Here are some pointers why:

Fashionable collection
If only your Mac can talk, it would surely yell out in excitement with Flickz trendy laptop sleeves. It comes in a number of designs. You can choose from four basic color cases on their standard collection which includes yellow, black, pink and white. Flickz has a total of 10 standard design including Exotic Yellow, Champagne Gold, Exotic Black, Pink Flora, Exotic White, Black Executive, White Chroma, Blue Executive, Jet Black and Pink Chroma. Each laptop sleeve also comes with a ring hole where you can put your key chains or any dangling accessories you want.

Option to customize
Flickz offers an exciting thing for their costumers. You can actually customize your own Flick sleeves according to your own personal style. That gives you more value for your money. Product customization is fairly easy to do. You simply pick a particular sleeve flap design that you want along with the cover color of your choice. What’s even more exciting is that you can preview the designs that you chose in real time via Flickz website. You can mix and match flap designs with colored covers so you can purchase a product that exudes your flare for fashion and your personal taste. You can also purchase several flaps which are detachable and interchangeable.

Unique and trendy
Flickz cases are not one of those mass produced laptop sleeves that you can find in the market. They offer their design and products on a limited quantity to ensure product quality and design exclusivity of their Mac sleeves. Their designers are perpetually in the process of creating new and trendy designs to ensure variety in their product range.

High quality
Materials used for Flickz cases are meticulously hand picked to ensure quality. The company chooses materials for their products on three standard factors – strength, quality and comfort. Flickz sleeves are made from top of the line PU leather for its exterior flap and inside, the material is made from scratch-free lining and high-grade density foam.

Easy to carry
Flickz Mac sleeves are made with lightweight materials to make it easier for users to carry them along wherever they go. There are designed not be bulky and slim enough to fit the standard slots in most bags.

Added protection for your Mac
Ultimately, one of the reasons why you should buy a Flickz sleeves for your Mac is to protect it. Flickz cases are not only fashionable but they are functional as well. It comes with high-grade density Polyurethane foam to give added protection when it houses your Mac. The inside lining of the sleeve is also soft and scratch-free so you don’t need to worry about getting your laptop damaged. Flickz cases are also water-proof (but not water-resistant) so you don’t have to panic over accidental water spills. You also don’t have to worry about the sleeve’s flap; it is securely held by high quality zips and also comes with a Velcro to make sure that your Mac is securely in place.

Warranty
On the Flickz website, you would be prompted to fill out a product registration form. Doing so would guarantee you a one year warranty for your Mac sleeves. This only shows the commitment of the company to quality product and costumer satisfaction.

Reasonably priced
Being fashionable always come with a price, but you don’t really have to shell out a fortune. Flickz cases are offered at an affordable price of $36.90 for Macbook Sleeves and generic 14-inch sleeve and $39.60 for Macbook Pro Sleeve. You can also opt to buy only the sleeves for $15. Remember you sleeves are detachable so you can mix match flaps and covers to suit your mood for the day.

Other product choices
Flickz does not only cater to Mac users, they also recently launched four designs for HP Mini. Just recently, this new product line was successfully introduced in Singapore and is now available at Harvey Norman outlets. The collection has the same superb design and quality standards that Flickz is known for. The designs include Sophie Red, Angel Pink, Quincy Silver and Moon Slight Black. You can also customize your HP Mini sleeves according to your taste and personality. You can grab this new product at only $25.50.

With iGlasses, you get get total control over your iSight by adjusting and manipulating your video settings from Mac programs such as iChat, iMovie, Photo Booth, Yahoo! Messenger and Skype. For G3 users, you will be pleased to know that iGlasses is able to activate video conferencing on your Mac computers which fall below iChat’s minimum requirement of 600 MHz.

iGlasses made it so easy to use their software through preset settings such as brightness, black and white, sepia and crazy colors. With the iGlasses, you are able to video conference in the dark using their night vision preset. If you are not satisfied with the built-in presets, you can fine-tune them and save these custom settings for your use in the future.

Click here for a free demo version or purchase the iGlasses for $8.00.

Upfront, the notable change you will see when launching iPhoto 6 is the interface. The interface now matches that of iTunes 6, which looks very smooth and attractive. It has a soft touch of blue in the sidebar where your albums reside, and the rest of the interface has a nice aqua edge too it.

