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What I appreciated most about Six Degrees is the way it adapts to what you’re already doing, rather than shoehorning you into some arbitrary organizational scheme – too few products offer such functionality. Then it gives you a clean interface for finding files or email threads related to a given project no matter where those files or messages might have been filed or how they might have been named. It watches what you do in email, tracking files you send and receive, the people with whom you’re sharing these files, and any surrounding email discussions. ![]() Six Degrees - People who rely heavily on email for project collaboration will be intrigued by Creo’s Six Degrees. The final Windows versions aren’t due for a while, unfortunately (hopefully before the fourth quarter of 2002 for Now Up-to-Date and second quarter of 2003 for Now Contact), but given the large number of Mac users who need to share calendars and contacts with Windows users, I expect the software will be eagerly awaited. More interesting, though, was Now Software’s announcement of a nearly identical Windows version of Now Up-to-Date & Contact, complete with full cross-platform sharing of calendar events and contacts on local networks and over the Internet. Power On has just revived the Now Software name and moved Now Up-to-Date & Contact into the Now Software division. Now Software floundered, was bought by Qualcomm for confused reasons, and the software sat dormant until Power On Software rescued it. Now Software Returns & Goes Cross Platform - Old-timers will remember Now Software, makers of the popular Now Utilities (an idea just revived by Aladdin Systems with their Ten For X utility collection) and the powerful Now Up-to-Date & Contact calendar and contact manager. Other entries in Eskape’s product line include a USB video mirroring device for showing your laptop’s screen on a TV (or recording it), and straightforward video capture and video conferencing devices. An FM tuner model of the MyTV products are also available. Starting at just $80 for MyTV2GO’s video capture and TV tuner capabilities, Eskape’s product line offers a low-cost option for those who just want to watch TV on their Macs. MyTV2GO - Not far from El Gato was Eskape Labs, showing a variety of hardware and software products that put TV shows into a window on your Mac’s screen. Plus, resolution is only 320 by 240 pixels, it doesn’t appear from the specifications as though EyeTV works with digital cable or satellite dishes, and of course, your Mac must live within cable distance of your television. On the downside, though, EyeTV uses relatively low quality MPEG-1 by default, and if you use its higher quality setting, you can’t save shows to CD-R. Upsides include a capability to use Toast to save shows to CD-R, control over how much disk space is used, and a low cost ($200) without additional service fees. It records shows directly to your hard disk (taking up 650 MB of disk space per hour), provides an interface for watching recorded shows, can pause live TV, and can record and play simultaneously. #1642: How to identify phishing attacks, new iPhone and iPad passcode requirementsĪlthough the number of exhibitors at Macworld Expo New York might have been lower than some previous years, there was still a lot to see, and a few products jumped out as being worthy of mention.ĮyeTV - El Gato Software, the folks behind Roxio’s Toast, had the hit of the show with their new EyeTV, a hardware and software combination that enables your Mac to act like digital video recorders TiVo and ReplayTV.#1643: New Mac mini and MacBook Pro models, new second-gen HomePod, security-focused OS updates, industry layoffs. ![]()
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