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MacUpdate and MacHeist

July 16th, 2007 No Comments

This past week, the venerable MacUpdate has been running a special bundle promotion.  For just $49.99, one could get a bundle of eight very useful Mac programs, including one of my favorites, ProfCast.  If you are a professor using Keynote or PowerPoint on a Mac, and want to easily make enhanced podcasts of your lectures, [...]

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Analog TV’s days are numbered

July 10th, 2007 No Comments

I’ve been watching digital TV signals on computers for a couple of years now, using both internal ATSC tuner cards in Windows Media Center and an external Elgato EyeTV ATSC tuner on a Mac. But I had resisted buying an actual digital television set…until a couple of days ago.
I’ve been watching the prices of digital [...]

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Finding the best deals

June 26th, 2007 No Comments

In an earlier blog entry, I mentioned how I was easily able to find a 1 GB USB flash memory drive for under $20.  That was a few months ago, and I’ve seen even better deals lately.  Especially when buying technology, it really does pay to shop around, know your options and take advantage of [...]

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