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Yesterday, Microsoft launched its first Office app for iOS, a mobile version of the digital notebook application OneNote. If you’ve never heard of it, it may be because you’re using the Mac version of Office, which lacks OneNote, greatly reducing the usability of the iOS app. Read More »

A new version of popular Twitter client Tweetie is finally here, launching today alongside Apple’s new Mac App Store. The updated application comes with a new, more official, name: Twitter for Mac. So, are the various changes to this highly popular application worth getting excited about? Read More »

 
 

Excel 2011: You Do the Math

Microsoft has released Office 2011 for the Mac, and we’ve already looked at the new versions of PowerPoint and Word in the suite. Now it’s Excel’s turn. How does the updated spreadsheet program compare to the dismal reputation of its predecessor? Read More »

Word 2008 quickly fell out of favor with me. It consistently crashed on exit. It was horribly slow, and struggled to keep up with itself. If Word 2011 just felt faster and didn’t crash, I’d consider it money well spent. But Microsoft went beyond that. Read More »

I’m not really one for presentations. I’ve given talks before, but I like to do it old-school, without visual aids. I have, however, prepared presentations for others, so I know my way around PowerPoint, which is why the new version for Mac really caught me by… Read More »

Quick Look: Official Posterous App for iPhone

I’m a fan of Posterous, but I don’t actually use it all that much. For a while, I was using PicPosterous for iPhone to share photographic memories of special events, but the app was limited and it didn’t take. Now, Posterous has released an official app. Read More »

One of the top reasons people buy an iPad probably isn’t to balance a checkbook, but doing anything on a desktop is so 2009. However, few native financial iPad apps exist. Fear not though, we’ve combed the pool to find the best. Read More »

Online backup companies know that once you pay for the painstaking initial data dump, you’ll likely stay a customer long-term, because of convenience. But could unique features and attractive pricing convince you to switch? Today we turn to Backblaze and CrashPlan to find out. Read More »

If you need a smarter alternative to Apple’s Mail, this may be just the thing. Postbox 2.0 is a Mozilla-based email client that prides itself on saving you time and keeping you organized. It has support for plug-ins, native archiving, to-do tags and tabs. Read More »

In some ways, GV Connect’s re-appearance was somewhat anticlimactic. After what felt like months of “he said, she said,” along with an FCC inquiry, I heard this news via a retweet. I had to try it out, after so much hype and conflicting opinion. Read More »

App Review: Billings Pro

Marketcircle has just launched its latest business app for Mac and iOS devices. Billings Pro builds on the award-winning Billings 3 for Mac and Billings Touch for iPhone applications to provide a multi-user time tracking and invoicing system for small businesses. Read More »

Any user that reads a lot of Mac-centric blogs may have heard of Instapaper, which is most easily defined as “A simple tool to save web pages for reading later.” After four days, I’m completely convinced that this is not a tool I could live without. Read More »

More Must Reads

Numbers for the iPad is an outstanding standalone application. The creation of basic spreadsheets is uniquely optimized for the iPad layout. However, Numbers does not share well with others, and if you use Excel at all, you should probably just move along to another app. Read More »

Back in early March, I revisited Fluid for OS X. Today I’m making the rounds with old software friends again, this time with Evernote. I tried Evernote when it first came out for Mac, and again when the iPhone version arrived, but neither took hold in… Read More »

Apple’s famous word processing application Pages has seen its first update of 2010, delivered as a touch-enabled little brother for the new iPad. But how does this version stack up to its OS X counterpart? After testing the app for almost a week, here are my… Read More »

One of my end of the year rituals is looking back on what I dropped my hard-earned coin on over the year. This is a reckoning on software I thought would be a grand idea at the time and how I feel about the purchase at… Read More »

Like a lot of tech enthusiasts, I end up spending a lot of time sitting in front of my computer. When I do find a chance to break away I like to get out into the wilderness for a little backpacking. Nothing clears the mind… Read More »

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