Here’s the notice I received. Looks very very interesting. - Cheryl
http://www.slifelabs.com/
Hello,
Just in time for the summer, we are excited to announce the
release of Slife 2.0, a complete redesign of the Slife application.
The features and focus of this release were largely based on the
feedback we received from many of you following our survey at the
end of 2007.
Here are some of the feature highlights of this new version:
- Simpler, cleaner UI
- New visualizations
- Automatic time tracking of applications, documents, web sites
- Activity groups
- Productivity management with goals and notifications
- Growl support
- Privacy controls
Slife 2.0 requires Mac OS X 10.5 and is now free (get in touch
with us if you purchased a license within the last month and
we will be happy to offer you a refund).
In addition to Slife 2.0, we are also releasing Slife Teams today,
a subscription-based web application that extends Slife’s
functionality to groups and businesses. If you think you might be
interested in Slife Teams, let us know and we will send you an
invite. For the time being, Teams will be free. We will be offering
more details regarding pricing in the future.
You can find out more about Slife 2.0, check videos, download the
application and more at the Slife Labs web site:
http://www.slifelabs.com
http://www.slifeblog.com
http://www.slifeteams.com
Thanks for helping us build the best Slife yet!
Edison Thomaz & The Slife Labs Team
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- Cheryl
Hi gang -
you missed a fun time tonight we had burgers, brats, corn on the cob, salads, cookies, ice cream and great fellowship. We even talked some MAC talk. A very big thank you to Lauren and Jason for all their hard work and great cooking and to Jim for the Dove ice cream. We’ll be back to the third friday next month hope to see you there
-Rik
There was no fixed program, which might be a good thing because no one there could figure out how to use the ceiling-mounted projector. So, we just started sharing favorite tips. One was a nifty widget called iStat Pro, which displays battery data, temperatures from various parts of the Mac, and other good things. Another was an app called Camoflage, which lets you hide all the icons from a cluttered desktop–useful if you are giving a presentation or just don’t want someone to see all the clutter. There were others that I can’t recall just now.
Several people said they were unfamiliar with Mac’s own Mail app, so I showed them how to configure it to work with a Gmail POP account. (I hope you all got it to work for you when you got home.) This helped show the wide range of users we have. There is need for discussion of the more basic tasks as well as the geekier things, and I hope people on both sides of this range will feel free to speak up in this forum.
-Ed
Just spotted a very interesting looking piece of software: Things is a task management software, currently with a 20% discount just $39, which looks (from the iMovie screencast you can view) to be a very simple to manage but flexible way to keep your life in some sort of order and organization.
If I wasn’t already using (and very happy with) the more feature-heavy OmniFocus, I might be tempted.
-Cheryl
Two new links have been added to our online Mac help page: MacApper under “Third party software” and OS X Help under “Resources (hardware, tutorials)”.
This came up in last night’s Boisemacs meeting, and it’s a common enough scenario: one woman (I’m sorry! I didn’t catch your name!) has set up a dot-Mac account and wants to share file access (or something like that–I don’t have a dot-Mac account) with some friends. However, they are having trouble getting in as they keep getting a notice they have to sign up and pay for something.
The woman is going to try and visit her friends to see what is happening on their PCs, but wouldn’t it be nice if you didn’t always have to do that?
Jing is a project that the people at TechSmith have been working on for a year or more. (TechSmith make really well-reputed software for Windows OS like Camtasia.)
Right now, and for the foreseeable future, Jing is a free software download. I’ve not used it myself, because I have other* (paid for) software for screen video capture, but I’ve had good feedback from people I’ve mentioned it to. Maybe it’s something that would work for you.
* for the curious:
SnapzProX, iShowU, and ScreenFlow
-Cheryl
It was our first meeting in our new rendezvous and due to a little snafu we met in a smallish classroom but it’s quite a nice place. Rik took us on a brief tour and we peeked through the window at our usual meeting room: a lecture hall with desks. Wireless is supported.
Applause to Stevens-Henager College in Boise for hosting, to Carol (?) for suggesting the venue, and to Rik for checking it out and making arrangements. And thanks to everyone else who joined in the “where do we meet now?” discussion and checked out possible meeting spots.
Thanks to Jason who took us through a tour of iMovie (the version before iMovie2008) and showed us the video he uploaded to YouTube.
We had a good extended Q and A period touching on misbehaving browsers (a virus?!) and the mysteries of dot-Mac sharing. Members were reminded of the MEMBERS ONLY area which houses special offers our MUG gets notice of. Recommended web sites mentioned included: ifixit.com (supplier of parts and upgrade materials) and afterthemac.com (for if you’re going wireless and need some goodies).
There was a bit of discussion on future topics and that included: dot-Mac, iSync, Applescript. (All list members were sent the link to a survey; mention your suggestions there!)
Elaine and Bill are the proud new winners of a drawing for Popcorn 3 (and will be sharing their thoughts on the software in this Maclog in future months).
Rik tantalized us with a peek at the brand new Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0.
[news release to MUGs] Tracking time just became easier for Mac users converting to Leopard, OS X 10.5. OfficeTime’s latest release (version 1.3) now offers full Leopard compatibility with iCal synchronization for a visual display of your workday. iCal synchronization continues to be supported on Tiger and older versions of Mac OS X.
A MUG discount appears available. Contact your list/web officer for more information.
For those of you who didn’t make it to our meeting last night [Monday, Mar. 17] (perhaps you were out drinking green beer), I wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed the meeting. I was tired and almost didn’t come because I didn’t see an announced topic. It turned out that we stayed to nearly 9 p.m., because the meeting was so interesting. Rik and Lauren demonstrated iChat, iglasses, and other fun things on Leopard. We even surprised Tommy who was online paying his bills in Texas (?) and had his iChat open. Thanks so much Rik and Lauren!! It was also very considerate of you (Rik?) to have made us handouts.
- Leslie
