Mac OS X

iTeleport

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor February 15, 2011 iOS

[Editor – Sorry for the delay in getting this one out folks. Unfortunately, there is little that you can do when your guts kick you in themselves. Hope you enjoy.] Ever go off somewhere, to a meeting, or to visit a friend, and realize that you wanted to show something on your computer to someone? […]

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Scrambled Bits – Part Three: TrueCrypt

by Scott Roche January 3, 2011 Featured

In parts one and two of this series I talked to you about the encryption software native to the newer versions of Windows. Contrary to what some would like to believe there are a lot of older versions of Windows still running around out there. There are also a number of operating systems other than […]

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Scrivener 2.0

by Guest Author December 20, 2010 Featured

[This week’s review for The Nifty Tech Blog is a Guest Review by author Philippa Ballantine. Pip is the author of Geist and the co-author of the forthcoming Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel. We are happy to have Pip’s review as part of her Blog Tour promoting the release of Geist. Some notes […]

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AirPort Extreme

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor July 19, 2010 Hardware

As mobile devices become more popular, the need for wireless networks increases in order to provide the most demanding apps with the bandwidth they require. And eventually, one begins to look at setting up your own home network. These days, many internet providers are filling this demand by providing uplink devices with built in wireless […]

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Evernote

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor June 7, 2010 iOS

Are you one of those people who goes out to a restaurant and has great ideas over dinner? You scribble them down on a napkin, or the back of your receipt and then stuff it into your wallet or a coat pocket and never seem to get back to it? Or if you do get […]

Tagged as: Android, Blackberry, Evernote, Palm

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iTunes

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor May 24, 2010 Mac OS X

Yes, you read that right. This week I’m reviewing Apple’s iTunes software, the music management, iPod/iPhone/iPad/Apple TV syncing software that has been around since 2001. After 9 years, iTunes certainly isn’t new, cutting edge tech. But then again, it isn’t the iTunes that was released all those years ago. The basics: iTunes is free, is available […]

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OmniFocus

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor April 26, 2010 Mac OS X

Whether your projects are small or large, eventually your going to need to get organized.  And the Omni Group has a nifty tool that they are sure will do the trick.  It’s called OmniFocus and it is available for the Mac and the iPhone.  Sorry, PC and Linux folks, that’s just how the Omni Group […]

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Crash Plan

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor March 29, 2010 Featured

One of the most important things you can do with your computer, is back it up. Backups preserve your important data and can save untold hours of work by letting you revert to previous versions when you discover that you’ve done something to mess up one of your precious documents. Backups also soften the blow […]

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Dropbox

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor February 15, 2010 Featured

Our next bit of Nifty Tech is a program called Dropbox. Dropbox is software and a service from a company of the same name. Dropbox allows you to sync and share files across computers and over the internet automatically. You can find them at http://www.dropbox.com. As of this writing, the Dropbox client software is version 0.7.97 […]

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Delicious Library

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor February 1, 2010 Mac OS X

Welcome to The Nifty Tech Blog! This blog came about because of an event that happened not too long ago.  A friend of mine sent me an e-mail about a new piece of tech that he had discovered and that he thought that I might be interested in.  It turned out that his new discovery […]

Tagged as: Delicious Library

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