ProtonMail and the Bridge

Although this sounds like a title for some science fiction book or movie, it is in fact a way to see your ProtonMail in mail clients such as Apple Mail.

A Review by James Ormiston

For those who don’t know ProtonMail is a secure, encrypted, open source, email service based in Switzerland and has a variety of free and paid options. It offers mobile apps and a web client for desktops.

Using iOS, it’s very simple to see emails sent and received via the ProtonMail app, but on macOS the only way, until now, was to use a web browser login page. This worked fine on the whole, but it wasn’t as convenient as with most other dedicated mail apps. Now, that has all changed with the release of the ProtonMail Bridge… with one small caveat.

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CrazyTalk Animator 2 for Mac – A whole new 3D experience in 2D animation

Reallusion Launches CrazyTalk Animator 2 for Mac – A whole new 3D experience in 2D animation. After winning the Best of Show at Macworld/iWorld 2013 with CrazyTalk7’s talking heads, Reallusion now extends its technology to a fully featured story-telling tool; complete with full-body multi-dimensional avatars, props and scenes.

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iVI General Preferences

iVI An All In One Solution To Video Conversion And Looking Up iTunes Metadata (show info)

The market is incredibly well catered for when it comes to organising and finding matter data for your audio yet when it comes the video pickings are somewhat slimmer.  iVI is an all in one meta data collector and video convertor meaning your iTunes library will show all cover art and show information.

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Hulu In The Uk

HideIPVPN Review: View TV from Anywhere To Anywhere

HideIPVPN is a VPN and SmartDNS service provider that makes your traffic appear to originate from the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany or Canada. So if you wanted to watch USA Netflix, Hulu from anywhere but the USA, HideIPVPN does just that.  In fact if you face any region blocks at all, HideIPVPN gets around them fuss free

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Glui Saving Locally

Glui 1.1 : Capture, annotate and share screenshots, more than Just a Skitch Replacement

Skitch used to be the go to app if you wanted to share a screen capture. Now it’s part of evernote with more added features this has unfortunately meant more steps to quickly and snap and share. Now there’s a new contender to the capture and share arena, Glui, instant screen captures and sharing with nothing but of ease of use in mind.

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Radium 3 : The Best Internet Radio Player For Mac

Radium 3 is out now, just buy it if you like listening to radio on your mac. Not convinced, how about more features and impressive boast of improvements over that of its predecessor.  Go and buy it.. Still not convinced? It’s brilliant, lightweight, constantly updated and supported with passion. Radium 3 is the best.  Go buy it now…  If only I could do all reviews as easily but here’s our review of Radium from CatPig Studios.

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Stellar Software Mac Volume Repair 1.0 Review – A Disk Utility Alternative

There comes a time in a mac owners life when you have to deal with a hard disk failure or at least some corruption due to an improper shutdown like if there’s a power cut or accidental unplugging.  Apple’s Disk Utility is fine for the basics but when you need something that delves a touch deeper and sorts out more than just basic disk permissions, Stellar Software’s Mac Volume Repair comes to the rescue.

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Jaksta Video Converter Encoding Speed

Jaksta Video Convertor For Mac : Convert videos in minutes rather than hours?

We’ve all been there before I’m sure, arriving at that time where we have some videos / movies / tv shows/ family archives etc etc and we want to simply watch it on an iPad or the iPhone. More often than not this involves the time-consuming and incredibly boring as process of converting a video. So when I got wind of Jaksta video converter for Mac that claims to be able to convert a video in a matter of moments I had to give it the review treatment

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HDRtist Vinopolis After Picture

Ohanaware HDRTist Review. Simple and Easy HDR for everyone.

The camera in the iPhone range has is best described as adequate at best. Even with statistics pointing to the fact it’s the most used camera phone out there (Flickr for example) pictures taken with the iPhone often need a little bit of a helping hand to look their best.  Enter HDRtist a Mac application designed to take the hard work out of getting the best from your photos.

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