Faster Loading
One of the heavily marketed features in the new iPhoto is the major speed enhancement. When you open iPhoto your photos now load considerably faster. Scrolling through your photo library is also a much speedier experience. iPhoto now has the ability to store and organize up to 250,000 images, so the speed incensement will be dearly loved by those with larger photo libraries.

Photocasting
Apple’s brand new feature to iPhoto, Photocasting has been talked about a lot among Mac fanatics. Photocasting allows .Mac members to share photos anywhere, anytime, all around the world.

When you click on an image, you can click the Photocast button, and it will publish the image to your .Mac account, along with automatically creating an RSS feed which others can subscribe to and view your images.

Once your Photocasting RSS feed is created, friends or family can subscribe to the feed directly through iPhoto, or if they use a Windows computer, the images can be viewed through any RSS reader.

Full Screen Editing
iPhoto 6 now allows you to take advantage of every pixel of your display, with its new feature called “Full Screen Editing”. Full Screen Editing allows you to edit your images in a full screen setting; you see your image in the centre of the screen, surrounded by black darkness. When you move your mouse to the bottom of the screen, editing options pop out from the bottom of the screen, allowing your to perfect your images to the last, tiny detail.

Full Screen Editing has great potential to be expanded and updated by Apple. Hopefully we will see a similar feature in future iLife upgrades to other applications, such as iTunes.

One Click Effects
One of my favourite iPhoto features is the exciting effects you can add to images. This year, Apple has made applying effects to images a whole lot easier, with the new feature, “One Click Effects”.

When viewing an image, simply click on the “Effects” button, and you are greeted with a small pop-up box, with 9 awesome effects you can apply to the image with the click of a button.

Greeting Cards
A feature inspired by iPhoto’s “Book Printing”, Greeting Cards are a welcome new addition to iPhoto 6. This new feature allows you to create a stylish Greeting Card to share with the family. To create one, simply pick one of the elegant Apple templates, drag your images into the template, and create your custom-greeting message. Once completed, hit the “Buy Card” button, and follow the prompts. This is another huge time saving feature.

Final Thoughts
iPhoto 6 is a major upgrade to the iPhoto application. All previous users of iPhoto should be eager to upgrade to the new version.

New features are plentiful, and the application now run’s noticeably faster. Anyone with a large photo library will want to upgrade for iPhoto’s stunning new speedy interface. Apple has added enough features to warrant an upgrade. In my eyes, and essential purchase for any iPhoto user.

We recently reviewed another similar application to MoviePod, called Podner. MoviePod is Podner’s main competitor in the video converting market for Apple’s iPod’s. Let’s take a look, and see what MoviePod has to offer!

My first impressions of MoviePod; were a well-designed application, which has so much to offer. Not in the means of a total simplistic look, but MoviePod exhibited a sensational amount of options and tweaks; to make your movie the exact way you want it.

Like Podner, in the options menu, you get to choose video resolution, video quality, audio quality, and many more conversion methods. You have the option to add the movie/s to iTunes once converted, and also a few general application tweaks.

MoviePod supports every common movie format (MOV, MPG, AVI, ASF, WMV, VOB, DV and QuickTime plugins) so you can easily get your movie collection onto your iPod!

The options available are much more solidly built than Podner, and have more vital customization tweaks.
The standout feature of MoviePod in my opinion, is not the jaw-dropping set of features, nor the simplistic design, but its the ability to “queue’ movies. You can add more than one movie to the main application window at once. Then when the first movie is done converting, it will automatically move onto the next, as so forth.

Something else that stood out with a great force to me, was the ability to preview the newly converted movie, while it was still converting! Great for people that cant wait to see their videos in new crystal clear H.264 format.

MoviePod’s main competitor, Podner, wouldn’t run without Apple’s Tiger 10.4 operating system. MoviePod is one step ahead, and has programmed their application to run on Panther 10.3.9. This is very handy and pleasing for people with a video iPod, but don’t want to shell out the money on Tiger.

Yet, there is one noticeable downside to MoviePod. MoviePod does not display the time left in the converting process like Podner. Not a large feature to leave out, but it’s something that most will notice and dearly miss. This is something I would like to see added in the next version.

