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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)

Decho said Friday the latest release of 1.4.3 Mac for MozyHome and MozyPro online backup service fixes a problem it was having associated with saving backups sent to it by Apple’s Time Machine backup tool, which works with Apple’s Time Capsule network-attached storage device.

The 1.4.3 Mac release for MozyHome and MozyPro is available to download at the MozyHome site and at MozyPro site, which fixes the Time Machine/Time Capsule issue.

A bug was discovered in v1.4.1 Mac release earlier this week that affected users of Time Machine with Time Capsule or Time Machine with a network share of another Mac. The problem with Mozy’s backup process caused Time Machine software to pause and then freeze up.  Read more... (122 words, estimated 29 secs reading time)

Over 70 million devices connected worldwide for remote support, access & backup.

It’s familiar problem if you regularly work away from the office. You’re at home or at a client’s office and you need that spreedsheet., Word document or PDF you were working on last night. But it’s on your Mac in your own. That precisely what LogMeIn does.

LogMeIn provides organizations and individuals with secure, easy-to-use and cost effective solutions for remotely supporting, connecting and accessing digital information, applications and Internet-enabled devices.  Read more... (170 words, 1 image, estimated 41 secs reading time)

George Hotz, the 19-year old wiz kid who made headlines two years ago for being the first to successfully unlock Apple’s original iPhone all by himself, is again drawing the spotlight for creating and releasing the first-ever jailbreaking tool for the new iPhone 3GS.

Dubbed “purplera1n,” the software is currently in beta and available for Windows-only, but Hotz said a Mac version is next on his list. Those interested in using the tool should first backup their iPhone 3GS running iPhone Software 3.0 and make sure they have iTunes 8.2 installed.
Hotz boasts that the binary size of purplera1n is smaller than a C++ hello world application — essentially the most basic piece of software that can be written for modern day computer systems, which simply spits out the phrase “hello world” and terminates.  Read more... (202 words, estimated 48 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

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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Web developers who spend hours testing sites and email newsletters in Windows browsers and clients will be aware of web-based tools, such as Litmus, which automate much of the task. Even so, developers who use Mac OS X often keep a copy of Windows around, so they can conduct tests locally.

This is where Alkaline comes in. It offers access to the Litmus farm of Windows machines from inside a native Mac OS X application. Simply tell it which URL you want testing, and send them to your Desktop.  Read more... (160 words, 1 image, estimated 38 secs reading time)

Pulse describe itself as a web-based cash-flow management tool, and that’s exactly what it is. Start by entering the balance of your bank account, and then update it as you spend and receive money. You can set up recurring transactions, allocate items to a future date, and even specify the likelihood of receiving anticipated future income – useful in these cash-strapped times. Income and expenditure can be organized by categories you specify and allocated to a company or project. It also integrates with Basecamp.

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