Highlights: Apple’s media event September 1

Today was a fantastic day for all apple enthusiasts and users. Apple released some new out of this world products and introduced some breath taking software for their systems. We followed the updates at engadget’s live stream of the event. Due to the live stream was not working at our end.

Apple announces iOS 4.1

Today at the Apple media event Steve Jobs announces the introduction to iOS 4.1 for iPhone. As stated the main features include:

  • Bugs fixed (proximity, bluetooth, iPhone 3G
  • High Dynamic Range photos
  • HD video upload over WiFi

Watch Apple’s media event LIVE today!

Great news apple fans, apple are kindly streaming their event live today at 10 a.m. PDT. How can things get better when you hear news like this. However last time I personally tried to watch an event live there was visual lag and audio problems, but I’m sure it had something to do with the fact that millions of people where also watching. But apple does have some terms and conditions to pretty much exclude people not using their productions.

5 Mac Apps to help run a business from home!

Running a business is not easy period. That is why there are applications available to make your life more under control when running a business from home. The more important areas to outline would be Finance, Time management, Invoicing and Contact management. So as listed below is my top 5 pick of applications to help you run your business from home.

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AddressBookSync: Facebook + Address Book

Icon - AddressBook...I was on Facebook one day, when I realized that I have a lot of contacts in my Facebook address book with pictures that I really should have on my mac’s address book.  I did a quick search for an app to do this and came across AddressBookSync, a mac application that makes syncing Facebook information, such as pictures, simple and easy.

AquaPac mini waterproof phone case.

Aquapac_logoHello AppYourMac readers, today I am going to review something a little different. In fact a phone case. Yes we know that phone cases are widely hated around the world, and are seen to be quite nerdy and most certainly uncool. But this case, by AquaPac, has a little twist. It’s fully, 100% waterproof! How snazzily useful is that?  I gave it a few tests, to see how water proof it really is.

Alien Skin Bokeh – give your photographs that professional look

Bokeh_BoxshotHave you ever looked at a photograph in a magazine or in a newspaper and think to yourself – ” How do they achieve that awesome out of focus background and make that person stand out so much?” . The real answer is that professional photographers buy lenses with very large apertures that cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Now for most of us, that seems like a lot of money to spend on a lens and that’s even if we have a digital SLR camera.Fortunately a company called Alien Skin Software has invented a plugin for Photoshop that will achieve these professional looking effects without you having to spend an arm and a leg on equipment. The plugin is called Bokeh.