Guide to Mac, iPod, iPad and iPhone news and reviews
Samsung’s trying to bring a little more life to its devices—arguably, too much. Elsewhere, a trusted source tells Apple just where it went wrong, and we have a new challenger in the Steve Jobs movie arena. The remainders for Monday, March 18, …
Reader Matthew Rotter asks a common question about Apple’s Mail. He writes:
Can you send email to multiple email addresses listed under a single contact’s name?
Pardon me if I assume that what you really mean is whether it’s possible to …
Autocorrect is a boon from the computer gods for anyone engaged in tiny-screen typing, but it’s also the bane of every iPhone and iPad user’s existence. You can accept the gift and avoid the grief by paying attention to a few details.
Go away!
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A former Apple executive turns over a new leaf, Apple gets sued in stereo (where available), and the sad tale of a Mac from a bygone era. The remainders for Friday, March 15, 2013 go above and beyond the call of duty.
Browett says he ‘didn’t…
The Magia Wallet (iPhone 5; $55) is handmade from fine leather and sports a luxurious, seamless design. The case uses special tape adhesive to keep your handset securely fastened without bothersome straps.
The Magia Wallet features four pockets to…
Dropbox on Friday announced that it has acquired Mailbox, the email app that has many iPhone users finally reaching—however briefly—inbox zero.
Dropbox writes that the Mailbox team’s “calling was the same as ours at Dropbox—to solve li…
ActionMovie FX has added new, well, effects … Repix lets users turn photos into masterpiece paintings … and newsreader app Zite has been updated to give users more control over their news sources.
The other day, someone I know very well (I shall not reveal his identity) called me for some emergency tech support. He had been importing photos from his iPhone to iPhoto on his Mac. A lot of photos. Just over a thousand photos, to be precise. Af…
I currently have 287 apps on my Mac and dozens on my iPhone and iPad. But when I look closely, I must admit I haven’t used a number of them in a while; in fact, I don’t even remember what some are supposed to do. If you’re like me, you know …
There are plenty of good reasons you might want to hide some of your files or folders. Maybe you carry around a laptop and you just want to be extra safe. Maybe you share an account with others and need to keep some things private. Whatever the …
Though not everyone cares to admit it, we all talk to our computers. Much of the time these conversations are quite short and comprised of ejaculations of joy or, when things aren’t going swimmingly, a grumbled #${813a954d5e225a1509f22204ece89c855080ce25555f20805f61bed63cbfde3b}&@!! Regardless of what you …
When hard-drive disaster strikes, you need to start up your Mac from another drive to repair it. In days gone by, you would typically boot from the install CD or DVD that came with your Mac (assuming you could recall where you stashed it) and run …
Reader Simon Hansen finds his Mac slow to do his bidding. He writes:
My Mac has been running very slowly lately and I wanted to see how much faster it would be if I disabled its startup items. But when I try to start up in Safe Mode, it shows t…
Our latest roundup of new gear for your Mac includes new ways of giving your computer an old-school look, an old-school sound, and protection while you’re on the road.
If you used email in the late ‘90s or early 2000s, odds are you are familiar with Eudora. Even after its maker Qualcomm officially decommissioned this trusty email client and dorm room staple, a loyal cadre of fans kept it alive in open-source f…
Macworld forum visitor lobsta43 has a question that follows up on my recent Mac 101 column regarding Parental Controls. The crustacean writes:
I use Parental Controls with my grandkids and it works well. The problem is that when they walk away f…