25-Jun-09 |
MacOS
| Computing
VelOCRaptor 1.0 is a new OCR
(Optical Character Recognition) app for the Mac, which
converts images of scanned text into computer text by
simple drag-and-drop of the image file. (See our review
of it
here).
(Source: Macintouch) |
Cost: US$29 | Requires: MacOS X 10.5+ |
For further info...
Label Wizard from Black Cat
Systems allows you to create your own custom sheets of
labels of around 400 different sizes. You have complete
control over the layout of the label, with the ability
to place text, picture, rectangle, oval, line and even
a serial number on each one.
(Source: Macintouch) |
Cost: US$19.99 | Requires: Mac OS X, Windows |
For further info...
Schreiben 5.0 from German
software house MOApp is a €9 wordprocessor
designed to be lean and quick like TextEdit "with a
nicer interface", but nevertheless open and save
Word .doc, .docx,
OpenOffice .odt,
RTF and XML. and offer many
Word-like
features such as word count, drag&drop snippets
etc.. The latest version (5.0) is for Intel-based
Macs using 10.5; previous versions can run on PPC
and 10.4.
(Source: Macintouch) |
Cost: €9 | Requires: MacOS X 10.5+ |
For further info...
A sixteen-year-old hit on a solution that has
eluded scientists for years: how to make ordinary
plastic biodegradable.
Observing that ordinary plastic does degrade, but takes
a thousand years to do so,
Daniel
Burd, from Waterloo Ontario, reasoned that he
might speed up the process by selectively breeding the
microbes responsible to break down plastic much more
quickly. By immersing ground plastic in a yeast
solution that encourages microbial growth, and then
isolating the most productive organisms and
interbreeding them, he managed to bring about a 43%
degradation in six weeks – an unheard-of
achievement.
The process holds promise of solving the growing
problem of plastic pollution of the environment, and
won its inventor first prize in the Canadian Science
Fair last month.
(Source: Mother Nature
Network) | For further info...
17-Jun-09 |
Mobile
| Computing
The iPod Touch is the only iPod that you cannot
use as an external hard drive for storing ordinary
files from one's computer. No more. With
DiskAid 3.0, you can do so, complete
with file or folder browsing, drag-and-drop support,
ability to create and rename folders, etc. Also works
for iPhones, and supports the new v.3 of the iPhone OS.
(Source: Macintouch) |
Requires: iPod Touch / iPhone, Mac OS X 10.4+, Windows
XP, Vista | For further info...
Love Art: National Gallery,
London is a free iPhone/iPod touch app
providing over 250 high-resolution, zoomable images of
paintings and 200 mins of video and audio commentary
and interviews. Includes access to a Google map of the
gallery (provided Internet access) and a link to its
website.
(Source: Macintouch) |
Cost: Free
| Requires: iPhone, iPod
Touch | For further info...
DriveSaver from DriveSavers Data
Recovery is an iPhone/iPod touch-based application that
allows you to monitor a computer hard drive for signs
of impending trouble, by simulating various types of
hard drive failures. If a data loss does occur, it can
help prevent catastrophic loss with do's and don'ts for
data recovery.
(Source: Macintouch) |
Cost: Free
| Requires: iPhone / iPod
Touch | For further info...
GlobeJot is an iPhone/iPod touch
app that acts as a travel organizer: track flight data,
reservations, activities and checklists. Store
addresses and coordinates for one-tap viewing within
the system Maps and (if you're using an iPhone) for
phoning airlines and hotels. The "Dashboard" interface
is customizable, and can import information that you
input in the online TripIt service.
Use it not only to guide you when you're at your
destination, but to plan everything you need before
going there – or for multiple other trips that
you might have in future.
(Source: Macworld) |
Cost: US$8 | For further info...
03-Jun-09 |
Mobile
| Computing
Postage 1.1 is an iPhone/iPod
touch app from RogueSheep that allows you to create
digital postcards using any photo from your photo album
(or taken then and there with the iPhone), in a variety
of themes (travel, love, parents, etc.), each with
several options. Photos can be panned, zoomed and even
rotated and applied various effects such as sepia,
soften, etc. You can then type out a message in a range
of fonts and styles, and have it sent directly from
within the app (no waiting for it to go through the
system Mail app) to one or more contacts in your system
Address Book.
Macworld thinks it’s the bees knees.
(Source: Macworld) | Cost: US$5 | For further info.../
For the most succinct – and scariest
– depiction of the current state of the planet
and how we must change how we live to allow it to
survive, see
The Story of Stuff
– and pass it on.
(Source: Sustainable
Enterprise Fieldbook) | For further info...
System Explorer 1.5 is a
full-featured system analyzing tool lets you take a
sneak peek at everything that's going on in your
system, from currently active processes to installed
drivers, including network collections, startup
applications and Internet Explorer add-ons, if you have
any. You can end any active process or delete items
from the startup menu, to name a couple of examples.
System Explorer can also obtain more information about
each process from Google, or check it for viruses with
an online anti-virus tool. The latest version includes
support for external and internal plugins, filtering
support to lists, and new plugin adds security
enhancements.
(Source: ZDNet Tech
Update) | Cost: Free (registration required) |
Requires: Windows | For further info...