sci fi business / commercial software for windows

Key Features

• Comprehensive Virus Security
• Enhanced Spyware Detection and Removal
• Anti-Phishing ?New!
• Home Network Control ?New!
• Wi-Fi Intrusion Detection ?New!
• Improved Spam Filtering
• Personal Firewall

by Michael E. Cohen
147 pages, 2.2 MB download
PDF format, designed for reading online or printing
Publication date: November 20, 2008
Free sample available!

Is your data stuck on your Mac? Learn how to sync it with another Mac, iPhone, iPod, mobile phone, or PDA!

With clear directions and a humorous touch, Take Control of Syncing Data in Leopard explains how to sync data from a Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with a variety of devices from Apple and other companies. Whether you want to sync phone numbers between your Mac and your mobile phone, share calendars and keychains between Macs, or move only new podcast episodes to a small iPod, syncing expert and master punster Michael Cohen has the answers. You'll learn what software and gear you need and the best ways to move data between different devices. The ebook also explains how syncing works under the hood and provides troubleshooting advice in case your sync engine throws a rod.

Types of sync data covered include:

• Calendar items stored in iCal, Entourage, and Google
• Contacts stored in Address Book, Entourage, Yahoo, and Google
• Data on Exchange servers
• Dock items and Dashboard widgets
• Apple Mail account settings, Safari bookmarks, and application preferences
• Apple Mail and Entourage notes
• Keychains (user names and passwords)
• Items from software that uses Leopard's Sync Services, including NetNewsWire and Yojimbo
• Audio, video, photos, and associated metadata from iTunes

Types of devices covered include:

• Macs, with details on MobileMe and overviews of popular third-party options
• iPhone and iPod touch, via MobileMe or iTunes
• Old and new iPods via iTunes, with details on USB and FireWire connections
• The Apple TV via iTunes
• Mobile phones, smartphones, BlackBerries, and Palm OS PDAs

Connection technologies and software examined include:

• Bluetooth, USB, FireWire, Wi-Fi, and Ethernet
• MobileMe, iTunes, iSync, IMAP (IMAP discussion is limited to Apple Mail)
• Third-party products from BusyMac, Mark/Space, PocketMac, and Spanning Sync

System Requirements: 256 MB RAM, 20 MB HD

Enhancements: Support of Windows 7 (32,64 bit), revised GUI, revised Wi-Fi GUI and tray icon, revised 3G configuration, tip of the day

Often you have to paste some text copied from one document or application into another, and you want the text to get the attributes (such as color, font, dimension and style) of the new document instead of preserving the attributes copied from the old one. Clean Text for Windows eliminates all text formatting, preparing it for pasting. Moreover, the application performs other useful functions, such as removing empty lines, removing multiple spaces, removing tab characters etc. Its also very useful for printing out text without wasting ink and paper, as often happens when you print directly from a Web browser.

Main features:

• Fixes Paragraphs.
• Removes returns within a paragraph and removes multiple empty lines between paragraphs.
• Replaces multiple spaces with a single space and removes spaces at the beginning and at the end of a line.
• Replaces each tab with a specified number of spaces.
• Replaces each sequence of a specified number of spaces with a single tab.
• Removes the quoting characters ">" at the beginning of lines.
• Adds the quoting characters ">" at the beginning of lines.
• Removes returns.
• Replaces each return with a single space.
• Converts to smart quotes.
• Converts to straight quotes.
• Replaces quotes with curly quotes.
• Replaces curly quotes with straight quotes.
• Text shifting right or left.
• Adds a specified number of spaces before each line (delimited by line ending).
• Sorts all the lines of the text (delimited by a line ending) using ascending order.
• Capitalizes sentences. Capitalizes the first word of each sentence (delimited by "." and ellipsis "...").
• Capitalizes words.
• Sets characters to uppercase.
• Sets characters to lowercase.
• Random case.
• Removes duplicate lines. Keeps only the first line between a group of equal lines.
• Text encoding. Windows to Mac encoding.
• Mac to Windows encoding. Converts MacOSRoman encoding to Windows Latin 1.
• ROT-13. Rotates characters 13 positions in the alphabet.
• Reverse text. Reverses characters.
• Reverses each word.
• Reverses words.
• Converts three periods to ellipsis. Replaces each chunk of three periods with one single ellipsis (in Mac version only).
• Converts ellipsis to three periods (in Mac version only).
• Creates fi and fl ligatures. Creates professional publishing fi and fl ligatures for each "fi" and "fl" sequences in the text (in Mac version only).
• Removes fi and fl ligatures (in Mac version only).
• Encodes to Macintosh Line Endings (CR).
• Encodes to Unix Line Endings (LF).
• Encodes to Windows Line Endings (CR+LF). Converts all line breaks to "Carriage Return"+"Line Feed".