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Everytime stamp prices go up, people are on lookout for not just less expensive, but easier options for mailing. Businesses that make large mailings are particularly susceptible to mailing cost increases as those pennies really add up. Tack on charges of postage meter and your bottom line takes a big hit. Worse yet, postage meters still require you to create mailing labels and type addresses on envelopes. There is a better solution for small business and home users–printing real life postage at home.

Windows computers have a variety of options to print postage. Macintoshes have very few. The Postal Service lets you print some mailing labels via their website, but the website often is incompatible with the Mac and won’t print the things people use the most of: envelopes and stamps.
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One of the things I love about software for the Mac is the quality and abundance of programs that help users get the most out of their computing experience while integrating with the Mac as much as possible. Timbuktu Pro remote control software from Motorola (formerly Netopia) is no exception to this rule.

Before we get to far into this review I think we should talk a little about what exactly Timbuktu Pro does. Timbuktu Pro is basically a remote computing application that allows a person to control one computer from another machine all within a very Mac-like interface. Additionally the program allows drag ‘n drop file sharing, voice and text chat functionality as well as the ability to use it in cross platform environments.

Since this app is an extremely powerful and feature rich remote computing environment I decided to focus my review on what is, in my opinion, easiest way to get set up and running. (more…)

A podcast from the April meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic included a presentation on remote controlling your Mac by Mike Silverman.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news followed by a discussion of the pros and cons of different Remote Control apps on the Mac. The programs discussed included Timbuktu Pro, Chicken of the VNC, Copilot and a host of remote control applications.

The door prizes for this month’s meeting included a TuneDok from Belkin and a copy of Timbuktu Pro from Motorola.

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