Content is king of the communication over the Internet, be it on a traditional Web browser or in the screen of an iPhone or iPad. While it’s easy enough to just point Safari at your Web site or blog, if you communicate with customers and prospects using news, there’s a new tool that can let [...]

Storyist
Storyist Software
$59, available via Amazon.com,  downloadable from the Storyist.com site
Compatible with Snow Leopard and older Mac systems
Storytelling software is not word processing. Microsoft made a fortune from Microsoft Word, but a writer who wants to tell a story will want more than the super-formatter from Microsoft brings to their screen. The Mac and storytelling have [...]

A series of software tools for transforming PDF files will be getting a more powerful version this month, as Recosoft releases PDF2Office Professional 5.0. These tools are a little bit of magic, converting the PDFs you get from clients and allies into documents you can change and extend with your own programs like Microsoft Word, [...]

The organizers of the biggest Apple show of the year are discounting registrations by 25 percent through midnight, Nov. 29. Use code CREATE25 as you check out of the registration site.
This year the conference includes a first ever Mac Work track in the User’s Conference. The eight sessions in the track are designed to ease [...]

Rumors of his demise got flipped off when Steve Jobs took the stage today at a media event to introduce a new $149 iPod that will challenge the video Flip cameras.
The iPod Nano could become a key business tool for creative pros and writers on the road. The device comes with a voice recording app, [...]

David Pogue is amazing. The New York Times columnist (his Circuits writing is a fun must-read) has another life as an O’Reilly “Missing Manuals” author. His new Missing Manual on Digital Photography illuminates the sometimes-murky world of taking pictures with digital cameras. Even more important, Pogue sharpens the focus on what to do with the [...]

I managed to schedule a One-to-One training session at the local Apple Store today. The first available date was, sure, the Monday of the week following Christmas, December 29. What a coincidence, a date that follows the ultimate purchase and return week.
Anyway, for my meeting I’ll try to make some sense of what Apple has [...]