CES and Thunderbolt
At CES, a large number of companies were introducing their Thunderbolt devices. As with previous innovative interface technology that Apple pioneered, the equipment was a bit slow to appear, but 2012 seems to be the year of Thunderbolt.
Elgato releases Thunderbolt SSD
Elgato is announcing the Elgato Thunderbolt SSD, a portable high-speed storage solution. The Elgato Thunderbolt SSD combines a fast and reliable solid-state drive with Thunderbolt technology. Housed in a nicely designed metal enclosure, the high-speed drive draws its power directly through the Thunderbolt port without needing a separate power supply. The device will be available in February.
Review: Sonnet Echo Thunderbolt adapter
The Sonnet Thunderbolt adapter makes use of ExpressCard/34 technology to interface with existing devices. There are ExpressCards for FireWire 800, USB 2 and 3, eSATA, and even ones to quickly offload CompactFlash cards and other media.
Review: Mail Archiver X
NEW Archiving mail can be easy: you just store your ‘mboxes’ — which you find in your personal Library folder — somewhere offline, and you’re done. But if you archive them that way, you’ll also lose the ability to view messages and reply to them unless you re-import the messages of at least the mbox you’re interested in into Mail, and that can be a problem. If you have a lot of messages, you’ll bog down Mail and will have to remove those messages again afterwards. In one word: it’s not efficient. Mail archiving applications are the answer to the problem.
Doxie Go + Wi-Fi bundle available
Apparent adds Wi-Fi to Doxie at Macworld | iWorld 2012. The Doxie Go document scanner now scans anywhere and syncs scans wirelessly to Mac, PC, iOS, and the cloud.
Review: Ergonis Typinator 5
Ergonis just released Typinator 5, their text expansion app. The major new feature is undoubtedly scripting support, which enables users to create generic and versatile text snippets. Using a simple inclusion mechanism based on files in an “Include” folder, text expansions can execute external scripts and include their results in the expansion. But that’s not all.
