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Review: Early Innovations PhotoLinker 2.0
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Photolinker 2.0 is a neat piece of software that pulls the GPS data from your files and locates them on its world maps. While there's a small variety of good maps to choose from, you won't be able to tap into any of the favourites such as Google Earth, and some of the detailed satellite views (which are the most fun to look at) are restricted to US territories. If you're using a camera without a GPS marking function, entering locations manually is easy. Photolinker 2.0 not only offers good geotagging features but also boasts sophisticated annotation functionality that claims to take the drudgery out of adding your keywords and metadata. It's doubtful anything could do that, but it does make it ...
Review: YazSoft Playback
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YazSoft Playback for Mac OS X is a UPnP (Universal Plug n Play) server designed specifically for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, both of which have impressive media streaming capabilities, though it supports other UPnP compatible receivers too. There's integration with iTunes, iPhoto, Adobe Lightroom and Aperture, as well as individual folder browsing, all of which proved virtually seamless in our tests. It also sports bandwidth limiting to avoid slowing your network, the use of Spotlight searches and Quick Look previews, an access control list and integration with Growl's notification software. So far, so good, but it's Playback's price and simplicity that really make it stand ...
Review: EMC Retrospect 8.1
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EMC Retrospect, once the last words in backup for the Mac, has been pretty much out of the picture for years. Thanks to problems in the early days of Mac OS X, the once all-powerful utility fell into disfavour. Fast-forward to 2009 and most Mac users reach for Time Machine, SuperDuper or other tools for their backup needs. So what does EMC Retrospect 8.1 offer that could make someone switch? Retrospect is not simply a solo backup program, it is a tool for safeguarding data from multiple networked machines to multiple storage destinations, from hard disks and DVDs to all manner of tape backup media. This is what's called enterprise-level backup, which is good enough (and then some) for IT ...
Review: iFinance 3.0.2
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Most personal finance tools seem aimed at the high-net-worth individual, or at least the financially sophisticated one. At first glance iFinance is no different, with its support for multiple currencies, share price tracking, and so on. But amid these features is a straightforward tool for recording your financial affairs and forecasting them across several bank or credit card accounts. It's easy to set up regular recurring transactions like mortgage payments out and salaries in to get an estimate of how flush you won't be in a month or a year. A helpful Budget feature lets you see how much of an allocated sum you've spent and how much remains. You can use it to track your monthly grocery bills ...
Review: Fantasktik 1.4
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Fantasktik 1.4 adds a new toolbar to the top or bottom of your screen, showing open applications and documents. It's easy to manage via System Preferences, and both its behaviour and appearance are as configurable as anyone could want. The question is whether this utility is actually useful. Fantasktik comes into its own when you have lots of documents open in one application. Rather than selecting the app in the Dock and then finding the document in the Window menu, you can get a quick preview of any open document with a single click and make it active with another, or see previews of all an app's open documents at once. You can also hide and quit apps, and lots more. ...
In Depth: 12 add-ons every Firefox user must have
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Firefox's extendibility is one of its great advantages, and there are thousands of plugins to choose from. But having so much choice can be confusing, and it's often hard to tell which add-ons are worth installing and which are best left alone. So look no further - here's our 12 essential Firefox extensions. Download them now! 1. Copy plain text Ever copied something from the web into a document only to have it ruined because the formatting is also copied? Fix this by getting Copy as Plain Text. Once it's installed, highlight some text, right-click on it and choose 'Copy as plain text' to do just that. 2. Get TinyURLs This add-on lets you ...
iPhone software sparks App Store legal action
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The success of the iPhone App Store has clearly brought many benefits to Apple, but it now raises an interesting legal question as the company finds itself sued over the content of an application created by a third party. US photographer Louis Psihoyos is claiming Apple has facilitated i.TV using one of his photographs in its iPhone media application by virtue of the fact that it approved the free app for a place on its virtual shelves. Previous case The image of a curved wall of TV screens appears on a menu in the i.TV app and was also the subject of previous litigation by Psihoyos against Apple when it was apparently used without permission in an advertising ...
Review: Avanquest Berlitz Spanish Premier
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Berlitz Spanish Premier is a great introduction to learning Spanish and provides all you need to get started. The main application – Berlitz Learning System – is split into five different categories – Familiarisation, Vocabulary, Pronunciation, Conversation and Grammar. The software uses what Berlitz refers to as Immersion Environment, which aims to get the student accustomed to what the language really sounds like, through interaction and typical conversations. The conversations can be split into small sections and, using your laptop's speakers and microphone, it's possible to play back any of the individual words verbally. It's also easy to record yourself and play it back to see exactly ...
