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10 Pieces Of MAC Software To Help A Wedding Photographer
October 14, 2011 | 
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Being a full time wedding photographer, I rely heavily on my computer and software. Below are 10 Mac applications that make the job easier.
Adobe Photoshop
What can be said about this product that hasn’t already been said. It’s the industry standard, and has more features than you could imagine or use.
Adobe Lightroom
Image management software that is perfect when handling lots of images. Useful for re-touching. A bit slow at times, but saves a massive amount of time in the long run.
Transmit
A neat little FTP programme, that comes with a reasonable price tag and performs well and looks kinda cool too!
ChronoSync
Another beautifully engineered piece of software, this programme allows you to keep your drives or folders synchronised with each other. I use it to keep my off site backup hard-disks synchronised with my desktop.
Bento
Made by the same folks who develop filemaker, it’s easy to use, works flawlessly and even syncs with your iphone. Great as a booking database, to record contacts or pretty much anything.
PhotoJunction
Free software from album company Queensbury, I use this software to layout my traditional albums. There are a lot of pre-loaded templates for a range of album manufacturers. It’s not a perfect piece of software, but all in all its pretty decent.
Cinch
Cinch is a tiny application that makes your Mac do an old Windows 7 trick. When you drag a window to the left or right of the screen it automatically resizes to be half the screen size. Its so simple, but now that I’ve got used to it, it’s a must have. It makes comparing things easy – and theres also a handy maximise function.
1Password
1Password stores all this information securely and can automatically fill the information on websites. No more forgetting all the different passwords you have for each website! Nicely made software too.
Dropsend
Great for emailing large files, though the downside is it’s a subscription service. Works perfectly though.
Spotify
Excellent way to listen to music for (kinda) free. Not available everywhere, but if you can you should. Quality is surprisingly good – its what accompanies my album creation!
Mozy
Perhaps more of a web service than a piece of software, but Mozy is a client which backs up everything on your computer to a remote location. You pay per Gb, I use it to back up my webserver every day. It works great – most of the UK’s broadband is too slow for backing up your desktop – but some day!
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Mac Data Recovery Software Review – The Best Mac Photo Recovery Software
Recovering lost/formatted or deleted data from Mac based systems requires a utility which has been specially designed for Mac data Recovery. Stellar’s Mac Data recovery software fulfils this demand very effectively. Accidental deletion, formatting or mishandling of storage device are some of the most common scenarios that cause Data Loss and this software provides complete solution for all of the above mentioned data loss situations.
Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery has been designed keeping in mind the average technical expertise of common man. It is one of the easiest photo recovery software interfaces that I have tested so far. It recovers lost photographs /images in a simple 3 step process.
Here is how the actual recovery process takes place when you use this tool.
As soon as the software starts, you are prompted to “start scan” which gives you a list of all the drives that are available. You need to select the drive and start the scanning process. You also have some other tabs that help you narrow down your search.
• Advanced Scan- It enables you to recover your data according to the type of files you want to recover or the location where it is saved.
• Select Range – As the name suggests, you can choose a range of sectors in which the files are saved. Selecting a range of sectors minimized the recovery time drastically.
• File List – By using this option you can choose the type of files that you want to recover and minimize the recovery time.
The “Start Scan” button scans the whole drive and displays all the recoverable files. Around 1.1 GB of data was scanned in 12 minutes on my 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac book Pro with 2 GB RAM. You can get even faster results by using a faster machine. After selecting the files that you want to recover; it prompts you to select the drive you want to save those files to. Just select the storage media and save the result on your preferred storage device.
Another feature that catches your attention is “create image” which allows you to create an image of the hard disk or selected files. You can use this image for recovering data later.
Overall this is a great software for people who save their valuable memories in the form of photographs. You might also be interested in various other types of data recovery utilities for recovery other data and not just photographs.
Mac Antivirus Software – Why It’s a Smart Choice
Ever since the Mac hit the market people, have been debating whether this machine actually even requires using Mac antivirus software. For the diehard Mac user, there has hardly been any need to make use of antivirus software because they have always been convinced that Mac OS was the securest in the world and so did not need to use any antivirus software.
However, with Macs increasing market share, Mac users soon realized that their systems were becoming susceptible to virus attacks and so installing good Mac antivirus software certainly became desirable. Even Apple themselves is encouraging users to go ahead and install proper antivirus software on their Mac systems.
Even so, it is not so easy to find good antivirus software for Mac systems because these are not readily available, though at the same time, what you get is sure to be really good and highly effective. What is even more heartening to know is that there are fewer viruses that will attack your Mac as compared to the Windows environment.
PC Tools iAntivirus for Mac is however a good example of antivirus software for the Mac and is available for free for home users. This software will protect your system against Mac related malware and is good for a Mac only environment but not quite so useful if you are using an environment in which both Mac and Windows is being used.
VirusBarrier is another good antivirus for your Mac system and in fact Intego VirusBarrier X6 offers protection in real time and will scan your computer looking for virus signature as well as for virus type behavior. Then it offers complete protection against malware that is Mac specific and even which is Windows based.
ClamXav is free antivirus software for your Mac computer and is open source that obviously is highly popular among those that love open source code. However, do not expect to get the same kind of protection from this software as you would get from those that are commercially produced.
McAfee VirusScan for Mac or Virex as it was once known is a virus scanner that can stand on its own and it will provide complete protection against different viruses. On the other hand, MacScan Antispyware for Macs is designed with the sole intention of protecting your Mac from spyware threats that are currently targeting Mac users. It does of course only manage to provide limited protection but it does have enough good features to make it useful anyway.