Guide to Mac, iPod, iPad and iPhone news and reviews
We’ve already counted down the year in Apple news, including up-close looks at what happened to both the Mac and iOS platforms during 2012. Now, our colleagues at IDG News Service put a pin in 2012 with this video review of Apple’s big year.
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You have one of Amazon’s Kindle ebook readers as well as the Kindle app on an iOS device. When you purchase a Kindle ebook from Amazon, it syncs beautifully between devices—you read to page 212 on one device and when you pick up the other, it …
Studiometry 10 is a business management application aimed at small businesses and designed to help track and manage projects, create quotes and invoices, and make sure you’re getting paid on time. Geared toward businesses that are anywhere from 1…
In the last Ask the iTunes Guy column of the year, I look at playlist views, a quick way to make playlists from folders of songs, adding tags to your tracks, and how to see the duration of selected tracks in iTunes 11.
Q: I use playlists to sort…
Reader Steven Harris is trying to do the right thing by his family, but technical barriers prevent it. He writes:
Over the holidays I took your advice to give the gift of tech support by offering my services to my sister. She has an older MacBoo…
Before you can move ahead, it’s always fun to look back. That’s the idea behind our annual review of Macworld’s top stories of 2012, based on page views.
If there’s a trend to be found among our most read stories, it’s that whatever pr…
Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from Macworld UK. Visit Macworld UK’s blog page for the latest Mac news from across the Atlantic.
Sandbox games were 2012’s big thing, with indie world builder Minecraft achieving a level o…
Just over a quarter century ago, Apple factories began pumping out Macintosh Plus computers by the tens of thousands a year, and they continued that pace for four years straight. As a result, this 26 year-old computer model is one of the most plen…
Apple was ordered by a Beijing court on Thursday to pay a total of 1.03 million yuan ($165,000) for selling unlicensed ebooks, according to a report by China’s official Xinhua news agency.
The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court ruled …
Apple CEO Tim Cook received compensation totaling $4.17 million in 2012, down 98.9 percent on last year—although his 2011 compensation of $378 million consisted mostly of a one-off stock grant, worth $376.2 million at the time.
Cook’s salary…
With the chaos of the holidays slowly subsiding into the background, you’ve finally got a few moments to catch your breath and unwind a bit before getting back to the grind of your normal routine. We can’t think of a better time to kick up you…
For Macworld editors, the end of the calendar year means more than just holiday vacations and the passing of yet another end-of-the-world prediction. It’s also the season of awards. Over the past couple weeks, we’ve given you our 2012 Editors
Though Apple’s 2012 might have seemed dominated by Mac, iPhone, and iPad news, other big stories for the company cropped up throughout the year. This was Tim Cook’s first full year as Apple’s CEO, and Apple faced challenges in the realm of s…
If you’ve got an iOS device, you probably compose text in a slew of different apps: email in an email client, tweets in a Twitter client, tasks in a to-do-list manager, ideas for articles in a text editor…and on and on. But sometimes I want to …
Today we continue our march through the row of personal system preferences with a long look at the Language & Text preference. As its name implies, within it you’ll find several settings for configuring the language your Mac and Mac’s keyb…
Every year since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 has been a big year for iOS, and 2012 is certainly no exception. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane, recalling the year that was for the iPhone, the iPad, and the operating system that po…