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I downloaded TeachMac to test it out, and it’s very easy to use! TeachMac has a very simple interface that you can use to search for & download tutorials on topics ranging from how to use iTunes to how to build your own Cocoa web browser. TeachMac makes it very easy to create your own customized library of instructional videos.

Along with other improvements, Version 5 now adds support for transferring downloaded tutorials directly into iTunes, making this content available to view on an iPod, iPhone, or the AppleTV.

“Whether or not content is exportable is determined by each author,” says Created Equal President, Byron Turner. “From now on, all materials we author will be exportable and we think most of our authors will do the same.”

TeachMac & TeachIT also allow you to create and sell your own tutorials, earning 100% of the sale price, as well as a percentage of the subscription price. Version 5 offers many improvements in this area, helping you to create better, more interactive content.

Created Equal is a non-profit educational corporation. Proceeds from the sale of subscriptions help to fund the Oasis Project, a permanent, long term sustainable domestic violence shelter and recovery center for women and children.

iRemember is a simplified page layout application designed to turn a user’s digital photos into memories by preserving them as personalized scrapbooks. Simply drag and drop pictures from iPhoto or Finder into a template; then scale, crop, resize, rotate or add shadow effects.

iRemember comes complete with starter templates, backgrounds, and a clip art browser for searching through its over 20,000 pieces of clip art and embellishments. Everything needed to create eye-popping scrapbook pages is included – except your photos!

Pricing & Availability:
A free trial of iRemember can be downloaded from www.MacScrapbook.com. Users of iRemember 2.x, may download a free update, while users of iRemember 1.x, may upgrade for only $9.95 plus shipping & handling. Priced at $39.95, iRemember is available for purchase through the MacScrapbook.com store and is available through most Mac resellers including the Apple Store, Office Depot, and Micro Center.

Version 2.0.3 adds support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and includes a number of improvements and fixes with importing, smart lists, scanning, and Spotlight searching.

The Deep Prose web store sells USB and Bluetooth barcode scanners which complement Booxter and provide a complete integrated solution for collectors.

Booxter requires Mac OS 10.4 or Mac OS 10.5. The free version has a limit of 30 items for each library. The full version costs $49.99 USD.

Robert Pritchett notes the release of a very angry cat that has been in the bag for nearly 2 years and offers up how it is being treated in the media.

* Jonathan Hoyle goes beyond Leopard OS development with his “According to Hoyle” column.

* Harry (doc) Babad provides another round of Mac Tips this month.

* Rick Sutcliffe toys with legalsleeze and Apple in his Northern Spy column.

* Ed Prasek as a guest author, begins a SpinTip series on creating successful Mac-based products.

* Richard Lepsinger, also as a guest author, discusses how companies can stay ahead of the competition.

* Ted Bade offers up his Apple-centric views in his Views from the Ivory Tower column.

* And Steve Fyffe looks at qualifier keys in Under the Magnifying Glass.

In the Book Section, “Fonts and Encodings”, “iPod & ITunes for Dummies”, “Macs for Dummies” and “Shooting Digital” are reviewed. In the Games Section, Harry Babad looks at MyMahj, a free Mahjong tile game.

Stepping away from Apple and Macs in the Greenware Section for a moment, there are two more book reviews on “Peak Everything” and “Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future” and Harry Babad digs deeply into his extensive background in the Nuclear Industry, with his point of view regarding “Renewable Energy – Hype, Myth and Hope”.

The Software Section presents “A Better Finder Attributes” reviewed by Harry Babad, Avenir – A Writer’s Workshop” reviewed by a former macCompanion staff member, Derek Caudill, “DEVONthink Pro Office reviewed by Harry Babad, “RouteBuddy” a mapping program reviewed by Ted Bade, “Sequel”, music softwar reviewed by Daphne Kalfon, “textSoap” a quicker cleaner-upper reviewed by Harry Babad, “VectorWorks 2008, a Computer-Aided Design program reviewed by Robert Pritchett and “XPad” a notepad program reviewed by Harry Babad.

ConceptDraw MINDMAP 5 is an easy-to-use tool that supports mind mapping and brainstorming techniques as well as many other personal productivity methodologies. It provides businesses and individuals with an engaging and creative way to increase efficiency and productivity when organizing ideas and projects, or when communicating with a group of people.

Support of Quick Look technology has been added to ConceptDraw MINDMAP 5.2 giving you an opportunity to preview maps in Finder without opening them in the application. This can be very useful especially when navigating through files using the new Finder Cover Flow feature, a visual navigation interface first seen in iTunes.

Because of the importance of iCal for both business and personal task planning, ConceptDraw MINDMAP 5.2 introduces the ability to export dates and events to iCal. Information concerning tasks and events in a mind map can be quickly and easily transferred into iCal. Export to iCal is available for Leopard users only.

Mac OS X 10.5 look-and-feel standards are replicated in ConceptDraw MINDMAP 5.2 with the addition of a new handy Clipart Library, map previews reflected in Page Navigator and a floating toolbar containing all of the ConceptDraw MINDMAP 5 drawing tools. Usability enhancements in the newest version include an automatic topic placement mode user can easily switch from the existing freehand topic placement mode.

More information about the ConceptDraw MINDMAP 5 can be found at the ConceptDraw website.

The update to ConceptDraw MIDNMAP 5.2 is free for all registered users of ConceptDraw MIDNMAP 5.x. ConceptDraw MINDMAP 5 is available at the price of $199 USD for the Professional edition and of $119 USD for Personal edition.