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The Joy of Tech comic today is simply brilliant. A nice comic modeled after the “Night before Christmas”. Someone is simply a genius for coming up with something so creative!

Joy of Tech

After making the switch to Mac a couple years back, I was a little confused about file sharing options. In Windows you could right-click a folder and share it and you were done. On a Mac, you went into System Preferences and enabled it….but then you had to login and all kinds of [...]

So I pre-ordered my copy of Leopard from the Apple Store even though I ended up having this Friday off and will be going to a local store to hopefully grab a free Leopard t-shirt. But just wanted to say that I received a shipment notification email this morning for overnight delivery, so it [...]

iPhone Alley is reporting that a new version of iFuntastic will automate the jailbreak process. Has anyone used this application to confirm this? I’m still just using 1.0.2 with AppTapp installed and haven’t had any issues. However, if I can now upgrade to 1.1.1 and still put ringtones and have AppTapp on [...]

Eternal Storms Software announces GimmeSomeTune 4.0, their free, lyrics and cover artwork companion to iTunes. GimmeSomeTune 4.0 comes with many improvements: last.fm support, Remote Control support, Cover fetching in high res from the iTMS, two new sources for lyrics fetching, Leopard compatibility and much more. GimmeSomeTune is highly customizable. Nearly every aspect of it can be changed and adjusted to the user’s personal needs.

BusyMac is proud to announce BusySync 1.0, their multi-user calendar sharing utility for iCal. Designed for families and small workgroups, BusySync allows multiple users to easily and cost-effectively share calendars on a local area network without the need for a dedicated server. Shared calendars can be viewed and edited by multiple users and changes are instantly published and synchronized with all users on the network.

Aero Quartet has released version 3.5 of SimpleMovieX, the lightweight Mac OS X movie editor. With a feature set roughly similar to QuickTime Pro, SimpleMovieX extends editing capabilities to other popular video formats AVI, Google Video, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. The main advantage of native editing is speed and quality, since no re-encoding is required to save edited movies.

Karelia Software announced the release of the Karelia iMedia Browser, a free utility to add the familiar “media browser” experience to just about any Mac application. Built from the ground up to resemble the media browser found in several Apple applications, the Karelia iMedia Browser is a stand-alone utility that can be used to quickly access a user’s library of photos, sounds, movies, or bookmarks.

Money 2.4 helps people organize and manage their personal finances quickly and easily. It has all the features required for personal or small-business accounting. Version 2.4 sports a new and simplified user interface, smart accounts, powerful reports, bill management, budget management, the ability to transfer transactions from one account to another, improved accounts management, banking management, payee management, improved categories management, OFX file format support, and more.

The venerable Finder in Apple’s Mac OS X is a 20 year old metaphor. Leap, written by the experienced, Mac-only, Apple design award winning software team at Ironic Software, is the new way to organize and find files. Leap represents a major breakthrough in how the files and folders on a computer are visualized.