Author: Macworld

Panorama images provide a broader view of the world than typical photographs. With iOS 6, Apple brought the ability to create these big pictures to a pair of mobile devices: iPhone 4S and iPhone 5.

This is a typical panorama shot with an iPhone 4…

Every so often my coworkers, in the course of other business correspondence, slip in an Apple-related question of their own. For example, Coworker A tagged on this little gem to a recent communique:

We used to have an issue where we’d be using…

AppleScript is a great tool for automating the apps you use daily on your Mac—if you can figure out the proper code. We’re here to help: We’ve asked scripting and Automator expert Ben Waldie to solve some reader problems using AppleScript. The i…

Libratone’s Zipp is another entry in the continually expanding market of colorful and unusually shaped wireless, portable speakers. However, while most of those speakers use Bluetooth, the Zipp uses Apple’s AirPlay technology; and instead of being …

My Apple hardware has recently been bothered by several unrelated bugs—ranging from alert sound loss on my Mac Pro to free space mysteriously disappearing from my iPad. While I’ve figured out satisfactory work-arounds for most of these symptom…

For the last few weeks I’ve casually thrown around phrases like “hover your cursor over,” “press the Command key,” and “swipe to the side on your trackpad.” And while I’m fairly confident that such suggestions are well within your …

If you edit video, you probably use titles—to introduce a topic, identify a speaker, or perhaps credit actors and crew. Title design goes beyond just the choice of words. Fonts, colors, size, graphic elements, and animation all combine to establ…

When Apple released the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro (), it was only a matter of time before the Retina display made its way to other Apple laptops. That time is now, and with the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display, a compelling argument can be…

Apple’s 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro has a problem: OS X doesn’t allow users to easily take full advantage of the Retina display. Specifically, OS X doesn’t provide a simple, quick way to switch between the many supported screen resolutions; in …

In some ways, Thunderbird 16’s open-source origins are a blessing. This free email client from the makers of Firefox—aided by a legion of dedicated volunteer programmers—offers more add-ons and customizable features than Apple’s Mail 6 () …

Just under a year ago, I wrote about how to create shared Reminders lists with iCloud. Back then, I explained that while you could create reminders and lists on your iPhone or iPad, the only way to create shared lists—which you and others could …

Loren Brichter created Tweetie, the incredible iPhone app that eventually became the official Twitter app. He invented pull-to-refresh. And if you had asked me what kind of app he might release as his long-awaited follow-up to Tweetie, boy, I neve…

Reader Chris Connors is not entirely happy with interactions between the Calendar and Mail applications. He writes:

I’m running Mountain Lion on my MacBook Air but I’m using an email client other than Mail. The problem I’m having is that e…

With the release of the Sony Alpha SLT-A55 and SLT-A33 in late 2010, Sony created a new category of camera, similar to a conventional digital SLR in many respects (same sensor size, lens mounts, general form factor) but with an ingenious technical…