Retail Mania, IE Woes, EU Charges
Although this is a normally slow tech news week, some real news occurred, what with the ongoing IE exploit and the larger world not sidetracked by holidays.
IRemember 2.5
These days, we can view and share photos almost as fast as we can capture them. With a quick click of a button, your photos can be stored and sent to friends...
Black Friday Deals for Mac and IPhone Software
The holiday season is upon us, and Black Friday is here. You know what that means--discounts. Before you go out and brave the throngs of shoppers crowding the...
Gems I’m Thankful for
It's Thanksgiving day here in the U.S., and I want to wish all our U.S. readers a happy holiday. Since Thanksgiving falls on a Thursday, which is also a Mac Gems...
Five Tips to Shop Black Friday and Cyber Monday Securely
Bargain shoppers eager to find the best holiday shopping deals are often easy prey for online scams. Here are five tips to protect yourself while shopping online this holiday season.
Crunching Data on the Cheap
Data warehousing and analytics need not be expensive, thanks to fairly rich free products now available.
VTie and VTie Premium for IPhone
Let's face it: The necktie is an endangered species. As clothes maven Nicholas Antongiavanni lamented in The Wall Street Journal not long ago, the tie's "status...
Pzizz Relax for IPhone
If you like to nap, or, like me, need to nap sometime during the day to rejuvenate yourself, there's a good change you'll find Pzizz Relax for the iPhone to be a...
Ableton Releases Max for Live
Ableton and Cycling '74 have announced the release of Max for Live. The product integrates the Max/MSP audio visual programming language with Ableton's Live 8...
App Syncs Cookies Between Safari, Camino
Web browser aficionados welcomed last week's release of Camino 2.0, a Mac-only browser based on the Firefox codebase. While missing the extensibility of Firefox...
Google's Ad Empire is Good for Small Business
Google is expanding its vast marketing empire with the purchase of Teracent. Google may be bad for traditional advertising, but its good for small business.
Sign Me Up
Ten One Design's nifty $7 Autograph application addresses one of those analog gaps in this digital world. It lets you write your signature on your computer--so...
Free (and Some Not Free) Live Music
I love live music. Well, music in general, but there’s something about the anything-can-happen vibe and the interaction with the audience of concerts that’s hard...