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Hazel 3.1 update adds powerful date-matching feature
Noodlesoft’s Hazel is a file-organization tool for Mac OS X that uses a set of ...
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ProCollage is an easy and powerful photo utility for iOS
ProCollage (US$1.99) is a very nicely done app for creating photo collages ...
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Lytro announces iOS app, unlocks hidden WiFi feature in camera
Today’s news brings a pleasant surprise for Lytro camera owners. It turns out the that ...
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Antec PowerUp 6000 offers iPad-capable portable power
Mid-June is an odd time of year. Apple’s ...
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Daily Deals for June 19, 2013
It’s time to save some of that hard-earned cash with our Daily Deals, featuring a handy list from Dealnews and our own hand-picked ...
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Apple posts full WWDC 2013 Keynote to YouTube
Just like last year, Apple has uploaded their full WWDC 2013 Keynote from last week to their YouTube channel. Previously, if you wanted to view ...
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9to5Toys Last Call: Free $50 gift card w/ Bose headphones, Free iOS app Calendars+, games, more
From 9to5Toys.com: A large majority of the deals we cover each day come from a variety of ‘Daily Deal’ websites or are so popular that they don’t ...
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Apple seeds first OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 beta to developers, Retail
Following the public release of OS X Mountain Lion version 10.8.4 and the first Developer Preview of OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Apple has seeded the ...
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Lytro launches WiFi-connected iPhone app to share photos on-the-go
Lytro, the company behind the light-field camera system by the same name, has launched an iPhone and iPod touch application. The app connects to the Lytro ...
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Rdio iOS app updated with iTunes Radio-like Song Stations, AutoPlay, & more
The subscription based Rdio music streaming service today updated its iOS app with a few features similar to those included in Apple’s recently introduced iTunes ...
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3 Tricks to Quickly Copy a File or Folder Path in Mac OS X
There are a few ways to retrieve a file or folders full path from Mac OS X, and we’ll cover the two easiest methods here, ...
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Watch ESPN, HBO GO, Sky News on Apple TV with the 5.3 Update
A new update to Apple TV brings streaming access to several popular TV services and networks, including HBO GO, ESPN, Sky News, Qello, and CrunchyRoll. ...
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11 Simple Tips for Maximizing iPad Battery Life That Work
The iPad already has very impressive battery life and regularly lasts all day, but who wouldn’t want to have their iPad last even longer? With ...
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What the iPhone Symbols & Status Bar Icon Indicators Mean
Ever wondered what all those status icons and symbols mean that sit in the iPhone status bar, along the top of the screen? You’re certainly ...
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How to Check if iPhone is Unlocked or Not
An unlocked iPhone means it can use any cellular network, so long as you have a compatible carrier SIM card. Due to this, unlocked iPhones ...
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Apple's New Mac Pro Begins Showing Up in Benchmarks
While Apple offered a sneak peek at its dramatically redesigned Mac Pro at its Worldwide Developers Conference, the new machine is not scheduled to ...
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Apple Testing Expanded iPhone Repair Options Through Authorized Service Providers in Canada
Apple has launched an iPhone repair pilot program for Apple Certified Service Providers in Canada that will allow certain certified centers to offer iPhone repairs ...
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Best Buy Recalls Third-Party MacBook Batteries Over Fire Risk [Mac Blog]
Best Buy has recalled 5,100 third-party replacement MacBook batteries after at least 13 reports of the batteries ...
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Famed Designer Richard Sapper Was Once Recruited by Steve Jobs [Mac Blog]
In an interview with design magazine Dezeen, German industrial designer Richard Sapper revealed that he was once recruited by Steve Jobs to do design ...
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How to Run OS X Mavericks in a Parallels Virtual Machine [Mac Blog]
Parallels has posted instructions on how to install the developer release of OS X Mavericks into its virtualization software. Installing the beta in a ...
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Remains of the Day: This belongs in a museum
How do Mac pros feel about the Mac Pro? As strongly as Apple apparently feels about Linked In? And Steve Jobs thought his work ...
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HBO Go on Apple TV a no-go for DirecTV customers
Update: Shortly before 8 PM Pacific Time, the DIRECTVService Twitter account tweeted “DirecTV customers will soon be able to access HBO Go content through ...
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Apple will roll out iPads to Los Angeles public school students this fall
In my earliest school years, the Apple IIgs was cutting edge, because it could run Number Munchers like nobody’s business. But just to ...
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Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions hit 700,000
Despite customer outcry over Adobe’s switch from Creative Suite software in a box to Creative Cloud software as a service, the company ...
