it might, but not if your office is flooded, burgled or damage by fire.

MozyHome will insure your data against those disasters, Download it, tell it which files and folders you want to backup and when, and it does the rest. You get 2GB worth of data free, and if you need more, the monthly plans start at $3.95 per month, plus 50cents per gigabyte per month.  Read more... (331 words, 4 images, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

If you regularly read and annotate PDF documents, you need Skim. It’s more powerful than Preview, but lighter on its feet than Acrobat Profesional. As well as making notes, you can bookmark sections, search content, capture snapshots and read files in full-screen mode. Skim also makes a decent presentation tool, as you can add transitions and ise the Apple Remote to control it. If that’s not enough, you can download remote PDF files, preview internal links and focus on specific sections using a reading bar.  Read more... (192 words, 1 image, estimated 46 secs reading time)

Features:

• Viewing PDFs
• Adding and editing notes
• Highlighting important text, including one-swipe highlight modes

Well, current iPhone and iPod Touch owners alike, today is not just another day. Today is the day you upgrade your iPhone firmware to 3.0 and experience a ton of new functions and features that you’ve been wanting for months now.

iPhone OS 3.0 also lets you run the next generation of iPhone apps, like peer-to-peer games1 and more. If you’ve never updated before, now is the perfect time.

NEW IPHONE OS 3.0 FEATURES

Cut, Copy & Paste
Quickly and easily cut, copy, and paste text from application to application. Select entire blocks of web text with a tap. Copy and paste images from the web, too.  Read more... (467 words, 1 image, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Recover Data for Mac is a Macintosh Data Recovery Software to recover deleted, lost or corrupt data from Macintosh Operating Systems. Recover Data for Mac supports to recover lost or deleted data from HFS, HFS+ volumes of Macintosh Operating Systems.

Recover Data for Mac – Apple Macintosh data recovery software, recovers data from damaged, deleted, or corrupted Macintosh HFS, HFS+ volumes and even from crashed disks. Software performs advance scan to locate & search lost HFS, HFS+ partitions. All the recovered mac data in the lost partition is then displayed in a tree like structure so as to ease the user to save the recovered data in a working volume.  Read more... (257 words, 1 image, estimated 1:02 mins reading time)

Web Browsing

Mozilla Firefox

The premier free, open-source browser. Tabs, pop-up blocking, themes, and extensions. Considered by many to be the world’s best browser.
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Camino

Based on the same Mozilla foundation as Firefox, Camino is a more native OS X app. Fast and simple.
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Video Player / Video Podcasting

Miro

Beautiful interface. Plays any video type (much more than quicktime). Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one. Torrent support. Search and download from YouTube and others.
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IM – Instant Messaging

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