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WriteRoom 3 Review

Posted 01/31/2012 at 7:14am | by J.R. Bookwalter
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Writing is often a thankless, solitary task requiring isolation from outside interference. Just when you least expect it, the telephone rings, new email arrives, or an interesting tweet diverts attention from the work at hand. WriteRoom can’t thwart all of life’s interruptions, but it does offer solace from most computer-based distractions with a streamlined writing environment, making it easier to get the words on the (virtual) page.

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11 Add-ons To Enhance Your Productivity With iCal

Posted 12/12/2011 at 9:50am | by Ambika Subramony
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iCal is an amazing app. It's free, powerful, and syncs over all Mac platforms for free, thanks to iCloud. But, like any other app, you don't have to use iCal as-is--it can be so much more. These 12 apps and add-ons will all help you push your favorite workhorse calendar app to its limits. We don't recommend you use them all at once, but we hope you find a solution or two that works for you!

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FileMaker Go for iPhone and iPad Review

Posted 09/09/2011 at 8:00am | by Peter Cohen
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Your business has developed a workflow around FileMaker Pro. With the proliferation of iPads and iPhones, your employees now have more need than ever to be able to access that FileMaker Pro data on their portable devices. Enter FileMaker Go, a portable, flexible product to add to your road warriors' arsenal.

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Notesy for Dropbox Review

Posted 08/08/2011 at 3:20pm | by Michael Simon
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If there’s anything wrong with Dropbox -- and we’re not saying there is -- it’s that its friendly, free file storage is a little too reliant on outside apps. Getting an edited Pages file from our Mac to our iPad and back to our Mac, for example, is a multi-step affair: 1) open Dropbox; 2) export the file to Pages; 3) make changes; 4) email the file to our Maclife.com address; 5) open the file on our Mac; 6) save; and 7) overwrite the old file on our Dropbox account.

There has to be an easier way. And Notesy for Dropbox has found it.

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Presence Remote-Access Client Review

Posted 08/08/2011 at 9:48am | by Ray Aguilera
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Services like iCloud or Dropbox are handy for sharing and accessing data, but they both require you to decide beforehand that you’re going to want to access your boring work spreadsheets and photos of your new puppy while you’re away from your primary computer. Plus there’s that whole deal about trusting a third party with all your stuff—not to mention the time it takes to upload gigs of data. Presence aims to change all that by putting your entire Mac into the cloud. And you can do it without wasting any time uploading data—or worrying about trusting your stuff to Apple, Amazon, or anyone else—because it all lives on your connected Mac.

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Templates for Keynote Pro Review

Posted 08/05/2011 at 9:20am | by Michael Simon
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Keynote may be the least-essential app in the iWork suite -- after all, most of us don’t give presentations at sold-out convention centers -- but we have to admit it’s a perfect fit for the iPad. More than Numbers and even Pages, the iPad’s wide, Multi-Touch screen naturally lends itself to Keynote’s guides, gestures, and general interface.

But with such creative possibilities at your fingertips, Keynote’s built-in themes are surprisingly lacking. None of them are all that inspiring, and some are borderline insulting. White? Black? Really? Should those even count?

Of course, you could spend hours designing your own templates with subtle design flourishes, fonts, charts, shadows, and textures. Or you could let Templates for Keynote Pro do it for you.

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Splashtop Remote Desktop for iPad Review

Posted 07/20/2011 at 2:06pm | by Peter Cohen
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Who says you can't run Flash on the iPad? Splashtop Desktop Remote makes it possible. This software is part of a crop of apps that makes it possible for you to remotely control your Mac using your iPad, over a local area network.

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BusyToDo Review

Posted 07/12/2011 at 11:30am | by Adam Berenstain
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As great as iOS is, it’s had one missing feature since the days of the original iPhone: lack of built-in to-do management. That will change with iOS 5’s upcoming Reminders app, but you can take charge of to-do’s today with BusyToDo, which brings familiar to-do management to your iDevice. How familiar? Picture iCal’s to-do features, then imagine most of them transplanted to a no-nonsense iOS app. That’s BusyToDo.

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Place Clock Review

Posted 06/28/2011 at 1:30pm | by Cameron Lewis
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iOS 5 will reportedly add location-based reminders this Fall, but that doesn't do you much good right now, does it? Place Clock fills the current gap in functionality quite nicely, provided you can accept a few shortcomings.

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AirRun for iPhone Review

Posted 06/27/2011 at 3:50pm | by Chris Barylick
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There have always been motivated people, the ones who never stopped, never rested, and were always on the lookout for a way to make extra money and better their lives. And there have always been lazy people, the ones who knew what needed to be done but would rather pay someone else to do it for them. With the AirRun app for iPhone, these forces finally meet.

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