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HBO Go, WatchESPN come to Apple TV
Apple on Wednesday announced the additions of HBO Go and WatchESPN to the Apple TV. Those are channels that the Roku has long ...
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Analyst recants claim that Apple will add Retina display to iPad mini before 2014
NPD DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim has reversed his earlier prediction that Apple would add a Retina resolution to its iPad mini at some point before ...
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First benchmarks for redesigned Mac Pro reportedly appear online
Just over one week following its sneak preview at WWDC 2013, the radically redesigned Mac Pro has supposedly shown up on a popular Internet based ...
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Best Buy recalls 5,100 third-party MacBook batteries for fire risk
Best Buy announced on Wednesday that it is recalling 5,100 MacBook Pro batteries built by third-party manufacturer ATG after a number of users reported their ...
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Twitter heat map shows iPhone use by the affluent, Android by the poor
A map plotting the location and device platform of over a quarter billion mobile tweets show predominate use of iPhones in affluent areas and Android ...
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IDC gives Apple 9% of Chinese smartphone market, double the prevailing growth rate
IDC has ranked Apple the fifth largest smartphone vendor in China, assigning it a 9 percent share of the 78 million smartphones sold in Q1. ...
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You’ve been Sherlocked by Mavericks – MyMac Podcast #262
Download and listen here Subscribe in iTunes OK despite the best of intentions this is another long show. However we don’t think you’ll be bored ...
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Take Control of Dropbox – Book Review
Take Control of Dropbox Author: Joe Kissell Publisher: TidBITS Publishing, Inc. Price: $10.00 82 pages, ebook ISBN: 9781615424214 Dropbox is the ubiquitous application that allows ...
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Amped Wireless Rec 10 Wi-Fi range extender – Review
High Power 600mW Compact WI-Fi Range Extender (Model Rec 10) Amped Wireless Price $79.99 The Amped Wireless Rec 10 Wi-Fi range extender overcomes the problem ...
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Instagrammification – but is it Art?
Opinion by Curt Blanchard I’m increasingly uneasy about a growing trend in filtered photographs. No, I’m not a Luddite, I’m a digital designer with a ...
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Take Control of iTunes 11 the FAQ – Review
Take Control of iTunes 11 the FAQ Company: Take Control Author: Kirk McElhearn Format: PDF Price: $15.00 Having reviewed Take Control of Messages previously ...
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Over 92% of Maine educators choose Apple MacBooks, iPads over HP laptops
For the first time since the Maine Learning Technology Initiative began…
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Apple’s new Apple TV SDK could completely revolutionize home gaming; Sony and Microsoft should be very afraid
“On the list for many developers over the last few years has been an Apple TV SDK…
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U.S.A. v. Apple judge: ‘The issues have shifted’
It’s been a privilege to be part of this trial…
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NPD analyst: New non-Retina iPad mini, next-gen iPad due 2H13; no iPad mini with Retina display until 2014
Apple’s iPad mini with its 7.9-inch display has captured a significant share of the market…
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Apple stands to make ‘hundreds of millions’ in Los Angeles school deal
Tuesday’s vote authorized an iPad rollout at 47 campuses…
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Weekly Poll: How Much Do You Spend Each Month on Apps?
There’s opensource freeware software, the bundled apps that are essentially free with your Mac, dirt cheap apps on the App Store, ...
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Chatology: The iMessage Companion Serious Chatters Need
iMessage is a great idea. It makes SMS and MMS a thing of the past, between iPhones at any rate, and ...
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Collaaj: The Personal Screencast Tool Designed for Collaboration
Skype, FaceTime, Facebook, and more have revolutionized how we communicate with others. It continues to blow my mind how we are ...
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The AppStorm Step-by-Step Guide for Upgrading to Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe released their latest version of Creative Suite — what would have been Creative Suite 7 — earlier today. Only this ...
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Thanks to our Sponsor: Visual Watermark
When you put your photos online, you run the risk of someone stealing your work and claiming it as their own. ...
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New Vine Features And Designs Teased By Creators With… Vines
Not to be outdone by Instagram’s reported video product that’s set to debut ...
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Unrest, An Online RPG Set In Ancient India, Lets You Play As Ordinary Folk
Seriously, I’m kind of tired of playing the typical RPG in which I take ...
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Mapping iPhone And Android Users In A City Reveals Wealthier Areas [Image]
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Best Buy Recalls 5,100 MacBook Replacement Batteries Due To Fire Risk (Updated)
After a string of reports that MacBook replacement batteries have caught fire, Best Buy ...
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Tea 2.0: The iPhone App Every Tea Lover Needs
Would you consider yourself a tea connoisseur? Perhaps you ...
