The last app in the Affinity V2 bundle is Affinity Publisher 2. New features in this app include the ability to create books in a simple manner, add footnotes, endnotes and sidenotes to your document, and Auto-flow.… Read More Affinity Publisher 2 Review
SoftRAID 7.0 is the next major release of the software based RAID solution owned by OWC. It now supports macOS 13 (Ventura) and incorporates many architectural changes required for future versions of macOS.… Read More SoftRAID 7 has been released and it makes your Mac more secure
An aluminium body the size of one-and-a-half traditional USB stick with a 1TB SSD inside is the smallest SSD drive OWC recently came up with. It’s a high-speed device that you can put in your shirt pocket. The Envoy Pro Mini is a radically designed USB memory stick that doesn’t contain a flash memory chip,… Read More OWC Envoy Pro Mini, a highspeed SSD in USB memory stick format
The reMarkable 2 tablet is a very thin low-latency tablet that recreates the pen on paper experience. It’s presented as a tablet that helps users focus because it can only be used as an e-reader and note-taking annex drawing tablet, but there’s more to it.
As I am one of those nerds who’s still scribbling on anything from Post-Its to A6 index cards and… Read More The reMarkable review
Some apps live up to expectations. Others do not. Some become better with each update and upgrade. The audiophile music player app Audirvāna Studio gets better with every update. One year after I wrote my first review, I was ready to revisit the app wearing my reviewer’s hat.… Read More The Audirvāna Studio audiophile music player, one year later
How long has it been now? Could it be about eight years that we see more and more subscription based software pop up? Is it worth the money, paying those yearly fees? Or has it been a rip-off as many people thought when the first developers (I remember Adobe, which do you?) switched to them with a nice marketing peptalk to go with them?… Read More Subscription based software licences can make sense, but…
iA Writer 6 adds a much desired feature for note takers and academic writers alike: wikilinks. In addition, there’s better and more extended metadata functionality, link recognition, a history that you can navigate, hashtag autocomplete and a file picker for easily creating wikilinks and content blocks.… Read More iA Writer review
The Russian war against Ukraine has led to the death of thousands of civilians and destroyed people’s homes and lives along with a massive amount of infrastructure. Since the start of the war, millions of people have fled Ukraine, mostly to neighbouring European countries. And of course, the Ukrainian economy is suffering too as a lot of businesses have been unable to keep working. … Read More Russia’s “special military operation” is a massacre and a criminal act against humanity. Buying Ukrainian software at the very least softens the economic blow to the country
CalDigit is famous for its TS3 and TS3+ hubs. These are the hubs that have the most ports on them and which you can position upright or on their sides on your desk. The combination of those two parameters — expansion capability and position flexibility — makes these the most wanted expansion docks on the market. And now, with the TS4, the first parameter gets another dramatic upgrade. The TS4 is an even more capable hub in the same form factor and size as its predecessors.… Read More Review of the CalDigit Thunderbolt Station 4
Frustration. That’s the term I was looking for the other day when the Helios 3S I reviewed last year would only mount its U.2 ShuttleOne or U.2 Shuttle when I restarted the Mac. I blamed Apple and its wretched Monterey system that makes my system feel like a massive block of molasses. I should have looked further and deeper, trying different things.… Read More OWC Helios 3S with Shuttle U.2 system not mounting on Monterey without a restart? Check your connection
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