MBW Picks

A summary of the featured books, hardware, & software apps as selected by the hosts of MacBreak Weekly.

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Entries from February 2009

Picks from MBW 129: Cry of the Wild Woz

February 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Hardware & software: Jungle Disk at http://www.jungledisk.com for .15/GB ($20 for desktop software) from Leo Laporte. ScopeBox at http://www.scopebox.com for $400 – $700 from Alex Lindsay. Bookworm from O’Reilly at http://bookworm.oreilly.com from free from Andy Ihnatko. Shape Collage at http://www.vincentcheung.ca for free from Scott Bourne. Cry Of The Wild Goose for .99 from Scott Bourne. [...]

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Picks from MBW 128: I Cannot Confirm Nor Deny

February 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Hardware & software: Understudy at http://code.google.com/p/understudy for free from Leo Laporte. Qstarz GPS Recorders for various models/prices from Leo Laporte. iStat System Monitoring for iPhone (desktop version: http://bjango.com) for $1.99 from Andy Ihnatko. Analytics App for iPhone for $5.99 from Frederick Van Johnson. Trails for iPhone for $2.99 from Don McAllister. MotionX GPS for $2.99 [...]

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Picks from MBW 127: Is That a Kindle in Your Pocket?

February 10th, 2009 · No Comments

Hardware & software: FoxMarks at http://www.foxmarks.com for free from Leo Laporte. Bonzai3d at http://www.bonzai3d.com for free from Alex Lindsay. PathFinder at http://cocoatech.com for $39.95 from Bobby Llewellen. Books: Apple Training Series: AppleScript 1-2-3 from Andy Ihnatko. Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK from Andy Ihnatko. Bonus: Check out http://www.llewtube.com

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Picks from MBW 126: la-la-la Leo

February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

Hardware & software: Tweetie for iPhone for $2.99 from Leo Laporte. Google Earth at http://earth.google.com for free from Alex Lindsay. EyeTV Hybrid for $124.18 (on Amazon) from Andy Ihnatko. EyeTV Commercial Skip at http://code.google.com/p/etv-comskip/ for free from Leo Laporte. iLife ’09 for $74.49 (on Amazon) from Leo Laporte. Topaz Simplify Filter at http://www.topazlabs.com for $39.99 [...]

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