Category: Reviews-HowTos

Every Monday, we’ll show you how to do something new and simple with Apple’s built-in command line application. You don’t need any fancy software, or a knowledge of coding to do any of these. All you need is a keyboard to type ’em out!Last week, we cov…

It’s rare that you find a complex puzzle game as ominous and creepy as The Room, which is why the new layers of intricate depth and unsettling atmosphere worked into its spooky sequel make it a welcome foray back into the dark. The Room Two scales back…

The first thing you’ll notice when starting up Lawless is the insane level of detail applied to the arcade-style shooter’s characters and environments. It’s seriously one of the best-looking mobile games this side of Infinity Blade III. But much li…

Even more so than the middling Angry Birds Star Wars II, Angry Birds Go! feels like an elaborate advertisement for other products rather than a purposeful game. The ever-in-vogue kart racer spinoff is tied into a series of marginally useful Telepods to…

Known simply as XCOM when it was first unveiled in 2010, The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is a strange creature. Now on Mac (following a late summer launch on other platforms), the 1960s-set adventure — loosely related to the more strategic XCOM: Enemy …

Where most video apps on our iPhones focus purely on Kodak moments, Lightt is kind of like a personal documentarian. With an eye for short clips that can be quickly captured and posted, the video-recording app stitches together your posts into an endle…

Many OS X plugins and iOS amps offer software-modeled versions of guitar amplifiers, but Bias – Amps! — an iPad-only app from Positive Grid — is the most impressive and totally realistic one we’ve ever heard. It’s so good, you might be tempted …

Finding a good pair of headphones for a midnight jog is hard. An over the ear set is either flopping around on your head, falling off, or collecting pools of sweat. Earbuds pierce ear canals in order to assure a tight grip — or the troublesome cord th…

Samsung has such a wide variety of products with similar names, it can be hard to identify a premium product from it by name alone. While the Samsung Series 7 Ultra notebook does have a superlative in its name, there’s not a lot else there that proves …

Winter is upon us, and with it comes the holiday traditions. We come back to our routine year after year because it’s comfortable and we’ve created a precedent for it, but there comes a time to update those customs. We can help you bring the old holida…

Photoshop-style bitmap image editors work with pixels, and therefore require large file sizes in order to preserve resolution. By comparison, vector-based illustrations are lightweight and able to scale up or down without a loss in quality, but finding…

PDFpen Scan+ does a great job of recognizing the text in your documents, including documents written in 18 different languages.

PDFpen Scan+ is a document scanning and optical character recognition (OCR) tool for your iOS devices that let…

Somewhere in 1980s New York lives a hidden community of fairy-tale refugees, called Fables, who fled their homes centuries ago when they were invaded by the monstrous armies of a being called The Adversary. They’ve been living in the Big Apple since it…

If you shudder when hearing the words “network-attached storage” you can at least take solace knowing that you aren’t alone. NAS devices seem intimidating and unfriendly (even the terms “NAS” and “network-attached storage” have the …

With a subtitle like “The Next Generation Slicing Game,” KingHunt invites comparison to other titles in this done-to-death genre. Most slicing games — the definitive example being Halfbrick’s Fruit Ninja — are ostensibly endless: you’re fre…

Romancing socially awkward elves might be on the outs in this free-to-play spinoff, but Heroes of Dragon Age for iOS nevertheless manages to capture the spirit of BioWare’s beloved dark fantasy series from consoles and PC. However, the familiar music a…