Gizmo Project 3 Released - VOIP alert

Gizmo Project 3 has been released for both the Mac and PC platforms. Having been a long time fan of Skype, the slightly lesser known Gizmo has been in my dock for the odd dabble. This new version 3 brings with it some very interesting new features.

The new Meta-voice capabilities of Gizmo Project 3.0 allow users to call four of the most popular Voice and IM networks. All your calls to Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live, Google Talk, and Gizmo Project users are free. This is a superb addition and will prove very popular. Another new feature is being able to customise your avatar by picking a personalized graphic. Your avatar is the picture used to represent yourself in Gizmo Project.

Gizmo Project 3 now supports file transfers via the Jabber protocol. This means you can exchange files with anyone using a jabber client! The new chat history (which has been around in other IM clients for a long time) allows you to save all your past IM conversations, plus you can now chat with several users at once.

This is a very worthy update and well worth checking out.

Bluetooth Proximity Detection on OS X

Ever wish you could set your mac up to unlock when you came into the room with your bluetooth cell phone? Maybe you'd like to autosync your phone with your mac when you get home? Here is the consummate guide to setting up bluetooth proximity detection.

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FoxTrot 1.5 Released - Power Searching

Today, CTM Development released FoxTrot Personal Search 1.5, an advanced Mac find-by-content application including the most recent optimisations to its high-speed FoxTrot search engine.

According to Chantal Favre, VP of CTM, "Even though FoxTrot Personal Search is a great addition to any knowledge worker's MacBook or iMac, version 1.5 now contains many improvements especially relevant to Mac users in the legal, media and scientific fields."

This new release features:
- 14 user-experience and functionality enhancements
- Searches excluding literal strings and words
- Proximity searches
- OR searches of literal strings
- Relevance-ranking tuning
- Improved support for e-mail messages from CTM's flagship PowerMail application
- 5 other improvements and changes

The application can be downloaded here. A full license costs $36 or 29 euros.

Miglia and EyeTV - no more !

The licence agreement between Miglia and the software supplier for EyeTV has not been renewed, Miglia will no longer ship products that contain this application in its TV solutions. Customers that use this application with their Miglia TV product should have no concerns about ongoing support or upgrades, for updated information, please check the support section of our site.

Miglia has, over recent years developed possibly the broadest line of TV devices available for the Mac platform. These products are not simply rebranded from the Windows space, they are created packaged and designed for the Mac, that development work continues with many new and exciting products due for release in the next year. From time to time we have chosen to bundle other manufacturers software with our own hardware where it has been appropriate, this policy will continue.

To our current customers, we thank you for your support, to our future customers we promise the same quality of experience you would expect from a Mac focussed Company such as ours.

Google update Picasa Web Albums

Today, Google updated its Picasa Web Albums service. There is a whole host of new and improved features, that sound so good it has tempted me to take a look over the next few days. This new release includes the ability to search community photos, an upgrade to the amount of free storage to 1GB with the ability to upgrade, plus it is now easier to link to an album in email, or perhaps into an existing web page.
Good news for users of Blogger, is that all photos uploaded through Blogger now appear in My Photos. The titles of these Blogger web albums match the titles of their respective blog posts. Full details of the update can be found here.

Camino Version 1.4 Browser Launched

Today Camino launched version 1.4 of its browser for Mac OS X. Next to Firefox, I rate Camino as one of the sweetest and most stable browsers around, plus it is really really fast. In this new version there has been fixes to security and stability issues, an upgraded Java plugin, improved ad-blocking, and support for iCab 3 bookmarks. One of the most welcome features is that your bookmarks are automatically restored, should they become unreadable.

Game developers give the Mac another look

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is not historically known as a hotbed for Macintosh game or game development information. The event draws computer and video game developers from around the world, and like the game industry, many of the seminars, conference sessions and publicity surrounding GDC is focused on consoles...

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Mediafour Launch MacDrive 7

Mediafour today launched version 7 of its MacDrive software which allows PC users to access Macintosh hard drives and disks just as though they were PC volumes. This new version add Vista compatibility, plus the ability to analyze and repair Mac disks. You can even create Mac CDs, DVDs and even format hard drives. Another nice feature is that when viewing a Mac volume on your PC the files get the correct icon, but also display a small apple icon to let you know where the files are stored. This sounds very impressive and I really hope to be able to bring you a review of MacDrive 7 soon.

Adobe to ship Creative Suite 3 - March

The day, or should I say announcement we have been waiting for. Adobe will ship their new Creative Suite 3 for the Mac on 27th March. All that universal goodness will be coming your way. Check out the video below and visit this website.

Do not install Apple WWAN 1.0 update

I spent 45 minutes on the phone with Apple technical support this evening. While they did not confirm to me that there is a problem, the second-line technician did acknowledge that they are investigating a large number of similar reports.

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