The user interface is very simple and easy to use. If you are on the lookout for a video converting application to partner up with your iPod 5G, have a look at Null Rivers MoviePod. Null River offers a free trial of the programme and you can upgrade it to the full version for $10.

FreeSnap is the ultimate screen taking application. It beats both SnapzProX and Apple’s included application “Grab”, by a considerable margin.

Why is FreeSnap so good? The application has a great, simple interface, and is full of options to capture a perfect picture.

Some of your screenshot options available include full screen, selection, open window, and fixed location. Now we move onto the exciting options – You can now choose a scale for the image, this helps when you need the image to fit onto a certain web page, or you just want to save space and time when uploading.

It even has a timer feature. Therefore, you can set the timer and get the window exactly set into position for the snapshot; Stunning!

You can even set up handy keyboard shortcuts to take screenshots. Perfect if you need to quickly capture an image, and do not want to open an application up.

Some of the output options include file type, filename, and save destination. You can save the image as the following image types; JPG, JPEG, PNG, PSD, TIFF, PDF, BMP, TGA, SGI, and even more! The list goes on. There is even a compression option to take the file size down. That can be handy when sending to relatives and friends on a dial up connection.

This application is so popular in my opinion for the simplistic interface, with powerful features. Definitely worth a look!

1. Copy music from any iPod
2. Copy DVD Movies to your iPod
3. Create ringtones from any MP3 or CD
4. Protect your valuable music collection from disaster
5. View daily news, weather, email and more on your iPod

If you have answered yes to any of these, then PodMaxx Gold is what you need. With this amazing piece of software, you can truly unleash your iPod’s potential to its fullest.

Here are some of Podmaxx’s capabilities. Rip any of your DVDs to your iPod. This sure comes handy during long flights or long waits or boring lectures. Select any tunes from your iPod library and turn them into ringtones for your cellphones. Sync your emails and contacts to your iPod.

Talk about mobility. The Podmaxx will certainly increases your iPod’s usage for $39.99 available from Bling Software.

Podmaxx Gold supports the following iPod models:

• iPod Mini 4GB & 6GB
• 10, 20 & 60 GB iPods
• iPod Nano

I cannot imagine the pain that will hit me if my iBook or PowerBook was stolen. Now, with Orbicule’s software product called Undercover, I can at least have the assurance that my iBook stand a higher chance of being recovered if stolen.

Here’s how Undercover works:
In the unfortunate event of a theft, Undercover will reveal the Internet location of your Mac. It will also periodically transmit screenshots, enabling you to monitor the stolen Mac. It is hoped that the thief will use for email, chatting and browsing so that it is easier to reveal the thief’s identity.

In the unlikely event that the thief does not go unto the Internet, Undercover has what it calls Plan B.
In Plan B, Undercover will simulate a hardware failure (gradually making Mac’s screen unusable). Accompanying this “hardware failure” is a message that a hardware failure is detected. This will make the thief to either send the Mac in for a repair or sell it off on the Internet. Bringing the Mac out into the open will most likely trap the thief as both Apple and Orbiscule tracks stolen product’s serial number (provided you reported to them).

Some skeptics claimed that simply by formatting the hard-drive, the software would be removed and generally that is what thiefs do immediately after a theft. However, with Apple’s Firmware Password installed, thiefs have no access to your iBook or PowerBook without the password.

Orbicule’s Undercover is available for $29.99. For more information, visit Orbicule.

There are 2 ways that you can get started recording. Firstly (the easiest way), get yourself a Griffin iTalk, iPod Voice Recorder ($39.99) and start recording audio sounds. with these devices you do not have to install anything else. When you plug the iTalk into your iPod’s headphone jack, your iPod will immediately go into voice-recording mode.

The other way (FREE!!) of getting your iPod to record is using a software called podzilla. Do note that not all iPods can be installed with podzilla as you will be required to boot into your iPod’s linux. With the podzilla, you can then use a normal microphone and record away.

Armed with a recording iPod, you can now record your lectures, voice memos or the chirp of a bird. If you are contemplating signing up for the American Idol contest, you can even sing into your iPod and listen to yourself after that. There will be no stopping you from practising, anywhere. You’ll never know, with a $40 addition to your iPod, you’re on your way to be the next American Idol winner!!