{"id":188,"date":"2005-07-24T21:12:25","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T02:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2005-07-24T21:16:13","modified_gmt":"2005-07-25T02:16:13","slug":"two-great-mac-apps-and-one-missing-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/24\/two-great-mac-apps-and-one-missing-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Great Mac Apps and One Missing In Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/images\/calview.jpg?resize=400%2C100\" height=\"100\" width=\"400\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"iCalView - Great software.\" title=\"iCalView - Great software.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The good:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. <a href=\"http:\/\/loopware.com\/iflash\/\">iFlash<\/a> &#8211; a flash card application for OS X, is everything you&#8217;d expect a Mac app to be. Clean, simple, intuitive and functional. I&#8217;m using it to study for the Real Estate exam and I couldn&#8217;t ask for better. It&#8217;s stable, actively developed and has enough features to make it powerful without being complex. Highly recommended $10 shareware with a generous trial period and free mode.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icalviewer.com\/\">iCalViewer<\/a> &#8211; shows your iCal appointments on your desktop in a unobtrusive, useful way. I&#8217;ve never gotten in the habit of opening iCal to see what&#8217;s coming up, but with iCalViewer events are always right there, in context and only the relevant ones show up. Shareware, $11 with a generous trial and free mode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The missing:<\/strong><br \/>\nA good sync application for PocketPC to OS X. I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketmac.net\/\">PocketMac<\/a> and wouldn&#8217;t recommend it to anyone. I&#8217;ve read the reviews for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markspace.com\/\">Missing Sync<\/a> and wouldn&#8217;t consider dropping $40 on software that has 2 1\/2 of 5 stars on MacUpdate and 3 of 5 stars on VersionTracker with enough bad reviews to scare anyone off. Maybe I need to switch to Palm or just give up on having a handheld that syncs properly with a Mac.<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mac\" rel=\"tag\">mac<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/software\" rel=\"tag\">software<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good: 1. iFlash &#8211; a flash card application for OS X, is everything you&#8217;d expect a Mac app to be. Clean, simple, intuitive and functional. I&#8217;m using it to study for the Real Estate exam and I couldn&#8217;t ask for better. It&#8217;s stable, actively developed and has enough features to make it powerful without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-32","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}