iLife 11: iMovie By Monte FergusoniMovie 11 has a mixture of features with this release. They range from
really cool to pretty slick. It is obvious that iPhoto gets the most
attention, and the most features. But that doesn't mean iMovie is taking
a backseat to iPhoto. Like iPhoto many of the changes and updates
involve existing features. Also, like iPhoto, these improvements really
beef up the existing feature set and make things work better.
iLife 11: iPhoto By Monte FergusonApple has said that they're taking cues, and coding, used for the iOS
and bringing that back to the Mac. It is evident that the engineers
working on the iLife suite had that in mind with this release of the
iLife suite. Full screen view, a carry over from iOS, makes its debut on
the Mac. It could be argued that full-screen mode is the only new
feature in iPhoto 11. The rest are features that have been there but
have received major quality and functionality enhancements.
Ion USB Turntable By Monte FergusonWhen my old turntable died during a move I was deeply saddened. Not so
much at the loss of the record player but what that meant. It meant that
there was a part of my music library that I was cut off from. It force
me to face the fact of format obsolescence. Without a record player all
of those albums I had acquired were now worthless.
Vinyl Studio 7.5.x By Monte FergusonIn this day of digital media it may sound archaic, but there are those
of us who still have older material that we’d like to preserve. Namely
record albums and cassette tapes. (If you’re someone who is under 30 I
will pause while you look up those terms, records and cassette, in a
search engine….. )
VMWare Fusion 3.1.x By Monte FergusonMacs in the enterprise world today are a very small percentage of the
computers used in business’. A growing, but a minor player in the
enterprise world to be sure. That means, at some point, a business Mac
user will have to deal with a Microsoft dominated infrastructure. Most
of the Microsoft/Windows enterprise tools, such as print servers, file
servers or network authentication servers , do not support Mac clients.
To get along, you have to play along. For many that means having to run
Windows.
RipIt By Monte FergusonI have always been an admirer of the Keep It Simple Stupid, or KISS,
method of design. It demands a very focused approach to design. It also
forces the designer, or in this case developer, to focus on exactly what
task the product is designed to do. Once that has been decided, only
those features that accomplish the desired task are necessary. There are
few programs that live up to that ideal. But I have found one. It is
called RipIT.
