Side note: Xtorrent 1.1 released, major improvements

My favorite BitTorrent client, Xtorrent has been updated to version 1.1 and includes many new improvements including:

individual file selection, so you can pick only the files you need
file priorities
a refashioned downloads pane
significantly faster searching
faster downloads

If you’re a BitTorrent fanatic, look no further than Xtorrent on Mac OS X. It’s beautifully designed, and design does not [...]

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Adobe’s latest offering for digital photographers is a competitor to Apple’s Aperture, but how does it perform with RAW images? Read on after the jump for more!

WWDC07: Safari for Windows

Today at WWDC07 in San Francisco at the Moscone West convention center, Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s 3rd application to hit the Windows market - Safari. Apple claims it is 1.6x faster than Firefox 2.0 on Windows and up to 2x faster than Internet Explorer 7. In addition, Safari 3 Public Beta is also available for [...]

Spanning Sync: Google Calendar’s best friend.

This is a great utility for all Mac folks out there, it’s called Spanning Sync and it allows you to sync your Google Calendar account with your Mac through iCal. I’ve been using it for the past 2 months and I can’t live without it! It’s a godsend for people using Google Apps like us [...]

Xtorrent: The latest kid on the block.

Disclaimer: I do not condone piracy and am not suggesting that you use BitTorrent for illegal downloading.
If you do not know what BitTorrent is, it basically is a file transfer protocol that contests of seeds and peers. Seeds are sharers and peers are downloaders that automatically begin seeding when your download is complete. Someone who [...]

PowerArchiver 2007, the robust Windows archiving utility.

Kicking off our first ever software review week at Connect, we decided start it off with a great archiving utility that may look similar to an application you may already use.
You may be wondering what I mean by archiving utility, it’s something you probably use most often but don’t know about it, or you’re still [...]

Roxio introduces Toast 8 Titanium at Expo

Roxio introduced a significant upgrade of their flagship Mac disc burning product Toast this morning, bumping it up to version 8. Two of the new features are TiVo to Go support and Blu-Ray disc burning, which makes it easier than ever to burn Blu-Ray discs on your Mac. One step ahead of the game.
Headlining Toast [...]

Adobe brings Premiere back to Mac.

Adobe announced today that it would be bringing it’s flagship video editing product, Premiere Pro, back to the Macintosh platform, to be available in mid-2007.
“Our customers wanted all the components in Adobe Production Studio to be available on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms,�? said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions Business Unit [...]

iClip lite: A nano¹ review.

Looking for a cool Dashboard widget that’s aesthetically pleasing, yet easy to use? iClip lite is an easy to use, light version of the popular iClip clipboard application for OS X.
iClip lite is a free Dashboard widget version of the award-winning iClip. It was designed in conjunction with the Widget Machine and features stylish graphics [...]