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“App: The Human Story” is a documentary about the people who make and use software. It’s funding on Kickstarter through the month of July, and as of this writing is slightly more than halfway to its goal.
The filmmakers behind “App: The Human Story…
Notification Center has been a part of OS X for two years: It was introduced in Mountain Lion and expanded upon in Mavericks. But with OS X Yosemite, Notification Center transforms into something exponentially more useful than it was before.
I’ve been using a pre-release version of OS X Yosemite (on a Retina MacBook Pro provided to me by Apple) for the past couple of weeks now, and it’s clear from my time spent with Yosemite that Notification Center is so different, and so much more useful than it was, that it probably deserves a new name.
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When I learned to program, programs had line numbers. You’d type GOTO 10 or GOSUB 5000 and that would control the flow of your program. When I first saw a programming language that didn’t have line numbers–I think it was Pascal—I couldn’t comprehend it.
Well, we’ve come a long way. I can’t type GOSUB 5000 anymore, but subroutines can be incredibly valuable in simplifying even Bad AppleScripts.
Many of my colleagues and I write our articles for Macworld in Bare Bones Software’s BBEdit text editor, using the Markdown plain-text markup language invented by John Gruber. One of the nice things about working on the Web is not having to standardize on any single app or even one style—in the end, all that matters is that we paste our story into our Web-based posting tool in HTML format.
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I was listening to some podcasters I respect arguing about nuances in software development the other day, and thought to myself: I have no idea what these guys are talking about.
The pinnacle of my programming career was being asked to be one of the people on my high school’s team at some sort of programming contest. I only knew Applesoft BASIC, and half the problems required a more advanced language than that. Thus ended my life as a coder.
But thanks to Apple’s scripting language, AppleScript, I am just powerful enough to be dangerous. I have written many bad AppleScripts in my day. I will probably write many more.
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The new Mac Pro is here. Last week we got our hands on it, then took some pictures of it. Then we tested it, and Dan Frakes compared its size to household objects. Our review is forthcoming, but in the meantime, you can listen to us talk about it!
I’m joined by Macworld Lab Director James Galbraith, who tested the thing, and Senior Editor Dan Frakes, who reviewed it. We talk about what makes the Mac Pro tick and who might want it. Then I’m joined by Other World Computing’s Larry O’Connor to talk about upgrading the new Mac Pro and about the upgrade possibilites for old Mac Pro users who might not be ready to take the plunge.
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The iPad mini with Retina display has arrived. As someone who dumped the full-sized iPad for the iPad mini a year ago, I’ve been excited to get my hands on this new model. Can its small size beat out the all-new, all-lightweight iPad Air for a pla…
Taking an iPhone on an international trip can be a harrowing experience. Every time you post a status update to Twitter or check your email, you imagine your wireless carrier charging you a fortune in international data roaming fees.
But there a…
Apple has filled its need for an executive to oversee its stores, and in a big way: The company has hired Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts to the newly created position of senior vice president of retail and online stores.
It’s the latest move in …
The iPhone 5s introduces a new Slo-Mo camera mode, in which you can create videos that seamlessly slide from normal video to super-smooth slow-motion action and back again. That smooth motion happens because in Slo-Mo mode, the iPhone 5s is shootin…
Earlier this year, I switched from GarageBand to Logic Pro 9 for editing podcasts. The result was a huge boost in productivity, even though I use only a tiny fraction of the functionality in Apple’s higher-end audio program. When Logic Pro X arr…
It’s the first ever version of the Macworld Movie Club on this special edition of the Macworld Podcast, as we discuss the movie Jobs. Joining me in this roundtable review of the new Steve Jobs biopic that arrived in theaters Friday are Philip Mi…
Sure, Safari is its own app, but new OS X versions tend to bring new versions of Safari, and Mavericks is no exception. Safari 7 offers a new sidebar, plug-in management, a redesigned Top Sites page, performance improvements, and a new feature des…
Sometimes you want to listen to a specific episode of a podcast without subscribing to it. Sometimes you’ve been pointed to an audio file out on the Internet and, while you can’t listen to it immediately, want to save it for later. And sometim…
After a week with the device, Jason Snell presents his review of the third-generation iPad. It’s a solid, incremental improvement on a device that’s already at the top of its game.