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Theres been a huge amount of press about the new podcasting App called Castro. First coming into the light via Jim Dalrymple of Loop insight fame, Dan Benjamin and then Gruber it seems that everyone is raving about this new podcasting app. So we asked for a review copy and they gladly obliged.
Continue reading → Castro Podcasting App. The Podcatching App I Bet Apple Wish They Had Released.
MixPal.FM is an iOS radio streaming app for Apple devices that’ll not only let you skip forward through tracks but also go back and revisit tracks and playlists. It’s an internet radio streaming app concentrating on a specific genre rather that the broader alternatives.
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.
Missing cover art or show information for your movies you’ve backed up? Looking to add program names to video files the easy way? iDentify 2 for Mac looks at your file, goes off to IMDB, TVDB and others to populate that missing information and download cover art.
Continue reading → Complete Your iTunes Video and Movie Information with iDentify 2
If you’ve used a computer for any length of time you’ll be familiar with partition sizes, partition types during the setup phase but what about later on down the line? I’ve done it myself being overcautious or forgetting to create a spare one just for data. And so the search for Mac Partition manager brings us nicely onto this review.
Continue reading → Review : Stellar Partition Manager For Mac
A rival to Apple’s cards is here in the form of Touchnote Postcards and Greeting Card Printed and Posted in the Mail with Free Worldwide Postage. In the same vein as cards, take a picture, edit text, select address and it’s mailed to the recipiant from your iOS device.
Continue reading → Touchnote Postcards and Cards From Your iPhone Made with FREE World Wide Delivery
OCR is a handy tool to have in the reviewers arsenal. Leadtools OCR tools is a handy way to grab text from an image, screen cap or anything so you don’t have to re type what’s already been typed. A valuable timesaver in so many way but only if it works (hence this review). Similar ocr app use online recognition processing, sending the image off and then emailing results. Lead tools does it all offline, prompting me to download an app with no App Store reviews.
Continue reading → Leadtools OCR tools. Offline OCR scanning for iOS.
Are TV Tuners for Mac done and dusted, an obsolete technology in an age of Online tv and catchup services? Equinux doesn’t think so, releasing Tizi.TV for Mac, an almost impossibly small usb TV tuner for free to air broadcasts.
Continue reading → Equinux Tizi.TV Review : Mini USB TV Tuner For Mac
Enough was enough. Those damn cables had caught or snagged on a door handle, car handbrake one to many times and that was it. I needed a set of Bluetooth wireless headphones. It turns out there really isn’t much out there in the way of choice or information when you google for iPhone Bluetooth headphones the results were pretty inconclusive.
Continue reading → Review : Jaybird Freedom – The Best Wireless Bluetooth Headphones For iPhone?
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.
Continue reading → Radium 3 : The Best Internet Radio Player For Mac
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.
Continue reading → Stellar Software Mac Volume Repair 1.0 Review – A Disk Utility Alternative
Google Docs set the web abuzz with it’s free storage offerings and online editing facilities, allowing several users can make changes and collaborate at the same time. Rocket Docs improves on your Google Drive and Docs experience by keeping things together in it’s own application pane.
Continue reading → RocketDocs App : A Google Drive & Docs Client
The ZAGGkeys Mini 7 is a multifunctional tool that is 100 percent keyboard, a great kickstand, and a durable case for your iPad mini. For road warriors, the ZAGGkeys Mini 7 is the ultimate productivity tool, and given that it is crafted by the same people that makes the virtually indestructible Invisible Shield, you’ll know the case will protect your tablet in the process.
Continue reading → Review : ZAGGkeys Mini 7 – The Perfect iPad mini Companion
We have a love affair with voice recognition here and especially DragonDictate. For a program which marvels at taking the spoken work and converting it to text theres an equal amount of joy and frustration. In short it’s too damn easy to loose work with a click of a button, here’s a sunday afternoon story for you.
Continue reading → DragonDictate 3 Express Editor Review : Be Warned It’s Too Easy To Loose Work!
Many iOS app reviews rely on a tried and tested methodology where it’s installed, reviewed from the comfort of a desk, write up a general impression of how it would work in the real world, put up a score and bingo your done. Not here at EssentialMac.
Continue reading → Worldictionary iPhone App Review – Instant Translation And Search