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  • Review: QuickVoice2Text Email for iPhone
    QuickVoice2Text is an excellent recorder capable of capturing high-quality sound for long periods of time. But its chief selling point -- the ability to translate your recordings into text which you can e-mail -- is distressingly hit-and-miss.
  • Freedom locks down the Internet
    If you've ever found the Internet to be a bane to your productivity, Freedom can help. This utility lets you temporarily block Internet access so you can get some work done.
  • Ease web searches with LaunchBar
    Learn how to use LaunchBar to quickly search your favorite sites, and how to use Google's I'm Feeling Lucky feature to immediately jump to the results you (most likely) want to see.
  • Review: Dragon Dictation for iPhone
    This app -- which converts your speech into text that you can e-mail, send via SMS or copy and paste to the clipboard of your iPhone or iPod touch -- is shaping up to be an essential addition to Apple's mobile devices.
  • Review: TextExpander for iPhone
    This time-saving utility is already a useful typing aide for the iPhone and iPod touch. And if more iPhone apps integrate TextExpander, it will become even more useful.
  • Review: Swap It for iPhone
    This app for sharing data between iPhones and second-generation iPod touches works as advertised. But it's hard to see Swap It's clipboard-centric approach as better than some homegrown alternatives for exchanging text, URLs, phone numbers, and photos.
  • iHome+Sleep "sleep lifestyle" app coming for iPhone
    iHome has a new line of home stereos on the way that can be controlled by iHome+Sleep, a forthcoming "social music alarm clock" iPhone app. Not quiet Yet Another Alarm App, iHome+Sleep has some unique tricks under its pillow.
  • Review: Simplenote for iPhone
    This clean-looking, easy-to-use app is superior to the iPhone's built-in Notes offering. Simplenote makes it easy to jot down notes on the go and then get that information onto your computer.
  • Readdle updates Docs apps to version 2
    The new version of the document sharing and viewing app introduces some interesting features, such as the ability to reflow the contents or resize the text of a PDF document to improve on-device viewing, support for links and in-document navigation through PDF bookmarks.
  • Review: WorkLog for iPhone
    This standalone iPhone and iPod touch app offers many useful features for tracking the time you spend on projects. And the free lite version is a solid offering as well.
  • Billings 3.5 paves the way for iPhone companion
    A new version of Billings, Marketcircle's time tracking and invoicing app, is ready to sync with a forthcoming iPhone version.
  • Review: SugarSync for iPhone
    This app -- which lets you access your backed-up files on the go, and share them with friends -- delivers on its core features, but it's missing some obvious ones, like the ability to view Pages documents and Quicktime videos.
  • Review: More iPhone time-tracking apps
    In our round-up of time trackers, Ben Boychuk finds that pro users should give On The Clock a look, while anyone who needs a simple, user-friendly task timer would do well to check out ClockedIn. The similarly named ClockIn has a few too many quirks, thought it might find favor with independent contractors who have a fairly small pool of clients and jobs with a consistent rate scale.
  • Review: Chronos SOHO Organizer 8
    Better integration with online e-mail servers and obvious iPhone sync features would have made SOHO Organizer 8 much more attractive as a personal information organizer.
  • Review: SpeedNote for iPhone
    This app aims to help you improve your iPhone typing speed. But Lex Friedman finds that it does so in a way that's antithetical both to how he uses his phone and how he writes.
  • Review: Nisus Writer Pro 1.4 word processor
    For an awful lot of users, including users with advanced document-production needs, Nisus Writer Pro is a solid and very satisfactory alternative to Word.
  • Snagit screen capture tool now available for Mac
    TechSmith has announced a public beta of Snagit for Mac, a screen capture tool previously available for Windows.
  • Access old-style Dock contextual menus in Snow Leopard
    Learn two ways -- one temporary, one permanent -- to use the 10.5-style contextual Dock menus in Snow Leopard.
  • Review: GoodReader for iPhone
    The more you use this superb PDF file viewer, the more you'll discover what it's capable of doing. GoodReader's file transfer capabilities are top notch. And it's the reading experience in which the app truly shines.
  • Review: Dropbox for iPhone
    This mobile component to the online syncing and storage service is missing a few features. But overall, it packs enough functionality to be a worthwhile app for Dropbox users.
  • Mac News Briefs: BBEdit 9.3.1 released
    BBEdit 9.3.1 fixes a number of small bugs and makes a few changes to the text editor. Other updates announced Tuesday include Keyboard Maestro 4.0, Yep 2.0, and eBlaster mac 2010.
  • Google will release EtherPad as open source
    Google has reversed its decision to discontinue its newly-acquired EtherPad application, opting instead to release it later as open source.
  • Google buys collaboration app to boost Wave
    Google has bought AppJet, maker of the EtherPad collaboration application, to bolster its Wave product.
  • Start a new Mail message from any application
    Learn how to use an AppleScript to start a new Mail message from any application, in both OS X 10.5 and 10.6
  • Scanner Pro app adds integration with Print n Share
    With Scanner Pro 1.2, iPhone users can now scan documents with their iPhone's built-in camera and then use Print n Share to print those documents on any networked printer. The Scanner Pro update also offers the ability to upload scanned documents to Dropbox.
  • Software gems and digital cameras
    With the holiday gift-giving season on the immediate horizon, we turn our focus to inexpensive applications and digital cameras that might brighten someone's winter.
  • Business Center Briefs: Jumsoft overhauls Keynote themes collection
    Jumsoft's updated collection of slideshow themes includes new versions of Keynote Themes FX, Keynote Backgrounds FX, Keynote Objects FX, and Keynote Animations FX. Elsewhere, the makers of Doc Merge, RealBasic, and PopChar X announced updates for their Mac applications.
  • Ten quick Calculator tricks
    You may have used Apple's Calculator to calculate a quick sum, but did you know it's got a lot more tricks up its sleeve? From converting units of measurement to taking advantage of the paper tape, Sharon Zardetto shares ten of her favorites.
  • Documents to Go update enhances app's PDF viewer
    Version 2.1 of the iPhone version of the mobile productivity suite adds support for a "Go to" page feature and opening password-protected PDFs, among other enhancements to the PDF viewer.
  • Consolidate your social networks with Socialite
    Keeping up with your friends across social media services can be tough. Socialite 1.0, fresh out of beta, may be just the companion you need.

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