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown iOS Review
There was never any real doubt that 2012’s turn-based strategy darling XCOM: Enemy Unknown would be a good fit for iOS. Its isometric battlefields, uncomplicated ...
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Man of Steel Review
You’d think it would be a simple task to make a great game based on the latest Superman film, what with all its high-flying action ...
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The Optrix iPhone Adventure Suit Review
Dive in to adventure! Living in Hawaii, I was lucky enough to be able to give the Optrix iPhone Adventure ...
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Ask a Question, Get an Answer with Poutsch for iPhone
Are you a leader or a follower? The answer to that question may determine how much use you’ll ...
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German Researchers Reveal Flaw in Apple-Generated Personal Hotspot Passwords
Don’t panic, but the next time you head out and decide to flip on the Personal Hotspot ...
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L.A. School District Awards Apple $30 Million Contract for iPads
Howard Blume and Teresa Watanabe, reporting for The Los Angeles Times: A Microsoft representative urged the board to try more than one product and not to ...
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Remembering James Gandolfini and Tony Soprano
Alan Sepinwall: And his work on the show made possible Vic Mackey, Al Swearengen, Walter White, Don Draper and every complicated, riveting anti-hero (or worse) who ...
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WSJ: Microsoft Was Close to Acquiring Nokia’s Mobile Phone Business
Sharon Terlep, Dennis Berman, and Shira Ovide, reporting for the WSJ: Microsoft Corp. was recently in advanced discussions with Nokia Corp. about a purchase of the ...
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On Arguing ‘Wrongness’ Based on Intuition
R.E. Warner: I do not mean to imply to that Neven Mrgan is either foolish or possessing of a little mind. This is not a straw ...
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Gus Mueller on WWDC 2013
Gus Mueller: Apple is going to let OS X be itself, and let iOS do the same. Multiple times during the keynote we heard an exec ...
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iTunes users spend a lot on apps and music, not so much on ebooks (chart)
Besides the future of iOS and OS X, we’ve recently learned a lot from Apple about the state of iTunes. We can also know how ...
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The best ways to edit and view Microsoft Office docs on your iPad
Microsoft finally made a native iOS Office app, but it’s for the iPhone. Here’s a roundup of your best options when it comes to accessing ...
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Black Pearl Systems: Check out the secret startup of ex-Apple hardware guru Tim Bucher
Former Apple executive Tim Bucher has hired away some key technical leaders from Netflix, Apple, YouTube, Amazon and Intel for a new stealth hardware startup.
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Tipbit helps you run your life better on your iPhone
Exclusive: Startup by Microsoft/Citrix alum emerges from stealth to help you make sense of all the information flowing to your iPhone.
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iPhone’s Wi-Fi hotspot passwords are vulnerable to attack, researchers say
Researchers demonstrate that the list passwords for protecting the iPhone’s mobile hotspot are drawn from is just too small. The “randomly generated” passwords are also ...
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Apple adds Sky News and HBO GO to Apple TV
Apple has announced that its Apple TV set-top box will have access to live news programmes for the the first time since its launch in ...
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Apple asserts commitment to customer privacy
Apple has published details of requests for customer data made by police and security services and re-asserted that it hadn’t heard of Prism before it ...
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Office Mobile for iPhone launched
Following months of speculation, Microsoft has released a version of Office for iOS, but there’s no iPad version, it needs an Office 365 subscription, and ...
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Reuters: Apple to launch bigger, cheaper and multi-coloured iPhones
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. Apple will launch bigger iPhones, probably next year, and will also release iPhones in colours other than ...
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2013 MacBook Airs have a performance boost secret
When Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, Phil Schiller gave us a preview of the upcoming Mac Pro at WWDC yesterday, he made ...
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Install OS X 10.9 Mavericks Developer Preview on a virtual machine
If you have an OS X developer account, and want to work with OS X 10.9 Mavericks, you may prefer to do so using a ...
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How to repair damaged disks that crash Disk Utility and DiskWarrior
Some damaged disks do not show up with Disk Utility and DiskWarrior, and may hang and crash such repair utilities. Yet, there is a trick ...
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Another Dropbox permissions errors problem, and fix
Some time ago, I posted a hint about fixing Dropbox Permissions Denied errors. This fix works in many cases, but I came across another, ...
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Access old Dropbox menu with Option-click
You can access the older version of the Dropbox menu by Option-clicking the Dropbox icon in the menu bar. This saves you an extra click, ...
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Send selected text to Evernote
A colleague asked if anyone knew how to migrate his vast collection of Mac Stickies notes to the cloud. I suggested he get an Evernote ...



