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Edovia today is proud to announce Rocket Taxi 2.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. Rocket Taxi uses the device’s Location Services to find nearby taxi companies. Search has been extended to taxi companies and the biggest new feature is the new map system that is powered by Apple’s MapKit. This new version represents a much more mature product and includes a lot of improvements that users will enjoy.

IPNetMonitorX is featured for the next three weeks at TheMacBundles. IPNetMonitorX is a troubleshooting toolkit for debugging internet service problems and optimizing performance. Through TheMacBundles, IPNetMonitorX is available with 10 other great programs. TheMacBundles is different from other software promotions. It’s run by and for independent Mac developers.

Millard Grubb and Backyard Gazette Publishing have released a free audio CD for Mac owners that will help make their lives a little brighter. 7 Secrets Of Making Cash With Your Mac looks at using a Macintosh specifically to grow an information business right from your home. This CD explains how to use a Macintosh computer to start an information publishing business.

Since the release of the OS X Snow Leopard Build 10A394 developer seed late last week, users have been digging through the new version looking for and documenting changes and additions.

The introduction of QuickTime X in Snow Leopard …

QuickerTek today announced Quicky Junior II, a new wireless internet and networking USB device that triples the wireless range. This new Quicky Junior II is compatible with the Apple Extreme Base Station as well as almost every other 2.4GHz wireless equipment users are likely to run into while traveling. Whether using a coffee shop network or tapping into the network in the office, Quicky Jr. II provides increased range while maintaining speed.

Mozilla today released Firefox 3.5, a significant upgrade to the world’s second-most popular Internet browser. Webmonkey summarizes some of the more important advances in the latest version, including speed enhancements, support for HTML 5, geolocat…

Sonic Boom today announced its partnership with Bight Games and the release of its stellar line-up. Big Top 10 is available now for iPhone and iPod Touch. The highly anticipated Kill All Bugs and Puzzlings are expected to launch in the App Store in the coming week, and will be published on major wireless carriers throughout North America this fall.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Dell has been developing a Mobile Internet Device (MID) based on Google’s Android operating system. The device is reportedly slightly larger than Apple’s iPod touch, with which Dell’s offering would presumably co…

I have found a workaround to the vexing question of how to transfer group mailing lists from Entourage to Mail. This is really much less difficult than a 12-step process might seem, and most Mac veterans will pick it up quickly, but I wrote it here in great detail for the benefit of any newbies. As the Mac veteran knows the Mac is intuitive and as usual much more difficult to explain in words than to actually do in practice, and it works!

Read on for the detailed step-by-step…

1. Create or open a previously-sent group email in Entourage from Sent Items. (I usually send to group mailings with the addresses in the BCC address field to protect the recipients’ addresses from being seen by other members of the list.)
2. From the toolbar of the previously-sent group email select Resend. The message appears as it was originally sent.
3. In the BCC field (if you use that for your group addresses) you will see the names of your group email recipients listed across the…

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Here’s a really quick way to open an edit window on your last-sent Skype message — simply press the Up Arrow key, and a text area with the last message pops up.

This is the same action as selecting Edit Message from the contextual menu that appears when you Control-click on your last message, but it’s definitely faster!